2013 Honors Convocation

Colorado College honored dozens of outstanding students, as well as some faculty and staff, at its annual academic honors convocation on Tuesday, May 7, in Shove Memorial Chapel. The annual program includes departmental awards, all-college awards, and awards from the CC Student Government Association.

Departmental Awards

Anthropology

Presented by Mario Montaño

H. Marie Wormington Award: Shaye Smith, Krista Tani

The Courtney Cusick Memorial Prize: Rebecca Harburg

Art

Presented by Tamara Bentley

Outstanding Senior Art Studio Show Award : Deborah Detchon

Outstanding Senior Art History Thesis Award: Kelly Varian

Mary Chenoweth Award: Ian Stabler

Craig Herst Arts Prize Scholar Award : Julia Belamarich

The Kirsch Prize: Claire Lukeman

Asian Studies

Presented by Hong Jiang

Excellence in Asian Studies: Garrison Lovelace, Kathleen Senn

Biology

Presented by Ron Hathaway

Richard G. and Reba Beidleman Award : Austin Allison, Collin Knauss

Laboratory Biology Award : Leah Kellogg, Hannah Wellman, Anh Nguyen

Jason Wilkes Memorial Biology Award : Joshua Arguello

Enderson Award in Conservation Biology: Phoebe Parker-Shames

Mary Alice Hamilton Award in Biology : Kaitlin Kirkpatrick, Kristen Wells

Alfred W. Alberts Summer Research Prize: Erin Slay

Chemistry

Presented by Ted Lindeman

The Otis A & Margaret T. Barnes Award: Merritt Logan

First Year Chemistry Award: Haley Schroeder

William C Champion Prize: Petra Jans

Outstanding Senior Award in Biochemistry: Kyle Buchwalder

Outstanding Senior Award in Chemistry: Zachary White

ACS Analytical Chemistry Award: Hannah Kim

ACS Organic Chemistry Award: Zachary White

Crecelius Family Research Award in Chemistry: Nicole Fazio

Classics

Presented by Owen Cramer

John Bryant and Miriam Gile Hartwell Prize: Elizabeth Luttrell

Gile Hartwell Summer Travel Prize: Holly Pretsky, Emily Kohut

Comparative Literature

Presented by Corinne Scheiner

Excellence in Comparative Literature: Anna Tinnell

Economics and Business

Presented by Dan Johnson

Kenneth J. Curran Award : Elyse Miller

Kenneth J. and Elizabeth Hare Curran Award : Tyler Thorne

Robert William Kaye Prize : Santiago Burbano Noboa, Tyler Thorne

Robert E. Rubin Award in Political Economy : Amanda Scott

Robert E. Rubin Award in Mathematical Economics : Shupeng Li

Education

Presented by Mike Taber

Award for Excellence in Teacher Education: Alison Ehrensaft

Lori Anne Lowe Memorial Award in Elementary Education: Heather Stiles, Lauren Schultz

Lori Anne Lowe Memorial Award in Secondary English Education: Joseph Karwin

English

Presented by Genevieve Love

Evelyn May Bridges Poetry Awards

1st Place: Katherine Golstein, Robert Heald

2nd Place: Amanda Flores

3rd Place: Charlotte Allyn

Honorable Mention: Laura Blackett

Adelaide Bender Reville Fiction Awards:

1st Place: Heather Ezell

2nd Place: Brian Wray

3rd Place: Molly Moffett

Frank Krutzke Senior Project Award : Brett Bustos

The Colorado College Award in Literature - Robert Heald, Matthew Potter

Environmental Science

Presented by Eric Perramond

Outstanding Senior Academic Award in Environmental Science - Andrew Hall

Distinguished Service Award in Environmental Science - Melanie Yemma

Feminist and Gender Studies

Presented by Heidi Lewis

McGee Prize in Feminist and Gender Studies - Natalie Dupille

Forensics

Presented by Julian Plaza

Apollonian Award - Brynn Schor

Francophone and Mediterranean Studies

Presented by Michael O’Riley

Award in Excellence in French- Dulce Lazcano

Award in Excellence in Italian – Sophia Tirado

Jeanne Gibbs Memorial Award – Dawn Mapatano

Linda Hare Goddard 1977 Memorial Award in French-Jordan Clementi

Linda Hare Goddard 1977 Memorial Award in Italian – Joanna Lingenfelter, Grace Hunter

Geology

Presented by Megan Anderson

The William A. Fischer Special Recognition Award – Ryan Gall

Estwing Outstanding Senior Geologist Award - Devon Cole

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award - Zachary Snyder

The Patricia J. Buster Research Scholarship - Devon Cole, David Fay, David Freedman, Sarah Geisse, Fischer Hazen, Zachary Snyder

Donald B. Gould Scholarship Award in Geology - Ryan Armstrong, Caleb Birchard, Devon Cole, David Fay, Sarah Geisse, Andrew Gregovich, Brennan O’Connell, Zachary Snyder

Darrell M. Putman Scholarship Award in Geology - Ryan Gall, Brennan O’Connell

Phillip J. McKenna Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Scholarship - Abigail Seymour

Creager Scholarship - Victoria Crystal

German, Russian, and East Asian Languages

Presented by Bill Davis

University of Göttingen Scholarship: Lindsay McCreedy

University of Regensburg Scholarship: Beau Idler

Excellence in German Award –Makenna Drake

Anne Von Bibra Sutton German Scholarship- Matthew Lopez

Max Kade Award in German – Katharina Ruchel

The Alexey Malyshev Russian and Eurasian Studies Award – Marta Trippe, Christopher Loopesko, Natalia Khan

Japanese Language Award – Andrew Vierra, Matthew Weidner

Chinese Language Award – Anna McCreedy, William Strachan

Health Professions

Presented by Ted Lindeman

Frank Henry John Figge Award – Kristen Wells

The Caduceus Award-Peter Heng

History

Presented by Tip Ragan

Clyde Augustus Duniway Prize - Keith Drury

Robert J. Cosgrove Historical Essay Prize- Caroline Olsen

Mathematics

Presented by David Brown

The Euclid Scholarships- Alan Yeung, Dillon Montag, Emma Holmes, Kaitlyn Martinez

Thomas Post Rawles Prize- Gautam Webb, Paul-Miki Akpablie

Sophie Germain Award- Kaila Ryan

Florian Cajori Award - Cory Scott

Frank Giordano Award - Namgyal Angmo, Yukiko Iwasaki, Aradhya Sood

Music

Presented by Ofer Ben-Amots

Max Lanner Prize for Excellence in Instrumental Music- Zachary Bellows, Andrew Pope

Marie Clough Gillis Award for Excellence in Vocal Music-Harriet Jacobs

David and Karen Smith Cowperthwaite Award for Excellence in Music - Zachary Bellows, Harriet Jacobs

Neuroscience

Presented by Lori Driscoll

Arnold B. Scheibel Neuroscience Award - Tessa Harland

Philosophy

Presented by John Riker

J. Glenn Gray Award – Alexander Desmarais

Physics

Presented by Patricia Purdue

David and Karen Smith Cowperthwaite Award for Excellence in Physics- Nicholas Lammers, Luke Gallione

Wilbur Wright Memorial Prize - Nicholas Lammers

Political Science

Presented by John Gould

Edith Bramhall Award – Anne Ireland, Matthew Liston

Fred Sondermann Award- Samantha Barlow, Philip Angelides

Psychology

Presented by Tricia Waters

William Arthur Blakely Memorial Award- Jenny Wool

Cornelia Manley Sabine Award in Psychology- Elizabeth Burrus

Race & Ethnic Studies

Adrienne Seward & Victor Nelson-Cisneros Award in Race & Ethnic Studies- Charles Allison-Godfrey

Sociology

Presented by Wade Roberts

Abbott Prize in Sociology- Elizabeth Michaels, Marlana Wallace, Sara Bodner

Southwest Studies

Presented by Eric Leonard

Joel P. Benezet Prize – Teresa Taylor

Spanish

Presented by Naomi Wood

Award in Excellence in Spanish – Margaret Brockland

Felisa Llorente Award- Kelson Brighton, Margaret Brockland

The Linda Hare Goddard 1977 Memorial Award in Spanish – Alyssa Wisler

Sports Science

Presented by Cindy Endicott

The Mahony Award in Sports Medicine- Stephen Meigher

Theatre and Dance

Presented by Gypsy Ames

Broadway Theatre League Award - Anna Zekan

Pamela Riley Prize - Sam Faktorow

All-College Awards

Abel J. and Lucy Phinney Gregg Award

Presented by Bruce Coriell

Recipients: Lindsey Pointer, Anneliese Rice, Elijah Douresseau, Zuri Randell

Alpha Lambda Delta Book Award

Presented by Bethany Grubbs

Recipient: Shaye Smith

Ann Rice Memorial Award

Presented by Samantha Barlow

Recipient: Krithika Vachali

Blue Key Award

Presented by Reginald Anderson

Recipient: Bon Appetit Food Services

The Bill Hochman Prize on War, Violence, and Human Values, with Emphasis on the Human Experience of War

Presented by: Will Hochman, History Professor Emeritus

Recipients: Charlotte Kaye, Anue Atre, Keith Drury

Cutler Publications Award

Presented by Jorge Rivera Hernandez

Recipient: Jack Sweeney

Ruth Barton Award

Presented by Jorge Rivera Hernandez

Recipient: Karen West, Cutler Publications Controller

E. K. Gaylord Award

Presented by Jorge Rivera Hernandez

Recipients: Andrea Tudhope, Ellen Cole

Henri “Skip” Meis 1963 Outstanding Student Award

Presented by Bethany Grubbs

Recipient: Ariana Glantz

Henri “Skip” Meis 1963 Emerging Student Leader Award

Presented by Bethany Grubbs

Recipient: Garrett Benisch

Mortar Board Honoree of the Year Award

Presented by Elizabeth Luttrell

Recipient: Molly Gross, Asst. Director of the Writing Center

The Tashjian-Crecelius Family Prize for Women in Science

Presented by Peggy Daugherty

Recipient: Jimin Kim

Presented by President Tiefenthaler

Dreamkeeper Award

Gianina Horton

Mary Stearns Barkalow Award

Charis Whitnah, Alyssa Wisler

J. Juan Reid Award Recipient

Matthew Liston

Van Diest Award Recipient

Matthew Fechter

Laura Golden Award Recipient

Laura Goldsmith

The Nelson-Cisneros Award Recipient

Anna Jaquez-Herron

Crown-Goodman Scholarship Awards

Nicollette Violante, Chelsea Brown, Forest Thompson, Porschae Chitmon-Turner, Hannah Trim, Ellery Miller, Joshua Mares, Alena Ede, Kathryn Perry, Benjamin Grund, Julia Belamarich

Colorado College Student Government Association Awards

CCSGA Involved Student of the Year Award

Presented by Vyacheslav Sigalov

Recipient: Ryan Haas

Involved Student Organization of the Year Award

Presented by Charis Whitnah

Recipient: Grow, accepted by Kathleen Carroll

Bob Pizzi Outstanding Faculty Advisor of the Year Memorial Award

Presented by Patric Knecht

Recipient: Regula Meyer Evitt , Associate Dean of the College, Associate Professor of English

Lloyd E. Worner Teacher of the Year Award

Presented by Nathan Lee

Recipient: John Riker, Professor of Philosophy

Honorary Organizations

Alpha Kappa Delta

Anu Atre, Kathleen Callahan, Alejandra Chavez-Contreras, Olivia Coble, Lily Gil, Aubrey Hasvold, Eva Hicks, Gabrielle Kaminsky, Caroline Nicholson, Madison Sink, Marlana Wallace

Alpha Lambda Delta

Shaye Smith, Lindsey Pointer, Tessa Harland, Kelsey Bergeson, Kaila Ryan, Saraiya Ruano, Leah Kellogg, Victoria Frecentese, Reginald Anderson, Krista Tani, Andrew Pope, Peter Heng, John Christie, Margo Simon, Caroline Olsen, Joanna Tebin, Allyson Siegal, Devon Macleod, Qua Nguyen, Alice Plant, Hannah Wear, Zachary Anderson, Emily Epstein, Cynthia Taylor, Briana Sallee, Rebecca Simpson, Kimberly Babcock, Maia Wynn, Alexander Glassman, Diane Kelly, David Cully, Swetha Charles, Natalie Rahhal, Natalie Nicholls, Nicholas Johnson, Camille Tallichet, Elizabeth Dantzker, Nathan Childs, Margaret McDermott, Nina Roumell

Blue Key

Amanda Rennecker, Ariana Glantz, Aubrey Hasvold, Blair Huff, Brendan Lamarre, Briana Hoy-Skubik, Cecelia Crossen, Dan Webb, Denali Gillaspie, Elizabeth Mays, Eva Hicks, Hanna Hoopingarner, Isaac Green, Jed Doane, Jenny Wool, Jessica Meyer, Kaila Ryan, Kaleb Roush, Kalen Acquisto, Kalli Kemling, Kelsey Bergeson, Kira Withrow, Kristen Moree, Leah Kellogg, Liz Lilly, Lizzie Luttrell, Lynn Froetscher, Marlana Wallace, Nicole Fazio, Robin Gleason, Reggie Anderson, Sam Seineger, Sara Bodner, Sean Parham, Tessa Harland, Tori Frecentese, Trisha Andrews

Mortar Board

Kristen Wells, Alexander Desmarais, Amanda Wallace, Briana Hoy-Skubik, Camilla Vogt, Daniel Ward, Hannah Wellman, Jenny Wool, Kelsey Bergeson, Kathryn McManus, Leah Danze, Leah Kellogg, Marta Trippe, Philip Angelides, Sara Bodner, Sarah Hutcherson, Victoria Frecentese, Nathan Childs, Sarah Phillips, Zachary Anderson, Sarah Spears

Phi Beta Kappa

Students Elected by the Faculty To Join: Andrew Allen-Fahlander, Samantha Barlow, Caroline Beaton, Kelsey Bergeson, Sara Bodner, Kyle Buchwalder, Sean Buck, John Checton, Alexander Desmarais, Deborah Detchon, Nicole Fazio, Kelsey Fowlkes, Flynn George, Tessa Harland, Peter Heng, Liliana Hoversten, Jessa Karlberg, Charlotte Kaye, Austin Keller, Kaitlin Kirkpatrick, Nicholas Lammers, Shupeng Li, Matthew Liston, Garrison Lovelace, Elizabeth Luttrell, Molly Lynch, Elizabeth Michaels, Kristen Moree, Anh Nguyen, Phoebe Parker-Shames, Laura Peszek, Lindsey Pointer, Andrew Pope, Sophia Recca, Daniel Rosseau, Saraiya Ruano, Kaila Ryan, Nicolas Sander, Cory Scott, Shaye Smith, Zachary Snyder, Tyler Thorne, Marta Trippe, Linnet Vacha, Kelly Varian, Marlana Wallace, Kristen Wells, Zachary White, Charis Whitnah, Leeana Wolfman

Phi Sigma Iota

Andrea Tudhope, Anna Tinnell, Matthew Weidner, Rebecca Carper, Hannah Wear, Mariell Dick-Valdez, Gabrielle Lyng, Madeline Scherer, Jessica Worley, Kiko Sweeney, David Wright, Juliet Gordon, Elizabeth Luttrell, Will Heberlein, Thomas Weaver, Julia Pendleton-Knoll, Cody Kornack

Pi Sigma Alpha Initiates

Philip Angelides, Cecelia Crossen, Candace Datz, Sarah Hart, Eva Hicks, Johanna Holbrook, Anne Ireland, Sydney Leichliter, Allyson Siegal, Frances Staadt, Camilla Vogt

Pi Gamma Mu

Kalen Acquisto, Philip Angelides, Anu Atre, Owen Bean, Santiago Burbano, Ka Yi Cheng, Cecilia Crossen, Keith Drury, Victoria Frecentese, Sarah Hart, April Hearne, Eva Hicks, Clare Hoenig, Johanna Holbrook, Anne Ireland, Robert T. Jones, Gabrielle Kaminsky, Benjamin Lawrence, Nathan Lee, Sydney Leichliter, Elizabeth Luttrell, Anna McCreedy, Elizabeth Michaels, Caroline Mulroy, Rosie Nelson, Caroline Olsen, Allyson Siegal, Frances Staadt, Shaye Smith, Ashley Speyer, Krista Tani, Teresa Taylor, Joanna Tebin, Hunter Van Wagoner, Camilla Vogt, Amanda Wallace, Hannah Wear, Daniel Wright

Psi Chi

Abigail Sawyer Yiqiao Bao, Morgan Bessette, Elizabeth Burrus, Shaina Riciputi, Jacob Russin, Jenny Wool, Emma Agnew

Fellowship Recipients

Fulbright Scholarship

Rebecca Carper, Stuart Hackley

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship

Siri Undlin

Goldwater Scholarship

Kaleb Roush

Public Interest Fellowship Program

Sarah Spears - ACLU of Colorado

Alison Suzukamo - The Bell Policy Center

Anya Arndt - Citizens Project

Samantha Barlow - Colorado Center on Law & Policy

Lily McKoy - Colorado Children'S Campaign

Jessica Meyer - Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved

Nathan Lee - Colorado College Office of Annual Giving

Charlotte Kaye, Nina Roumell - Colorado Consumer Health Initiative

Marlana Wallace - Colorado Fiscal Institute Hannah Wear - Colorado Health Institute

Axumawit Teklu - Conservation Colorado

Lila Pickus - Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region

Sarah Hutcherson - DSST Public Schools

Achini Wijesinghe - The Independence Center

Anu Atre - OMNI Institute

Alexis Kleiman - TESSA

Alice Plant - Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado

Summer Fellows

Yuchen Zhao - ACLU of Colorado

Meredith Antonucci - The Bell Policy Center

Nicholas Koch - Catamount Institute

Amber Burkhart - Clinicnet

Chelsea Davenport - Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition

Stephanie Olivas - Colorado League of Charter Schools

Nicholas Blanchette - Green America

Aditi Ramaswami - NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado

Elizabeth Parker - *NCSL Communications Division

Kelly Latterman, Ming Lee Newcomb - *NCSL Education Program

Aubrey Hasvold - *NCSL Partnership on Family Economic Success

Jacob Walden, Chris Edmonds - *NCSL Health Program

Chloe Banning - One Colorado

Nicole Kaufman - Rocky Mountain PBS

Emma Agnew, Carolyn Brent - TESSA

*National Conference of State Legislatures