2009 Hilldale, Holstrom and University Book Store Award Winners

The following students received Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships, which include a $4,000 stipend to each student and $1,000 to their faculty advisers. The list below includes recipients, their majors, and faculty advisers.

  • Elizabeth Abbs (Zoology, Psychology, IES), Lauren Riters
  • Marryam Abdl-Haleem (Comparative Literature, Philosophy), Irene Santos and Mary Layoun
  • Leah Alstad (Chemistry), Shigeki Miyamoto
  • Benjamin Andrew (Biochemistry, Certificate in Classics), Eugene Kaji
  • Amy Andrzejewski (Communicative Disorders), Jan Edwards
  • Sarah Bahr (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), Richard Anderson
  • Lukas Bane (Biochemistry), Michael Cox
  • Steven Banik (Chemistry), Mahesh Mahanthappa
  • Hannah Barnes (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Daniel Vimont
  • Daniel Baum (Chemistry), Silvia Cavagnero
  • Claire Becker (Sociology, Spanish), Guillermina De Ferrari
  • Kaytlyn Beres (Biomedical Engineering), William Murphy and Susan Hagness
  • Brittany Bice (Psychology and Communication Arts), Judith Harackiewicz
  • Forrest Bishop (Civil Engineering), Katherine McMahon
  • Michael Cain (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), David Andes
  • James Campbell (Nutritional Sciences), Mark Cook
  • Jason Carr (Economics), Wade Bushman
  • Shannon Chaplo (Psychology, Women's Studies), Janet Hyde
  • Peter Culviner (Biochemistry), Silvia Cavagnero
  • Cara Dees (English, French), Mario Ortiz-Robles and Cyrena Pondrom
  • Madeleine Dungy (History), Laird Boswell
  • Joseph Duratinsky (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), Margaret Clagett-Dame
  • Elizabeth Feit (Psychology, Biology), Matthew Andrzejewski
  • Matthew Ferguson (Linguistics, Italian), Thomas Cravens
  • John Fink (Psychology, Sociology), Yuri Miyamoto
  • Kristi Freitag (Biological Systems Engineering), Anita Thompson
  • Sergio Gallardo (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), Greg Gauthier
  • Carlos Gil del Alcazar (Genetics, Biochemistry), Corinna Burger
  • Michael Goldstein (Psychology), Ruth Benca
  • Anne Gottwald (Soil Science, Biology), Nick Balster
  • Adam Hahn (Electrical Engineering), John Booske and Susan Hagness
  • Samantha Harris (Communicative Disorders, Theatre and Drama), Ruth Litovsky
  • Michael Hiley (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Ralf Bennartz
  • Wee Teck William Ho (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Daniel Klingenberg
  • Shao-Pu Hsu (Biology), Guy Groblewski
  • Dexter Jin (Biology), Karen Downs
  • Megan Keuler (Biology and Psychology), Hill Goldsmith
  • Kristin Kopish (Neurobiology, Spanish Literature), Kathryn Sanchez
  • Caitlin Kuck (Psychology), Erin Costanzo
  • Alex Lang (Physics and Mathematics), Robert Joynt
  • Angwei Law (Biomedical Engineering, Psychology), Janet Hyde and Judith Harackiewicz
  • Yin Jin Lee (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Manos Mavrikakis
  • James Lehman (Biology), Ei Terasawa-Grilley
  • Josephine Lembong (Chemical and Biological Engineering), Michael Graham
  • Linda Lyon (Forest and Wildlife Ecology), William Karasov
  • Elizabeth Malone (Psychology, Biology), Michael Culbertson
  • Alyce Marsh (Biochemistry, Nutritional Science), Cynthia Carlsson
  • Jessica Masterman (Chemistry, Geology), Christopher Babiarz
  • Marissa Mastrangeli (Linguistics, Spanish), Monica Macaulay
  • Jeanne McCormack (Biology), Catherine Marler
  • Anna Mielke (Biological Systems Engineering, Environmental Studies), Brian Pfleger
  • Brian Mogen (Biomedical Engineering), Justin Williams
  • Holly Morton (Social Work, Sociology), Sandra Magaña
  • Songdet Nillasithanukroh (Genetics), Audrey Gasch
  • Michael O'Halleran (Animal Science), Nick Balster
  • Michael Olmsted (Biology), Karl Sillay
  • Katherine Pankratz (Animal Science), Mark Cook
  • Roshni Patel (Biology, South Asian Studies), Elizabeth Kelly
  • Lara Peschke (Biology, Psychology), Richard Davidson
  • Rista Plate (Psychology), Seth Pollak
  • Nicole Powers (History, Art), Nan Enstad
  • Ruichen Qian (Economics, Mathematics), Raymond Deneckere
  • Emily Robin (Communicative Disorders), Susan Ellis Weismer
  • Rebecca Rozek (English, History), Susan Bernstein
  • Sneha Shrestha (Biology, Spanish), Matthew Banks
  • Timothy Sita (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Molecular Biology), Nicholas Abbott
  • Rachel Smith (Classics), Patricia Rosenmeyer
  • Daryl Staveness (Chemistry), Robert West
  • David Sterken (Biochemistry), Ray Vanderby
  • Rebecca Sweeney (Spanish; Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies), Ksenija Bilbija
  • Elizabeth Thomas (Food Science, Biology), Kirk Parkin
  • Alex Thompson (Biology), Leonard Levin
  • Sonya Troller-Renfree (Sociology, Psychology), John DeLamater
  • Stephanie Van Hecke (Communicative Disorders), Margarita Kaushanskaya
  • Samuel Weinberg (Medical Microbiolgy and Immunology), Christopher Bradfield
  • Deena Weiss (Psychology, Biology), Judith Harackiewicz
  • Joshua White (Biomedical Engineering), Tom Keenan
  • Paul Winograd (Biochemistry), Christine Seroogy
  • Allison Wojnar (Psychology), Seth Pollak
  • Tan (Lucy) Xu (Medical Microbiology and Immunology), Christina Hull
  • Elisa Yoritomi (Biology), Gary Splitter

The following students received Holstrom Environmental Research Scholarships, which provide $4,000 to students and $1,000 to their faculty advisers. The list below includes recipients, their majors, and faculty advisers.

  • Gabrielle Hinahara (International Studies, Spanish), Erika Marín-Spiotta
  • Amy Kolpin (Chemistry), David Armstrong
  • Evan Peissig (Zoology), Terence Barry
  • Nathan Schmidt (Zoology, Biological Aspects of Conservation), William Karasov

The following undergraduate students received University Book Store Academic Excellence Awards, which provide $1,000 in recognition of an outstanding independent research or creative arts project. The list below includes recipients, their majors and faculty advisers.

  • Nathan Aschenbach (Art), Stephen Hilyard
  • Charles Brummitt (Mathematics, Physics), Julien Clinton Sprott
  • Jacob Daane (Molecular Biology), Karen Downs
  • William Fitzgerald (English–Creative Writing), Ronald Kuka
  • Madeline Greene (Psychology, Sociology), John DeLamater
  • Morgan Gustison (Psychology, Zoology), Charles Snowdon
  • Evan Hall (English–Creative Writing, Journalism), Ronald Kuka
  • Thomas Kleist (Botany), Kenneth Sytsma
  • Kathrin Kohler (English–Creative Writing), Jesse Lee Kercheval
  • Allison Lake (Psychology, English–Creative Writing), Ron Wallace
  • Peter Mackie (Music Composition), David Dies
  • Chanel Matsunami Govreau (Art, Japanese, Asian American Studies), Rosemary Bodolay
  • Hammad Mazhar (Mechanical Engineering), Dan Negrut
  • Todd Nordgren (English, Linguistics), Mario Ortiz-Robles
  • Lauren Pagel (Spanish), Ksenija Bilbija
  • Matthew Pesko (Social Welfare, Rehabilitation Psychology), Donald Anderson
  • Adam Rieves (Biomedical Engineering), Jack Jiang
  • Jacob Riyeff (English), Sherry Reames
  • Brandon Santos (English, Mathematics), Ron Wallace
  • Bryon Shannon (Management and Real Estate), Phillip Kim