UG Opportunities Student Award Winners
Celebrating our 2022-2023 Award Winners & Departmental Honors Students
2023 Winners
English Department Essay Award
“Translating the Border: Narration in Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends”
Author: Ramona Mukherji
Course: English 131, Fall 2022
Instructor: Professor Yogita Goyal
“Queer Debt and Destruction in The Merchant of Venice and ‘The Shipman’s Tale'”
Author: Rainer Lee
Course: English 149, Winter 2023
Instructor: Professor Arvind Thomas
Clara Rusk Hastings Scholarship for Excellence in the English 10 Series
Mishal Imaan Syed
Sophia Torres Pomares
Recognizing ACES 2023 Participants:
Sydney Chun
Caitlin Carmichael
Emma Carson
Cory Chen
Yaser Cisneros
Shreya Dodballapur
David Egan
Aleea Evangelista
Megan Fu
Ashley Kim
Kate Green
Christina Jang
Mehr Juneja
Ella Moore
Ramona Mukherji
Eli Nachimson
Kelsey Olarte
Angela Patel
Daisy Quinones
Anna Schoones
Nikki Wolin
The Barbara Bellow Watson Shakespeare Essay Contest
“Post-Mortem Negotiability: Time as a Tool of Characterization in Othello’s Pivotal Deaths”
Author: Amelia Boeh
Course: English 150B, Winter 2023
Instructor: Professor Stephen Dickey
Harold Dee Fox Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Transfer Student Performance
Isabelle Shokralla
David Wong Louie Memorial Creative Writing Prize
Layla Knowles
The Olfet Agrama Prize for Creative Writing
Gabrielle Bromberg
The May Merrill Miller Award
First: Alexandra Janku
Second: Mishal Imaan Syed
The Ruth Brill Scholarship Award
First: Yaser Cisneros
Second: Benjamin Frandsen
The Christopher Zyda Creative Writing Prize
First: Kelsey Olarte
First: Andrew Checchia
Runner-up: Kristin Haegelin
The Shirley Collier Prize
Jade Lacy
The Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize from the Academy of American Poets
Winner: Mishal Imaan Syed
Honorable Mention: Lola Mia Jamin
The Shirle Dorothy Robbins Creative Writing Award
First: Jade Lacy
Second: Laureen Huynh
Honorable Mention: Ashley Kim
2022 Falling Leaves Prize
Jade Lacy
Department Honors
Khushi Bhasin. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Megan Stephan
Gabrielle Bromberg. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Justin Torres
Kelsey Chan. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Saree Makdisi
Kathleen Conley. Honors. Faculty Mentors: Chris Chism and Rob Watson
Rosemary Galloway. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Danny Snelson
Max He. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Danny Snelson
Justin Huwe. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Mitchum Huehls
Miró Justad. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Summer Kim Lee
Ashley Kim. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Reed Wilson
Jade Lacy. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Mona Simpson (Winner of the 2022 Falling Leaves Prize)
Tyler Maher. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Justin Torres
Ella Moore. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentors: Marissa López and Blake Allmendinger
Kayleigh Morrissey. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Kathleen McHugh
Ana Ovsepyan. Honors. Faculty Mentor: Eleanor Kaufman
Allyson Roche. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Louise Hornby
Justine Sargent. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Joe Bristow (Awarded the 2023 Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity at Undergraduate Research Week.)
Jolie Sukonik. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Helen Deutsch
Jessica Wong. Highest Honors. Faculty Mentor: Mona Simpson
Thompson Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis
Kelsey Chan
Allyson Roche
Writing Programs Awards
Peter Rotter First-Year Writing Prize
Mrinalini Keskar
Peter Rotter Essay Prize
Xinix Perla
Teague Melville Writing Awards
Mehr Juneja
Una Stevanovic
Jodi Wong
Tom Davey Science Writing Prize
Hannah Chu