Weinberg Undergraduate Award Honorees

Daniel Bonbright Scholars in the Humanities
Catherine DeRose
Mallory AnnLaure Dwinal
Jesse Burnett Sleamaker

Franklin N. and Lee L. Corbin Prize
Rene Maurice Boiteau

James Alton James Scholars in the Social Sciences
Nikita Sergeyevich Kalmakov
Megan Eileen Mitterer
Christopher Franklin Wagner         

Katherine Krieghbaum Research Scholarships
Dara Hopkins Carroll
Sara Jane Dubbury  
Zachary George Nicolaou
Elliot Reichert   
Alex Russell       

Oliver Marcy Scholars in the Natural Sciences
Jennifer Hoffmann
Caitlin Aisling MacGregor
Jeffrey Martell

Departmental Awards

AFRICAN STUDIES

Herskovits Award for Undergraduate Research
Alyssa Marie Huff
Golda Kosisochi Onyeneho

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
The Lerone Bennett Jr. Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
Jo Ellyn Walker

AFRICAN AND ASIAN LANGUAGES   

Japanese Language Outstanding Achievement Award
Elizabeth Freechack

ANTHROPOLOGY

FAN Distinguished Honors Thesis in Public Anthropology
Emily Eisenhart

Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology
Elizabeth Ann Henley
Ashwin Ajit Kotwal

ART HISTORY

J. Carson Webster Prize for Distiguished Honors Thesis
Jessica Ann Davidson
Viktoriya Kamara

ART THEORY AND PRACTICE  

Faricy Award for Achievement in the Creative Arts
Tiffany Wells

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Award for Outstanding Achievement
Joseph Lee

Distinguished Undergraduate Essay
Christine Choi
Christine Kim

ASIAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

Award for Best Paper in Asian and Middle East Studies
Michael Graf Kaplan

Distinguished Honors Thesis
Biru Juliette Chen

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Constance Campell Prize for Basic Research
Jennifer Jingyee Young

David Shemin Prize for Basic Research
Jennifer Katherine Taylor

Emanuel Margoliash Prize for Basic Research
Swati Patel

Irving M. Klotz Prize for Basic Research
Elizabeth A. Hines

Neil Welker Award for Excellence in Laboratory Coursework
Sean Nobuhiro Chu

BUSINESS INSTITUTIONS

Kapnick Prize for Business Institutions
David Alexander Hoffman
Robert Krenn
Rong Luo
Neal Orlando Sales-Griffin

CHEMISTRY

Basolo-Osper Award for Departmental Citizenship
Jeffrey Martell

Chemistry Department Scholar Award
Chen Bai
Veronica Meryl Berns
Rene Boiteau 
Elliot Patrick Farney
Jeffrey Martell
Vaibhav Girish Patel    

CRC Freshman Award
Justin Michael Trop

Hypercube Award
Hyun Suk Kang  
Lewis H. Sarrett Scholarship Award
Benjamin Tyor Levinson

Marple-Schweitzer Memorial Award
Julia Widom

Mathcad Award
Aleksandr Zhukhovitskiy

Merck Index Award
Marc Aaron Giesener  
Jason Lee Szewczyk

R. K. Summerbell Memorial Fund Award
Colleen Amanda McGourty  

CLASSICS

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in First Year Greek
Elizabeth Joy Osisek  

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in First Year Latin
Joseph Anthony Paolelli

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Greek and Latin
Mary Carp

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Honors Thesis Research
Shelby Walchuk

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Second Year Greek
Amy Kathleen Lather

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Second Year Latin
Lauren Nicole Isaacs

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Undergraduate Achievement – Minor
Marissa Erin Solomon

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Undergraduate Achievement – Major
Joshua Wall

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Undergraduate Research in Classical Literature and Culture
Luke Robert Rouser
Hana Suckstorff 

COMPARATIVE LITERARY STUDIES

Distinguished Senior Essay Award
Mark Mills

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

Seymour Schlanger Memorial Award
Rebecca Ann Fischer

ECONOMICS

Frederick S. Deibler Award for Excellence in Economics
Judd Nathan Cramer
Kyle McClean Dent
Ashley Elizabeth Jelinek
Man-Hin Delius Mak  

Frederick S. Diebler Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Hannah Suzanne Pitt
Alexandru Rus  
Catherine Elizabeth Tomasulo

Robert Coen Fellowship
Grace Elizabeth Noboa Hidalgo 

Robert Eisner Award for Undergraduate Research
Marko Andrew Duric  

ENGLISH

Best Senior Honors Thesis in the English Major in Writing
Victoria Christi Telfer

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Junior Major in Literature
Kate Lyn Melchior  

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior Major in Literature
Devan Dumas Ard   
Harris Sockel   

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Junior Major in Writing
Madeline Weinstein

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Senior Major in Writing
Brooke Robyn Sossin
Eric Wilson

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Emily Benson Clark
Garrett Joshua Eng

Edwin L. Shuman Essay Award
Bridget Luisa Mendel  

Edwin L. Shuman Fiction Award
Victoria Christi Telfer

Faricy Award for Poetry
Christopher John Adamson

Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize
Kathrin Julia Hanek  

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literature Written Prior to 1798
Madeline Weinstein

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Personal Essay
Joshua Wall

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Research Paper on Literature
Elizabeth Weber  

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing in Fiction
Nicole Marie Roth

Helen G. Scott Prize for Narrative in Fiction
Andrew Gordon Greenberg

Helen G. Scott Prize for New Voice in Creative Nonfiction
Angela Ingrid Mears

Helen G. Scott Prize for Voice in Fiction
Maxwell Donald Allison

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize
Maxwell Donald Allison

The Robert Dentler Prize for Best Essay on Poetry
Christopher John Adamson

The Robert Dentler Prize for Best Poem
Madeline Weinstein

TriQuarterly Prize in Essay
Elizabeth Hruza Granger

TriQuarterly Prize in Fiction
John Thomas Miley

FRENCH AND ITALIAN

American Association of Teachers of French Award for Outstanding Senior in French
Juliet Fox

Distinguished Essay in English on an Italian Subject
Hana Suckstorff 

Distinguished Essay in French
Ariana Vergara

Distinguished Essay in Italian
Brooke Erin Cunningham
Maria Suzanne Dangles
Bojan Manojlovic
Sarah Catharine McMillan
Kelly Anne Rincon

Outstanding Achievement in French
Juliet Fox
Dina Jachi  
Daniel Dechan Johnson
Mark Mills
Claire Ann Shea
Sarah Nicole Smierciak 
Alexandra Bess Valinsky

Rencontres Internationales de Jeunes Scholarship
Claire Ann Shea

GENDER STUDIES

Betty Jo Dobbs Outstanding Senior Thesis Prize
Ashley Jordana Keyser

George C. Casey Essay Prize
Elizabeth Coffin-Karlin   

GERMAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

Géza von Molnár Essay Award
Irina Kogan
Christopher Franklin Wagner

Géza von Molnár German Achievement Award
Jonathan Allen Green

Northwestern University Award for Outstanding Achievement in First-Year German
Melissa Sue Hyre

Northwestern University Award for Outstanding Achievement in Second-Year German
Rebecca Jodi Quint
Scott Williams

Northwestern University Award for Outstanding Achievement in Yiddish
Marcy Gray Blattner
Robert Simon Magin

HISTORY

395 Class Essay Award
Mallory Patrice Horejs

Freshman Seminar Essay Award
Benjamin Ruilin Yu

Grace Douglas Johnston Award
Arianne Urus

Hearst Foundation Prize
Jacob William White

Ivor Wilks Prize in African History
Golda Kosisochi Onyeneho

Jacob Lassner Prize in Jewish and Islamic Civilization
Laura Michelle Colee

INTEGRATED SCIENCE PROGRAM

Integrated Science Program Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
James Kath
Eric Kramer

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Certificate of Distinction in a Foreign Language
Sean Raphael Ages
Drue Montague Banta
Daniela Bloch  
Jennifer Andin Chato
Nicholas Geordan Cheadle
Sheida Isabel Elmi
Ana Maria Gaviria
Sanja Hurem
Matthew Evan Linder
Leona Liu
Emily Nicole Lovejoy
Genevieve Marie Olimb
Allison Elizabeth Pichert
Erin Lew Reynolds
Elizabeth Jane Voeller

Frank Safford Award for Best Honors Thesis in International Studies
Ashley Elizabeth Jelinek

Harold Guetzkow Prize
Sydney Evelyn Howe
Martha D. Sojka

Lee F. Anderson Grant
Meixi Ng

JEWISH STUDIES

Jill Stacey Harris Prize for Best Essay
Douglas Samuel Kaplan

LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Undergraduate Research Grant
Elizabeth Coffin-Karlin 
Elena Rebecca Pinsky
Alexander Jordan Rudin

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Undergraduate Thesis Prize
Elizabeth Ann Henley

LATINA/O STUDIES

Award for Outstanding Thesis in U.S. Latina/o Studies
Christine Choi

LEGAL STUDIES

Prize for Best Honors Thesis
Alexandra Danielle Komisar
Natasha Mary Yurk

LINGUISTICS

Abraham Demoz Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Work in Linguistics
Emily Jane Hudepohl
Julliard Lin

MATHEMATICS

Excellence in Mathematics by a Freshman
Xinxin Li  
Shelley Xinran Mo
Catherine Clara Ning
Frederick Reis Robinson
Shyam Sundaresh
Michael Allen Wurtz
Joon Young Yoon
Kellan Zheng

High Achievement on the William Lowell Putnam Examination
Matthew Aaron Nubbe
Yiwei She
Peter Hai Zhang

Honorable Mention for Achievement in Mathematics by a Sophomore
Lauren Kahn
Yan Miao 

Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Sophomore
Paul Duncan Gafni
Andrea Heyman

Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Junior
Jamil Sean Merali
Zachary George Nicolaou
Yiwei She

Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Mathematical Life
Marcel Eric Schechner Flores

Robert R Welland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Graduating Senior
Lee Nathan Cohn 
Adam Michael Vollrath

MMSS

Jeanette M. Dacey Award For the Best Performance in MMSS Required Coursework
Judd Nathan Cramer

Michael F. Dacey Award for the Most Outstanding MMSS Senior Thesis
Robert Krenn

PHILOSOPHY

Brentano Prize for Best Essay
Jonathan Allen Green

Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Gabriel Benjamin Brunswick

PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

Outsanding Junior in Physics and Astronomy
Zachary George Nicolaou

Outstanding Senior Thesis in Physics and Astronomy
Yonatan Kahn

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Barry Farrell Prize for Highest Academic Achievement
Abigail Karla Stern

Kenneth F. Janda Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Kelly Catherine Bronk
David Russell Felton

McGovern Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership in Political Science
Rajni Chandrasekhar

PSYCHOLOGY

Benton J. Underwood Fellowship for Undergraduate Research
Brian Jonathan Bohl
Mihwa Kim
Alex Russell

The Lois Elizabeth Hendrikson Undergraduate Travel Award
Josephine Menkin
Rachel Pearl Ostrov

William A. Hunt Award
Kathrin Julia Hanek 
Sarah C.E. Stanton

Winfred Hill Award for Best Papers in Research Methods
Lauren Marie Puetz 

Religion
Edmund Perry Award for Best Essay
Elizabeth Eleanor Ryder

Kharisma Award
Rita Sophia Biagioli
Kimberly Denise Brightmore

SCIENCE IN HUMAN CULTURE

Science in Human Culture Essay Prize
Sandra Miao Shi 

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE

Kultura i Lingvistika Honor in Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
Connor Doak 

Kultura i Lingvistika Honor in Czech
Kevin Douglas

Kultura i Lingvistika Honor in Russian
Heather Ellen Belka
Vasiliy Kuznetsov  

Kultura i Lingwistyka Honor in Polish
Aleksander Sierakowski

SOCIOLOGY

Senior Thesis with Distinction
Amy Marie Basa
Meredith Lyn Johnson
Peter Walter Koelsch  
Nisha Atul Mehta
Kerri Kathleen Metcalf
Pierce Rogers Nahigyan
Veronica Marie Navarrete
Chelsea Nern Ostendorf
Elizabeth Jane Porth
Juliette Natalie Rapala
Nicole A Recine
Caitlin Wakefield Sims
Emily Rose Stecher 
Sasha Sevil Tuzel

William H. Exum Award
Jennifer Andin Chato

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

Best Essay for Spanish 200-Level Literature and Culture Classes
Daniella Carolina Sosa

Best Essay in the Literatures and Cultures of Latin America and/or Spain
Erin Magee Kelly

Humberto E. Robles Prize for Best Honors Thesis in Spanish
Alison Carron Shmerling

WRITING PROGRAM

Freshman Seminar Writing Award
Kathleen Elizabeth Trocin
Miqi (Michael) Yang
Minna Zhou

Freshman Seminar Writing Award - Honorable Mention
Caroline Perry
Margaret Yu

Jean Reeder Smith Writing Program Essay Award
Maxwell Thomas Kuehn, for “Text Messaging
and the English Language”  

Jean Reeder Smith Writing Program Essay Award - Honorable Mention
Maxwell Thomas Kuehn, for “S/he: The Problem of Pronouns” 

Writing Program Essay Competition
Zach Scott Gray
Kenneth Elliott Higgins, III