2005 Student Awards & Prizes
Two in College Named Marshall Scholars. December 7, 2004. Two students in the College of Arts and Sciences have been chosen as 2005 Marshall Scholars. Harveen Bal and Gabriel Mandujano were among 43 students nationwide to receive the award.
Graduate Awards
Dean's Awards for Distinguished Teaching
Vance Byrd, German
Richard Collum, Biology
Alberta Ferrario, Religious Studies
Damien Keane, English
John Lessard, English
Sarah Mason, Mathematics
James Mesbur, Linguistics
Helen Murphy, Biology
Jennifer Strong, Mathematics
Kahlil Williams, Political Science
Dean's Scholars
Scott Corry, Mathematics
Chong Fang, Chemistry
Barbara Grandstaff, Geology
Shalom Holtz, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Jason Kirk, Political Science
Hideyo Konagaya, Folklore
Thomas Levi, Physics and Astronomy
Justine Murison, English
Elena Past, Romance Languages
Noel Salazar, Anthropology
Undergraduate Awards
Dean's Scholars
Laura Cappelli, Biochemistry
Jason Beiger, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hormuzdiyar Dasenbrock, History and Biology
Andrew Kortina, Philosophy and English
Jaclyn A. Link, Psychology and Philosophy
Ruth McAdams, English
Angela Pugliese, Chemistry
Michael Sheehan, Anthropology
Jennifer Weiss, Theatre Arts and Linguistics
CGS Dean's Scholar
Michael Fuchs, History
General Prizes
The Association of Alumnae Rosemary D. Mazzatenta Scholars
Award: Alison Silber, Karina Totah
Charles W. Burr Book Prize: Mark Gibson, Chris Perez, Jonathan
Siscovick
Abraham D. Cohn Prize: Carly Greenberg, Ophelia Roman
College Alumni Society 250th Commemoration Award: Kate Holbrook
College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grants
Ernest M. Brown, Jr., M.D/CAS Undergraduate Research Grant:
Emily Conn
Goldfeder Family Undergraduate Research Grant: Poornima Vanguri
Ruth Marcus Kanter/CAS Undergraduate Research Grant: Sara
Clopton
Kanta Marwah/CAS Undergraduate Research Grant: Nikki Chow
Mary L. and Matthew M. Santirocco/CAS Undergraduate Research
Grant: Erica Miao
Derish M. Wolf Undergraduate Research Grant: Alex Aronson
Pincus-Magaziner Family Undergraduate Research and Travel
Fund: Janna Hoffman, Dana Katz
Nassau Fund: Yvonne Chan, Katy Cross, Hormuzdiyar Dasenbrock,
Tim Ganser, Alastair Green, Justin Hulbert, Emmanuelle Humblet,
Alan Lewis, Ralph Erik Malmgren-Samuel, Erin O'Brien, Jesse
Salazar, Christopher Sales, Gagan Sawhney, Leigh Seeleman,
Erin Springer, Sherefiah Tomlinson
Rose Award: Dana Katz
William A. Levi Kite and Key Award for Service and Scholarship:
Lauren Hedvat
William A. Levi Travel Fellowship: Staci Stewart, Jenny Pelaez,
Josh Cherry
College of General Studies
Association of Alumni Continuing Education Award: Molly Cronlund
Ronald J. Caridi Award: Aline Ruch Frank
Linda Bowen Santoro Award: Adela K. Smith
Departmental, Center and Program Awards
African Studies Center
Nnamdi Azikiwe African Studies Prize: Erin Wahler
Es'kia Mphahlele African Studies Prize: Noah Pink
Sandra T. Barnes African Studies Prize: Andrea Seligman
Center For Advanced Judaic Studies
Louis Vederman Prize: Marc Caplan
Center for Africana Studies
W.E.B. Du Bois Prize in Africana
Studies: Paul M. Farber
Raymond Pace Alexander Prize in Africana Studies: Voncia
E. Barno
Center for Africana Studies Distinguished Student Prize:
Cassi L. Pittman
Anthropology Department
Department of Anthropology Prize: Erin Wahler
Asian American Studies Program
Drs. Satish and Phiroza Modi Prize: Emily Chang, Kevin Lo
Biochemistry Program
Chair's Award: Peera Jaru-Ampornpan
Founder's Prize: Beth Bennett
Helix Prize: Alice G. Cheng, Sun H. Chung
John C. Makris Memorial Award: Michael J. Farias
Biological Basis of Behavior Program
Edward N. Pugh, Jr. Award: Zita Shiue
Eliot Stellar Award: Connor O'Brien
Chemistry Department
Alpha Chi Sigma Award: Alan Lewis
Hiram S. Luken Scholarship: Jason Vitullo, Jason Beiger,
Ethan Fisher
Classical Studies Department
George Allen Memorial Prizes: Mike Lackman, Claudia Moser
College Alumni Society Prize in Classics: Carolyn Schogol
Critical Writing Program
Henry LaBarre Jayne Essay Prize: Kristin Van Voorhis
Mandell Essay Contest: Jihan Thompson
Creative Writing Program
College Alumni Society Poetry Prizes
First: Jessica Purcell
Second: Sam Donsky
Third: Anna Levett
Honorable Mention: Robert MacNeill
Judy Lee Award for Dramatic Writing
First: Lindsey Rosin
Second: Robert Forman
Third: Jeffrey Phillips
Lillian and Benjamin Levy Award
First: Roger Tang
Second: Cassidy Hartmann
Honorable Mention: Alicia Oltuski
Phi Kappa Sigma Fiction Prize
First: Jon Levin
Second: Matt Hamity
Third: Martha Cooney, Melody Kramer
Honorable Mention: Alicia Oltuski, Eliot Sherman, Elizabeth
Thomas, Jessica Dweck, Ann Hartley
Ezra Pound Prize for Literary Translation: Steven Reilly
William Carlos Williams Prize of the Academy of American
Poets: Jason Fritz
Communication Program
Walter H. Annenberg Service Award: Elizabeth G. Schoen
C. Nicole Dickerson Service to Community Award: Callie J.
Kant
Communication within the Curriculum
Emerging Scholar Talks: Jesse Salazar
Earth and Environmental Science Department
Undergraduate Prizes
Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden Award: Spencer W. Friedman, Paige
S. Fitzgerald
Henry Darwin Rogers Award: Amanda J. Moyer
Graduate Prize
Institute for Environmental Studies Award: Nancy R. Khan
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department
Adele Austin Rickett Memorial Prize: Anne M. Henochowicz
E. Dale Saunders Council on Buddhism Prize: Bruce Baird
Economics Department
Undergraduate Prizes
Bernard Shanbaum Prize for Excellence in Economics: Caitlin
ONeil
Graduate Prizes
William Polk Carey Prize in Economics: Andrea Mattozzi
Hiram C. Haney Fellowship Award in Economics: Ryo Okui
Edwin Mansfield Teaching Prize in Economics: Daniela Iorio
Joel Popkin Graduate Student Teaching Prize in Economics:
Deniz Selman
Lawrence Robbins Prize: Taeyong Doh
Paul Taubman Memorial Prize for Empirical Economics Research:
Elena Pastorino, Yasutora Watanabe
Sidney Weintraub Memorial Fellowship: Benjamin Lester
Penn Institute for Economic Research
Undergraduate Prizes
Lawrence R. Klein Prize for Outstanding Research in Economics:
Jasmin Lau
Simon Kuznets Fellowship Award in Economics: Arthur Chiang,
Gregory Meila
Graduate Prize
Maloof Family Dissertation Fellowship in Economics: Eduardo
Faingold
English Department
Phillip E. Goldfein Class of '34 Shakespearean Prize: Sara
Gorman, Yelena Vicki Litvinov
John L. Haney Prize for Literature: Thomas Lay
College Alumni Society Henry Reed Prize: Alicia Oltuski
Rittenberg Prize: Ian Duncan
Fels Institute of Government
Audrey Miller Poritzky 2001 Leadership Award: Anne Baker
Executive Leadership Award: Matan Meyer, Abraham Perras
Performance Measurement Award: Leigh Botwinik, Anthony Hollingworth,
Jody Chavez
Public Service Award: Eliza Van Dusen, Telandria Boyd, Sean
Bamford
John K. Parker Award: Andrea Saenz
Stephen B. Sweeney Award: John Cerrone, Eric Werfel
Fine Arts Program
Kelly Senior Research Grants: Lauren Childs, Joshua Duyan,
Sidi Gomes, Eve Lateiner, Dora Lubin, Rebecca Simon
Folklore and Folklife Program
Don Yoder Undergraduate Paper Prize Competition: Janelle
Kennedy
Kenneth S. Goldstein Award: Sandra Grady
Fox Leadership Program
Fox Leadership Award: Emma Kirwan, Rachel Meyer
German Department
Arthur M. Daemmrich and Alfred Guenther Memorial Prize: Curtis
Swope
Erich Friedmann Memorial Prize: Patrick Brugh, Rachel Lifter
German Society of Pennsylvania Prize: Stephen Landis
Adolph C. Gorr Delta Phi Alpha Prize: Sonali Mishra , Monica
Park
Henrietta M. Keller Prize: Maria Seredina
Max Kade Foundation Prize: Anna Hsu
Adolf D. Klarmann Prize: Ruth McAdams, Jason McAlees, Megan
McIntosh
C.F. Lauber Prize: Anne Jurkevics
Daniel B. Shumway Prize: Danielle Wade
Otto Springer Prize: David Dubbert, Christina Wood
Petronella van Weezel Prize: Michael Campana
Workmen's Circle/Arbiter Ring Prize: Jonathan Ludmir
Health and Societies Program
College Alumni Society Prize in Health and Society: Monica
Hannon
History Department
Lynn M. Case Prize: Hormuzdiyar Dasenbrock
Thomas C. Cochran Prize: Alexander Burgess Matheson Aronson,
Blair Eden Kaminsky
Hillary Conroy Prize: Noah Pink
Honorable Mention: William Ward
The Captain Victor Gondos, Jr. Prize: Jonathan Lobb
Jack E. Reece Prize: J. Grace Treiman
Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Prize: Sarah Eskreis-Winkler
Martin Wolfe Prize: Brooke Daley
Jeanette Nichols Prize: Rebecca Dalzell
Ellis Wachs Prize: Nathaniel Allen
James V. Saporito Memorial Prize: Zachary James Silver
History of Art Department
College Alumni Society David M. Robb Prize: Maryse Brand,
Jessica Fain
Thune Travel Fellowship: Courtney Nagel, Rebekah Flake, Molly
Gallagher, Jacky Hayward, Johanna Vandemoortele, Martine
Satterlee, Mary Heskel
International Relations Program
College Alumni Society Prize in International Relations:
Charles S. Maffey
James Markley Distinguished Service Award: Daniel M. Siegman
Bruce Newsome Leadership Award: Karina M. Totah
Norman D. Palmer Award: Maksim A. Piskunov
Jewish Studies Program
Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award: Zachary James Silver
Mathematics Department
Moez Alimohamed Graduate Student Award for Distinguished
Teaching in Mathematics:
Michael McDuffee
Music Department
David Halstead Music Prize: Stratis Minakakis
Hilda K. Nitzsche Prize in Music: Steven Wilcox
Helen L. Weiss Music Prize: Benjamin Boyle
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department
B'nai Zion Award: Andrea M. Brem
Judah Goldin Memorial Prize for Excellence in Advanced Hebrew Studies: Daniel
A. Saat
Penn Professional Women’s Network (Penn Prowomen)
Judith Seitz Rodin Prize for Innovative Leadership: Ophelia Roman
Alice Paul Awards: April Hail, Cecilia Ramirez
Lynda Hart Award: Caroline Rothstein
Philosophy Department
Elizabeth F. Flower Undergraduate Essay Prize in Philosophy: Samuel Kahn
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program
College Alumni Society Prize in Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Mathew Miller
Goldstone Prize for Academic Excellence: Steven Winter
Physics and Astronomy Department
Arnold M. Denenstein Prize: Michael Fischbein
Chairman's Teaching Award: Alexander Borisov
William E. Stephens Memorial Prize: Sahand Jamal Rahi
Werner B. Teutsch Prize: Matthew C. Martino
Political Science Department
Philo S. Bennett Prize: Kathryn A. Hunt
Leo S. Rowe Memorial Prize: Danielle Dougherty, Rachel E. Velcoff,
College Alumni Society Robert Holtz Memorial Prize: Rachel E. Velcoff
Religious Studies Department
Merle Saunders Schaff Memorial Award: Douglas Paul Finkbeiner
Romance Languages Department
Clifton C. Cherpack Prize in French: Tracy Park, Savina Hicke
Edwin B. Williams Prize in Spanish: Samuel A. Funt
Lina A. Ruiz y Ruiz Memorial Award: Janine M. Stichter
Slavic Languages and Literatures Department
Luba Zinkowsky Friedman Award for Excellence in Russian Studies: Spencer Willig
Slavic Departmental Essay Prize: Rayna Lopyan, Markian Dobczansky
Solomon Asch Center
Gantz Family Undergraduate Research Award: Jacob "Chuck" Boyars
Solomon Asch Center Undergraduate Prize for Scholarship in National, Ethnic,
and Communal Conflict: Simon Kirk
Sociology Department
E. Digby Baltzell Thesis Prize: Rachel Rouhana
Sackler Undergraduate Research Scholarships: Martha Coe, Rachel Rouhana
Urban Studies Program
Award for Commitment to Social Justice in the City: Peter Bloom
Norman Glickman Prize for the Best Senior Seminar Paper: Gabriel Mandujano, Elizabeth
Spector
Hassenfeld Grants for Undergraduate Research in Urban Studies: Katera Moore,
Emily Culbertson, Matthew Rao
Women’s Studies Program
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Senior Thesis Prize in Women's Studies: Amanda Nordstrom