STUDENT AWARDS

Internal Awards

UIC Awards
LAS Awards
Departmental Awards

UIC Awards

Anand Sandesara, pre-med double major in biology and history, was awarded the Donald and Leah Riddle Prize last May. Presented annually by the Chancellor’s Office, the prize is reserved for one outstanding graduating senior exhibiting academic excellence and leadership in the community. Sandesara, now pursuing a master’s in public health on a Rotary Fellowship in Tanzania, graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He did it in just three years. Valedictorian from Glenbrook South High School, Sandesara had his pick of places to attend college. He chose UIC. “I’m big on service and there are a lot of service opportunities,” said Sandesara, who also chaired the Volunteer English as a Second Language program. “I realized there are so many cool people here to meet and to learn from,” he said.

Five freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences received the FMC Technologies Incorporated Award of Excellence in Scholarship, a one-year merit award with a $1,000 stipend. The scholarship is funded by an endowment from alumnus Bert A. Gayman. Winners and their majors are: Kristine Joy Arboleda, Honors College, chemistry; Matthew Conley, teaching of history; Adrianna Janowicz, Honors College, biological sciences; Julien Leider, Honors College, mathematics, statistics and computer science; and Dane Zieman, mathematics, statistics and computer science.

Earth and Environmental Sciences PhD recipient Karen Koy won the 2008 University of Illinois Alumni Association Leadership Award.

Yelena Zotova, PhD student in the department of Slavic and Baltic languages and literatures, focusing on Russian, won a University Fellowship for 2008-2009.

Graduate student in sociology Amy Brainer was recipient of the 2009 Best Graduate Paper Award for the Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues, sponsored by the Scholarship Association for UIC.

The University of Illinois at Chicago has announced six new seed grant awards to campus researchers studying lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) issues under a $20,000 grant from the Los Angeles-based David Bohnett Foundation. The following LAS students have won grants for LGBT research this year: Zachary Blair, a PhD candidate in anthropology; Christine Holland, a PhD candidate in psychology; and Jessica Salerno, a PhD candidate in psychology.

The Avery Brundage Scholarship awards $2,500 to University of Illinois students who show excellence in academics and athletics. Four LAS students were chosen for the 2009-2010 academic year: Laurel Heath, diving; Sonia Peterson, diving; Richard Schwinn, karate; and Danielle Yaros, gymnastics.

LAS Awards

The following students were awarded LAS scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year:

Student’s Name	Award
Saad Abid	Eugenia R. & Max M. Jacobson M.D. Scholarship ($5,000)
Abidemi Abioye	Merrill C. Kenna & Brent D. Nicholson Scholarship ($600)
Sojung Cho	PNA-Hugh Hill Scholarship ($5,000)
Karen Cralli	Patricia S. Wager Scholarship ($700)
Angelica Cruz	Peter James Barbato Scholarship, Raquel M. & Alfredo Garza Memorial Scholarship ($1,200 and $1,100, respectively)
Ella Dauw	Dorothy Thelander Scholarship ($1,500)
Ekaterina Khramtsova	Robert Corley Memorial Scholarship ($1,200)
Priscilla Lizasuain	Vietnam Veterans Memorial Scholarship ($650)
Annie Neahring	Eugene & Mary Tappero Scholarship ($2,500)
Jessica Nieves	Mario V. & Edith J. Gambardella Scholarship ($750)
Chen Shi	Eugenia R. & Max M. Jacobson M.D. Memorial Scholarship ($5,000)
Lisa Zhang	Thomas Eakman Scholarship ($2,500)

Departmental Awards

Anthropology

Student’s Name	Award
Rebecca Deeb	Provost’s Award
John Hicks	Joshua Terry Graduate Award
Nam Kim	Dean’s Scholar Award; Provost's Award
Amanda Lettner	Joshua Terry Undergraduate Scholarship
William McSurley	Phi Beta Kappa and the William J. Lamar Scholarship
John Michels	Charles Reed Award
Lisa Niziolek	Dean’s Scholar Award
Adam Podraza	Honors Council Award

Biological Sciences

Student’s Name	Award
Christopher Baugher	Elmer Hadley Award
Noa Krugliak	Hirsch Family Award
Diane McCarthy	Provost's Award
Sarah O’Brien	Graduate College’s Deiss Award
Manali Patel	Edward G. Rieta and Stanley K. Shapiro Award
Ankur Patel	Louis Pasteur Award
Anup Reddy	Mark A. Wyatt Award ($200)
Nilay Shah	Hodgkin and Huxley Neuroscience Award

Chemistry

Student’s Name	Award
Natalia Chernyak	Moriarty Graduate Fellowship
Alexander Dudnik	Dean’s Scholar Award
Antonett Madriaga	Herbert E. Paaren Scholarship and Herbert E. Paaren Scholarship Summer Research Stipend
Jeanita Pritchett	Paaren Graduate Fellowship
Kathleen Richert	Herbert E. Paaren Scholarship and Gilbert Peterson Summer Research Stipend
Carl Vogel	Herbert E. Paaren Scholarship and Herbert E. Paaren Scholarship Summer Research Stipend
Ling Wu	Dean’s Scholar Award

Communication

Student’s Name	Award
Natalie Alvarado	Caterpillar Corporation Scholarship ($2,000)
Anastasiya Chugay	Outstanding Student Award
Maria Hernandez	ComEd Scholarship ($2,000) and Caterpillar Corporation Scholarship ($1,000)
Ryan Holdway	Award of Distinction
Maricela Villagomez	Caterpillar Corporation Scholarship ($2,000)

Economics

Student’s Name	Award
Kevin Callison	Oscar Miller Outstanding Teaching Award
Angela Chi	Ronald Moses Memorial Award
Megan Diaz	Ronald Moses Memorial Award
Megan Diaz	Sylvia Saffrin Memorial Award
Matthew Warpinski	Mitchell Krask Award

English

Student’s Name	Award
Justin Joyce	Dean’s Scholar Award
Kristy Ulibarri	Abraham Lincoln Fellowship

Gender and Women’s Studies

Student’s Name	Award
Stephen Adler	Undergraduate Award ($500)
Catherine Batza	Graduate Award ($300)
Ashvin Kini	Graduate Award ($300)
Libby DelaVega	Mary B. Alice Award ($500)
Stephen Seely	Undergraduate Award ($500)

Germanic Studies:

Student’s Name	Award
Raluca Hammer Aldana	Departmental Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Christine Beggan	Departmental Awards for Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies and Departmental Book Award
William Bianchi	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin
Jonathan Buckles	Columbia Club Award for High Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Alex Burd	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin
Christina Carr	Columbia Club Award for High Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Ronnalyn Collins	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin
Julie Deptner	Departmental Book Award
Natalia Dudnik	First Place in the Graduate Student Research Symposium
Kristina Förster	Second Place in the Graduate Student Research Symposium
Ana Genkova	Departmental Book Award
Ekua Gilbert-Baffoe	Departmental Book Award
Warren Juhnke	Departmental Book Award
Alyeska Kochanek	Departmental Book Award
Eric LaCosse	Columbia Club Award for High Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies and Rail Europe Travel Award for UIC Summer Study Abroad in Berlin
Michelle Linton	Excellence in Teaching Award
Adolfo Luna	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin and Departmental Book Award
Michaela Martin	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin and Departmental Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Stephanie Mayer	Departmental Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Christopher Mueller	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin and Departmental Book Award
Jeffrey Munie	Departmental Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Sara Nack	Departmental Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Germanic Studies
Anna Pajak	Departmental Book Award
Kateryne Pavlyuk	Departmental Book Award
Rory Preston	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin
Jonathan Tillotson	Excellence in Teaching Award; Humboldt Universität Exchange Stipend; Third Place in the Graduate Student Research Symposium
Randy Wen	Departmental Book Award
Malerie Wolke	Max Kade Travel Grants for Summer Study Abroad in Berlin and Departmental Book Award
Allyson Zelewsky	Departmental Book Award

History

Student’s Name	Award
Somaiyya Ahmad	Goodman Prize
Adrienne Phelps Coco	Robert V. Remini Scholarship
Stephanie Baker	Marion Miller Dissertation Fellowship
Catherine Jaquet	Dean’s Scholar Award
Emily LaBarbera-Twarog	Marion Miller Dissertation Fellowship
John Webb	Abraham Lincoln Fellowship

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

Student’s Name	Award
Megan Diaz	Abraham Lincoln Fellowship
Marc Kjerland	Graduate Student Teaching Prize
Sarah Jane McMahon	Louise Hay Award
Matthew Rohn	Nicholas A. Yassan Award
Tess Snyder	Bernard Kurtin Scholarship
Wei Zheng	Dean's Scholar Award

Philosophy

Student’s Name	Award
Joshua Norton	Provost's Award
Burkay Ozturk	Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship
David Potts	Ruth Marcus Award
Tiziana Vistarini	Provost's Award
Aleksei Zarnitsyn	Best Teaching Award

Physics

Student’s Name	Award
Joel Berger	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
Jeremy Callner	James Kouvel Fellowship
Utpal Chatterjee	Outstanding Thesis Award in Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Brian Clark	Ogden Livermore Scholarship
Stephen Fahey	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
Yutao Gong	Paul M. Raccah Award for Doctoral Studies in Physics and a University Fellowship
Michael Greco	Sivananthan Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Shahab Khan	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
Natalie Krzyzanowski	UIContest
Nouamane Laanait	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
Craig Lenon	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
John McCorkindale	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
David Migas	Seymour Margulies Scholarship
Adam Schuman	Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship
Chen Shi	Inder P. and Uma Batra Physics Undergraduate Award
Chen Shi	Inder P. and Uma Batra Physics Undergraduate Award
Nicholas Spizzirri	UIC Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Initiative
Weronika Walcosz	Dean’s Fellowship and the Physics Provost's Award

Political Science

Student’s Name	Award
Elyse Conklin	Milton Rakove Memorial Award
John French	Dean’s Scholar Award
Elisabeth Muhlenberg	Provost’s Award
Matt Powers	Milton Rakove Memorial Award
Dana Williams	Ron Brown Memorial Award

Psychology

Student’s Name	Award
Annette Brown	Nancy Hirschberg Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Excellence in Psychology
Ebony Burnside	Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship
Angela Dizzonne	Olive and Alfred Kuehn Scholarship
Margaret Espino	Nancy Hirschberg Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Excellence in Psychology
Jennifer Graham	Olive and Alfred Kuehn Scholarship
Rhoda Jamadar	Nancy Hirschberg Memorial Grant for Undergraduate Research
Masha Reider	2009 Caterpillar and Kabbes Undergraduate Excellence Award
Tom Vadakara	Nancy Hirschberg Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Excellence in Psychology

Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese

Student’s Name	Award
Steve Buttes	Provost's Award and the Audrey Lumsdey-Kouvel Fellowship
Andrea Castellucio	Ruth El Saffar Literary Essay Award
Eugenio DiStefano	Dean's Scholar Award
Claire Hoffman	Departmental Distinction
Sergio Ramos	Departmental Distinction

Sociology

Student’s Name	Award
Amy Brainer	David P. Street Master’s Paper Prize
Joe Gooch	Undergraduate Student Research Forum Sociology Division, Third Prize
Christina Hayford	Undergraduate Student Research Forum Sociology Division, Honorable Mention
Loren Henderson	David P. Street Master’s Paper Prize and an Abraham Lincoln Fellowship
Zachary Neal	David P. Street Dissertation Award
Rebecca Wilkening	Undergraduate Student Research Forum Sociology Division, Second Prize
Dana Williams	Department of Sociology Undergraduate Student Award