Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students who received awards during the 2025 Senior Awards Ceremony on Saturday, June 14, at Stetson Chapel. The awards include all academic divisions, prestigious scholarships and special non-departmental awards.
FINE ARTS DIVISION
Art and Art History
Lilia Chen Award in Art
- Mabel Rose Bowdle
- Josetta H. Checkett
- Natalie Martinez
- Ping Mae Smith
- Jackson Willits
George Eaton Errington Prize
- Elena Pulliam
Michael Waskowsky Prize
- Stephanie Martinez
Music
Lillian Pringle Baldauf Prize in Music
- Cassidy Martini-Zeller
- Isabella Pellegrom
Music Department Certificate of Distinction
- Laura DeVilbiss
- Olivia Nicole DiGiulio
- Sierra Hieshetter
- Joseph R. Horsfield
- Cole Koryto
- Liam McElroy
- Sophia Renee Merchant
- Tyrus Parnell, Jr.
- Elena Pulliam
- Noah Pyle
- Michel Romero
- Audrey Paige Schulz
- Alexa Wonacott
Fan E. Sherwood Memorial Prize
- Garrick Hohm
Theatre Arts
Ruth Scott Chenery Award
- Megan J. Herbst
- Max Joos
Irmgard Kowatzki Theatre Award
- Addison Peter
- May Moe Tun
MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES
Chinese
Chinese Outstanding Achievement Award
- Benjamin Buyck
- Kateryna Koublitsky
- Nancy Murillo
Classical Studies
Provost’s Prize in Classics
- Beatrice Jane Hawkins
French and Francophone Studies
Alliance Francaise Prize in French
- McKenna Lee Wasmer
German Studies
Joe Fugate Senior German Award
- Alex Nam
- Meredith Steward
Japanese
Japanese National Honor Society, College Chapter
- Noah Howard
- Andy Chukwuma
- Rebecca Elias
- Madalyn Farrey
- Tyler Houle
- Kiana Hime Kanegawa
- Raven Montagna
- Colby Skinner
Spanish Language and Literatures
The Senior Spanish Award
- Sara Reathaford
- Maria Salinas
HUMANITIES DIVISION
American Studies
David Strauss Prize in American Studies
- Sierra Hieshetter
- Sadye Rasmussen
Critical Ethnic Studies
Critical Ethnic Studies Community Praxis Award
- Janet Fernandez
Cassandra Solis ’16 Prize in Critical Ethnic Studies
- Alisha Clark
English
Gail Griffin Prize
- Ella Heystek
Bruce E. Mills Award
- Claire Farhi
Elwood H. and Elizabeth H. Schneider Prize in English
- Emerson Wesselhoff
Mary Clifford Stetson Prize
- Sierra Hieshetter
- Eleanor Stevenson
Dwight (1929) and Leola Stocker Prize
- Caroline Elizabeth Francis
- Greta Rose Salamun
- Claire Taylor
- Carson Williams
Charles Lewis Williams Jr. Award
- Abigail Esmeralda Gutierrez
James Bird Balch Prize in American History
- Sierra Hieshetter
History
History Department Award
- Natalie Maki
Philosophy
Hodge Prize in Philosophy
- Madeleine Lawson
Department of Philosophy Prize
- Liam Diaz
- Madeleine Lawson
Religion
Marion H. Dunsmore (1920) Memorial Prize in Religion
- Megan Hybels
NATURAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS DIVISION
Biology
H. Lewis Batts Prize
- Noah Pyle
- Leslie Michelle Santos
The Biology in Liberal Arts Prize
- Westin Leigh Grinwis
- Emerson Wesselhoff
Frances Diebold Scholar Award
- Jordan Cook
- Vivian Schmidt
William E. Praeger (1922) Prize in Biology
- Noah Pyle
- Vivian Schmidt
Chemistry and Biochemistry Annual Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
- Lesly Guadalupe Mares Castro
Annual Undergraduate Award in Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
- Nguyen Nguyen
Annual Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- Maxwell Clay Rhames
Annual Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry
- Ashhad Abdullah
- Lucy Cripe
Annual Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
- Margaret Lekan
Jeff Bartz Community in Chemistry Award
- Grace Leahey
Outstanding Chemistry Student from Kalamazoo College
- Maxwell Clay Rhames
Kurt Kaufman Fellow
- Ashhad Abdullah
- Anna Buck
- Lucy Cripe
- Justin Essing
- Margaret Lekan
- Maxwell Clay Rhames
Lemuel F. Smith Award
- Anna Buck
Computer Science
Provost’s Prize in Computer Science
- Lelo Khaba
- Cole Koryto
- Chau Ta
Mathematics
Clarke Benedict Williams Prize
- Joseph R. Horsfield
- Chau Ta
- Tristan Uphoff
Physics
John Wesley Hornbeck Prize
- Alexander Kish
- Riley Weber
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DIVISION
George Acker Award
- Jackson Mitchell
Mary Long Burch ’61 Award
- Anna Buck
C.W. “Opie’’ Davis (1928) Award
- Lukas Broadsword
Hornet Athletic Association Award
- Adnan Alousi
Knoechel Family Award
- Erik Danielson
- Ava Jean Williams
Tish Loveless Award
- Paige Anderson
Lauren Rosenthal ’13 Memorial Prize
- Annmarie Elizabeth Lawrence
Catherine A. Smith ’82 Prize in Women’s Athletics
- Ivy Walker
SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION
Anthropology and Sociology
The Raymond L. Hightower Award
- Clarke McKenzie Austin
Economics and Business
William G. Howard (1867) Memorial Prize in Economics and Business
- Cole Koryto
Provost’s Prize in Economics
- Sage Margarett Lewis
- Riley Weber
C. Wallace Lawrence Prize in Business
- Dilynn Everitt
Robert and Karen Rhoa Prize in Business
- Sydney Hagaman
- Gavin Houtkooper
- Sheldon Riley
- Levi Thomas
- Alexa Wonacott
Political Science
E. Bruce Baxter ’64 Memorial Award
- Ethan DeNeen
- Natalie Maki
William G. Howard (1867) Memorial Prize in Political Science
- Maya Hester
- Amy McNutt
Eugene P. Stermer ’50 Award in Public Administration
- Joseph Shumunov
Psychology
Marshall Hallock Brenner ’55 Prize
- Malin Nordmoe
Xarifa Greenquist Memorial Psychology Department Award
- Lille Dekker
- Laura DeVilbiss
- Annmarie Elizabeth Lawrence
- Charlotte Ruiter
- Joseph Stein
Richard D. Klein ’53 Senior Award in Psychology
- Beatrice Jane Hawkins
- Si Yun Ahnna Kimball
Richard D. Klein ’53 Senior Impact Award in Psychology
- Adaora Alexandra Emenyonu
- Audrey Paige Schulz
Donald W. VanLiere Prize Psychology in Coursework
- Laura DeVilbiss
- Vivian Kim
- Madeline Rae Lovins
- Charlotte Ruiter
- Vivian Schmidt
Donald W. VanLiere Prize Psychology in Research
- Jaden Kowalski
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Catherine A. Smith ’82 Prize in Human Rights
- Stephanie Martinez
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Prize in Women’s Studies
- Elaine Pollard
COLLEGE AWARDS
Alpha Lambda Delta Maria Leonard Senior Book Award
- Sierra Hieshetter
- Vivian Kim
- Alexander Kish
- Cole Koryto
- Noah Pyle
- Vivian Schmidt
Gordon Beaumont Memorial Award
- Michel Romero
Henry ’36 and Inez Brown Award
- Lucy Cripe
- Tyler Omness
- Eden Schnurstein
Virginia Hinkelman Memorial Award
- Clarke McKenzie Austin
- Elijah Mobley
Senior Leadership Recognition Award
- Tyler Houle
- Mart Klenke
- Grace Leahey
- Gionna Magdaleno
- Stephanie Martinez
- Alex Nam
- Maxwell Clay Rhames
- Leslie Michelle Santos
- Levi Thomas
- Emerson Wesselhoff
Maynard Owen Williams (1910) Memorial Award
- Eamon Emrick Bronson
- Alexia Dowell
- Janet Fernandez
- Ethan Thomas Galler
- Lillian Grelak
- Lelo Khaba
- Madeleine Lawson
- Natalie Grace Pineda
- Melissa Preston
- Alejandro Quesada
- Emerson Wesselhoff
FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARS
Austria U.S. Teaching Assistantship
- Erik Danielson
- Leo McGreevy
- Alex Nam
Beeler Senior Projects Abroad Fellows
- Mabel Rose Bowdle
- Janet Fernandez
- Aiden Habboub
- Gus Horvath
- Daniel Isacksen
- Silvia Gaete Lagos
- Annmarie Elizabeth Lawrence
- Gionna Magdaleno
- Natalie Martinez
- Akinyi Wamuyu Okero
- Natalie Grace Pineda
- Elaine Pollard
- Evan Pollens-Voigt
- Joseph Shumunov
- Elena Stolberg
H.P. and Genevieve Connable Scholarship
- Grace Leahey
French Government Teaching Assistantships
- Madeline Fleur Hollander
- McKenna Lee Wasmer
Fulbright/Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Ph.D. Award
- Joseph R. Horsfield
Fred and Sarah Greer Endowed Scholarship/Lorinda Kay Sanford Memorial
- Clarke McKenzie Austin
- Adaora Alexandra Emenyonu
- Annmarie Elizabeth Lawrence
- Gionna Magdaleno
- Jaden Isabella Milton
- Akinyi Wamuyu Okero
- Lucien Taylor
Caroline Ham ’48 Scholar
- Amy McNutt
F. W. and Elsie L. Heyl Scholars
- Ava Rose Apolo
- Anna Buck
- Elizabeth Dalyn Grooten
- Alexander Kish
- Cole Koryto
- Margaret Lekan
- Emerson Wesselhoff
- Laurel Wolfe
Moses Kimball Scholar
- Michel Romero
LaPlante Civic Engagement Scholars
- Clarke McKenzie Austin
- Lucy Cripe
- Adaora Alexandra Emenyonu
- Isabel Katherine Martin
- Stephanie Martinez
- Elijah Mobley
- Audrey Paige Schulz
Jerry Sherbin Fellowship
- Akinyi Wamuyu Okero
Spanish Government Teaching Assistantship Award
- Fuzail Ahmed
- Maya Hester
- Sierra Hieshetter
- Alexa Wonacott
Slava-Cica and Spasa Voynovich Scholar
- Alex Nam
Vibbert Civic Engagement Scholars
- Claire Farhi
HONORS IN THE MAJOR DEPARTMENT
Anthropology and Sociology
- Ariadne June Markou
Art and Art History
- Josetta H. Checkett
- Ping Mae Smith
Biology
- Mairin Boshoven
- Emma Frederikson
- Lucas Premier
- Noah Pyle
- Vivian Schmidt
- Meredith Steward
Biochemistry
- Nguyen Nguyen
Business
- Dilynn Everitt
- Gavin Houtkooper
- Jacob Lynett
- Sheldon Riley
- Levi Thomas
Chemistry
- Anna Buck
- Lucy Cripe
- Justin Essing
- Amalia Kaerezi
- Margaret Lekan
- Maxwell Clay Rhames
Computer Science
- Yongwan Cho
- Garrick Hohm
- Lelo Khaba
- Alexander Kish
- Cole Koryto
- Chau Ta
Economics
- Ethan DeNeen
- Sage Margarett Lewis
- Kiersten Sjogren
- Meganne Skoug
Quantitative Economics
- Ethan Thomas Galler
- Cole Koryto
- Riley Weber
English
- Claire Farhi
- Caroline Elizabeth Francis
- Ella Heystek
- Eleanor Stevenson
- Claire Taylor
- Carson Williams
International Area Studies
- Alex Nam
- Joseph Shumunov
Mathematics
- Adelaide Bowen
- Chau Ta
- Tristan Uphoff
Music
- Simon Parker Doyle
- Cassidy Martini-Zeller
- Isabella Pellegrom
Physics
- Alexander Kish
- Riley Weber
Political Science
- Natalie Maki
- Joseph Shumunov
Psychology
- Vivian Kim
- Kiersten Sjogren
Religion
- Adelaide Bowen
- Elaine Pollard
Spanish Language and Literature
- Paige Anderson
- Isabella Caza
- Laura DeVilbiss
- Valeria Garcia
- Maya Hester
- Jesús Martínez
- Sara Reathaford
- Meganne Skoug
- Lucinda Wallis
- Alexa Wonacott
Theatre Arts
- Megan J. Herbst
- Addison Peter
MEMBERS OF PHI BETA KAPPA
- Mairin Boshoven
- Anna Buck
- Yongwan Cho
- Erik Danielson
- Laura DeVilbiss
- Dilynn Everitt
- Madalyn Farrey
- Emma Frederiksen
- Megan J. Herbst
- Joseph R. Horsfield
- Gavin Houtkooper
- Vivian Kim
- Alexander Kish
- Cole Koryto
- Ava Loncharte
- Madeline Rae Lovins
- Ariadne June Markou
- Alex Nam
- Lucas Priemer
- Noah Pyle
- Maxwell Clay Rhames
- Vivian Schmidt
- Chau Ta
- Tristan Uphoff
- Hannah VanderLugt
- Emerson Wesselhoff
