Prizes and awards to degree recipients

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

Alan Grob Prize

• Isabel Grace Patten
• Michelle Alyssa Tran
• Jose Alberto Maldonado

Alan J. Chapman Award in Mechanical Engineering

• Jiaming Zha
• Alpha Rho Chi Medal
• Joseph Paul Jackson

American Institute of Architects Medal

• Joseph Paul Jackson

Ann and Joe Hightower Superior Award in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Jacob Alexander Wimbe Behling

Anthropology Department Honors

• Monica H. Bodd

Aparicio Prize

• Isaac James Carroo

Arthur L. Draper Award in Chemistry

• Dhanatcha Sadetaporn
• Andrew David Supron
• Nicholos Poothullil Joseph
• Nikola Plamenov Dyulgyarov
• Nicholas Gong Cen
• Surached Siriwongsup
• Austin Chen Cao

Balkishan Das Signal Award

• Brittany Autumn Henry

Barbara Field Kennedy Prize in American History

• Maria Renee Montalvo

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

• Austin Chen Cao

Best Aerospace or Transportation Technology Award

• Andrew Oehler Gatherer

Best Conceptual or Computational Modeling Engineering Design

• Christopher Kendrick Brehm
• Daniel Clayton Faraldo
• James Junhyun Kim

Best Energy-Related Engineering Design

• Jacob Alexander Wimbe Behling
• Jocelin Chen
• Luis Miguel Gozalo
• Monique Elizabeth Hartemink
• Ernest Lee Pelton
• Ashkan T. Rohani
• He Zhao

Best Environment and Sustainability Engineering Design

• Austin Au-Yeung
• Matthew Nicholas Disiena
• Alexander Mark Dzeda
• Stefan Ivan Olesnyckyj
• Jorge Zepeda

Best Gaming, Creative or Innovative Technology

• Andrew Grant Brooks
• Pharson Chalermkraivuth
• Emilio D. Del Vecchio
• Kevin Lin
• Joshua B. Phipps

Best Interdisciplinary Engineering Design

• James Michael Grinage
• Connor Blake Heggie
• Betty L. Huang
• Sachin Jain

Best Medical Device Technology

• Christopher C. Chee
• Joseph Vincent D’Amico
• Jeffrey Alex Horowitz
• Paul Michael Mayer
• Qianyun Gina Wang
• Anika Zaman

Best Technology for Low-Resource Settings Design

• Mildred Antwi-Nsiah
• Patricia Sallas Marques DaSilva
• Shannon Yue Fei
• Catherine Schult
• Leah Beyer Sherman
• Aniket Anil Tolpadi

Beth Shapiro Award

• Nehemiah L.D. Ankoor

Bill Wilson Prize for Best Electrical and Computer Engineering Design

• Andrew Grant Brooks
• Robert J. Cunningham
• Pharson Chalermkraivuth
• Emilio D. Del Vecchio
• Kevin Lin
• Joshua B. Phipps

Bryon Pope Award for Outstanding Performance in Masters of Energy Economics

• Samantha Bobo

Buckley Sartwelle Scholarship

• Harrison Linden Lin

Caring Friends Inc. Scholarship

• Ashwin Joseph Leo
• Martin Luis Rather

Carl Isgren Iron Owl Award

• Wendy Noel Knight
• Lauren Elizabeth Rhodes
• Dayne Wunderlich

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

• Sarah S. Wozniak

Catherine Hannah Award

• Kaitlyn Brooke Swinney

Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Fellowship

• Hannah Frances Todd

Chair’s Best Dissertation Prize in English

• Lorena Gauthereau

Charles Garside Jr. Prize in History

• James Wagner Altschul
• Conrado Andres Asenjo
• Gary Morris Dreyer
• Rachel Mihiri Lee
• Oliver Franklin Rusnoc Lucier
• Walden Scott Pemantle
• Derek Qiu
• Martin Luis Rather

Charles Tapley Award

• Emilia Therese Cavallaro

Chevron Scholarship in Engineering

• Evan Costas Lopez

Chillman Prize

• Andrew Bertics

Christine Croneis Sayres Memorial Scholarship in Art

• Huidi Xiang
• Robert Michael Katz

Christine Croneis Sayres Memorial Scholarship in Art History

• Joseph Thaddeus McGlone

Clark P. Read Award for Excellence

• Lucrecia Kaye Aguilar

Classical Studies Prize

• Susannah Leigh Wright

Cpt. Charles Septimus Longcope Award in History

• Edwin Carlisle Breeden

CSWGS Graduate Best Essay Prize

• Brittany Autumn Henry

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Cervantes Award for Outstanding Seniors

• Marisa Inglis Hudson
• Rachel Ngoc Thuy Ngo
• Hannah Frances Todd

Department of Spanish and Portuguese María Teresa Leal Honors Thesis Prize

• Hannah Frances Todd

Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts Chairman’s Choice Award

• Alexander Price Shultz

Dr. and Mrs. David M. Mumford Endowed Award

• Nicholos Poothullil Joseph
• Catherine April Wu

Dr. Michael A. and Donna Kidwell Gibson Undergraduate Leadership Award in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Monique Elizabeth Hartemink

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Best Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Award

• Elaine Wang Shen

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Best Thesis Award

• Michelle Elizabeth Sneck

Edward B. Arrants Award

• Monica Ellen Burckhardt

Electrical and Computer Engineering Best Graduate Poster

• Vinay S. Raghavan

Electrical and Computer Engineering Distinguished Student Service Award

• Vinay S. Raghavan

Engineering Design Showcase: People’s Choice Award

• Alexander Grant Gardner
• Wendy Noel Knight
• Evan Hunter Toler

Eva Jean Lee Award

• Katherine Jane Jensen

Excellence in Academic Advising Award to Peer Academic Advisors

• Akash Sharan Dhawan
• Adrianna Alia Jones
• Erika Lynn Schumacher
• Susannah Leigh Wright
• Angela Weishu Zhang

Excellence in Capstone Engineering Design

• Ruo Jia
• Matthew Thomas O’Gorman
• James Everett Phillips
• Kelsi Marie Wicker
• Wesley Adam Yee
• Jijie Zhou

Excellence in Capstone Engineering Design

• Weiqi Chen
• Yixin Chen
• Yujun Chen
• Christopher Robert Chivetta
• Yoseph Daniel Maguire
• Cody Austin Tapscott Jr.

Excellence in Independent, Multiyear or Club Engineering Design

• Caroline Helen Lee

ExxonMobil Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Earth Science

• Pankaj Khanna

ExxonMobil Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award in Earth Science

• Alexandra Kali Holmes

Farb Family Award for Outstanding Achievement for Phi Beta Kappa

• Rohit Gupta

Farb Family Award for Outstanding Achievement for the Shepherd School

• Katherine Audas

Franz and Frances Brotzen Undergraduate Student Fellowship

• Andrew James Keller

Fred and Florence Stancliff Award

• Ayane Morishita Rossano

Fred Hansen/Dave Roberts Award

• Scott Michael Filip

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

• Gia Francesca Rivera Longsworth
• Catherine April Wu

Fulbright Award

• Anna Gabrielle Figueroa
• Shruthi Velidi
• Sarah S. Wozniak

Gaston Rimlinger Prize

• Evan Jasper Flack

Gene Hackerman Award

• Samantha Ding
• Emilia Therese Cavallaro

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

• Khushali Jitendrakumar Patel
• Michelle Alyssa Tran

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

• Premila Priya Samuel Mohan Dass
• Emily Elizabeth Thomas

George Martin Award

• James Brian Douglas Womac

Gerald August Dobelman Memorial Scholarship

• Kevin Lin

Gilbert L. Hermance Award in Kinesiology — Health Sciences

• Blessing Oluwabunmi Falade

Gilbert L. Hermance Award in Kinesiology — Sports Medicine

• Amanda Kathryn Pasko

Goethe Book Prize

• Brandi Nicole Ransom

Graham C. Stebbings College Service Award

• Nickolas Paul Walling

Honors in Cognitive Sciences

• Shruthi Velidi

Honors in Economics

• Rafael Antonio Uy-Barreta Butiong
• Evan Jasper Flack
• Malvika Govil
• Seung Jae Han
• Victoria Lynn Johnson
• Seohee Kim
• Hendrik Arnold Lintel
• Albert Nabiullin

Honors in History

• Bejamin Miller Jones
• Oliver Franklin Rusnoc Lucier
• David Oscar Ratnoff
• Corinne Louise Wilkinson

Honors in Linguistics

• Natalie Marie Grothues
• Eugene Yeom

Houston Gas Processors Association Annual Scholarship

• John Charles Weis

Houston Gas Processors Association Endowed Scholarship

• Gregory Steven Campo

Hugh Scott Cameron Service Award from the Student Association

• Jose Alberto Maldonado
• Madeleine Rose Pelzel
• Andrew James Keller

Ira and Patricia Gruber Award for Best Honors Thesis

• Benjamin Miller Jones

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

• Jovany Jeomar Franco

James S. Waters Creativity Award

• Yujun Chen
• Steven Schara

James Street Fulton Prize for Excellence in Philosophy

• Jeffrey Alex Horowitz
• Timothy Edward Van Baak

Jeff Lewis Award

• Scott Michael Filip

Jenessa Shapiro Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis

• Kristina Dianna Dickman

Jennifer and Purvez Captain Award for Outstanding Economics Dissertation

• Mark Joseph Agerton
• Nicholas Patrick Frazier

Jesse Tsu Sport Management Academic Achievement Award

• Jahid Shakil Adam

Jessie Matthews Memorial Award in Studio Art

• Elizabeth Denton

Jill Pitman Jones Award — Intramural Sports Female

• Jordan Marie Bulanda

Jill Pitman Jones Award — Intramural Sports Male

• Kenan Rymer Davis

John L. Margrave Thesis Award in Chemistry

• Jun Ohata
• Ruocheng Yu

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

• Kristina Dianna Dickman

John W. Gardner Award in Humanities

• Carissa Phillips-Garrett

John W. Gardner Award in Social Sciences

• Carolina Romina Tchintian

Joyce Pounds Hardy Award for Outstanding Female Athlete

• Samantha Landi Chaiken

Julian Huxley Award for Excellence

• Elaine Wang Shen

Kathleen Gamber Ballanfant Award in Film and Photography

• Erica Wing-Chin Cheung

Kathleen S. Matthews Teaching and Mentoring Award

• Rohit Gupta

Keeton Award in Painting and Drawing

• Ye Han

Leroy C. Gibbon Award in Geology

• Hehe Jiang

Linda F. Williams Prize for Social Justice

• Catherine April Wu

Linda Sylvan Fund for Architectural Education

• Andrew Bertics

Lindsay Roemmich Sport Management Achievement Award

• Sergio Santamaria
• Lindsey Marie Hodge

Linguistics Prize for Excellence

• Natalie Marie Grothues

Louis J. Walsh Engineering Scholarship

• Rafael Antonio Uy-Barreta Butiong
• Shiyu Cai
• Yujun Chen
• Matthew Nicholas Disiena
• Siyu Geng
• Gennady Gorin
• Kevin Bohua Guo
• Zilu Guo
• Ziyu Han
• Ji Hwang Kim
• Hanyang Li
• Haihao Liu
• Yin Hong Ng
• Khang Dinh Nguyen
• Vinay S. Raghavan
• Tiffany M. Tan
• Tiffany Meihui Tang
• Chuying Jessica Yu
• Jiaming Zha

Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts

• Sarah Grace Graves
• Huidi Xiang

M.N. Davidson Fellowship

• Madeleine Rose Pelzel

Malcolm Gillis Award in Economics

• Mengjia Liu

Malcom Gillis Prize in Mathematical Economic Analysis

• Seohee Kim

Margaret Everson-Fossi Traveling Scholarship

• Deok Kyu Chung

Margie E. Sass Scholar-Athlete of the Year — Women

• Amanda Kathryn Pasko

Marshall Scholarship

• Jackson Paul Neagli

Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Traveling Fellowship

• Justin Karl Bernard

Mary Hays Ewing Prize

• David Andrew Johnson

Mavis C. Pitman Memorial Prize in Arts

• Heather Marietta Wright

Max Freund Prize in German Studies

• Brandi Nicole Ransom

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows

• Nehemiah L.D. Ankoor
• Amanda Bianka Cervantes
• Zantia Akira Crier
• James Michael Grinage
• Jessica Ann Guerra
• Elizabeth Renee Martinez
• Leila Maria Wahab

Michael Bloomberg Commencement Speaker Award for Passionate Community Impact, Innovative Thinking and Entrepreneurial Spirit

• David Oscar Ratnoff

Mike Wright Award

• Stephanie Renee Antosh
• David Michael Bonem
• Edward A. Clark
• Aragorn Lafayette Earls

Morris and Shirley Rapoport Award in Jewish Studies

• Colton Lee Cox

Morris and Shirley Rapoport Essay Prize in Jewish Studies

• Sonia Ann Hamer

Morty Rich Community Service Scholarship

• David Gregory Cirillo
• Martin Luis Rather
• Michelle Alyssa Tran

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• Elena Laura Busch
• Lucy Lai
• Gia Francesca Rivera Longsworth
• Ethan Josean Perez
• Neil Sandy Havens Scholarship in Theatre
• Nathaniel Williams
• Nunnelee Preceptorship Fund
• Lara Xiaoxu Hansmann
• Sarah Arin Lumelsky
• Madeleine Rose Pelzel
• John Alexander Rudd
• Shikun Tang
• Hannah S. Wang

O.J. Brigance Courage Award

• Emmanuel Aben Ellerbee

Outstanding Anthropology Major Award: Archaeology

• Dylan T. Dickens
• Charles Maxwell Ronkos

Outstanding Anthropology Major Award: Cultural Anthropology

• Monica H. Bodd
• Jasmine Lin

Outstanding Senior in Bioengineering

• Angela Weishu Zhang

Outstanding Senior in Cognitive Sciences

• Shruthi Velidi

Outstanding Service in Bioengineering

• Mildred Antwi-Nsiah
• Patricia Sallas Marques DaSilva
• Andrew James Keller
• Christopher Stephen VanGundy

Patrick K. Thornton Memorial Award

• Irvin Sio Khen Kiong

Peter Mieszkowski Prize for Honors Program Research

• Seung Jae Han
• Victoria Lynn Johnson

Phil Layton Award for Excellence in the Arts

• Grace E. Jenkins
• Ajay Krishna Subramanian

Phillips Prize

• Robert Andrew Elliott
• David Francis Laborde
• Carrie Allison Leader
• Sarah Elise Trepagnier

Pi Delta Phi André Bourgeois Award in French

• Shidi Wu

“R” Association/J. Fred Duckett Postgraduate Scholarship

• Ayane Morishita Rossano

“R” Association/Margie E. Sass Postgraduate Scholarship

• Katherine Jane Jensen

Ralph Budd Thesis Award

• Kuldeep Singh Meel

Ralph S. Herman Memorial Scholarship

• Zachary Reagan Gwin

Raymond Swift Medal in Art

• Nikola Plamenov Dyulgyarov
• Helena Alice Martin

RCEL Engineering Leadership Award

• Andrew Oehler Gatherer

Rice Architecture Academic Award

• Lara Xiaoxu Hansmann

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Senior Award

• Andrew Oehler Gatherer
• Jiaming Zha

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Leadership Excellence Award

• Emma Morgan Baker
• Abigail Elaine Cartwright
• Margaret Hodges Roddy

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Outstanding Senior Award

• Ethan Josean Perez

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Research Excellence Award

• William Cannon Lewis II

Rice Engineering Alumni Association Senior Merit Award

• Jacob Alexander Wimbe Behling
• Andrew James Keller
• William Cannon Lewis
• Jose Alberto Maldonado
• Yin Hong Ng
• Vinay S. Raghavan
• Ajay Krishna Subramanian
• Tiffany Meihui Tang

Rice Scholar-Athletes of the Year

• Mario Eduardo Carmona Aguilera
• Jorian Clark
• Anna Gabrielle Figueroa
• Scott Michael Filip
• Matthew Steven Garcia
• Lindsey Marie Hodge
• Katherine Jane Jensen
• Julie Litver
• Stephanie Anne Mendivil
• Amanda Kathryn Pasko
• Cole Andrew Thomas

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

• Jacob Alexander Wimbe Behling

Robert P. Quin Award for Outstanding Male Athlete

• Scott Michael Filip

Robert Patten Graduate Student Award

• Emily Fulk
• Sydney Michelle Gibson
• Joshua Cartwright Hill
• Mary Elizabeth Natoli
• Tawana Michelle Robinson
• Christoph Wagner

Ronald Soligo Public Policy Essay Prize

• Rafael Antonio Uy-Barreta Butiong

Rosemary Watkin Barrick Traveling Fellowship in Architecture

• Lara Xiaoxu Hansmann
• Ilya Rakhlin

Rotary Community Service Scholarship

• Michelle Alyssa Tran

Roy and Hazel Zeff Memorial Fellowship

• Courtney Marissa Wang

Saba Prize

• Christopher Kendrick Brehm
• Isaac Marcus Schultz

Sallyport Award

• Emily Reiser Evans
• Nicholos Poothullil Joseph

Samuel T. Sikes Jr. Scholarship

• Jahid Shakil Adam
• Jacob Alexander Wimbe Behling
• Gregory Steven Campo
• Evan Hunter Toler
• Tian Yu

Sam Worden Endowed Memorial Fund in Geophysics

• Ruichao Ye

Sherry Matusoff Merfish Award

• Jahnavi Meenaga Jagannath

Soccer Award

• Samantha Landi Chaiken

Society of American Military Engineers

• Casey Clemens Fitzgerald

Student Association Outstanding Seniors

• Santiago Avila
• Margaret Elizabeth Brigman
• Tessa Rose Fries
• Nicholos Poothullil Joseph
• Travis M. Kwee
• Justin Nnamdi Onwenu
• Brandi Nicole Ransom
• Martin Luis Rather
• Hannah Frances Todd
• Bailey Corine Tulloch

TEI Tax Scholar Award

• Victoria Lynn Johnson

Texas Instruments Graduate Student Fellowships

• Mayank Kumar
• Chia-Yi Yeh

Texas Society of Professional Engineers Outstanding Senior Engineering Students

• Jordan Marie Bulanda
• Gregory Steven Campo
• Patricia Sallas Marques DaSilva
• Kevin Lin
• Jiaming Zha

Texas Society of Professional Engineers Overall Outstanding Senior Engineering Student

• Gregory Steven Campo

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

• Lucrecia Kaye Aguilar

Thomas Michael Panos Family Engineering Student Award

• Nickolas Paul Walling

Torkild Rieber Award in Geology

• John Paul Cornthwaite
• Aitash Deepak
• Jennifer Elaine Kroeger
• Lindsay Prothro

Vic Cameron Award

• Mario Eduardo Carmona Aguilera

Wagoner Scholarship

• Lucrecia Kaye Aguilar
• Benjamin Joel Johnson
• Benjamin Miller Jones
• Sanket Mehta
• Laura Peyton Thayer Nicholson
• Zhizhen Rao
• Elaine Wang Shen
• Elizabeth Nadine Stone
• Nickolas Paul Walling

Weber-Durkheim Prize for Excellence in Sociology

• Colton Lee Cox

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

• Serena Maureen Brandler

William D. Darden Award

• Daria Piekos

William Lukes Award in Photography Honoring Paul Hester

• Matthew Tyler Kerkstra

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

• Jacob Alexander Wimbe Behling
• Jocelin Chen
• Luis Miguel Gozalo
• Monique Elizabeth Hartemink
• Ernest Lee Pelton
• Ashkan T. Rohani
• He Zhao

William Ward Watkin Traveling Fellowship

• Andrew Bertics
• Ethan James Chan
• Samantha Ding
• Caiwei Tian

Willy Revolution Award

• Nicholas James Calafat
• Yida Liu
• Akhil Surapaneni
• Jack Edgar Terrell
• Angela Weishu Zhang