UNCA Students and Faculty Honored with Academic and Leadership Awards

UNC Asheville presented academic and leadership awards to UNCA students and faculty at a ceremony on April 28 at Diana Wortham Theatre. The 18th annual Academic and Leadership Awards Celebration was sponsored by UNCA’s Division of Academic and Student Affairs and the Student Government Association.

The following awards were presented:

Campuswide Leadership Awards: Carolyn Briggs Award for Contributions to Diversity to Scarlett Freeman, Kimberly Gentry, Tarik Glenn and Jennifer Smith; Outstanding Dedication to Community Service Awards to Habitat for Humanity UNCA and Kimberly Gentry; Organization Advisor of the Year Awards to Greg Boudreaux (Alliance), Mark MacLean (Alliance), Karin Peterson (Alliance) and Lorena Russell (Alliance); Outstanding Organization of the Year Award to All Girl Staff; Organization President of the Year Awards to Erin Trigonoplos (Habitat for Humanity), Courtney Modlin (Amnesty) and Scarlett Lopez Freeman (ASIA); Emerging Leader of the Year Awards to Melissa Beaver, Mike Bowers, Brian Davis, Tarik Glenn, Genevieve Grandadam, Christina Harlow, Oliver Holmes, Erin McDonald, Steven Rush; Outstanding Leader of the Year Awards to Anushka Jagdeo, Genessa Jagdeo and Sean McDonald

Art: Outstanding Student Award to Kelsey Wheeler

Athletics: Male Athlete of the Year Award to Paul Ambrose; Female Athlete of the Year Award to Hilary McKay; Scholar Athlete Award to Micki Logue

Atmospheric Sciences: Academic Excellence Awards to Mark R. Jordan II, Donald F. Van Dyke III and Scott D. Scallion; Outstanding Service Award to Laura T. Pickens

Blue Banner Student Newspaper: News Award to Lauren Abe; Features Award to Rebecca DeRosa; Sports Award to Alexander Pellom; Campus Award Matthew Morgan; Photo Award to Charlotte Claypoole; Best Editorial Staff Member Award to Adam Brooks

Biology: Harry Henry Johnston Award for Excellence in Biology to Elizabeth Harp; Bernhardt-Perry Award for Excellence in Undergrad Research to Carter Tate Holbrook

Chemistry: American Chemical Society Western Carolinas Section and Chemistry Department Award for Outstanding Chemistry Senior to Brooke Michele Sibila; Most Valuable Senior Award to Rhonda C. Steininger; Outstanding Performance in Organic Chemistry Award to Nora Marion Wilson; Outstanding Performance in Analytical Chemistry Award to Tamara Jane Pandolfo; Outstanding Performance in General Chemistry Award to David William Culver; Outstanding American Chemical Society Student Affiliate Member Award to Jesse Aaron Carpenter; National Science Foundation Summer Research Awards to William C. Everett, Hayley N. Schiebel, Jay G. Simmons Jr. and Oksana Zaluzhna

Classics: Guy Cooper and Elizabeth Ray Award in Classics to A. J. Calvillo; Distinguished Departmental Service Award to Jeremy McFalls

Drama: Leadership in Drama Awards to Katie Haynes, Johannes Pikel, Erin Smith and Jess Wells

Economics: Dana Zimmerman Service Awards to Shiley Kendall Hagen and Janine Michelle Lennon; Outstanding Performance Award to Lisa Leanne Vaughn; Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Excellence in Finance Award to Tammy Jacqulyn Austin; Keith and Kevin Davis Research Award to John David Taylor; David Reiner Award to Shiley Kendall Hagen and David Charles Yelmini

Education: Leadership Awards to Kim Gentry, Joseph Hauet, Kendra Cameron-Jarvis and Laura Robinson; Academic Awards to Holly Doe, Gaelyn Evangreene, Rebekah Hubschmann, Loralee Iglesias, Kim Lachler, Suzanne McCullough, Meghan Nodurft, Suzanne Parenti, Sheri Ryan-Bailey, Cristi Shaw, Danny Shaw and Krystal Short

Environmental Studies: Audubon Scholarship to Jeremiah Jones; Environmental Studies Alumni Scholarship to Erin McDonald; Environmental Studies Scholarship to John Jacobs; Friends of the Earth Garden Club Scholarship to Christina Sexton; North Carolina Department of Transportation Scholarships to Adrienne Outcalt, Jonathan Ripperton and Katie Potter; Southern Appalachian Mountains Initiative Scholarship to Nikki T. Gunter; North Carolina Beautiful Environmental Research Fellowships to David Bell, Carolyn Carnahan, Ann Chesky and Laura Friederich; North Carolina Environmental Scholarship to Mary Schultz

Foreign Language: Travis Bradley Book Award in French to Christine Noble Hartman; Lawrence Little Book Award in Spanish to Emily Acker-Estes; R.C. Reynolds Scholarship for German to Kirk McAlpin

History: Best Senior Thesis Award to Isaac Clay; Ruth Feldman Outstanding Senior Awards to Laura Grantmyre and William Voit; Student Service Award to David Armstrong

Key Center for Service Learning: Community Service Scholarships to Karen Gupton and Matt Sandbank

Literature and Language: Comfort Award for Excellence in Creative Writing to Emily Barrows and Chapin Gray; Gullickson Award for Outstanding Rising Senior to Margaret Alvarez; Carl Sandburg Award in Poetry to Adam Hutchins and Casey Colahan; Thomas Wolfe Award in Fiction to Peter Lipphardt; Wilma Dykeman Award in Non-Fiction to Katy Guertin

Management and Accountancy: Excellence in Accounting Award to Nancy Ann Luppino Workman; Excellence in Management to Katie Elizabeth Booth; Outstanding Directed Research Award to Samuel Murray Roberts; Outstanding Senior Design Project Award to Emily Austin Moe; Western Carolina Industries Award for Outstanding Internship to Ann Lenore Taylor; Robert D. Williams Outstanding Leadership, Service and Scholarship Award to Rachel Amber Hunt; Excellence in Industrial and Engineering Management Award to Emily Austin Moe

Mass Communication: Mort Cohn Oustanding Senior Scholar Award to Janelle Marie Troglione; Mort Cohn Outstanding Rising Senior Award Angele Lee Mainhart; Nantahala Power and Light Scholarship to Colleen Patricia Hobe

Mathematics: Martha Game Scholarship to Aja Wright; Achievement in Mathematics Award to Michaela Logue; Parsons Scholarships to Nicholas Christian, Jennifer Marshall, Kimberly Sergent and Jess Walls; Mathematics Association of America Awards to Nicholas Christian, Jennifer Marshall and Kimberly Sergent

Music: Outstanding Performance with UNCA String Quartet Awards to John Molloy Glenn III, Ryan Marie Kelly, Maria Sergeyvna Potapov, Jennifer Sarah Stanley and Meghann Ashley Turnbull

Philosophy: Leadership Awards to Rob Close and Alex Rosen; Institute of Applied Philosophy Scholarship to Margaret Mahlin

Political Science: Academic Excellence Award to Cecily Rogers; Outstanding Student Research Award to Matthew Harrington and Brian Padgett; Gene Rainey Service Award to Laura Hauser; Chair's Awards to Tarrah Callahan, Bryan Flowe and Emily Ghazarian

Sociology: Senior Scholar Awards to Gaelyn Evangreene, Scarlett Lopez Freeman, Emily Ghazarian and Gena Givens; Senior Research Awards to Scarlett Lopez Freeman and Gaelyn Evangreene; Senior Service Awards to Scarlett Lopez Freeman and Emily Ghazarian; Anthropology Service Award to Chris Littlefield

Underdog Productions: Outstanding Service Award to Matt DeMaison; Newcomer of the Year Award to Gabe Clapper; Veteran of the Year Award to Mike Bowers; Event of the Year Award to Ninja Awareness Night

Undergraduate Research: Outstanding Service Award to Michaela Logue

University Ambassadors: Rising Star Award to Jeff Cox; John W. White Ambassador of the Year Award to Kristen Matson

Media Contacts:

• Melissa Jackson, UNCA Student Activities, 828/232-5000
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526