2012 Senior Award Recipients
Greek Letter Awards
| Phi Beta Kappa | Leila Al-Hamoodah, Julia Behnen , Marissa Dannaway, Emery Hilles, Xingyao Hong, Rachel King, Mirabelle Korn, Megan Lewis, Rebecca Marion, Kathleen Mautner, Allison Midden, Shailini Pandya, Laura Passarelli, Alexandra Pincus, Maya Pisciotto, Jennifer Plumlee, Zoe Ravich, Leah Rosenbaum, Katya Shackelford, Sarah Stringer, Jenna Tico, Sara Townsend, Eva Valenti, Jennie Waldow |
| Sigma Delta Pi | Denise Bustamante, Claire Calderón, Nadia Danilovich, Margaret Dickman, Kelsey Figone, Kelly Garton, Michelle Gloster, Abigail Jones, Stephanie Lester, Olivia Lopes, Hillary Matthews, Kathleen Mautner, Melissa Mesinas, Allison Midden, Emily O'Brien, Natalie Parks, Isabella Pereira, Lillian Reid, Elissa Ronquillo, Lauren Shaib, Eva Valenti |
| Sigma Xi | Evan Friedenberg, Sydney Goings, Alexandra Pincus, Karin Weston |
| Psi Chi | Marissa Dannaway, Allison Midden, Felicia Palmer, Shailini Pandya, Zoe Ravich, Sarah Stringer, Maggie Tietz, Danielle Tucci |
| Theta Alpha Kappa | Kimberly Anderson, Catherine Ballard, Brenna Donnelly, Rebecca King |
| Phi Alpha Theta | Marissa Mendoza |
| Omicron Delta Epsilon | Natalie Parks, Sara Popovich |
Latin Honors
| Summa Cum Laude | Leila Al-Hamoodah, Julia Behnen, Mirabelle Korn, Megan Lewis, Alexandra Pincus, Maya Pisciotto, Zoe Ravich, Sarah Stringer, Jenna Tico, Sara Townsend |
| Magna Cum Laude | Kimberly Anderson, Hannah Bradley, Natalie Butterfield, Emily Chesbrough, Amanda Clemm, Nadia Danilovich, Marissa Dannaway, Kelsey Figone, Emery Hilles, Xingyao Hong, Tessa Jacobs, Rachel King, Andrea Kozak, Rebecca Marion, Kathleen Mautner, Allison Midden, Shayna Orent, Shailini Pandya, Jennifer Plumlee, Julia Rigby, Leah Rosenbaum, Katya Shackelford, Catherine Sweatt, Maggie Tietz, Danielle Tucci, Eva Valenti, Jennie Waldow, Karin Weston |
| Cum Laude | LeeAnn Allen, Adrienne Beitcher, Julia Berryman, Ariel Bloomer, Kelly Boyd, Lily Burgess, Claire Calderon, Neha Deshmukh, Robin Dubin, Marissa Enfield, Adriana Esquivel, Lillian Estenson, Meghann Farrell, McKenzie Floyd, Michelle Gloster, Sydney Goings, Jody Goldberg, Kathline Gomes, Mary Griffith, Katharine Hutchins, Corey Jay, Stephanie Jimenez, Abigail Jones, Lisa Kau, Mine Kawamura, Carmen Lam, Stephanie Lester, Audrey Lieberworth, Emily Linehan, Olivia Lopes, Elizabeth Lyon, Margaret Matlock, Hillary Matthews, Marisa Mendoza, Melissa Mesinas, Tori Mirsadjadi, Leah Mortensen, Miranda Murray, Mihye No, Emily O'Brien, Alice Opalka, Deborah Ortiz, Natalie Parks, Laura Passarelli, Isabella Pereira, Allison Perry, Kristen Piepgrass, Kate Pluth, Mari Poturica, Gina Rapaport, Hallie Richards, Tasha Russman, Alexandrea Santariano, Stefanie Saperstein, Julia Scheibmeir, Emma Scheidt, Callie Sendek, Yasamin Soltanianzadeh, Kristina Stanford, Shengwei Sun, Alexandra Talleur, Lia Tamminen, Jennifer Tave, Berenice Villela, Jhenna Voorhis, Melanie Williams, Jennifer Wong, Carolyn Yarbrough, Tiffany Yau |
Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships
| Fulbright Fellows | Julia Berryman, English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia Ariel Bloomer, English Teaching Assistantship in Bulgaria Anna Cho, English Teaching Assistantship in Korea Kelsey Figone, English Teaching Assistantship in Indonesia Michelle Gloster, English Teaching Assistantship in Thailand Stephanie Jimenez, English Teaching Assistantship in Colombia Katherine Lesyna, Public Health Research in Tanzania Olivia Lopes, English Teaching Assistantship in Rwanda Melissa Mesinas, English Teaching Assistantship in Peru Hallie Richards, English Teaching Assistantship in Bangladesh Sara Townsend, English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia Eva Valenti, Linguistics Research in Canada |
| Alumnae Athletic Award | Jennifer Tavé |
| Annual Alumnae Award | Claire Calderón, Berenice Villela |
| Anthropology Senior Thesis Award | Lia Tamminen, We are all about collaboration. That's who we are: The key importance of collaboration in a dual language immersion education program |
| Art Department Innovation Award | Tiffany Yau, Asterisms, 2012 |
| Barbara McClintock Science Award | Alexandra Pincus, Sequence Context and Methylation Dependence of the Conformation and Binding Affinity of the Cre Sequence Megan Swim, Investigating the Impact of a Selfish B Chromosome on Nuclear Dynamics in Nasonia Vitripennis |
| Chicana/o-Latina/o Senior Thesis Award | Adriana Esquivel, Language Brokering a Dynamic Phenomenon: A Qualitative Study Examining the Experiences of Latina/o Language Brokers |
| Edith Potter German Award | Andrea Kozak, Incarceration and Ideology |
| Edward A. White Award in American Studies | Caroline Daly, Collective Memory, Commemoration & Ways of Remembering Little Rock: 50 Years After the Integration Crisis at Central High School Jennifer Plumlee, Televising Memory: The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 |
| English Senior Thesis Award | Hillary Matthews, When he put the pistol in my hand I didn't: Homoeroticism and Gender Performance in Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury Absalom, Absalom! |
| Margaret Siler Faust Psychology Senior Thesis Award | Zoe Ravich, An ERP Study of Responses to Emotional Facial Expressions: Morphing Effects on Early-Latency Valence Processing |
| Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Scholarship | Jennie Waldow, No More Boring Art: Humorous Critique in the Work of John Baldessari, 1966-1974 |
| Gender and Women's Studies Award | Claire Calderón, Vital and Unseen: An Investigation of the Role and Experience of Service Staff at Scripps College |
| Gladys Pattison Music Award | Karin Weston |
| Hispanic Studies Senior Thesis Award | Michelle Gloster, La comercializacion del turismo étnico en Guatemala y Marruecos |
| History Senior Thesis Award | Marisa Mendoza, Canciones del Movimiento Chicano/Songs of the Chicano Movement: The Impact of Musical Traditions on the 1960s Chicano Movement |
| Kathleen Wicker Religious Studies Senior Thesis Award | Kimberly Anderson, Other Imagination: Metaphysics-Poetry-Social Work |
| Latin American Studies Senior Thesis Award | Julia Scheibmeir, Film, Fashion and Fotografia: The Exoticism and Eroticism of Female Victims in Juarez |
| Lind Family Prize in Mathematics | Amanda Clemm, Generalized Sato-Tate Conjecture |
| Lois Langland Psychology Award | Marissa Dannaway, When Do Women Confront Sexist Comments? The Role of Level of Sexism, Ethnic Identity, Feminist Activist Orientation, and Self-Silencing |
| Lucia Suffel Crafts Award | Katherine Hegarty, White, Black and Blood, 2012 Asia Morris, Being, No. 1 thru 3, 2012 |
| Marguerite Pearson Drama Award | Kym Louie (HMC) |
| Merle Woo Senior Project Prize in Asian American Studies | Emily Bluck, Mapping Community Mindscapes: Visualizing Social Autobiography as Political Transformation and Mobilization |
| Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award | Kelly Garton |
| Payton Watkins '09 Media Studies Award | Katherine Anderson, Those Who Breathe: A Photo Exploration in Two Parts |
| Politics and International Relations Senior Thesis Award | Emily Chesbrough, Freedom of Speech Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on the Governance of Political Discourse in China, the United States and the European Union |
| Robert B. Palmer Classics Award | Sara Bacon, Alexandria and the Construction of Urban Experience |
| Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award | Megan Lewis, An Investigation of the Effects of Pitocin for Labor Induction and Augmentation on Breastfeeding Success |
| Ruth George Poetry Award | Stephanie Jimenez |
| Sallie Suzanne Tiernan Memorial Award | Sara Popovitch |
| Slocum Award(s) | Kelsey Lubetich, The Wonderful World of Disney Books Kate Pluth, Recipe for a Library: An Exploration of How to Cook and Who to Be |
| Writing Program Thesis Award | Ariel Bloomer, Fall of the Limes: A Young Adult Historical Fiction Novella Julia Rigby, A Celebration of Ceremony among the Juañeno Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation |
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