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Award Categories

Honorary Degrees

  • Mariana R. Cook P’17, doctor of fine arts, presented byRoyal W.F. Rhodes H’18
  • James F. Parker ’81 P’10, doctor of letters, presented by Jaret S.Treber
  • LaShaunda M. Robinson ’09, doctor of science, presented by Harry Itagaki H’21.

Trustee Teaching Excellence Awards

  • Siobhan Fennessy, professor of biology and the Philip & Sheila Jordan Professor in Environmental Studies (senior award)
  • Brad Hostetler, associate professor of art history (junior award)

Fellowships and Awards

Unless otherwise noted, recipients of awards, fellowships and prizes are members of the Class of 2026.

Critical Language Study Award

  • Nicholas Kloor
  • Cecelia Mary O’Sullivan

Henry G. Dalton Fellowship in American Studies

  • Sam Melville

Fulbright Fellowship

A complete list of names and country assignments of Fulbright winners will be included in the 2026 Commencement program.

  • Julia Golovina, Poland
  • Victoria Mei-Ling Kerrigan ’25, Columbia
  • Nicholas Kloor, Indonesia
  • Thomas Metcalf, Morocco
  • Emma Marcelline Rice, Uruguay
  • Iris Nicole Santalucia, Thailand

The Elmer A. Graham Endowed Scholarship

  • Zan Miray Lapp ’27

The Jess Willard Falkenstine Award

  • Joshua John Greville
  • Molly Katrina Haag

The North Coast Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete Award

  • Brooke Heis
  • Ethan Macready Manske

Departmental Prizes

African Diaspora Studies

The Allen B. Ballard Prize

  • Robert Caleb Stroebel

American Studies

The Muriel B. Kahrl American Women's Prize

  • Zoey Rockoff

The William B. Scott Award

  • Chau Vu

Anthropology

The Margaret Mead Award

  • Gillian Foley

Art

The Robert H. Hallstein Memorial Award in Art

  • Cordelia Campbell Preston

The Peterson Prize in Art

  • Kendall Sommers

Art History

The Richard Kingan Liggitt Memorial Award in Art History

  • Laney Goodrum
  • Nicole Yun Wang

Biology 

The Robert Bowen Brown Jr. Prize

  • Mira Allen
  • Sam Connors

The Dorothy E. and Thomas C. Jegla Prize

  • Amelia Russell ’28

The Maxwell Elliot Power Prize

  • Matteo Pescione
  • Ella Salvino

Chemistry 

The Chemical Rubber Company Chemistry Achievement Award

  • Chloe Xiu-min Chen ’29
  • MarkWang ’29

The Carl Djerassi Award in Chemistry

  • Shelly Ruth Kahn
  • Ally Lavy

The Gordon L. Johnson Research Prize

  • Shelly Ruth Kahn
  • Maria Peacock

Classics 

The Carl Diehl Prize 

  • Madeline Christine Malbasa ’28 (Greek)
  • Anya Melchinger ’29 (Latin)

Dance, Drama and Film

The Ashford Memorial Award for Excellence in Dramatics

  • Nicolas Kyle Williams

The Dance Prize

  • Ashley Sanchez

The Kenyon Film Award

  • Lorencio Park Stone

The James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting

  • Finn Moses Alexander for “SOUTH HOLD”

The Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward Award for Best Performance

  • Ethan Greenzang ’27 for multiple roles in “Everybody”
  • Osose Omofomah for “Austin” in“True West”

Economics 

The Paul Titus Economics Prize

  • Andrew Charles Mayer

English 

The Robert Daniel Memorial Scholarship

  • Mihir Kumar Joshi Lennox ’27
  • Lottie Mathew ’27

The English Junior Prize

  • Phoebe MacIntosh ’27

The Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Award

  • Hannah Ehrlich
  • Brittany Lin

The Philip Wolcott Timberlake Senior Prize

  • Marisol Hernandez Brito
  • Nina Malec-Kosak

Environmental Studies 

Environmental Studies Outstanding Senior Award

  • Ellen Kathryn Milicent Chadwick

Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Molly R. Hatcher Prize in Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Theo Jacobs

History 

The Robert L. Baker Memorial Prize

  • Emily Gisser

The Alan G. Goldsmith Memorial Prize

  • Jacob Lokteff
  • Hannah Sue Schwemm ’27

The Curtis A. Seichter Award

  • Cooper Bertschi

Integrated Program in Humane Studies

The Richard F. Hettlinger Award

  • Andre Terrell McCloud

International Studies 

The International Studies Award

  • Nora Archer

Latine Studies

The Christopher E. Schmidt-Nowara Latino Studies Award

  • Ari Jalomo
  • Gus Callejas

Law and Society

Law and Society Award

  • Sacha Lily Franjola

Mathematics 

The Reginald B. Allen Prize

  • Ethan Liu

The J. R. Butz Mathematics Prize

  • Khanh Mai ’28

The Solomon R.S. Kasper Prize

  • Abhigya Koirala
  • Andrew Charles Mayer

Modern Languages and Literatures  

The Arabic Prize

  • Lauren Blakemore

The Thomas Au ’69 And Jack Au ’73 Chinese Prize

  • Jonah Hokyin Chapman-Sung
  • Sophie Rigel Jones ’27

The Edward Harvey Prize in French

  • Lucca De Lisle Burgess

The Charles Singer Williams Prize in French

  • Mohamad Omar Belghith

The Sigrid Lanzrath Memorial Prize in German

  • Lucas Gleason Aho
  • Nora Archer

The Italian Prize

  • Paulo Pocasangre Kreling

The Japanese Prize

  • AudreyYejin Kotkin
  • Cecelia Mary O’Sullivan

The American Council of Teachers of Russian Post-secondary Russian Scholar Laureate Award

  • Julia Golovina

The Natalia Olshanskaya Scholarship in Russian Studies

  • Cullen Francis Dunbar ’28

The Russian Prize

  • Robin Pratt

The Spanish Prize

  • Tia Wagner

Music  

The Gabriel A. Ben-Meir Senior Award in Music

  • Nicholas Kloor
  • Dinh Quoc Chi Nguyen

The Thomas B. and Mary M. Greenslade Award in Music Performance

  • Beatrice S. Sjostrom ’29

The Kathleen "Kay" Locke Community Service Prize in Music

  • Benjamin Douglas Priestland ’27

Neuroscience

The Jon L. Williams Prize

  • Samantha Ofori

The Harry Itagaki Award for Excellence in Neuroscience

  • Johanna Huelsman

Philosophy 

The Virgil C. Aldrich Prize

  • Xuning Alina Gao

Physics 

The Elbe H. Johnson Prize

  • Eleanor Grace Keener ’29
  • Jack Wiskemann ’29

Political Science 

The John Chesnut Memorial Prize

  • Georgia Reed

Psychology 

The Psychology Award for Outstanding Service

  • Tsion Adugna

The Jeffrey S. Williams Memorial Award for Integrative Study in Psychology and Economics

  • Emily Gisser

The Wilson Award for Academic Excellence in Psychology

  • Grace Eleanor Jansen
  • Isabella Strickland

Religious Studies

The Simpson Prize

  • Emilie Hankla
  • Ezekiel Hettmann

Alpha Gamma Sigma Chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa Undergraduate Achievement Award

  • Amanda Kuo
  • Thomas Metcalf

Sociology

The Jane Addams Award

  • Max Fishman

The George Herbert Mead Award

  • Shelly Ruth Kahn

College Prizes

The Chalmers Library Research Award

  • Cooper Bertschi

The Office of Community Partnerships Student Service Award

  • Elianajoy Volin

The George Gund Award

  • Maud Karambis ’27

The George B. Ogden Prize

  • Lillie Waltz ’29 for “Water StrongerThan Rock”

The Academy of American Poetry Prize

  • Jupiter Nesky ’28 for “Kiddush Levana”

The Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize

  • Teodor Lorne Jaworski for “The Doorman”

The Propper Prize for Poetry

  • Poppy Magee ’28 for “Eve, After the Fall”

The John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize

  • Charlie Badger Brandt for “Little Geometries”

The Barbara H. Reitsma Award of the Math and Science Skills Center

  • Lillian Sofia Gehres
  • Brooke Heis

The Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award

  • Julius Lavon Thompson II

The Doris B. Crozier Award

  • Mae Ling Gorin

The E. Malcolm Anderson Cup

  • Christiane Betfarhad

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