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Phi Beta Kappa
Founded in 1776, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious scholastic honorary society, Phi Beta Kappa, recognizes “the principles of freedom of inquiry and liberty of thought and expression” that are the foundation of liberal learning. Only ten percent of the nation’s colleges and universities have a PBK chapter. The Delta Chapter of Illinois was founded at Knox College in 1916, the first chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in a liberal arts college in Illinois. Seniors and a small number of juniors distinguished for high academic achievement are elected annually.
Class of 2021 Initiates (*elected as a junior): Elliot Bainbridge, Maximillian Caplan, Danica Dosmann, Kelly Feng, Ajay Gustafson, Jordyn Hall, Clare Hensley, Johanna Hill, Isaac Hughes*, Tina Jeon, Marie Westbrook Kalowski, Ty Kiatathikom, Costantinos Kourtellas, Sarah Lohmann, Allison Molinari, Anna Neubauer, Akash Patel, Einar Pieler, Myiah Ryner, Anelisa Gamiz Sandoval, Emily Schartz, Nicholette Schmidt, Alexis Smith, Annie Song, Madelyn Turner, Elizabeth Winchester
Class of 2022 Initiates: Sophia Bowley, Charles Washington Broomfield, Rebecca Gadiel, Rosaline Zucker
Nu Rho Psi - National Honors Society in Neuroscience
A National Honor Society in Neuroscience. Membership is by invitation and is open to graduate and undergraduate students who are making the study of neuroscience one of their major interests and who meet other academic qualifications.
Inducted in 2021: Amritha George, Deline Huang, Tori Johnson, Emily McParland, Goichi Suganuma, Bishakha Upadhyaya
Inducted in 2020: Adam Ryan, Jonny Schneider
Pi Sigma Alpha - National Political Science Honor Society
Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, was founded in 1920 for the purpose of bringing together students and faculty interested in the study of government and politics.
Senior members: Maximillian Caplan, Davin Conway, Danica Dosmann, Clare Hensley, Ryan Higgins, Ty Kiatathikom, Constantinos Kourtellas, Andrew Liput, Alexandros Papastergiou, Samriddhi Shrestha, Rachel Sullivan
Psi Chi - National Honor Society in Psychology
Students are selected on the basis of academic achievement and interest in psychology as a science.
New inductees: Jonathan Doriscar, Meriem El Mouldi, Rebecca Gadiel, Xuan Gao, D'Jameia Hoskins, Deline Huang, Camryn Hutchins, Victoria Johnson, Myrissa Le, Jillian Morris, Zeina Sbai, Rae Sullivan
Sigma Xi -The Scientific Research Society
Membership in Sigma Xi is by invitation. The most promising young scientists and students with demonstrated research potential are invited to join as associate members.
New nominees: Jerry Hacker, Long Le, Ikenna Ozor, Keegan Proctor, Bill Tate, Bishakha Upadhyaya, David Zavala
Dean Deborah Wing Award
Recipient: Seeun 'Tina' Jeon
Outstanding Senior Award
Recipient: Caitlin Marie Edelmuth, Isaac Shepherd Hughes, Ikenna Chris Ozor
Lincoln Academy Student Laureate
Recipient: Isaac Shepherd Hughes
College Marshall
Recipient: Daniel Cong Bien
Pearl Harris Award
Recipient: Rose Louise Martines
Philip Haring and John Houston Award
Recipient: Riya Dahal
Knauss Student Research Award for the Lincoln Studies Center
Recipient: Kaitlyn Marie Kashishian
David R. Arnold Research Award
Recipient: Elise Olivia Hanson
William Fern Prize in Honor of Jeanne Zemek Bohn
Recipient: Samantha Lynn Esteep
William Fern Prize in Honor of Thalia Manganari Papavas
Recipient: Elleri Alton Scriver
William Fern Prize in Honor of Theodore Yelich
Recipient: Indira Sterling Plomin
Steve Floyd Memorial Award-Ford
Recipient: Clark Shanahan
Laszlo J. Nemeth Memorial Research Award
Recipient: Amritha George
Charles & Arvilla Timme Fellowship Award
Recipient: Joseph "Joey" Malcolm Reyes
ASSET Research - Mogbo Sustainability Fund
Recipient: Sophia Bowley and Lydia Mitchell
ASSET Research - Richter Scholarship Fund
Recipient: Katherine Anderson, Becca Gausian, Erin Green, Victoria Johnson, and Sarah Wallenfeltz
Howell Atwood Award
Recipient: Danica Beth Dosmann, Anelisa Carolina Gamiz Sandoval, Seeun (Tina) Jeon and Einar Pieler
Beverly Bender Scholar in Sculpture
Recipients: Allison Natividad Garcia (1st) - Sydney Gillette (2nd)
Beverly Bender Scholar in Art
Recipients: Alyx Elizabeth Farris, Dmitri Chambers
Elda Crichton Campbell Print Prize
Recipients: Jocelyn Rodriguez (1st) - Ava Katerina Lu (2nd)
Matthew Dale Gunther Memorial Award in Drawing
Recipients: Claire Diane Mazius (1st) - Kevin Dera Cox (2nd)
Blick Art Awards - Graphic Design
Recipients: Ali Saadi (1st) - Kelly Elizabeth Fisk (2nd)
Blick Art Awards - Photography
Recipients: Rosalynn Simone Rutkowski (1st) - Will Blade (2nd)
Blick Art Awards - Ceramics
Recipients: Sierra Michelle Longoria (1st) - Phoenix Elaine Haessler (2nd)
Blick Art Awards - Painting
Recipients: Madelyn Irene Turner (1st) - AriLua (AnaLucia) Pineda (2nd)
Blick Art Awards - Non-Traditional Media
Recipients: Phelix Venters-Sefic (1st) - Anna Miriam Schultz (2nd)
Blick Art Awards - Drawing
Recipients: Anna Miriam Schulz (1st) - Erin Kathleen Cosgrove (2nd)
Blick Senior Award
Recipient: Ingrid Mary Wasmer
Mikiso Hane Asian Studies Prize
Recipients: Sarah Elizabeth Lohmann - Minnie Mi Hee Kang
Inn-Siang Ooi Prize
Recipient: Ibrahim Sakrani
Alvah Peterson Biology Prize
Recipient: Janki Anandkumar Bhalodi
Donald R. Stroben Entrepreneur Fund
Recipients: George Gilligan - Jenna Faith Li
Leland Harris Award in Chemistry
Recipient: Hieu Hoang Nguyen
Russell P. Sutton Prize in Organic Chemistry
Recipients: Minh Thy Le Nguyen - Laurelee Myst Boon
Baker-Velde Student Research Award
Recipient: Allison Demetria LaSalvia
ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award
Recipient: Rosaline Janet Zucker
General Chemistry Achievement Award
Recipients: Camryn Hidemi Hutchins - Nanaho Suzuki - Cade Windham
ACS Illinois Heartland Local Section Collegiate Scholastic Award
Recipient: Keegan Nathaniel Proctor
ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry
Recipient: Keegan Nathaniel Proctor
ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
Recipient: Rosaline Janet Zucker
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry
Recipient: David C. Zavala
Lawrence Prize in Greek
Recipient: Alexis Riggs
Lawrence Prize in Latin
Recipient: Jia Yi Self
Paul's Prize in Computer Science
Recipient: Long Duy Le
John Hofsas Prize in Dance
Recipients: Jessica Lynn Decker (senior) - Ashley Nicole Pineda (junior)
Vinton C. Johnson Prize
Recipient: Alessandro Benelli
Educational Studies Department, Dr. Diana Beck - Senior Honors Award
Recipients: Ravie Fauvette Boungou - Bryanna Leigh Martinez - Otto Edgar Bottger
Nina Marie Edwards Memorial Award
Recipient: Kari Quintana
William E. Brady Fund in English Literature
Recipients: Jocelyn Charlotte Ruby & Lillian "Lily" Rosemary Lauver
A. Eugene & Ella Stewart Davenport Literary Award in Fiction
Recipients: 1st Place: Elizabeth Michelle George - 2nd Place: Natalie Rose Ivaniszek - 3rd Place: Cadence Irene Eischens
A. Eugene & Ella Stewart Davenport Literary Award in Non-Fiction
Recipients: 1st Place: Jaime Renee Lam - 2nd Place: Lilian Rosemary Lauver - 3rd Place Aditi Parag Parikh
A. Eugene & Ella Stewart Davenport Literary Award in Poetry
Recipients: 1st Place: Matrice Marie Young - 2nd Place: Samuel Miller Lisec - 3rd Place: Alexis Laurel Smith
The Scripps Prize
Recipient: Lilian Rosemary Lauver
Proctor Fenn Sherwin Short Story Award
Recipient: Matrice Marie Young
Lorraine Smith Prize in English
Winner: Aditi Parag Parikh
Honorable Mention: Natalie Rose "Ro" Ivaniszek
Beverly K. White & Friends Creative Writing Prize
Recipient: Marin Grace Hart
Howard A. Wilson Prize
Recipients: 1st Place: Elizabeth Michelle George - 2nd Place: Matthew Alexander Bailey - 3rd Place: Samriddhi Shrestha - 4th Place: Jocelyn Charlotte Ruby
Audrey Collet-Conard Prize Fund
Recipient: Lilian Rosemary Lauver
Desmond Fortes Environmental Studies Prize Fund
Recipients: Priyanka Gurung - Ibrahim Sakrani, - Johanna Brenner Hill
Lawrence L. DeMott Prize
Recipient: Acacia Berg
Proctor Fenn Sherwin Prize in Freshman Writing
Recipient: Charles Michael Ericksen
Dennis E. Donham Prize in History
Recipient: Kaitlyn Marie Kashishian
Dorothy Inness Stanford Award
Recipient: Rosemary "Maggie" Xiang-Chen Cheng
Szold Prize in History
Recipient: Maximillian Sylvan Caplan
Bookfellow Library Prize
Recipient: Madison Zora Byrne
Victoria Legner Junod Prize in Mathematics
Recipient: Hao Li
Sylvia & Irwin Jaffe Memorial Prize
Recipients: Jordyn Faith Hall - Benjamine Christiane Mihanda
Sally Coleman Prize in Spanish Literature
Recipients: Frankie Williamson - Anna Nicole Underwood Neubauer
Clarence Hubert Johnson Award
Recipient: Kaitlyn Rose Hrivnak
Ruth Lockwood Goodsill Prize
Recipient: Caroline Michelle Goben
Janet Greig Post Prize in Music
Recipient: Ingrid Mary Wasmer
Lucile Sudbury Prize
Recipient: Einar Pieler
David Lowry Jazz
Recipients: Maximillian Sylvan Caplan - Clare Elizabeth Hensley
Eric Martin Berg Memorial
Recipients: Imari Zaneta Jordan - Chantel Marie Beals - Kapiolani Williams - Jasmine Jane Lerner - Amira Liaan Siddique
Merritt H. Moore Prize in Philosophy
Recipient: Isaac Hughes
Robert R. Mariner Family Research Award
Recipient: Rachel Marlene Corzine
Smith Prize in Physics
Recipient: Allison Marie Molinari
Donald L. Benedict Student Research Award
Recipient: Anastasia Vladimirovm Ganshina
Dean Acheson Prize
Recipient: Constantinos Kourtellas
John W. Burgess Prize in Political Science
Recipient: Danica Dosman
Robert F. Seibert Prize
Recipient: Ty Kiatathikom
Robert Stevens Harper Prize (for Graduate Study in Psychology)
Recipients: Rebekah Mary Alexandre - Nicolette Therese Schmidt
Robert Stevens Harper Prize (for Outstanding Psychology Senior Research Poster)
Recipients: Minnie Mi Hee Kang - Myiah Lacie Ryner
Edith Powers Van Dyke Memorial Award in Psychology
Recipients: Matthew Dean Cagle - Minnie Mi Hee Kang
Colton Prize for Excellence in Public Performance
Recipient: Meghan Lisena Tucker
Linda Elizabeth Karger Award in the Theatre Arts
Recipient: Marion Opal Frank
Van Clute Prize
Recipient: Johanna Brenner Hill
Jean Bloomquist McBath Memorial Production Award in Studio Theatre
Recipients: John Andrew Harden - Natalie Rose Ivaniszek - Melina Minaya - Camille Regina Stein - Samantha Lynn Esteep - Kaitlyn Elizabeth Pepper - Johanna Brenner Hill - Jamie Lynn Heller - Rose Elizabeth Stout - Arianna Joplyn Tull - Veronica Kimball Langley - Alexis Elizabeth Brown
A. Eugene & Ella Stewart Davenport Literary Award in Playwriting
Recipients: 1st Place: Ransom Lee Swinney - 2nd Place: Greta Katherine Eanes - 3rd Place Julia Beverly Porter; Honorable mention to: Jaina Lynn Gliva, Kaitlyn Rose Hrivnak, Sage Bentleigh Lundquist
Michael A. Schneider, Provost and Dean of the College
E. Inman Fox Prize
Recipient: Johanna Brenner Hill
John C. Weigel Prize
Recipient: Isaac Shepherd Hughes
https://www.knox.edu/offices/academic-affairs/2021-awards-and-prizes
Printed on Thursday, March 30, 2023