CAS Dean's Awards and Prizes 2020-21
College-Wide Awards
Valedictorian and Roland P. Beattie Award
Hope Rangaswami, English and American Literature; Minors: Animal Studies, Anthropology
Diploma Recipient
Jendayi Omowale, Journalism, Dramatic Literature, Theatre History & Cinema; Minor: History
Standard Bearer
Adler Guerrero, Biology
Dean’s Award for Community Engagement
Brandon Lu, Chemistry; Minor: Mathematics
Adrianna Espinal, Latino Studies, Politics; Minor: Chinese
Olivia O’Leary, Global Public Health/Sociology
College of Arts and Science Alumni Association Award
Humanities
Jingyi Nicole An, Philosophy
Joseph Tuano, Urban Design & Architecture Studies, German; Minor: Politics
Science
Samantha Ciervo, Biochemistry; Minor: Psychology
Grishma Patel, Neural Science
Claire Casaday, Chemistry
Xuan Carol Long, Computer Science/Mathematics
Robert Wolesensky, Chemistry
Social Science
Victoria Bianco, International Relations, Spanish
Micaela Lew, Economics and Mathematics; Minors: Psychology, Business Studies
Lila Rosenzweig, International Relations; Minor: Korean
Tsengelmaa Sundui, Economics and Mathematics
Dean’s Awards for Scholarship
Humanities
Era Gjonbalaj, History; Minor: Psychology
Science
Adelia Gaffney, Biology
Social Science
Jessie Wall, International Relations, Economics
Faculty Memorial Award
Alexander Cushen, Physics, Anthropology; Minor: Mathematics
Cordelia Kwon, Global Public Health/Sociology; Minor: Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Sarah Marbach, Spanish, Neural Science
Jhenelle Marson, Social and Cultural Analysis, Sociology
Junyi Bob Zou, Mathematics, Computer Science
Sherborne Vernon Damerel Award
Naima Dobbs, Africana Studies, Spanish
Heather Dupire-Nelson, Classics; Minor: Creative Writing
Omar Qassab, Biology
Eric Zhu, Chemistry; Minor: Computer Science/Mathematics
Alvin H. Zagor Memorial Prize
Jhenelle Marson, Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis
Albert Borgman/Phi Beta Kappa Thesis Competition Prizes
Sam Ciervo, Chemistry
Gray Danforth, Urban Design & Architecture Studies
Hanna Khosravi, English and American Literature
Eline Munster, Politics
Isabel Rudie, International Relations
Gregory Dean Legon Memorial Award
Michaela Greenlee
Kenneth Bromberg Memorial Prelaw Award
Paul Ibuzor, Politics, Spanish
Hossein Jafari Memorial Award
Chrystelle Leveille, Global Public Health/Anthropology
Morris and Clara Gratz Memorial Award
Grishma Patel, Neural Science
Scholarships
Antonio Mazzeo Memorial Scholarship
Pacy Yan, Philosophy
Charles Andrew Stahl Memorial Scholarship
Sophia Sardegna, Politics, History
Chesler Prelaw Scholarships
Chris-Ann Barnett, Politics, Sociology
Jeffrey Gu, Public Policy, Economics
Dayalis Zamora, Politics
Elizabeth Claster Memorial Scholarship
Arjun Patil, Politics
George Granger Brown Scholarships
Rawit Assamongkol, Chemistry
Lu Yao Friedmann, Chemistry
Mathew Gelin, Chemistry
Lauren Kayli Jones, Physics
Aashish Khubchandani, Physics
Hannah Liu, Chemistry
Navkawal Mattu, Chemistry
Bearach Miwatani-Minter, Biochemistry
Ilan Pesselev, Chemistry
Michael Zheng, Biochemistry
Departmental Prizes and Awards
Anthropology
Gabby Galindo, Department of Anthropology Prize
Cordelia Kwon, Annette B. Weiner Memorial Prize
Youssef Abdelzaher, Edward Sapir Award in Anthropology and Linguistics
Art History
Max Kingsley, Sam Gates Award
Emma Carrig, H.W. Janson Scholarship
Mari Otsu, Douglas F. Maxwell Award
Arvind Sindhwani, Ada Louise Huxtable Award
Mauro Schenone, Jane Costello Memorial Award
Raisy Jrada, Kayla Stotzky Memorial Award
Clara Reed, Barbara and Ben Aliza Award
Faculty Choice Awards
Gabby Chinea, Urban Design & Architecture Studies
Gray Danforth, Urban Design & Architecture Studies
Hyungjoo Han, Urban Design & Architecture Studies
Joseph Tuano
Molly Chang
David Dunham
Nicole Hunt
Anna Leckie
Zoe Lee
Daniel Kuzinez
Ying Su
Biology
Adelia Gaffney, Benjamin Salom Award
Tom Zhang, Chairs Biology Award
Md Fahim, Chairs Biology Award
Angelia Kurtz, Chair’s Biology Award
Adler Guerrero, Chair’s Biology Award
Ravi Dhamija, Chair’s Biology Award
Lily Kunkel, Chair’s Biology Award
Omar Qassab, George Schwartz Prize
Grace Pan, Charles H. Willey Prize
Diana Abraham, Horace W. Stunkard Prize
Abdulaziz Alhussein, Wortis Biological Prize
Chemistry
Danni Tang, Arthur E. Hill Prize
Bobby Wolesensky, Morris Fishman Award
Eric Zhu, Isidor Rubiner Award
Claire Casaday, Edward J. McNelis Thesis Prize
Brandon Lu, Harold Seidenstein Award
David Sung, Departmental Honor Scholar Award
Samantha Ciervo, Neville Kallenbach Award
Connie Xiao, Lillian Lindhardt-Solotoroff Prize
Georgina Dabdoub, NYU Chemistry Alumni Associate Award
Gabe Herrera, American Chemical Society in Organic Chemistry
Melissa Barrera, American Chemical Society in Organic Chemistry
Brandon Lu, American Chemical Society Excellence in Chemical Sciences
Classics
Jiali Gia Chen, Bluma Trell Prize
Heather Dupire-Nelson, Lionel Casson Prize
Alexander Vermeulen, Josiah Marshall Favill Prize in Latin Translation
Heather Dupire-Nelson, Josiah Marshall Favill Prize in Greek Translation
Computer Science
Albert Liu, Academic Excellence and Service to the Department
Alexa Rae Tartaglini, Most Promising Student in the Junior Year, co-recipient
Kunming Jiang, Most Promising Student in the Junior Year, co-recipient
Yuxiao Wen, Outstanding Performance in Computer Science, co-recipient
Jiesi Zhou, Outstanding Performance in Computer Science, co-recipient
Bob Junyi Zou, Academic Excellence in the Honors Program
Ziyi Zhang, Academic Excellence, co-recipient
Lena Crolot, Academic Excellence, co-recipient
Creative Writing
Samuel Haecker, Tory Dent Research Scholarship
Joseph Makoviecki, Tory Dent Research Scholarship
Camilla Johnson, Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize, first prize
Esther Brodsky, Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize, honorable mention
East Asian Studies
East Asian Studies Prize, co recipients:
Elizabeth Marbach
Zhengming Zhang
Wenkai Liu
Economics
Zihan Wen, Murray Altman Prize
Brendan Yap, Emanuel Stein Memorial Award
English
Nicholas Pabon, Frederick Seward Gibson Prize
Amber Guevara, Dean Archibald Bouton Memorial Prize
Hope Rangaswami, William Bush Baer Prize
Alexa Dark, Estelle M. Holmes Award
Trisha Gupta, Roger Lee Deakins Prize
Hanna Khosravi, Ilse Dusoir Lind Award
Abby Thayananthan, Michael L. Owen Prize
European and Mediterranean Studies
Eline Munster, European Studies Prize
Environmental Studies
Wyatt Tyler Award:
Docker Clark
Ellie Ramirez
Martin Hoffert Graduation Prize:
Angela Scafidi
Alexandra Daley
Audrey Becker
Moore Marine Ecology and Conservation Scholarships:
Luke Stuntz
Katie Eng
Makena Mugambi
Tess von Kleist
Environmental Studies Diversity Award:
Gianluca Astudillo
Eni Owoeye
Isay Acenas
Animal Studies Scholarship Award:
Katerina Kalergios
Sonu Adams Service Award:
Isay Acenas
Ayushi Prusty
French
Neyla Downs, Prix d’Excellence
Theodora Simons, Prix France-Amerique
Charlotte Dankwah, Prix Germain Brée
Yujing Zhang, Michelle Lapautre Prix d’Excellence
Julia-Francoise Raith, Jindrich Zezula Prize
Dawn Wendt, Prix Paris
Zina Karas, Prix Bernard Garniez
Jessica Boyer, Prix Spécial du Département
German
Joseph Tuano, Ernst Rose-G.C.L. Schuchard Anniversary Prize
Nadia AbdulRahman, Auguste Ulfers Memorial Award
Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies
Mira Blecherman, B’Nai Zion Prize
Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies
Aashish Khubchandani, Rae Dalven Prize
History
Christian Cognigni, Garcilaso de la Vega Prize, co-recipient
Alejandro Gonzalez, Garcilaso de la Vega Prize, co-recipient
Hayley Ackerman, Cecilia Bull Scholarship Award, co-recipient
Suhail Gharaibeh, Cecilia Bull Scholarship Award, co-recipient
Jeremy Crocker, Helen M. Jones Prize
Olivia Midy, Kwame Yeboah Daaku Memorial Prize, co-recipient
Christian-Rieke Nanadoum, Kwame Yeboah Daaku Memorial Prize, co-recipient
Ethan Fraenkel, John Wilkes Prize
Iris Gao, Bessie and Louise Levy Award
Olivia Newsome, Nathan Schoengood Award
Ben Cooper, Capstone Prize
Olivia Newsome, Capstone Prize
Cole Stallone, Fred Schult Distinguished Service Award
Alice Yu, History Department Award for Excellence in Asian History
Zoe Lee, History Department Award for Excellence in Native American & Indigenous Studies
Ian Hegerle, Elihu Rose Prize in Military History
International Relations
Isabel Rudie, Best Thesis
Apurva Kothari, Fiona McGillivray Prize
Victoria Bianco, George Downs Prize for Security
Irish Studies
Shoshana Ehrenkranz, Irish Studies Award
Italian Studies
Richard Seeno, Guido Cavalcanti Award
Angela Scafidi, Italian Cultural Institute Award, co-recipient
Clara Hillis, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Award
Linguistics
Ryan Biks, Robert A. Fowkes Award, co-recipient
Sophie Wu, Robert A. Fowkes Award, co-recipient
Youssef Abdelzaher, Edward Sapir Award in Anthropology and Linguistics
Mathematics
Junyi Zou, Hollis Colley Memorial Prize
John Messina, Mathematics Award, co-recipient
Ron Nissim, Mathematics Award, co-recipient
Mathematics Award for Academic Achievement, co-recipients:
Max Daniel Shean
Yuepeng Wang
Meixi Chen
Zeyu Jing
Xuan Long
Lingyu Zhao
Qishuo Yin
Medieval and renaissance studies program
Kristyn Graves, Thesis Prize
Trisha Gupta, Program Prize
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Sagar Pathani, Premchand Prize
Anna Markouizos, Evliya Chelebi Prize
David Isaly, Ibn Khaldun Prize
Zakwan Uddin, Baba-e-Urdu Prize
Merna Abdalwahab, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies Award, co-recipient
Grace Samaritano, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies Award, co-recipient
Hanna Hameedy, Rumi Biruni Prize
Music
Sawyer Adler, Elaine R. Brody Memorial Prize
Luke Poeppel, Gustave Reese Memorial Prize
Chengqi Katie Yang, Hanna van Vollenhollen Vories Memorial Prize
Center for Neural Science
Elizabeth Zeldin, Cajal Neural Science Thesis Prize
Philosophy
Nicole Jingyi An, Salomonowitz Prize, co-recipient
Nate Ronning, Salomonowitz Prize, co-recipient
Physics
Alex Cushen, Samuel F. B. Morse Medal
Zilu Zhou, Farres P. Mattar Scholarship Award
Ruihao Li, Sigma Pi Sigma Prize
Yetao Zhang, Dr. Leonard Yarmus Fellowship Award
Wilf Family Department of Politics
Eline Munster, Best Thesis in Politics
Olivia Kugiya, James Gordon Bennett Prize
Jesse Rachelle, Youssef Cohen Prize
Jessie Wall, Rita Cooley Prize
Religious Studies
Marcy Snyder, Religious Studies Prize
Russian and Slavic
Nicolette Lyubarsky, Russian Language Studies Prize, co-recipient
Alexandra Ivanov, Russian Language Studies Prize, co-recipient
Laura Halecky, Slavic Award
Kristina Zaslavskaya, Slavic Award
Social and Cultural Analysis
Dylan Palmer, Social and Cultural Analysis Award
Cameron Grace Franklin, Social and Cultural Analysis Community Service Award
Nia McFall, Social and Cultural Analysis Advocacy Award
Ryan Wilkinson, Metropolitan Studies Program Prize, co-recipient
Kimberly Cheung, Metropolitan Studies Program Prize, co-recipient
Vincent Thompson, American Studies Award
Rosario Joaquin, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Award
Mandie Montes Montalvo, Latino Studies Award
Adrianna Espinal, Latinx Advocacy Award
Everett Spink, Distinguished Academic Performance, co-recipient
Adrianna Espinal, Thesis Prize Award
Naima Dobbs, Thesis Prize, Honorable Mention
Rebekah Nelson, Gender and Sexuality Academic Achievement Award
Sarah Jarpe, Metropolitan Studies Urban Advocacy Award, co-recipient
Anna Moritz, Metropolitan Studies Urban Advocacy Award, co-recipient
Ran Wang, Metropolitan Studies Program Academic Achievement Award
Naima Dobbs, Africana Studies Award
Sociology
Ran Wang, Alexander L. Shluger Award, co-recipient
Maria Herrera Felix, Alexander L. Shluger Award, co-recipient
Spanish and Portuguese
Bianny Magarin, Zake Morgan Memorial Award
Olivia Sun, Excellence in an Honors Thesis in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Hannah Brown, Excellence in an Honors Thesis in Language Studies
Morgan Davis, Excellence in an Honors Thesis in Peninsular Studies