UNCA Students, Faculty and Staff Honored with Academic and Leadership Awards

UNC Asheville presented academic and leadership awards to UNCA students, faculty and staff members at a ceremony May 6 at Diana Wortham Theatre. The 16th annual presentation was sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs and the Student Government Association.

The following awards were presented:

Julienne M. Winner Achievement Award: Michael Travis O'Guin

Campus-wide Leadership Awards: Emerging Leader of the Year Awards to Kimberly Ann Gentry, Earl David Jenkins III, Winston Craig Rose, Shannon Louise Siemens and Sai Vue; Outstanding Leader of the Year Awards to Melanie Alene Currie and Stacey Nicole Phillips; Outstanding Dedication to Community Service Awards to Leah Grace Chang, Caroline Elizabeth Mann and Erin Anne Tripp; President's Awards to Andrea Ebarb Sewell (Humanities Student Association) and Sai Vue (Asian Students in Asheville); The Carolyn Briggs Award for Contributions to Expanding an Awareness and Appreciation of Diversity to Casey Timothy Crowley, Omosalewa Rose Oyelaran, and Asian Students in Asheville; Outstanding Organization Awards to Humanities Student Association and Sigma Nu Fraternity

Faculty Advisor of the Year Award: Dr. Katie Peters, History Department Visiting Assistant Professor

Student Affairs Faculty Appreciation Award: Dr. Bruce Larson, Economics Department Chair

Student Affairs Staff Appreciation Award: Rebecca Sensabaugh, University Registrar

Art: Departmental Distinctions to Amelia Chapin Daniel, Paul Allen Jeanes, Jeremy Christian Russell, William Hunter Stamps and Jason Brent Weatherspoon

Athletics: Male Athlete of the Year Award to Colin Stuart Barnes; Female Athlete of the Year Award to Kelsey Elizabeth Dawson; Scholar Athlete of the Year Award to Michael Sean Roach; Senior Award in Basketball to Catherine Ransome Hunter Earnhardt

Atmospheric Sciences: Service Award to Stephen Patrick Barry; Academic Award to Timothy Sean Collins

Biology: Harry Henry Johnston Award for Excellence in Biology to Erin Anne Tripp and Dawn Renee Lajoie; Bernhardt-Perry Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Biology to Athena Rayne Anderson and Katie Raye Harmuth; Departmental Distinctions to Erin Anne Tripp, Dawn Renee Lajoie, Athena Rayne Anderson and Katie Raye Harmuth

Chemistry: American Chemical Society (ACS) Western Carolinas Section and the Chemistry Department Award for Outstanding Chemistry Senior to Paul Timothy Beaton; Outstanding Performance in Organic Chemistry Award to Mellet Reyes Rocio; Outstanding Performance in Analytical Chemistry Award to Michael Sean Roach; Outstanding Performance in General Chemistry Award to Geneva Anne Stork; Outstanding ACS Student Affiliate Awards to Amanda Leah Rollins and Lori Allyne Knops; Outstanding Accomplishment Awards to Melinda Rae Beaver for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Michael Sean Roach for the NCAA Division 1 1st Team Academic All-American and Big South Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year Award

Classics: Guy Cooper Classics Prize to Robert Clinton Simms

Drama: Departmental Distinctions to Michelle Amber Carello, Michael James Henning, Angela Elizabeth Koon, Terhan Darnel McDaniel, Johannes Pikel and Jennifer Elizabeth Prather; United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Awards for Best Technician to Daniel Scott Tauber and for Knot Tying to Jennifer Gabrielle Bowen

Economics: Dana Zimmerman Service Award to Corey Beth Taylor; Outstanding Performance Award to Adam Ward McGlashan; Keith and Kevin Davis Research Award to Waleed El?Sayed Nour; David Reiner Awards to James Samuel Lackey, Jr. and Sally Elizabeth Pinckney

Education: Academic Awards to Janie Hosler Banks, Erica Anita Duh Battle, Claire Elizabeth Childers, Jason Edward Farr and Kadie Marie Franklin; Leadership Awards to Amanda Dawn McClellan Arwe, Karen D. Chapman, Charlotte Ann Chastain, Melanie Alene Currie, Jennifer Louise Davis, Jennifer Lynn Holbrook, Christy Elisabeth Lusk, Mary Frances McAvoy, Joshua Peery Mullins, Amber Michelle Neill, Holly Lynn Procita, Joshua Adam Eugene Ray, Andrea Cheryl Rhyne, Traci Allison Shell and Porscha Rae Yount

Environmental Studies: Outstanding Rising Junior Award to Geneva Anne Stork; Outstanding Rising Senior Awards to Kristin Elise DeMarco and Matthew Fountain Raker

Foreign Languages: Lawrence Little Book Award (Spanish) to Bobby Dean Nixon; Travis Bradley Book Award (French) to Kathryn Garrison McCartney; Dan Edwards Book Award (German) to Kurt Fredrick Galloway; Ruth Campbell Reynolds Award to Amanda Dawn McClellan Arwe; Scholarships for Study Abroad in Dijon, France to Jennifer Marie Ahler, Amanda Dawn McClellan Arwe, Kathryn Garrison McCartney, Emily Anne Seymour, Jessie Marie Shuman and Adrienne Marie Stork; Scholarship for Study Abroad in Saumur, France to Jessie Marie Shuman

History: Student Leadership Award to Katherine Elizabeth Wells; Mark Lawson Scholarship to Ellen Natasha Thompson; Departmental Distinctions to Melanie Alene Currie, Kristi Anne Davis, Michael Wade Kelley and Nicholas Gary Phillips.

Key Center for Service-Learning: Key Center Scholarships to Melissa June Rohr, Jennifer Brooks Wallace, Matthew Arthur Sandbank and Jacob Franklin Berkowitz

Literature and Language: Gullickson Award for Outstanding Rising Senior to Emily Adele Atkins; Virginia Bryan Award for Best Senior Paper to Christina Jeanne Schrand Schwartz; William Comfort Scholarships to Amy Irene Bruner and James Andrew Thomasson; Thomas Wolfe Award to Sarah Evelyn Almond; Poetry Award to James Andrew Thomasson; Gudger Freshman Writing Award to Elizabeth Ann Matteson

Management and Accountancy: Dr. Robert D. Williams Award in Recognition of Outstanding Leadership, Service and Scholarship to Amber René Ahrens; Academic Excellence in Accounting Awards to Kami Laine Doty and David Wayne Sawyer; Academic Excellence in Industrial and Engineering Management Award to Thomas Patrick McCoy; Academic Excellence in Management Award to Kimberly Rae Freeman; Outstanding Directed Research Award to Josette Margarita Exprua; Outstanding Senior Design Project Award to Patricia Gail Ramsey; Western Carolina Industries Award for Outstanding Internship to Kimberly Melissa Moody

Mass Communication: Departmental Distinctions to Luke Knox, Sanna Raza and Rachel Kathleen Stephens; Blue Banner Student Newspaper Awards to Sarah Vance Goodman for Features, Stuart Edward Gaines for Opinion, Myra LeShelle Broglin for Sports, Stuart Edward Gaines and Lana Beth Coffey for News, and Anthony Joseph Greco for Photography

Mathematics: Top Mathematics Student Award to Matthew Adrian Pons; Achievement Awards to Matthew Adrian Pons, Troy Travis Shurtleff, David L. Stair and Amy Lynn Davis Eilers; Joe Parsons Scholarships to Lisa Leanne Vaughn, Jessie Marie Shuman, Matthew James Ashenburg and Anne Amelia Nutter; Martha Game Scholarship to Troy Jason Piotrowski; MAA Awards to Jennifer Lynn Maynard, Michaela Marie Logue, Stuart Michael Bateman and John Shands Senechal Jr.

Music: UNCA Scholarship String Quartet Awards to Jesse Evan Pynigar, John Molloy Glenn III, William Hopper Singletary, Alicia Maya Madura and Ryan Marie Kelly

Philosophy: Outstanding Student Leadership Awards to Karen Lynn MacKay and Christiana Glenn Tugman

Political Science: Gene Rainey Service Award to Jennifer May Chandler; Chair's Award to Claire Ellen Rogers; Academic Excellence Award to Jennifer Elizabeth Green

Sociology: Sociology Senior Research Awards to Heather Laine Talley, Michael Aaron Haliski and Amy Elizabeth Knight; Sociology Senior Scholar Awards to Michael Aaron Haliski, Carlos Alberto Lopez, Heather Laine Talley and John Lewis McAfee; Sociology Senior Service Award to Stacey Nicole Phillips; Anthropology Senior Research Award to David Liggett Boyd.

Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society memberships: Jennifer Lee Anne Bennett, Ashley Morgan Brooks, Anna Catherine Canady, Siara Leone Cowan, Ellen Rebecca Dittmar, Angela Faith Duckett, Gina Lorraine Fedock, Julie Lynn Fennell, Michael Aaron Haliski, Heidi Elizabeth Hill Helton, Daniel Roberson Holton, Amy Elizabeth Knight, Augusta Edwina Lacayo G., Megan Amy Leschak, John Lewis McAfee, Kodi Lynn McCarson, Trina Maria Moffitt, Anne Marie Moukperian, Leah Selma Tedrick?Moutz, Ryan William Turner, Joshua Shand Watson and Damian Terry Williams

Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society memberships: Stephen Patrick Barry, Lindsey Shannon Berginski, Emily Eileen Carter, Wendy Suzanne Davis, Jennifer Lynn Derosa, Brian Christopher Domby, Elise Sylvie Doshier, Christen Michelle Kyre, Jonathan Rosencrance Lamb, Sonja Guan?Gin Lynm, Alicia Maya Madura, Donna Jean Morey, Amanda Leah Rollins, Jodi Ellen Shelton, April Lauren Sides, Maegan Kathleen Spencer, Emily Starkey Stanley, Juliana TenEyck Stempel, Calley Rebecca Stevens, Lisa Leanne Vaughn and Bryan Charles White

Order of Omega Greek Academic Honor Society memberships: Ashley Morgan Brooks of Gamma Phi Beta, Whitney Anne Butterworth of Alpha Xi Delta, Jaime Elizabeth Dickinson of Alpha Xi Delta, Jamie Nicole Gilliam of Gamma Phi Beta, Evan Peter Guyer of Theta Chi, Kelly Jean Hedgecock of Alpha Xi Delta, Krystle Lynn Short of Alpha Xi Delta, and Brian Paul Storm of Theta Chi

Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society memberships: Emily Acker?Estes, Davis?Paul Shane Ambro, Terrence Casey Basso, Stuart Michael Bateman, Katie Elizabeth Booth, Katherine Smith Bray, Dennis Michael Burns, Elizabeth Anne Carr, Heidi Lynn Charpentier, David McKinley Childers, Kimberly Hughes Combs, Alison Marie Core, Adrienne Ruth Dunlap, Chad Edward Freeman, Zachary Nathaniel Giles, Holly Jeanne Greeson, Tarah Lynne Hansen, Laura Rose Hendershot, Carter Tate Holbrook IV, Mark Rickman Jordan II, Holly Rebecca Koss, Michaela Marie Logue, Jonathan Trent MacAlpine, Margaret Louise Mahlin, Caroline Elizabeth Mann, Jennifer Lynn Maynard, Jonathan Lee Meadows, Alexander Thomas Newman, Tabitha Brandy Nowak, Brian Leonard Padgett, Tamara Jane Pandolfo, Jesse James Patterson, Amy Michelle Phillips, Jessica Elizabeth Reek, Patricia Ann Rhea, Cecily Jo Rogers, Scott Daniel Scallion, Laura Emily Schell, Andrea Ebarb Sewell, Jean Adams Shepard, Donald F. VanDyke III, William George Voit, Sai Vue, Melissa Jean Wilcox, Suzanne Elaine Wilkie, Kristen Erica Willett, Truth Princess Wingfield, David Charles Yelmini and Sasha Erin Zarbano

Pi Delta Phi French Honor Society memberships: Amanda Dawn McClellan Arwe, Miriam Ann Barlow, Virginia Tyson Carter, Christine Noble Hartman, Kathryn Garrison McCartney, Sheryl Kristine Meyer, Emily Anne Seymour and Adrienne Marie Stork

Sigma Delta Pi Spanish Honor Society memberships: Alyssa Paige Dillow, Nicole Leigh Franklin, Jamie Eva Jambon, Catherine Ann Jones, Siobhan Meredith Mobley, Bobby Dean Nixon and Anna Catherine Lane Tuttle

Student Government Association: Senator of the Year Award to Dennis Hazyn Woods; Executive of the Year Award to Jennifer Kathryn Craddock; Appreciation Award to Julie Marie?Jodie Shaddix

Underdog Productions: Newcomer of the Year Award to Katherine Christine Meindl; Veteran of the Year Award to Calley Rebecca Stevens

University Ambassadors: John White Ambassador of the Year Award to Rebecca Jeanette Guy Hunter

Media Contacts:

• Barbara Adams, UNCA Student Leadership Programs Administrative Assistant, 828/232-5037
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526