Weinberg Undergraduate Award Honorees

Awarded Academic Year 2009-2010

Daniel Bonbright Scholars in the Humanities
Harold William Williford
Jack Maren Neubauer
Anna Kathleen Sims

Franklin N. and Lee L. Corbin Prize
Kalie Tommerdahl

James Alton James Scholars in the Social Sciences
Jeffrey Cao
Timothy Karl Herrmann
Katherine Ranney

Katherine L. Krieghbaum Research Scholarships
Benjamin G. Armstrong
Vivek Durai
Dennis Xiao Hu
Anne Marie Randhava
Danwen Song
Cristina Thomas

Oliver Marcy Scholars in the Natural Sciences
Michael Scott Abers
Alexandra Therese Gast
Kalie Lyn Tommerdahl

Departmental Awards

African-American Studies

The Lerone Bennett Jr. Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
Halle A Bauer

African Studies

African Research Leadership Award
Benjamin G. Armstrong
Lydia S. Hsu
Katherine Jean Northcott

Herskovits Award for Undergraduate Research
William Emmanuel Kalema
Case Wilemon Martin
Harold William Williford

American Studies

Jay Rosen American Studies Scholarship
Parvathi Santhosh-Kumar

Anthropology

FAN Distinguished Honors Thesis in Public Anthropology
Karina Ann Walker

Oswald Werner Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis in Anthropology
Lacey Bette Carpenter
Elena Rebecca Pinsky

Art History

J. Carson Webster Prize for Distiguished Honors Thesis
Elliot Joseph Reichert
Jennifer Wong

Art Theory & Practice

Faricy Award for Achievement in the Creative Arts
Allison Jane Putnam

Asian American Studies

Award for Outstanding Achievement
Arben Jay Aguado

Distinguished Undergraduate Essay Prize
Natalie Leucadia D'Silva
Hannah Lucia Grune

Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Jock McLane Award
Jonathan S. Lee

Biological Sciences

Constance Campell Prize for Basic Research
Silvia Aki McCandlish
Hatim Thaker

David Shemin Prize for Basic Research
Mark S. Chen

Emanuel Margoliash Prize for Basic Research
Alexandra Therese Gast

Irving M. Klotz Prize for Basic Research
Kelsie Ann Eichel

Neil Welker Award for Excellence in Laboratory Coursework
Elyssa Debrah Katz

Business Institutions Program

Kapnick Prize for Business Institutions
Ricardo Joseph Anthony Creighton
Louise Huterstein
Maggie Man-Kei Jim
Zachary Paul Johnson

Chemistry

Basolo-Osper Award for Departmental Citizenship
Benjamin Tyor Levinson

Chemistry Department Scholar Award
Stephanie Noelle Choing
Benjamin Daniel Dunnington
Thomas Daniel Filardo
Wasut Pornpatcharapong

CRC Freshman Award
Andrew Wonho Choi

Hypercube Award
Benjamin Daniel Dunnington

Lewis H. Sarrett Scholarship Award
Dennis Xiao Hu
Aleksandr Vadymovich Zhukhovitskiy

Marple-Schweitzer Memorial Award
Benjamin Tyor Levinson

Merck Index Award
Jennifer Victoria Mills

Physical Chemistry Award
Lilyana Kalinova Nezirova

R. K. Summerbell Memorial Fund Award
Dennis Xiao Hu
Aleksandr Vadymovich Zhukhovitskiy

Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
Nevette Adia Bailey-Chandler

Classics

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in First Year Greek
Charlotte Anna Melbinger

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in First Year Latin
Jack Robert Basten

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Honors Thesis Research
Joshua Logan Wall

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Second Year Greek
Megan Elizabeth Gier

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Excellence in Second Year Latin
Mary Elizabeth Carp

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Undergraduate Achievement
Joseph Anthony Paolelli, Minor
Mary Elizabeth Carp, Major

Joseph Clyde Murley Prize for Undergraduate Research in Classical Literature and Culture
Megan Elizabeth Gier
Louis Brandon Liss

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Seymour Schlanger Memorial Award
Michael Joseph Philben
Wing Chi Wong

Economics

Frederick S. Diebler Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Andres Duarte
Melanie Beth Harmon
Samir Kishor Pendse
Alexandru Ioan Rus
Julie Ann Sawaya
Ravindra Umarji

Frederick S. Deibler Award for Excellence in Economics
Jeffrey Cao
Jun Hyung Kim
Andrew H Paik

Robert Eisner Award for Undergraduate Research
William Edward Thompson

English

Best Senior Honors Thesis in the English Major in Writing
Christopher John Adamson
Angela Ingrid Mears

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Major in Literature
Garrett Howard Jansen, Junior
David Ian Wolinsky, Senior

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Best Major in Writing
Emily Lyons Anderson, Junior
Madeline Leigh Weinstein, Senior

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Elizabeth Holbrook Blass

Edwin L. Shuman Essay Award
Samuel Alex Raim

Edwin L. Shuman Fiction Award
Joshua David Chao

The English Department Prize for Creative Writing
Jonathan Andrew Ayala
Kevin Michael McFarland

Faricy Award for Poetry
Madeline Leigh Weinstein

Harriet Gilliam Memorial Prize
Madeline Leigh Weinstein

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on American Literature
Kate Ann Brody

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Kathryn Renee Skelton

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Essay on Literature Written Prior to 1798
Maxwell Donald Allison
Joshua Logan Wall

Helen G. Scott Prize for Best Personal Essay
Angela Ingrid Mears

Helen G. Scott Prize for Creative Writing
Andrew Gordon Greenberg
Anna Rose Kahane
Alberto Roldan

Helen G. Scott Prize for Voice in Fiction
Evan Crane Rausch

J. Scott Clark Scholarship for Aptitude in Creative Writing
Meriwether Elizabeth Clarke

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

The Robert Dentler Prize for Best Poem
Samuel Gregory Johnson

French and Italian

AATF Award for Outstanding Senior in French
Harold William Williford

Distinguished Essay in English on a French Subject
Emily Rose Stein

Distinguished Essay in English on an Italian Subject
Rosanne Marie Sangiacomo

Distinguished Essay in French
Caroline Guo
Sylvia Renee Wicander

Outstanding Achievement in French
Edwin Stevenson Baker
Taylor Danielle Cleland
Stephanie Hu
Joshua Mitchell Levin
Harold William Williford

Outstanding Achievement in Italian
Mackenzie Claire Bronk
Maria Suzanne Dangles
Megan Elizabeth Gier
Bojan Manojlovic
Emily Charlotte Pardini
Sophie Reed Rich
Elisabeth Carol Sachs

Rencontres Internationales de Jeunes Scholarship
Debra Tsae-Wei Chen

Gender Studies

Betty Jo Dobbs Outstanding Senior Thesis Prize
Margaret Eileen Pike

George C. Casey Essay Prize
Brittany Michele Smith

Rae Arlene Moses Leadership Award in Gender Studies
Margaret Eileen Pike
Christine Marie Stiehl

German Language and Literature

Géza von Molnár Essay Award
Melissa Beth Davidson
Agatha Josephine Kielczewski

Géza von Molnár German Achievement Award
Brian Thomas Bodensteiner
Daniel Levi Spade

Northwestern University Award for Outstanding Achievement in German
Katherine Theresa Bateman, First Year
Mark Gordon Kinner, First Year
Jacqueline Michelle Burns, Second Year
Alexander Walter Tapling, Second Year

Northwestern University Award for Outstanding Achievement in Yiddish
Sarah Elizabeth Coughtrie
Alexander Reed Feder
Samantha Millie Offsay

History

Alexander Rorke Award
Shane Patrick Oconnor

Best 395 Research Seminar Essay Award
Kristen Nicole Krofchik

Grace Douglas Johnston Award
Stephanie DeNotto

Hearst Foundation Prize
Jack Maren Neubauer

Ivor Wilks Prize in African History
William Emmanuel Kalema

Jacob Lassner Prize in Jewish and Islamic Civilization
Marisa Louise Johnson

Integrated Science Program

Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
David G. Ackerman

International Studies

Frank Safford Award for Best Honors Thesis in International Studies
Laura Jane Ashbaugh
Alexander Jordan Rudin

Harold Guetzkow Prize
Amber Marie Sasse

Certificate of Distinction in a Foreign Language
Michelle Alexandra Abtahi
Laura Jane Ashbaugh
Katelyn Elise Bell
Molly Chen
Sijh Ahmadou Diagne
Jonathan Louis Farr
Elizabeth Christine Juarez
Sarah C Malin
Sean Clark Pavlik
Madina Sarkulova
Aditi Srinivasan
Devon Rebecca Weiss
Kathryn Marie Wendeln

Jewish Studies

Jill Stacey Harris Prize for Best Essay
Laura Michelle Colee
Julia Grace Swanson

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

LACS Undergraduate Research Grant
Karolina Jean Schantz
Margaret Emily Truesdale

LACS Undergraduate Thesis Prize
Elena Rebecca Pinsky
Alexander Jordan Rudin

Latina/o Studies

Award for Outstanding Thesis in U.S. Latina/o Studies
Tara Garcia Mathewson

Legal Studies

Prize for Best Advanced Research Seminar Thesis
Kathryne Marie Grendon

Linguistics

Abraham Demoz Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Work in Linguistics
Jeffrey Samuel Schecter

Mathematics

Excellence as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Joseph Francisco Lischwe

Excellence in Mathematics by a Freshman
Ewain Nathanael Gwynne
Yanfei He
Hsiao-Tieh Hsu
Monica Manohar Kalwani
Max Stewart New
Stone Shen
Sibo Wang
Xipeng Zhang

High Achievement on the William Lowell Putnam Examination
Frederick Reis Robinson
Michael Allen Wurtz
Peter Hai Zhang
Aleksandr Vadymovich Zhukhovitskiy

Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Sophomore
Michael Allen Wurtz

Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Junior
Kuan-Ying Fang
Andrea Laura Heyman
Honorable Mention
Darren Justin Johnson

Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Senior
Honorable Mention
Tristan Jon Sandler

Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Mathematical Life
Hanqing Lu
Frederick Reis Robinson
Benjamin Robert Salcetti

Robert R. Welland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Graduating Senior
Amy Nicole Danks
Seung Ki Kim

MMSS

Jeanette M. Dacey Award for  the Best Performance in MMSS Required Coursework
Paul P. Park

Michael F. Dacey Award for the Most Outstanding MMSS Senior Thesis
Amanda Gail Budow

Philosophy

Brentano Prize for Best Essay
Samuel Gregory Johnson

Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Avraham Ziskind Emanuel

The J.G. Herder Prize for Best Paper in an Introductory Level Philosophy Course
Lawrence Haven Chu

Physics & Astronomy

Outstanding Junior in Physics and Astronomy
Michael Josef Tremmel

Outstanding Senior Thesis in Physics and Astronomy
Zachary George Nicolaou

Political Science

Barry Farrell Prize for Highest Academic Achievement
Harold William Williford

Kenneth F. Janda Prize for Distinguished Honors Thesis
Harold William Williford

McGovern Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership in Political Science
Daniel S. Rockoff

Psychology

Benton J. Underwood Fellowship for Undergraduate Research
Zhen Cheng
Reina Uchino
Elizabeth Janiece Wilson

The Lois Elizabeth Henrikson Undergraduate Travel Award
Timothy Karl Herrmann
Rachel Hannah Salk

William A. Hunt Award for Outstanding Senior Thesis in Psychology
Jared Matthew Salisbury
Rachel Hannah Salk
Aditi Srinivasan
Honorable Mention
Stephanie Brooke Richman

Winfred Hill Award for Best Papers in Research Methods
Jessica Ann Martinson

Science in Human Culture

Science in Human Culture Essay Prize
Jessica Ann Dinneen
Ken Sasamura

Slavic Languages and Literature

Kultura i Lingvistika Honor in Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
Nicolas Andres Grosso Giordano

Kultura i Lingwistyka Honor in Polish
Aleksander Tomasz Sierakowski

Kultura i Lingvistika Honor in Russian
Wasut Pornpatcharapongm
Madeline Leigh Weinstein

Sociology

William H. Exum Award
Leigh Ashley Jakes
Honorable Mention
Gina Nicole Mouser

Senior Thesis with Distinction
Daniel Abraham Blumenthal
Kristen R Cragwall
Cynthia Lorena Flores
Tara Garcia Mathewson
Gregory Lawrence Go
Jackie Renee Grinvalds
Erica Peterson Handloff
Ashleigh Elizabeth Heller
Katerina Michelle Herder
Leigh Ashley Jakes
Elyse Joy Krumholz
Joseph Anthony Muraski
Eisuke Ohira
Daniel Corey Osher
Paul Franklin Schrodt
Julian David Shulman
Erin Michelle Staab
Alexandra Lee Tate
Katherine Rose Weisshaar
Andrew James Whisnand
Samuel E. Wing

Spanish and Portuguese

Best Essay for Spanish 200-Level Literature and Culture Classes
Frances Myung-In Kim

Best Essay in Spanish 202-2
Ashley Bender
Kathryn Lynne Johnstone

Best Essay in the Literatures and Cultures of Latin America and/or Spain
Michelle Samantha Sweetwood

Humberto E. Robles Prize for Best Honors Thesis in Spanish
Anna Tillie Birkenheier
Arianna Winslow Stern

Writing Program

Freshman Seminar Writing Award
Alex Ralph Onsager
Joshua Samuel Rosen
Maeve Kathleen Wall
Tyr Edwin Wiesner-Hanks

Freshman Seminar Writing Award, Honorable Mention
Natalie Gwynn-Gabriel Alexander
Jenna Lynn Humphrey
Nicholas Richard Johnson
Christopher Chisholm Warner

Jean Reeder Smith Writing Program Essay Award
Eric Walter Schultz

Writing Program Essay Competition
Farah Ashley Dahya
John Phillip Rim
Honorable Mention
Luke Daniel Bonucci