2014-15 academic awards
Cornell College honored students with departmental and college-wide academic awards on Thursday, April 23.
ALL-COLLEGE AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa
Katlyn Arndt Trang Hoang Kelly Oeltjenbruns
Hannah Bostwick Alex Hubers Bridget Ollesch
Kyle Decker Caitlin Huff Rose Reed-Maxfield
Viet Do Bekah Kurtz Caryn Shebowich
Gerin Eaton Tiffany Lawless Tanner Stirrat
Amir El-Aswad Shengkun Li Jihang Wang
Stacey Harrison Thao Nguyen Laura Wetzel
Mortar Board
Members for 2014-15
Setsen Altan-Ochir Jeremy Kaden Ariadne Penalva
Katlyn Arndt Stephanie Kerbel Lushana Peterson
Yasmin Bou Karim Bekah Kurtz Allison Rott
Tanisha Canty Lydia Meece Raven Saunders-Duckett
Eleanor Cotton Thao Nguyen Katherine Sickelka
Alyssa Hahn Elizabeth O’Brien Shivani Suresh
Rachel Henning Kelly Oeltjenbruns Audrey Zannini
Liz Jerkins Bridget Ollesch Tianzi Zhang
Members for 2015-16
Theresa Dinh Grace Leppink Jessica Reed
Selena Erdman Ruby Linkhart April Richards
Rachel Foster Christopher Machold Bailey Robb
Laurel Fraser Hayley McKie Dakota Schee
Maggie Hogen Linh Nguyen Alison Sojka
Mauricio Huertas Anh Pham Katherine Uhlenkamp
Sarah Johnson Katelynn Raney Thomas Weiss
Danya Lebell
Academic Achievement Awards
H.M. Kelly Award in the Sciences
Sara Howard
Clyde Tull Award in the Humanities
Catherine Backer
Alice R. Betts Award
Leah Bossom
William Harmon Norton Award
John Tesensky
Sutherland Dows Award
Hannah Bostwick
Peterson Sisters Award
Ruby Linkhart
C.O. Pauley Award
Thomas Weiss
Arthur E. Lowell Award
Emily Andrulis
Class of 1907 Award
Laura Wetzel
S.L. Chandler Award
Husani Newbold
Yamaoka International Student Award
Polina Durneva
Interdepartmental Awards
Madonna Cutsinger Award
Christopher Machold and Jessica Reed
Frank G. Brooks Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Outstanding Senior Award
Katlyn Arndt
Frank G. Brooks Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Outstanding Junior Award
Hannah Bostwick and Justin Pruitt
Robert Black Environmental Studies Award
Alex Young
John Mark Dean Environmental Studies Award
Caitlin Huff
Interdepartmental Honors (Individualized Major) in International Development
Bekah Kurtz
Departmental Awards
Biology
Frank G. Brooks Outstanding Senior Award
Derek Hanson
Frank G. Brooks Outstanding Junior Award
Becca Lensing
Achievement in Biosciences Prize – Oxford University Press
Alyssa Hahn
Beta Beta Beta (Biology Honorary Society)
Jarod Armenta, Katlyn Arndt, Lauren Birnhak,
John Christiansen, Eleanor Cotton, Kyle Decker,
Kristen Fernandez-Kong, Cris Fernandez-Reyes, Maria Goodfellow,
Alyssa Hahn, Angelica Hall, Stacey Harrison,
Rachel Henning, Nguyet Minh Hoang, Sarah Johnson,
Bethany King, Grace Leppink, Lydia Meece,
Alynne Metzger, Emma Narotzky, Bridget Ollesch,
Ariadne Penalva, Hannah Pohlman, Justin Pruitt,
Naomi Saito, Allison Samayoa, Nolan Schillerstrom,
Elijah Schumacher, Slater Sharp, Nathan Spalding,
Leti Valencia, Arielle Watson, Alicia Wilson, and Alex Young
Chemistry
Chemistry Outstanding First-Year Student Award
Caitlin Stieber
Analytical Chemistry Award
Shuhan Reyes
Physical Chemistry Award
Tianzi Zhang
ACS Organic Chemistry Award
Derek Hanson
Chemistry Outstanding Senior Student Award
Jihang Wang
Achievement in Chemistry Prize – Oxford University Press
Ben Williamson
Classical and Modern Languages
Grace Wormer Award for Excellence in Foreign Languages
Emily Andrulis
John M. Crossett Memorial Prize for Excellence in Classics
Morgan Hoffman and Liz Jerkins
Eugene Elkins Award for Excellence in French
Katie Gilbert
Grace Wormer – Mihailo Mihailovic Russian Award
Shannon Ehrnstein
Alan DuVal Award in German
Clint McDaniel
Cervantes Award in Spanish
Katlyn Arndt and Yasmin Bou Karim
Delta Phi Alpha (German Honorary Society)
Clint McDaniel, Ryan O’Malley, Allison Rott,
Alex Sutton, Jesse Sackett, and Katherine Uhlenkamp
Pi Delta Phi (French Honorary Society)
Dannie Chen, Cairo Eubanks, Katie Gilbert,
Nola Ihejirika, Bekah Kurtz, Abrah Masterson,
Elizabeth O’Brien, Catherine Quinn, Rose Reed-Maxfield,
Kathryn Sayrs, and Mary Willis
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish Honorary Society)
Emily Andrulis, Jesse Applehans, Katlyn Arndt,
Hannah Bostwick, Yasmin Bou Karim, Annie Broutman
Ray Feliz Taveras, Hana Martin, Taylor Ploch,
Halee Schomberg, and Tess Wilner
Computer Science
First-Year Computer Science Student Achievement Award
Dot Carmichael
Senior Computer Science Student Achievement Award
Alex Hubers
Economics and Business
Don Cell Award
Linh Nguyen
Charles M. Cochran Award
Trang Hoang, Aeint Ngon, and Tess Wilner
Richard and Laurine Kimmel Award
Rick Simkins
Outstanding Achievement in Business Education Award: Successfully passed the Society of Actuaries examinations
Viet Do and Ngoc Nguyen
Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics Honorary Society)
Clint Allen, Jessica Applehans, Kang Chen,
Kangwei Chen, Michael Christiansen, Bao-Chau Do,
Viet Do, Trang Hoang, Shengkun Li,
Thao Luu, Aeint Ngon, Hoa Nguyen
Linh Nguyen, Ngoc Nguyen, Thao Nguyen
Lushana Peterson, Anh Pham, Tyler Radke
Martin Reimer, Benjamin Rosen, Abubakar Shehu,
Rick Simkins, James Thompson, Dawit Tsigie,
Tyler VanderGaast, Adam Westerby, Tess Wilner,
Linchuan Zhang, and Ruonan Zhang
Education
Gast Award in Elementary Education
Katy Krogstad and Myron Seabrook
Gast Award in Secondary Education
Mitch Hood and Crystal Kephart
Elizabeth Hutton-Thompson Passionate About Teaching Award
Renata Rankin
English and Creative Writing
Recognition of Excellence in the Department of English and Creative Writing
Tyler VanderGaast
Tull Prose Prize
Maria Catherino
Barbara Gail Lieberknecht Award
Robin Bulger
Recognition of Service to the Department of English and Creative Writing
Jacob Luplow and Ve’Amber Miller
Winifred Van Etten Award
Jessica Reed and Anne Zegers
Beth Ellsworth Award
Janet Garcia
Academy of American Poets Prize
Maria Catherino
Tom Garst Poetry Prize
Per Wiger
Tom Garst Award for Excellence in Academic Writing
Jourdan Glenn
John Branner Shackford Senior Award
Sheldon Gaskell
John Branner Shackford Shakespeare Prize
Kaylin Voss
Departmental Honors in English and Creative Writing
Indigo Boock and Sheldon Gaskell
Geology
William H. Norton Geology Award to the Outstanding Junior Geology Major
Thomas Weiss
Herbert Hendriks Award to the Outstanding Senior Geology Major
Scott Kottkamp
Gene Hinman Geology Award for Outstanding Geology Fieldwork
Christopher Felt
Paul Garvin Award to the Outstanding Sophomore Geology Major
John Lewis
Departmental Honors in Geology
Scott Kottkamp
Sigma Gamma Epsilon (Geology Honorary Society)
Setsen Altan-Ochir, Scott Kottkamp, Stephanie Lucker,
Ryan Shanks, Thomas Weiss, and Nicole Werling
History
May Montgomery Smith Award to the Outstanding Senior History Major
Thomas Cooke
Maxwell Miller Jr. Award
Erinn Voas
Alice Gehant Absher Award
Aubrey Kohl
Dean Gilliatt Award
Evan Andersson
Carl Becker Award
Mauricio Huertas
Littell Statesman Award
William Phillips
Departmental Honors in History
Thomas Cooke
Kinesiology
Ray and Margaret Cook Award in Kinesiology
Leah Bedatsky and Kyra Koehler
Departmental Honors in Kinesiology
Kelsey Boss and Rikki Mulloy
Mathematics and Statistics
Mildred and Watson Davis Award
Dillon Pape
Elmer E. Moots Award
Dot Carmichael and Marshall Hobson-Ritz
Luther Claborn Memorial Award
Laura Wetzel
Sarah Frances Bush Award
Trang Hoang and Thao Nguyen
Ed Hill Mathematics Scholars
Emily Andrulis, Mason Chow, Lainey Drevlow,
Aeint Ngon, Natalie Powell, Alison Sojka, and
Mimi Vukelich
Music
Hanawalt Vocal Music Prize
Brett Krull
Mary Jane Tinder Edge Music Award
Eleanor Backman
Lloyd Oakland Music Award
Emily Wenzel
Eugene Devereaux Memorial Award
Cassie Leavens
Vera Kuntz String Award
Mandy Mukozaka
Elmer E. Moots Award
Collin Smith
Philosophy
Elmer E. Moots Award
Bailey Robb
Bruce T. Riley Award
Jessica Reed
Physics
Outstanding Physics Major Award
Lawrence Dennis
Politics
Littell Statesman Award
Kenny Capesius
Mark E. Hutchinson Jr. Memorial Award
Sarah Bertschy
Kathryn Bieber Weller Memorial Award
Michael Christiansen
Charles J. Lynch Memorial Pre-Law Award
Amir El-Aswad
John Cotton Brown Memorial Award
William Phillips
Clark H. McNeal Memorial Award
Nora McKenzie
Herbert A. Wilkinson Memorial Award
Michelle Ikelau Ngirbabul
Maduff Civil Rights Award
Stacey Harrison
Pi Sigma Alpha (Politics Honorary Society)
Tanisha Canty, Kenny Capesius, Thomas Cooke
Shannon Ehrnstein, Amir El-Aswad, Ariam Kiflemariam,
Kelly Oeltjenbruns, Michelle Ikelau Ngirbabul, Erinn Voas
Erinn Voas, Timothy Wiley, and Linchuan Zhang
Phi Alpha Delta (Pre-law Honorary Society)
Alex Acunal, Narda Aldaco, Tanisha Canty,
Thomas Cooke, Amir El-Aswad, James Flanagan,
Ray Feliz Taveras, Sarah Johnson, Aubrey Kohl,
Benjamin Rosen, Leonard Schlanger, and Kaylee Wohlenhaus
Psychology
Kathryn L. McDermott Award
Liz Jerkins and Tiffany Lawless
Dominique Hudson Distinguished Service Award
Kimberly Boche and Angelica Hall
Psi Chi (National Honor Society in Psychology)
Kyle Decker, Kristen Fernandez-Kong, Lee Gaveras,
Angelica Hall, Liz Jerkins, Jeremy Kaden,
Z Kaza-Amlak, Tiffany Lawless, Lorri Leong,
Ruby Linkhart, Jess Noble, Ariadne Penalva,
Marco Renzi, Tyler Thorne, Mary Willis, and
Emily Wyler
Religion
American Bible Society Prize
Trevor Gretten
American Bible Society Christian Education Award
Christopher Machold
Julius and Erma Delaplain Knoblauch Award
Bridget Ollesch
Ruth N. Anderson Harris Award
Brent Buttorff
Sociology and Anthropology
The Winston and Margaret Ehrmann Junior Award for Excellence in Sociology
Ruby Linkhart and Hayley McKie
The Winston and Margaret Ehrmann Senior Award for Excellence in Sociology
Katy Krogstad and Rose Reed-Maxfield
Excellence in Anthropology Award
Muriel Grubb and Shivani Suresh
Alpha Kappa Delta (National Honor Society in Sociology)
Stacey Harrison, Katy Krogstad, Ruby Linkhart, Hayley McKie, Rose Reed-Maxfield, and Shivani Suresh
Hayley McKie, Rose Reed-Maxfield, and Shivani Suresh
Lambda Alpha (National Honor Society for Anthropology)
Alexis Atkinson, Selena Erdman, Gabe Flippo
Elliot Ford, Muriel Grubb, Joseph Roberti,
and Shivani Suresh
Theatre
Theatre Achievement Award
Kira Gaudynski, Dorothy Jolly, Caryn Shebowich, and Ani Sledgianowski
