UNC Asheville Honors Students and Faculty with Academic
and Leadership Awards

UNC Asheville presented academic and leadership awards to students, faculty and staff at a campus ceremony on Wednesday, April 26. The 20th annual Academic and Leadership Awards Celebration was sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Division of Student Activities and Integrative Learning.

Campus Leadership Awards: Leader of the Year Awards to Laura Friederich and Tarik Glenn; Emerging Leader of the Year Award to Megan Miller and Robert Waskom; Carolyn Briggs Diversity Award to Alliance and Jennifer Smith; Community Service Award to the National Society of Collegiate Scholars; Student Organization of the Year Award to Art Front; Organization Advisor of the Year Awards to Alliance advisors Lorena Russell; James Driggers and Greg Boudreaux; Organization President of the Year Award to Amnesty International co-presidents Katie Morris and Julia Robinson; Alliance Ally Award for Exceptional Support to Merianne Epstein; Student Government Association Appreciation Award to Robert Straub

Art: Leadership and Service Awards to Rose Candela, Ian Dennis, F. Cody Hulme, Lisa Nance, Shawn Peters, Kim Robinson, Grace Smith, Erin Trigonoplos and John Westby-Gibson

Atmospheric Science: Department Distinction to Grant Gilmore; Academic Excellence Award to Grant Gilmore; Departmental Service Award to Grant Gilmore; Junior Atmospheric Science Scholarships to Jacob Carley, Amy Harless and Chad Hutchins

Biology: Betsy Wilson Harry Johnston Award to Natasha Lucki; Bernhardt-Perry Award to Carrie Berkley and Renee Fortner

Chemistry: ACS Western Carolinas Section and Department Award for Outstanding Chemistry Senior to Aaron Gilbert Midgett; Most Valuable Senior Awards to Sara Elizabeth Boshamer and William Chalmers Everett; Award for Outstanding Performance in Analytical Chemistry to Anna Patrice Goldstein; Award for Outstanding Performance in General Chemistry to Liah DuBois Wallace; Award for Outstanding Performance in Organic Chemistry to Anna Patrice Goldstein; Award for Outstanding Performance in Physical Chemistry to Jason Nicholas Crawford; Award for Outstanding ACS Student Affiliate (as voted by students) William Chalmers Everett

Classics: Guy Cooper and Elizabeth Ray Scholarship to Kristina Robinson

Drama: Ida Bostian Drama Leadership Awards to Carly Crawford, Alyssa Essman, Jessica Carson and Amy DeGiralamo

Economics: Outstanding Performance Award to Alejandro Jurek Montero; Keith and Kevin Davis Research Award to Alicia Tegan Love; Morgan Stanley Award for Excellence in Finance to Irene Valerio-Navarrete; David Reiner Award to Sara Jo Caya; Dana Zimmerman Award to Andrea Marie Pollock

Education: Academic Awards to Anne-Monique Baumann, Ashley Bowman, Margaret Godefroi, Jennifer Robers and Rebecca Schuyler; Leadership Awards to Kylie Agnew, Sara Baker, Amanda Barnes, Ashley Bowman, Emily Collins, Amy DeGiralamo, Kristen Drum, Jennifer Rogers and Rebecca Schuyler

Engineering: Academic Excellence Awards to Wyndon Tysor, Page Sigmon and Chad Watkin; Departmental Distinction Awards to Stan Frady

Environmental Studies: Environmental Studies Alumni Scholarship to Amy Catherine Hamilton; Environmental Studies Scholarship to Roy Legaard, Jr.; Friends of the Earth Garden Club Scholarship to Carolyn Barnett Fryberger; Fall 2006 Audubon Scholarship to Jenna Lynn Ausbon; Spring 2007 Audubon Scholarship to Cherie Lynn Miller; NC Beautiful Fellowships to Angela Ellen Brisson, Dawn Elisa Reardon and April Lee Pallette; NC Beautiful Scholarship to Clifford Forrest Mckenzie

Foreign Languages: Travis Bradley Book Awards in French to Amanda Musick-Bradshaw, Sean Murphy, Kevin O'Hanlon, Nicole Redford, Nicole Udriot and Mai Xiong; Andrade Scholarships to Rachel Brock and Daniel Whitener; Dan Edwards Book Award in German to Amber Baird; Ruth Campbell Reynolds Scholarship to Carol Leigh Brinton; Lawrence Little Book Award in Spanish to Kurt Galloway; Foreign Language Department Scholarship to William Hoffard

History: Mark Lawson Scholarship TBA; Ruth Feldman Award to Ian Austin; North Carolina History Award to Heather Whisnant; Philip Walker Award to Sara Baker; Greenawalt/Ready Best Senior Thesis Award to Matthew Stone; Phi Alpha Theta Award to Elisabeth Carriere

Humanities: Humanities Research Awards to Antonio Del Toro and Courtney Salzer

Literature and Language: Virginia Bryan Awards for Best Senior Paper to Elisa Levine and John Becker; Gerald Gullickson Awards for Top Rising Senior to Devin Walsh and Christopher Watson; Wilma Dykeman Prize in Non-Fiction to Tamiko Murray; Thomas Wolfe Prize in Fiction to Antonio Del Toro; Carl Sandburg Prize in Poetry to Katherine Cox; Francis Hulme Prize in Playwriting to Adam Thomas; Comfort Scholarship Awards to Ingrid Carson and Jennifer Hilbert; Topp/Grillot Poetry Scholarship to Julia Robinson; Fall 2005 Departmental Distinction Awards to Adam Aultowski, John Becker, John Caleb Bennett, Alexandra Duncan, Christopher Gilbert, Shelly Hammond, Elisa Levine and Jennifer Pope; Spring 2006 Department Distinction Awards to Daniel Allen, Katherine Cox, Abigail Elliott, Chapin Gray, Kara Lee, Stephanie Schindhelm, Rebecca Schuyler, Caitlin Shanley and Joshua Tinsley

Management and Accountancy: Academic Excellence in Accounting Award to KaSondra Lynn Inman; Academic Excellence in Management Award to Rebekah Marie Owens; ALCAN Outstanding Senior Design Project Award to Sherrie O'Bryan Carter; WCI, Inc. Internship Award to Christopher Michael James; Outstanding Research Project Award to Heather Christie Nelson; Award for Outstanding Service to Department and Community Tarik Samuel Glenn; Bob Williams Award to Heather Christie Nelson

Mass Communication: Outstanding Achievement in Visual Media Award to Jennie Marie Picarella; Outstanding Achievement in Visual Media Award to Amber Lauran Rose Saint Clair; Mort Cohn Rising Senior Award to Katherine Anne Rozycki; Mort Cohn Outstanding Scholar Award to Alexandra Liston Haake; Blue Banner Excellence in News Reporting Award to Jim Mackenzie; Blue Banner Excellence in Sports Reporting Award to Jason Lilly; Blue Banner Excellence in Features Reporting
Brian Gallagher

Mathematics: Top Student Awards to Keith Schneider and Jess Walls; Joe Parson's Scholarships to Daniel Robinson and Justin Wilkens; Martha Game Scholarship to Kathryn Leigh Mashburn; Special Distinction in Education Track to Kristen Drum; Special Distinction in Applied Math Track to
Kate Fuller and David O'Brien-Gamble; Special Distinction in Pure Math Track to James Conrad Eubanks

Philosophy: Phi Sigma Tau-National Honors Society memberships to Leigh Evans, Eric Gardner, Amanda Lusky, Alexis Granum; Philosophy Club Awards to Joe Barcia, Konstantinos Harlan, David Shahbaz, Leigh Evans, Alexsis Granum and Amanda Lusky

Physics: Sigma Pi Sigma-National Honors Society memberships to Root Kirbach, Ben Clark and Landon Bellavia

Political Science: Chair Award to Sachiko Matsui and Jennette Irene Kiyoko Soon; Internship Paper Awards to Laura Elizabeth Hague and Nicole Jaclyn Jerving; Outstanding Student Research Awards to Alicia Tegan Love and Sarah Judith Mine; Academic Excellence Award to Sarah Judith Mine; Gene Rainey Service Awards to Jaimie Lynn Park and Christy Lynn Rhodes

Sociology: Senior Scholar Award to Nikki Hemans; Senior Research Award to Daniela Grunfeld and Ashley Urjil; Service Award to Porscha Yount; Faculty Award to Nicole Hunter; Anthropology Senior Scholar Award to Ann Wing

University Ambassadors: Chancellor James H. Mullen, Jr. Rising Star Award to Marcus Coward;
John White Ambassador of the Year Award to Megan Norman; Honorary Ambassador Staff Award to
Meg Dutnell; Honorary Ambassador Faculty Award to Yusef Fahmny

Women's Studies Program: Award for Majors to Christy Rhodes and Stephanie Jones
 

Media Contacts:

• Meg Dutnell, UNC Asheville Associate Director of Student Activities, 828/251-6990
• Jill Yarnall, UNC Asheville Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526