Undergraduate Departmental Award Recipients, 2024-2025

Congratulations to All!

Awards listed on this page have been submitted by academic departments, centers, and organizations within Stanford.

Art & Art History
Biology
Center for International Security & Cooperation
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Communication
Comparative Literature
Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Electrical Engineering
Energy Science & Engineering
English
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
French & Italian
Geophysics
German Studies
Human Biology
Iberian and Latin American Cultures
International Relations
Jewish Studies
Mathematics
Music
Physics
Psychology
Public Policy
Science, Technology, and Society
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Sociology
Theater and Performance Studies
Urban Studies

Art & Art History

Albert Elsen Prize in Art History

Angela Zhang, 2025

Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award in Painting

Lisa Do, 2025

The Christopher Meyer Prize

Elisa Argüello, 2025

Guillia Webster McFarland Award in Design

Trinity Gardner. 2025

Kristine Samuelson Award in Film & Media Studies

Howard Kung, 2025

Lorenz Eitner Prize in Art and Art History

Leo Baek, 2025

Raina Giese Award in Creative Painting

Gregory Medina-Kenyon, 2025
Jacqueline Liu, 2025

Biology

Angela Lee Undergraduate Research Award

Esther Tok, 2025

Stephen Fox Award

Jennifer Hamad, 2025

Center for International Security & Cooperation

William J. Perry Prize

Isobel Douglas Porteous, 2025

Chemical Engineering

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Student Chapter Most Distinguished Service Award

Kristy Chan, 2025

Channing Robertson Outstanding Junior Award

Samantha Reising, 2026

Faculty Award in Chemical Engineering

Stella Jiwon Chung, 2025

Mason/Marsden Prize in Chemical Engineering

Jenny Han, 2025

Michel Boudart Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Chemical Engineering

Diego Bustamante, 2025

Chemistry

Marsden Memorial Prize in Chemistry

Nicole Elizete Theberath, 2025

Communication

Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Internship

Helena Getahun-Hawkins, 2025

Harry Press Stanford Daily Award

Greta Reich, 2026
Shreya Komar, 2026

Mary and Jacquelyn Edmonds Prize in Communication

Vanessa Onuoha, 2025

Rowland Rebele Journalism Internship

Allie Skalnik, 2026
Audrey Tomlin, 2028
Camille Luong, 2025
Casey Greene, 2028
Cate Burtner, 2025
Jennifer Levine, 2028
Katie Eritano, 2025
Lauren Koong, 2026
Madisyn Cunningham, 2027
Maia Pak, 2028
Naomi Breuer, 2028
Nathan Kuczmarski, 2026
Sharmmen Raj Sanjeevraj, 2028

Comparative Literature

Herbert Lindenberger Prize for an Essay in Comparative Literature

Can Oral, 2027

Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity

Link to all CSRE Departmental Prizes

Albert M. Camarillo Senior Paper Prize

Karen Arellano-Cruz, 2025
Saimary Velázquez Carrasquillo, 2025

Arturo Islas, Jr. Prize

Myrka Odalis Cruz Aracen, 2025

Dorothy M. Steele Award for Community Outreach, Engagement, and Social Justice

Julia Gendy, 2025
YuYu Yuan, 2025

George M. Fredrickson Award for Excellence in Honors Research

Rabiah Kabir, 2025

Margarita Ibarra Community Building Award

Phong Nguyen, 2025

Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Division of Languages, Cultures, and Literature Thesis Award

Yared Avalos Iniguez, 2025

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Director’s Award for Undergraduate Academic Achievement in Earth Systems

Chrysanthe Nicole Frangos, 2025
Gianna Josephine Dugan, 2025
Pearl Shing-Roth, 2025
Jaden Anissa Southern, 2025
Charles Michael Lamb, 2025
Anika Juliet Quon, 2025
Kate Susanna Esbenshade, 2025
Camden John Burk, 2025
Diego Luis Gutierrez, 2025
Chloe Romero, 2025
Morgan Schillinger Tarpenning, 2025
Emily Yuan Zhao, 2025
Calista Marie Ordas, 2025
Rebecca Monge, 2025
Kylie Rose Creighton, 2025
Gabriel Andres Machado, 2025
Anastazja Frances Krostenko, 2025

Electrical Engineering

Project Design Award in Electrical Engineering

Milo Eirew, 2025
Sydney Yan, 2025
Sylvia Chin, 2025
Sidharth Gopisetty, 2025
Anna Morgan, 2025
Naomi Mo, 2025

Energy Science & Engineering

Frank G. Miller Fellowship Award

Samuel Desai, 2027

Robert G. Lindblom Memorial Award

Thomas Saito, 2026

English

Marie Louise Rosenberg Honors Prize

Brandon Rupp, 2025
Ellen Yang, 2025
Kate Li, 2025

Marjorie Perloff Prize in Poetry and Poetics

Feiyang Kuang, 2025

Rosenberg Service Award

Andrew Song, 2025
Elli Schulz, 2025
Sophia Hlavaty, 2025

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

FGSS Award for Leadership in Service and Community Building

Lora Vachovska, 2025

Francisco Lopes Prize for Essay in Humanities

Anna Wang, 2025

Francisco Lopes Prize for Thesis in Humanities

Eric Angelo Ramirez, 2025

Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo Prize for Thesis in the Social Sciences

Xinhan (Emma) Dai, 2025

Monica P. Moore Prize for Creative Theses

Lyn Lee Loth, 2025
Daania Tahir, 2024

French & Italian

Ralph M. Hester and Laurence C. Franklin Prize: Advanced French I

Esteban Herrera-Vendrell, 2025
Kaleb Houle-Lawrence, 2027

Ralph M. Hester and Laurence C. Franklin Prize: First-Year French

Oliver Lee, 2025

Ralph M. Hester and Laurence C. Franklin Prize: Second-Year French

Aarushi Dahiya, 2028

Paul Roberts and Nina Marton Prize for Italian Literature

Alex Selwyn, 2025
Kevin Reso, 2026

Geophysics

Best Undergraduate Thesis Award

Chloe Cheng, 2026

German Studies

The Stanford Club of Germany Best First-Year Language Student

Harry Zhang, 2028

The Stanford Club of Germany Undergraduate Best Essay Award

Oliver Lee, 2025

Human Biology

Albert H. Hastorf Award for Outstanding Service to the Program in Human Biology

Elizabeth Evers, 2025

Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award for Excellence in Research Related to Families and Children

Matthew Onadeko, 2025

Joshua Lederberg Award for Academic Excellence

Aurora Roghair, 2025
Erin Su, 2025
Eva Gorenburg, 2025
Jean Rachel Bahk, 2025
Maria Valentina Chirinos Pena, 2025
Rachel Lit, 2025
Shay Sharma, 2025

Kirsten Frohnmayer Research Prize for Juniors in Human Biology

Amaya Genovia, 2026
Kelly Wang, 2026
Lena Braun, 2026

Mary and Jacquelyn Edmonds Prize for Outstanding Junior in Human Biology

Dena Kumsa, 2026
Joyce Essuman, 2026

Merton & Audrey Bernfield Director's Award for Outstanding Contributions to Human Biology

Leilani Ivery, 2025

Iberian and Latin American Cultures

ILAC Outstanding Undergraduate Essay Prize

Galia Santana-Oikawa, 2025

ILAC Department Spanish Language Essay Prize

Laura Rovira Compta, 2027

Jewish Studies

Donald and Robin Kennedy Jewish Studies Undergraduate Award

Chana Lanter, 2025
Levi Morris Lebovitz, 2027

Dr. Bernard Kaufman Undergraduate Research Award in Jewish Studies

Luke Clifton, 2025

Jewish Studies Short Story Contest

Grand Prize: John Rigsby Aldredge Shelburne, 2025
2nd Place: Ilan Arias, 2028
3rd Place: Sarah Lewis, 2025

Nelee Langmuir Award

Honor Skye Warburg, 2027

Mathematics

Distinguished Service Award

Andrew Woo-jong Lee, 2026

George Pólya Prize

Andrei Mandelshtam, 2025

Undergraduate Research Award

Bradley Konane Moon, 2025
Michael Robert Doboli, 2025
Yunchu Dai, 2025

Music

Blew-Culley-Lafollette Prize in Piano

Katie Liu, 2026

Carol and Peter Polk Undergraduate Music Award

Eric Wang, 2026

Daniel V. Robinson Prize in Performance

Erica Wang, 2027

Geoff Nuttall – Friends of Music Chamber Music Award

Alice Ku, 2025
Cindy Liu, 2028
Daniel Sun, 2025
Sunstone Shi, 2026

Glen & Barbara Smerage Chamber Music Performance Prize

Justin Choo, 2026
Maya Benyas, 2026

Glen & Barbara Smerage Violin Performance Prize

Susan Lee, 2025

Friends of Music Undergraduate Composition Award

Zac Dulkin, 2026

Marie Gibson Prize in Vocal Performance

Sarah Lewis, 2026

Patrick Butler Prize in Piano Performance

Oscar Paz Suaznabar, 2027

Rita Taylor Prize for Undergraduate Performance

Rachelle Weiss, 2026

Physics

David S. Levine Award

Angelia Jia, 2023
Ezra Steinberg, 2023
Mark Zhu, 2023

Jeff Willick Memorial Award

Andrii Torchylo, 2022
Daniel Sun, 2022

Psychology

Philip G. Zimbardo Teaching Prize

Ellen Aasted, 2025
Tima Kane, 2025

Public Policy

Roger G. Noll Award for Outstanding Public Policy Senior

Caroline Zdanowski, 2025

Science, Technology, and Society

Robert McGinn Award

Divya Mehrish, 2025

STS Director’s Award for Advancing Social Justice in Science, Technology, and Medicine

Sophia Kianni, 2025
Reagan Ross, 2025

Walter Vincenti Award

Sandi Khine, 2025

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Galina Leytes Prize in Slavic Studies

Aidan Josiah Spector Delgass, 2026

Sociology

Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award for Outstanding Coterm Master's Student

Andrew Cha, 2025
Julio Enrique Flores, 2025

Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Sociology Major

Emma Charity, 2025
Jasleen Gosal, 2025
Joseph Warton, 2025
Sarah Reyes, 2025
Skylar Volman, 2025

Barbara and Sandy Dornbusch Award for Outstanding Sociology Honors Thesis

Dora Elia Plascencia-Macias, 2025
Itzel Luna, 2025
Laisha Ozuna, 2025
Xinhan (Emma) Dai, 2025

Department of Sociology Outstanding Coterm Master's Research Paper

Sydney Kaminski, 2025

Theater and Performance Studies

Alexander Stewart Prize for Contribution to Production

Espen Gerald Garner, 2025

Department of Theater & Performance Studies Award for Contribution to Acting

Sierra Michelle Curry Corcoran, 2025

Department of Theater & Performance Studies Award for Excellence in Scholarship

Cary Sasso, 2025

Department of Theater & Performance Studies Award for Contribution to Dance

Katherine Ha Wang, 2028
Matthew Canlas, 2024

Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for Work Involving Social Issues

Eryn Mychael Perkins, 2025

Urban Studies

California Planning Foundation Outstanding Diversity in Planning Scholarship

Langston Buddenhagen, 2025

Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, NorCal Chapter Board of Directors Scholarship