Prizes and awards to degree recipients

Rice undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates reaped a number of fellowships, scholarships and awards this year.

Alan J. Chapman Award in Mechanical Engineering

• Nathan Leo Bucki
• Alpha Rho Chi Medal
• Amelia Therese Hazinski

American Institute of Architects Certificate

• Amelia Therese Hazinski

American Institute of Architects Medal

• Yingying Guan

American Institute of Chemical Engineers South Texas Section Scholarship

• Lucia Patricia Pasara
• Carolina Vanessa Sampson

Ann and Joe Hightower Superior Award in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Chen Song

Anthropology Department Honors

• Michael David Robinson
• Aparicio Prize
• John Gearon Hagele

Arthur L. Draper Award in Chemistry

• Morgan Elizabeth Abernathy
• Matthew Allan Adrianowycz
• Gaowei Chen
• Megan Keely Moore
• Siyu Shi
• Grant Jacob Stec
• Eric Rueyhao Sung

Baker Institute Public Policy Essay Prize

• Yimeng Tang

Barbara Field Kennedy Prize in American History

• Whitney Nell Stewart

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

• Henry Bair
• Ken Groszman
• Megan Dora McCurry (Honorable Mention)

Bill Wilson Prize for Best Electrical and Computer Engineering Design

• Erik Karl Biegert
• Sarah McIlwaine Hooper
• Marissa Blair Levy
• Justin Edward Pensock
• Luke Van der Spoel
• Xiaoran Zhang

Billy Wohn Award

• Egor Koulechov

Carl E. Isgren Iron Owl Awards

• Peter Clark Godber
• Chelsey Briana Harris
• Ruth Lia Seleznick

Caroline S. and David L. Minter Award for Best Graduating English Major

• Helen Maureen Gunn
• Arlen Crittenden Walker

CD Broad Exchange Recipient

• David Cai
• Brett Ferdosi Gutstein

Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Fellowship

• Brett Ferdosi Gutstein

Chair’s Best Dissertation Prize in English

• Joanna May Fax

Charles Garside Jr. Prize in History

• Tianwei Liu
• Rebecca Lynn Powell

Chevron Scholarship in Engineering

• Samantha Jean Stergar Elliott

Chillman Prize

• Pauline Chen

Chinese Government Scholarship

• Hope Weng

Christine Croneis Sayres Memorial Scholarship in Art History

• Rachel Erin George

Clark P. Read Award for Excellence

• Kevin Kahealani Kama Czachura

Cpt. Charles Septimus Longcope Award in History

• David Ponton III

Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award

• Joshua Atkinson

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Cervantes Award for Outstanding Seniors

• Carmella Rose DeSerto
• Camila Cigarroa Kennedy

Donald I. Wood Award for Excellence in Teaching

• Amy Louise White

Dr. and Mrs. David M. Mumford Endowed Award

• Ye Lin
• Peter Sangeyup Yun

Dr. Mae C. Jemison Award for Academic Achievement and Public Service

• Audrey Arevalo Odwuor

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Best Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Award

• Jodie Rae Nghiem

Edward B. Arrants Award

• Will Berish Letchinger

Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Student Service Award

• Jorge Armando Quintero

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Best Conceptual or Computational Modeling Engineering Design

• Shan Zhong

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Best Energy-Related Engineering Design

• Ankush Agrawal
• Andrew Shane Elsey
• Kaiji Lu
• Ethan Michael Myers
• Jonathan Han Nguyen
• Paul Edward Saad

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Best Environment and Sustainability Engineering Design

• Jared Wing Broadman
• Isabelle Ainsley Cochran
• Sanjiv Vikram Gopalkrishnan
• Brian Dean Gravesmill
• Farish Amin Gulamali
• Daniel Mitchell Kurtz
• Lisa Ann Nordhauser
• Dominique Ashley Schaefer Pipps

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Best Gaming, Creative or Innovative Technology

• Chandler Joseph Burke
• Paul Delos Byrnes
• Leah Myong Chong
• Yulan Linus Shih
• Sihan Zeng
• Shengliang Zhu

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Best Interdisciplinary Engineering Design

• Samantha Jean Stergar Elliott
• Rivkah Pauline Gardner-Frolick
• Benjamin Oliver Hoff
• Sea Hoon Kim
• Jae Joon Lee
• Victoria Lynn Trexel
• Avery John Zaleski

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Best Medical Device Technology

• Shuqing Chen
• Romeo Benjamin Garza
• Yuqiang Heng
• Young Yul Kim
• Jiaqi Liu
• Tianyi Yao

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Excellence in Capstone Engineering Design

• Connie Han Do
• Kathleen Noel Francis
• Mehek Gagneja
• Sharon Ghelman
• Ethan Emil Hunt
• Sang Hun Ji
• Zhuofu Ni
• Connor Bogert Stuart-Paul
• Aaron Wei-Loon Tan
• Brian Daniel Wahlig
• Yu Tong Zhang
• Yichen Zhang

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Excellence in Engineering

• Erik Karl Biegert
• Sarah McIlwaine Hooper
• Marissa Blair Levy
• Justin Edward Pensock
• Luke Van der Spoel
• Xiaoran Zhang

Engineering Design Showcase Award: People’s Choice Award

• Lucas Alexander Bizzaro
• Nikitha Ann Cherayil
• Amy Elizabeth Fox
• Jessica Anne Griffiths
• Ye Lin

Engineering Design Showcase Award: Willy Revolution Award

• Stephanie Elianne Brener
• Christine Michelle Diaz
• Elizabeth Louise Godfrey
• Tahir Hafeez Malik
• Radhika Mohan
• Nikhil Shamapant

Eva Jean Lee Award

• Cali Clare Roper

Excellence in Academic Advising Award to Peer Academic Advisors

• Carmella Rose DeSerto
• Margaret Lie
• Tahir Hafeez Malik
• Sydney Joan Vigran
• Stephanie Zhao

ExxonMobil Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Earth Science

• Shuo Ding

ExxonMobil Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Earth Science

• Sarah Paschal Gerenday

Farb Family Award for Outstanding Achievement for Phi Beta Kappa

• Cyrus Majid Ghaznavi

Farb Family Award for Outstanding Achievement for the Shepherd School

• Ryo Kaneko
• Frank Lee Berry Jr. Award in Art
• Rachel Erin George
• Mitchell Xavier Mackowiak

Frederick B. Rudolph Award for Outstanding Biochemistry and Cell Biology Senior

• Charles-Etienne Sauvé
• Karen Meixin Qiang

Fulbright Award

• Rachel Trene Buissereth
• Hanna Downing
• Cyrus Majid Ghaznavi
• Camila Cigarroa Kennedy
• Benjamin Jacob Morris

Gaston Rimlinger Prize

• Yue Zhang

Gene Hackerman Award

• Neha Sahai

Gene Hackerman Award for Women’s Athletics

• Maya Elaine Hawkins

George J. Schroepfer Jr. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Biochemistry and Cell Biology

• Wesley Hau-Wei Chou
• Margaret Lie

George J. Schroepfer Jr. Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Biochemistry and Cell Biology

• Yun-Ting Kao

George Williams Prize in Poetry

• Hannah Bethany Che

Gilbert L. Hermance Award in Kinesiology — Health Sciences

• Anjali Bhatla

Gilbert L. Hermance Award in Kinesiology — Sports Medicine

• Leah R. Mikesky

Goliard Endowed Scholarship

• Mitchell Xavier Mackowiak

Graham C. Stebbings College Service Award

• Magen Alise Eissenstat

Hally Beth Poindexter Award

• Chelsey Briana Harris

Harry S. Truman Scholarship

• Anjali Bhatla
• Mishi Praveen Jain

Henry Luce Scholarship

• Cyrus Majid Ghaznavi

Honors in Cognitive Sciences

• Siqi Ning
• Nikhil Shamapant
• Kira Alexandra Wegner-Clemens

Honors in Economics

• Hanqing Sun
• Yimeng Tang
• Yue Zhang

Honors in History

• Tianwei Liu
• Rebecca Lynn Powell
• Destiney I. Randolph
• Sydney Joan Vigran

Honors in Philosophy

• Michael Andre Portal

Honors in Psychology

• James T. Carter

Houston Gas Processors Association Annual Scholarship

• Kelly Maria Kidder

Houston Gas Processors Association Endowed Scholarship

• Chen Song

Ira and Patricia Gruber Award for Best Honors Thesis

• Rebecca Lynn Powell
• Sydney Joan Vigran

James B. Walker Award for Outstanding Senior in Biochemistry and Cell Biology

• Kendall Helene Burks
• Megan Dora McCurry
• James Glanville Award
• Darik David Dillard

James Street Fulton Prize for Excellence in Philosophy

• Nikhil Shamapant

James S. Waters Creativity Award

• Helen Ashley Little

Jeff Lewis Award

• William Taylor Roberts

Jeff Wells Award

• Marco Antonio Ruiz

Jennifer and Purvez Captain Award for Outstanding Economics Dissertation

• Margaret Katherine McKeehan

Jesse Tsu Sport Management Academic Achievement Award

• David Green Jr.

Jill Pitman Jones Award — Club Sports

• Alexander Thelonious Heath

Jill Pitman Jones Award — Intramural Sports Female

• Midori Elyse Rinkliff

Jill Pitman Jones Award — Intramural Sports Male

• Jeremy Daniel Reiskind

John P. McGovern Outstanding Premedical Student Award

• Cyrus Majid Ghaznavi
• Siyu Shi

John W. Brelsford Award for Superior Scholarship, Leadership or Service

• James T. Carter

John W. Gardner Award in Humanities

• David Ponton III

John W. Gardner Award in Social Sciences

• Elizabeth Korver-Glenn

Joyce Pounds Hardy Award for Outstanding Female Athlete

• Cali Clare Roper

Julian Huxley Award for Excellence

• Lauren Iris Howe-Kerr

Kathleen Gamber Ballanfant Award in Film and Photography

• Abbigail Lane Gutierrez

Kathleen S. Matthews Teaching and Mentoring Award

• Megan Dora McCurry

Kay Pearson Keating Award

• Katherine Ip

Kenneth R. Laughery Award for Best Master’s Thesis in Psychology

• Curtiss Chapman

Leroy C. Gibbon Award in Geology

• Monica Elizabeth Erdman

Linda F. Williams Prize for Social Justice

• Bridget Elizabeth Schilling

Lindsay Roemmich Sport Management Achievement Award

• Jeremy Daniel Reiskind

Linguistics Prize for Excellence

• Aric Ronald Barnes

Louis and Peaches Owen Fellowship for Professional Masters in Engineering

• Avery John Zaleski

Louis J. Walsh Engineering Scholarship

• Yamin Ishraq Arefeen
• Qingyun Bian
• Blake Thomas Bourne
• Brian James Brenner
• Nathan Leo Bucki
• Gaowei Chen
• Shuqing Chen
• Jennifer Joanne Dawkins
• Lori Ding
• Kathleen Noel Francis
• Elizabeth Louise Godfrey
• Paul Jesse Hellemn
• Yuqiang Heng
• Sarah McIlwaine Hooper
• Joseph Zan Hwang
• Run Jiang
• Eun Young Kim
• Ye Lin
• Yichuan Ma
• Tahir Hafeez Malik
• Nicole Christine Moes
• Jacob Thomas Schneckloth
• Philip Adam Taffet
• Yimeng Tang
• Zhiyuan Tang
• William Hunter Tidwell
• Justin Craig Trenor
• Julia Lee Voltz
• Brian Daniel Wahlig
• Bryce Steven Willey
• John Michael Williams
• Avery John Zaleski
• Sihan Zeng
• Wynne Qing Zhang
• Yize Zhao
• Shengliang Zhu

Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts

• Monica Edith Czausz
• Mitchell Xavier Mackowiak
• Michael David Robinson

Malcolm Gillis Award in Economics

• Alexander Jacob Alexander

Malcom Gillis Prize in Mathematical Economic Analysis

• Zhifeng Wang

Marjory Meyer Hasselmann Fellowship in Chemistry

• Dayne Francis Swearer

Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Traveling Fellowship

• Eric Jeffery Hsu
• Katherine Alexander Tees

Mavis C. Pitman Memorial Prize in Arts

• Caitlin Rebecca Young

Max Freund Prize in German Studies

• Toshiki Niimi

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows

• James T. Carter
• Maria Emilia Duno
• Devon Shea Gerstenhaber
• Rocio Ariana Rosa-Lebron

Mike Wright Award

• Chelsea Greenwald
• Joshua James Gresham
• Gerardo José Peruchini
• Chris Elaine Staffel

Mikki Hebl Award

• Katherine Jane Jensen

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• Morgan Elizabeth Abernathy
• Nathan Leo Bucki
• Jennifer Joanne Dawkins
• Sarah McIlwaine Hooper
• Claudia Kenyon Kann
• Megan Dora McCurry
• Mia Polansky
• Katri J. Sofjan

Norman Hackerman Fellowship

• Jibo Zhang

Nunnelee Preceptorship Fund

• Pauline Chen
• Margaret Gerri Hall
• Neha Sahai
• Katherine Alexander Tees
• Sang Heum Yoon

O.J. Brigance Courage Award

• Darik David Dillard

Outstanding Anthropology Major Award: Archeology

• Rachel Erin George

Outstanding Anthropology Major Award: Cultural Anthropology

• Kyra Reann Neal
• Bairavi Shankar

Outstanding Bioengineering Design Project — ClotMeNot

• Stephanie Elianne Brener
• Christine Michelle Diaz
• Elizabeth Louise Godfrey
• Tahir Hafeez Malik
• Radhika Mohan
• Nikhil Shamapant

Outstanding Contributions in Bioengineering Design

• Sharon Ghelman

Outstanding Senior in Bioengineering

• Elizabeth Louise Godfrey
• Tahir Hafeez Malik

Outstanding Service in Bioengineering

• Sharon Ghelman
• Megan Elizabeth Kehoe
• Tahir Hafeez Malik
• Sanjana Ranganathan
• Brian Daniel Wahlig

Patrick K. Thornton Memorial Award

• Yasna Haghdoost
• Jason Paul Petro
• Summer Sinclair Roberson

Paul Frederick Bobb Award

• Pak Wei Tong

Peter Mieszkowski Prize for Honors Program Research

• Hanqing Sun

Phil Layton Award for Excellence in the Arts

• Isaac Middleton Phillips

Phillips Prize

• Chelsea GreenwaldDaran Stephen Gaus
• Martha Caitlin CrottyTiago Santos de Sousa Mendes

Pi Delta Phi André Bourgeois Award in French

• Sarah Jessica Williamson

Ralph Budd Thesis Award

• Jason Holloway

Ralph S. Herman Memorial Scholarship

• Mitchell Xavier Mackowiak
• Katherine Alexander Tees

“R” Association/J. Fred Duckett Postgraduate Scholarship

• Leah R. Mikesky

“R” Association/Margie E. Sass Postgraduate Scholarship

• Cali Clare Roper

Raymond Swift Medal in Art

• Meagan Leigh Dwyer

RCEL Engineering Leadership Award

• Andrew Thornton Petty

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Senior Award

• Elizabeth Louise Godfrey
• Sarah McIlwaine Hooper
• Shengliang Zhu

Rice Engineering Alumni Association International Service Excellence Award

• Lucas Alexander Bizzaro

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Leadership Excellence Award

• Christopher Robert Wentland

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Outstanding Senior Award

• Tahir Hafeez Malik

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Research Excellence Award

• Aaron Jeffrey Velasquez Mao

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Senior Merit Award

• Nathan Leo Bucki
• Lori Ding
• Kathleen Noel Francis
• Ken Groszman
• Senthil Srivatsan Natarajan
• Jiao Sun
• Peter Brandon Szemraj
• Philip Adam Taffet

Rice Scholar–Athletes of the Year

• Thomas Leo Bennett
• David Green Jr.
• Peter Clark Godber
• Abby Elizabeth Halm
• Katherine Ip
• Marcus Jackson
• Erik Anders Maher
• Leah R. Mikesky

Rice School of Architecture Academic Award

• Kajal Jayesh Patel

Rice Service Award Given in Memory of Dean Hugh Scott Cameron

• Olivia May Lee
• Annabelle Lauren McIntire-Gavlick
• Alexander John Metcalf
• Bridget Elizabeth Schilling

Robert H. Parks Jr. Prize for Excellence in Engineering Leadership

• Kelly Maria Kidder

Robert Patten Graduate Student Award

• Pratiksha Digambarsing Dongare
• Alicia Elizabeth Mangubat

Robert P. Quin Award for Outstanding Male Athlete

• Darik David Dillard

Rosemary Watkin Barrick Traveling Fellowship in Architecture

• Eric Jeffery Hsu
• Kajal Jayesh Patel

Saba Prize

• Madison Alene Gates
• Zoe Renee Tao

Sallyport Award

• Griffin Fowler Thomas

Samuel T. Sikes Jr. Scholarship

• Brett Ferdosi Gutstein
• Jiaqi Liu
• Chen Song
• Ethan Hannan Steinberg
• Jiao Sun

Sam Worden Endowed Memorial Fund in Geophysics

• Jie Hou

Sherry Matusoff Merfish Award

• Bridget Elizabeth Schilling

Student Association Outstanding Seniors

• Anita Tayyaba Alem
• Seth Kenneth Berggren
• Caroline Aline Brigham
• Magen Alise Eissenstat
• Elizabeth Louise Godfrey
• Katherine Jane Jensen
• Michael Charles Kidd
• Griffin Fowler Thomas
• Madhuri Saroja Venkateswar
• Peter Sangeyup Yun

Texas Instruments Graduate Student Fellowships

• Amir Ali Aghazadeh Mohandesi
• Jason Holloway
• Andrew Zhou Kwong
• Hamed Rahmani
• David Alejandro Ramirez Dominguez

Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Senior Engineering Students

• Yamin Ishraq Arefeen
• Samantha Jean Stergar Elliott
• Kathleen Noel Francis
• Chen Song
• John Michael Williams

Texas Society of Professional Engineers Overall Outstanding Senior Engineering Student

• Samantha Jean Stergar Elliott

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

• Madhuri Saroja Venkateswar
• Allison Yu

Thomas Michael Panos Family Engineering Student Award

• Isabelle Ainsley Cochran

Torkild Rieber Award in Geology

• Savannah Lee Ezelle

Wagoner Scholarship

• Yasna Haghdoost
• Lauren Iris Howe-Kerr
• Emily Marie Jacobson
• Jacob Maxwell Krauss
• Neethi Nayak
• Zoe Renee Tao
• Katherine Anne Thomas
• Huilin Yang

William C. Howell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Scholarship

• Ryan David Pappal

William D. Darden Award

• Daniel Heinrich Kuehn

William W. Akers Senior Process Design Award in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Natalya Marie Johnson
• Kelly Maria Kidder
• Alexander John Metcalf
• Michael Thomas Nelms
• Daniel Nathan Plants
• Yue Shao

William Ward Watkin Traveling Fellowship

• Toshiki Niimi