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Prizes & Awards
We extend our congratulations to all of the 2026 award recipients.
Lois Wilson Mackey Creative Writing Prize
This prize, established in 1987 by Willard Mackey, class of 1947, in memory of his wife, English major Lois Wilson Mackey, class of 1945, recognizes student excellence in creative writing — fiction, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction — across all majors.
Winner: Madison Burdick
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Dr. Andrew Hunter Whiteford Prize in Museum Studies
Recipients: Olivia Ritze
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James E. Lockwood Prize
Recipients: Enigma (Anya) Hubbard, Casper Voca
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John W. Bennett Prize
Recipients: Marino Komai
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William Simpson Godfrey Jr. Award
Recipients: Benjamin J. Erickson, Madeline Wilhelm
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Ellen Malsch Memorial Prize in Art
Recipients: Sophia Berger
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Flora Elizabeth Wehrwein Cranston Prize in Art
Recipients: Alister Murphy
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Lucius Porter Prize in Asian Studies
Recipients: Jindou Jiang, Quinton Cooley
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Ann M. Verville Scholar’s Award
Recipients: Corina M. Pope and Abisha Bhatta (biology); Chaitanya Bhatt (biochemistry)
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Elizabeth W. Souter Award
Recipients: Simone de Montigny
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Gertrude E. Sweet Award
Recipients: Vipassana Dhakal
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J. Carl Welty Honor Award in Biology
Recipients: Abigail Blum
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J. N. “Ding” Darling Award
Recipients: Thaddeus Skarr
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LaVaughn and Bartholomew “Keck” Kunny Endowed Biology Scholarship
Recipients: Gene Abron, Malaika Parpart
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Edward C. Fuller Award in Chemical Education
Recipients: Jane Lamona Price
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First-Year Chemistry Achievement Award
Recipient: Anastasia Metz
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John H. Nair Chemistry Award
Recipients: Judith Leigh Ellen Nichols
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William J. Trautmann Award in Physical Chemistry
Recipients: Judith Leigh Ellen Nichols
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“Free Radical” Award
Recipients: Alexandra Banks, Adam Wallman
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Critical Identity Studies Leadership Award
Recipients: Ray Broad, Veronica Victor Buketekete Kaluta, Shannon E. Poole
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Excellence in Data Science & Data Analytics
Recipients: Hien (Julie) Bach, Sristi Sejuti Halder
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Albert R. Topps Economics Award
Recipients: Hien (Julie) Bach
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Elaine and Les McAllister Award in Economics
Recipients: Ellie Repinski
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Lewis Severson Prize in Economics
Recipients: Katie Phan, Mukhammad Ali Shavkatov
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Palmer Environmental Economics Prize
Recipients: Alejandra Ojeda Torres
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Thomas N. Mathers Award in Economics
Recipients: Abhas Oli
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Wall Street Journal Award
Recipients: Jack Harrison Alport
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Clarence R. Von Eschen-Lysle H. Steele Endowed Education and Teaching Award
Recipients: Kendric Qian Chen, Alyssa Hoffman, Francisco Javier Orbezo Jr. , Mina Tolu-Honary
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Martin G. Roessger Memorial Scholarship
Recipients: Madyson A’mari Miller
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Academy of American Poets/Beloit Poetry Journal Award
Winner: Lydia Williams
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David & Marion Stocking Prize
Winner: Vivian Kopka
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James Leeson, Sr. Endowed Prize
Recipients: Levi Gallagher
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Lois Wilson Mackey Creative Writing Prize
Winner: Madison Burdick
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Margaret W. Baker Award
Recipients: Valerie Adams
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Mary F. Hodge Endowed Writing Prize
Recipients: Quinn Annis
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White-Howells Prizes in Poetry and Prose
Winners: Levi Neil Hansen (Poetry); Fiona Hughes (Prose)
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Excellence & Leadership in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Award
Recipients: Alejandra Ojeda Torres, Aislynn Patrick
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Mineralogy Prize
Recipients: Maria Stone
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Outstanding Teaching Award as a Laboratory Assistant
Recipients: Lia Dirks, Ivy Salmi-Perry
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Richard C. Stenstrom Prize in Environmental Geology
Recipients: Simone de Montigny
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Sarah Wallbank Memorial Prize in Geology
Recipients: Gene Abron
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Walter S. Haven Geology Prize
Recipients: Simone de Montigny
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Horace White Classical Prize
Recipients: Josie Fenton
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William Porter Endowed Latin Prize
Recipients: Meghan Catherine Koning
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Claudette Cummings Prize in Community Health
Recipients: Alison Eubanks, Gisela Uribe
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Royal Bronson Way History Award
Recipients: Kendric Qian Chen
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Sereno Taylor Merrill History Prize
Recipients: Zoe Goebbert
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Yee Shee Wong Endowed History Prize
Recipients: Bridget Liebetreu Cort, Casper Voca
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The Art Robson Prize in Cinema Studies
Recipients: Betty Cavicchia, Dan Stolze
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Charles Eugene Street Award for Excellence in Modern Languages
Recipients: Carlos Gonzalez, River Okada-Mulawka
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Heather Elizabeth Lutton Award in Spanish
Recipients: Cooper Hal Rathmann
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Richard Foster Street Memorial Endowed Award in French
Recipients: Vivian Kopka
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Sonia Moncada Street Memorial Endowed Award in Spanish
Recipients: Cora Frances Aggie Aitken
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Andy Boggs Memorial Award
Recipients: Brandon Barber
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Eudora and William Shepherd Endowed Award in Voice
Recipients: Savanna Warthen
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June Baker Award
Recipient: Anh Ngoc Phuong Nguyen
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Barbara & Jeffrey Bartlett Prize in Philosophy
Recipients: Aislynn Patrick
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R. R. Palmer Teaching Fellowship in Physics
Recipients: M. Isabel Newcomb
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Harry Rex Davis Departmental Prize for Political Science
Recipients: Corina M. Pope, Shylee Graff
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Ivan McKinley Stone Prize for International Relations
Recipients: Veronica Victor Buketekete Kaluta
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Jane Quisenberry Wirtz and W. Willard Wirtz Endowed Scholarship
Recipients: Keira Linton, Natalie Flores, Demir Kasapoglu (rising juniors);
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Paul Pollock Memorial Endowed Prize
Recipients: Lyndall Breaux, Cole Miller, Madeline Wilhelm
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Ruth Colman Peterson Prize in Political Science or International Relations
Recipients: Finn Waterman
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Warner Mills Prize for the Skilled Practice of Politics
Recipients: Alejandra Ojeda Torres
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Guy Allen Tawney Prize
Recipients: Avary Briggs, Zachary Yeater-Cary, Allie Gustafson, Kylie Schryer, Xavier Alexis Sosa
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Walter Van Dyke Bingham Fellowship in Psychology
Recipients: Ray Broad
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Charles Grant Curtis Memorial Award for Excellence in Sociology
Recipients: Gisela Uribe
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Donald “Doc” A. Summers Prize in Sociological Theory
Recipients: Christopher Dela Rosa Andaya Jr.
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Joyce A. Summers Award
Recipients: Paige Lancaster
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William L. Kolb Sociology Award
Recipients: Quentin M. Schane
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Chavey Family Endowed Award in Dance
Recipients: Lily Niesen, Shannon E. Poole
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George and Joyce Kammerer Outstanding Choreography Award
Recipients: Kierra Rayne Hoover, Vivian Kopka
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Theatre and Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance
Recipients: Malaika Parpart
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Theatre and Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Production
Recipients: Alister Murphy
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Theatre and Dance Distinctive Contribution Award
Recipients: Chyler Smith, Kaela Johnson
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Theatre and Dance Memorial Award
Recipients: Journey Beier, Gabriela Willis
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Alliant Energy / Erroll B. Davis Jr. Achievement Award
Recipients: Richard McGregory
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Charles D. Rosa 1898 Award
Recipients: Josslyn Coveny
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Edward Fergus Award
Recipients: Gisela Uribe
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Ferwerda Merit Scholars
Recipients: Armita Aghamiri, Magalí Abril Le Bas , Chaitanya Bhatt, Valeria Samaniego, Benjamin J. Erickson, Savanna Warthen, Kylie Wolff , Chloe Osborne, Dariya Kylyshpay, Blake Nelson, Lillianne McCully , Lia Dirks, Jasmine Kingsbury, Ben Schweit, Cameron Harper, Morgan Bailey Sheldon, Jacopo Tamburini, Iman Khan
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Florence Yates Scobie Award
Recipients: Devin Riley Avis Cuffy-Bethel, Anna Dailey, Ella Silva
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Grace and Laurence Ousley Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Recipients: Damila Hurn, Gisela Uribe
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Jane Quisenberry & W. Willard Wirtz Prize for Public Service
Recipients: Gisela Uribe
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John Hughes Student Entrepreneur of the Year
Recipients: Faiq Ahmad
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John Kenneth ’64 and Georgia Sexton Kleinheksel Endowed Prize
Recipients: Jane Lamona Price, Quentin M. Schane
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Joseph P. Kobylka Endowed Scholarship in Journalism
Recipients: Vivian Kopka
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Sikandra Spain Memorial Endowed Award
Recipients: Veronica Victor Buketekete Kaluta
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Student Excellence and Leadership Academic Excellence Award
Recipients: Jorge Maldonado
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Student Excellence and Leadership Rising Star Award
Recipients: Rosa Vanessa Solis
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Truesdell Student Leadership Award
Recipients: Gisela Uribe
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Weissberg Human Rights Fellowship
Recipients: Ray Broad, Veronica Victor Buketekete Kaluta, Aislynn Patrick, Sandhya Pise, Gisela Uribe
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Eta Sigma Phi
Inductees: Josephine Fenton
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Mortar Board
Members: Momina Amjad, Alexandra Banks, Jeffrey Battle, Chaitanya Bhatt, Ray Broad, Anjeli Calderon, Jessalyn Coppe, Kaela Johnson, Caleb Stephen Lasher, Emily Katherine Lopez, Fatima Lopez, Kaila Nork, Corina Pope, Jane Lamona Price, Amelia Pullen, Samuel Slabaugh, Rosa Solis, Marcus Studinski, Gisela Uribe, Chelsea Woletz
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Phi Beta Kappa
Members: Jack Alport, Julie Bach, Chaitanya Bhatt, Ray Broad, Ellie Debbert, Jacob Gaston, Sristi Halder, Veronica Kaluta, Ayane Kono, Aina Mallorqui Dalmau, Renee Nguyen, Francisco Orbezo Jr., Corina Pope, Amelia Pullen, Rosa Solis, Sol Ulaszek
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Pi Sigma Alpha
Members: Josslyn Coveny, Shylee Graf, Veronica Kaluta, Bridget Liebetreu Cort, Lucy Monnig, Corina Pope, Samuel Shobert, Marcus Studinski
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Psi Chi
Members: Margaret Ackah, Isabella Acosta, Jax Goodlow, Kitana Gulotta, Samantha Irwin, Ezekiel Kingsbury, Mateo Marek, Olivia Norquist, Kelly O’brien, Aleah Roesler, Samuel Shea, Arturo Silva, Mason Sorensen, Alex Yang
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Eta Sigma Phi
Inductees: Josephine Fenton
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Mortar Board
Members: Momina Amjad, Alexandra Banks, Jeffrey Battle, Chaitanya Bhatt, Ray Broad, Anjeli Calderon, Jessalyn Coppe, Kaela Johnson, Caleb Stephen Lasher, Emily Katherine Lopez, Fatima Lopez, Kaila Nork, Corina Pope, Jane Lamona Price, Amelia Pullen, Samuel Slabaugh, Rosa Solis, Marcus Studinski, Gisela Uribe, Chelsea Woletz
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Phi Beta Kappa
Members: Jack Alport, Julie Bach, Chaitanya Bhatt, Ray Broad, Ellie Debbert, Jacob Gaston, Sristi Halder, Veronica Kaluta, Ayane Kono, Aina Mallorqui Dalmau, Renee Nguyen, Francisco Orbezo Jr., Corina Pope, Amelia Pullen, Rosa Solis, Sol Ulaszek
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Pi Sigma Alpha
Members: Josslyn Coveny, Shylee Graf, Veronica Kaluta, Bridget Liebetreu Cort, Lucy Monnig, Corina Pope, Samuel Shobert, Marcus Studinski
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Psi Chi
Members: Margaret Ackah, Isabella Acosta, Jax Goodlow, Kitana Gulotta, Samantha Irwin, Ezekiel Kingsbury, Mateo Marek, Olivia Norquist, Kelly O’brien, Aleah Roesler, Samuel Shea, Arturo Silva, Mason Sorensen, Alex Yang