UG Opportunities Student Award Winners
Celebrating our 2024-2025 Award Winners & Departmental Honors Students
2025 Winners
English Department Essay Award
Tali Lebowitsch
Recognizing ACES 2025 Participants:
Citlaly Abundio
Syndia Barba
Jolie Beal
Alex Bravo
Rufina Chow
Maximilian Chu
Joseph DeFreitas
Brianna Gonzalez Ulloa
Chaunti Hatchett
Kayleen Kim
Samantha Lee
Nick Mersereau
Robert Murata
Cesar Saldana
Jane Sonnichsen
Sam Wolf
Barbara Bellow Watson Shakespeare Essay Contest
Briana Fowler (2025)
Sofia Rossi (2024)
Harold Dee Fox Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Transfer Student Performance
Winner: Alexandra McCullough
2025-26 Harold Dee Fox Memorial Scholarship
Winner: Emma Sand
2025-27 Clara Rusk Hastings Scholarship
Winners: Katarina “Haven” Beches and Semira Robinson
David Wong Louie Memorial Creative Writing Prize
Co-Winners: Joseph DeFreitas and Tavish Mohanti
The Olfet Agrama Prize for Creative Writing
First Place: Ashlynn Armendariz
The May Merrill Miller Award
First Place: Kristin Haegelin
Second Place: Emily Hsi
The Ruth Brill Scholarship Award
First Place: Chaunti Hatchett
Second Place: Issy McKellar
The Shirley Collier Prize
Winner:
Jett Felder
2024-2025 Mary Alice Fortin Foundation Creative Writing Award
Gianluca Canseco
Berenice Limeta Jimenez
Ashley Lin
Issy McKellar
Jessica Meeker
Fatima Wajid
Christina Walsh
The Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Winner: Alex Bravo
Honorable Mention: Fatima Wajid
The Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Award
First Place: Haley Marks
Second Place: Jolie Beal
2024 – 2025 Falling Leaves Prize
Natalia Tapia
2025 – 2026 Falling Leaves Prize
First Place: Benjamin Wasson
Second Place: Natalie Chen
Department Honors
Allison Castiel – Honors
Krish Aditya – Highest Honors
Syed (Zain) Aslam – Highest Honors
Faith Forrest – Highest Honors
David Gamboa – Highest Honors
Evelyn Giron-Aguilar – Honors
Kristen Perez – Highest Honors
Cara Rieber – Honors
Keertana Sreekumar – Highest Honors
Sophia Torres Pomares – Highest Honors
Michaela Rhiannon Trelby – Highest Honors
Brent Austin Tuverson – Highest Honors
Olivia Voelkel – Honors
Citlaly Abundio – Highest Honors
Nicolette Bond – Highest Honors
Alex Bravo – Highest Honors
Kendra Christian – Highest Honors
Sophie Crivier – Honors
Jett Felder – Highest Honors
Chloe Gaume – Honors
Julie Gomez – Honors
Kristin Haegelin – Honors
Julianne Le – Honors
Julia Maeding – Honors
Ryan Riffenburgh – Highest Honors
Naomi Young – Highest Honors
Thompson Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis
David Gamboa
Alex Bravo
Writing Programs Awards
Peter Rotter First-Year Writing Prize
Yueyang Liu
Peter Rotter Essay Prize
Avery Ngo
Teague Melville Writing Awards
Kiersta Donnelly
Micah Hoffman
Samuel Matsumoto
Tom Davey Science Writing Prize
Manasi Vartak