1998 Student Awards

RICE NEWS OFFICE

May 28, 1998

Envision Grant Program Recipients

Ron-Li Liaw and Taryn Kinney

Michael Ford and Chelsea Valdez

Jason Wehling

Joshua Roberts

Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management

Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence

Cavan Chad Carlton

Robyn McCord O’Brien

Financial Executives Institute Award

Stuart Wilson Wagner

Houston Society of Financial Analysts Scholarship Award

Robyn McCord O’Brien

Jones School Special Achievement Award

David J. Mendelow

Lorane T. Phillips Award for Excellence in Writing

David Robert Bixby

Robert E. Phillips Award for Excellence in Presentation

Elizabeth Gray Gregory

Texas Business Hall of Fame Scholarship

Robyn McCord O’Brien

Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award

William Cloney Hamilton

Katharine Marion Kashiwa

M.A. “Mike” Wright Award

Cavan Chad Carlton

Alliance Francaise Fellowship

Diane Berry, $2,250

Pi Delta Phi Andre Bourgois Award in French

Armanda Lewis, $300

Rice University Theta Chapter of Pi Delta Phi (Inductees)

Katia Maria Baizan

Diane Lee Berry

Katherine Bernice Boulware

Robert Nathan Day

Elizabeth Morrison Fisher

Michelle Carolyn Glassman

Tu-Quynh Nguyen Hoang

Kristopher Ghassan Karam

Olivia Jalyn Liang

Erica Peiyeh Lin

Melinda Louise McLellan

Katherine A. Mendillo

Rachel Marie Nunez

Amy Marisa Pita

Lindsay Ann Stevens

Paul Jonathan Stewart

Clyde Ferguson Bull Scholarship

Aleksandra Pimenides, $8,000

Italy in America Association Dante Allighieri

Sarah Doss

Donne Di Domani

Alessandro Farnoli, $1,500

Nick Iovacchini, $1,000

Todd Maske, $1,000

Department of Art and Art History

Raymond Swift Medal

Christopher Patrick Eska, $500

Mavis C. Pitman Memorial Prize in Art

Sarah Elizabeth Brockington, $2,800

Christine Croneis Sayers Memorial Scholarship

Marika Sardar, $500

Christine Croneis Sayers Memorial Scholarship

Darshan Amrit, $250

Christine Croneis Sayers Memorial Scholarship

Joshua Roberts

Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Fellowship

Seong-Hea Aun, $3,000

Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Fellowship

Marika Sardar, $1000

Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Fellowship

Lindsey Schechter, $1,000

Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Fellowship

Leslie Witt, $1,000

Chilton Scholarship

Morgan Deveaux Robinson, $1,000

Rice University Art Gallery Director’s Choice Award

Jason Wehling, $100

1998 Hubert E. Bray Prize in Mathematics

Sharon Merryman

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships

Sharon Merryman, $7,500

Bobby Azamian, $7,500

Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award

Katherine Marion Kashiwa

Blanche Randall Haden Scholarship

Jun Yang

Max Freund Prize In German

Lynn Nicole Stewart

Dr. & Mrs. Earl Douglas Mitchell Fellowship In Slavic Studies

Susana Calderon

Boris Coto

Alexandra Vaikhman

Advanced Micro Devices Scholarships

John Bangerter

Jan-Michael Huber

Geology and Geophysics 1998 Student Prizes and Awards

The Leroy Caleb Gibbon Award In Geology

Andrew Cunningham, $600

Raul Yssacis, $600

The Torkild Rieber Award In Geology

John Bradford, $1,725

Frank Condi, $1,725

Christine Reif, $1,000

The Sam P. Worden Award In Geophysics

James Loughridge, $750

Eugen Merten Memorial Prize In Geology and Geophysics

Beverly Shade, $700

Dennise Rodriguez, $700

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

John Comstock, $1,250

Devlin-Schnable Field Camp Scholarships

Dennise Rodriguez, $1,850

Golden Key National Honor Society (new inductees)

James H. Henderson, IV

Matthew Allen Hayenga

Academy of American Poets Prize

Samantha Deirdre Johnson

Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in a Physical and Engineering Sciences
Doctoral Dissertation

Laura J. Suggs

1998 Student Awards