May 2005

Student Awards and Scholarships

Outstanding College of Science Students

Freshmen
Kyle Bauer, Actuarial Science, Statistics
Matthew Cerasale, Biological Sciences
Erin Hall, Mathematics
Inha Jo, Biological Sciences
Thomas Landrigan, Biological Sciences
Kami Larson, Chemistry
Nathanael Logan, Computer Science
Kevin O'Brien, Physics (Honors)
Nicholas Paluch, Synoptic Meteorology
Shruthi Rajashekara, Biological Sciences
Andrew Steenman, Actuarial Science and Statistics
Jamie Weigandt, Mathematics

Sophomores
Matthew Barrett, Mathematics
Brett Bavar, Computer Science (Honors) and Mathematics
Henry Chou, Biochemistry
Isaac Hall, Actuarial Science and Statistics
Cameron McKinney, Physics (Honors)
Amber Meyerratken, Applied Physics (Honors) and Applied Mathematics (Honors)
Mallory Michalke, Biological Sciences
Jennifer Nelson, Biological Sciences
Margaret Stewart, Physics
Zachary Van Winkle, Chemistry
Gretchen Zahm, Mathematics

Juniors
Mohd Hafiz Ab Hamid, Actuarial Science and Statistics
Michael Armbrust, Computer Science and Mathematics
Scott Burdick, Applied Physics (Honors) in Geophysics and Mathematics
Justin Fitch, Environmental Geoscience
Jay Gengelbach, Computer Science
Azam Ghafoor, Molecular Biology
Tyler Janovitz, Molecular Biology and Entomology
Hayley Knollman, Chemistry (Biochemistry)
Rebekah Laflen, Neurobiology and Physiology
Laralynne Przybyla, Biochemistry (Honors) and Molecular Biology (Honors)
Deborah Simon, Mathematics Education
Stephanie Tieken, Nurobiology/Physiology
Anna Treaster, Physics (Honors) and Mathematics

Seniors
Jason Anema, Mathematics, Statistics, and Actuarial Science (Honors)
Carlie Bower, Computer Science and Mathematics
Tracy Chow, Biological Sciences
Sally Diekelman, Mathematics Education
Damir Dzhafarov, Mathematics (Honors)
Joseph Franses, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Christopher Kanich, Computer Science (Honors) and Mathematics
Kent Knopfmeier, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Scott Leffler, Biochemistry
Allison Mayer, Biological Sciences.
Kristin Newhouse, Biological Sciences and English
Sarah Shoup, Computer Science (Honors) and Mathematics
Krystal Tyler, Physics (Honors)

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Anna Treaster, Physics

Bruce Helfert Memorial Award
Michael Armbrust, Computer Science

Zdobylak ALS/Neuroscience Scholarship
Adrienne Lewis

Mortar Board Inductees
Michael P. Armbrust, Computer Science
Shawn Henrichs, Computer Science

Lilly-Purdue Alumni Scholarship
2001 – Emma Doud, Chemistry
2002 – Michael Peregrim, Biological Sciences
2003 – Henry Chou, Biological Sciences
2004 – Shruthi Rajashekara, Biological Sciences

Undergraduate Research Awards
Paris Miles-Brenden, Applied Physics and Mathematics
Marilyn Morrison, Biological Sciences

Ruzika Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Ryan Stutsman, Computer Science

Spira Undergraduate Summer Research Award
Matthew Barrett, Mathematics

The following Science students received awards for academic achievement from the Purdue University Black Caucus of Faculty and Staff:

April Adams
Brandon Barlow
Jarrett Bartlett
Benjamin Davis
Phylindia Gant
Elicia Harris
Brittany Johnson
Olivia Johnson
Handel Jones
Jessica Joshua
Koffi Kissi
Joshiawa Paulk
Jed Powell
Carmen Rhodes
Tonye Teme

Department of Biological Sciences Student Awards and Scholarships

A. A. Lindsey Graduate Fellowship in Ecology
Johel Chaves

H. E. Umbarger Outstanding Graduate Student in Research
Adam Boyko

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Adam Boyko
Troy Hawkins

Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching
Kristene (Tina) Henne
Sean Humphrey

Andrews Fellowship
Mansoora Khaliq

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Needs Fellowship
Mariah Veit
Jillian Detwiler

Purdue Doctoral Fellowship
Chuck Rehrer

Beering Fellowship
Jennifer Schuster

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award in the Minority Predoctoral Fellowship Program
Lake Paul

Ross Assistantship
Ting Bai
Ken Carlson
Laura Hughes
Juan Liao

Graduate Student Fellowship Incentive Award
Ken Carlson
Jennifer Cooper
Benjamin Fanson
Kerry Fanson
Kristene Henne
Kenneth Henry
Laura Hughes
Krista Larson
John Marshall
Lake Paul

Achieve Excellence Fund Travel Award
Andrea Campero
Jennifer Cooper
Lu Zhou

Best Poster Presentation, Indiana University Cancer Center Second Annual Cancer Research Day
Liqin Zhu

Honorable Mention Poster Presentation, Sigma Xi Scientific Conference
Liqin Zhu

1st Place, Graduate Student Research Poster Competition, Sigma Xi
Preethi Chandeer
Sean Humphrey

PRF Research Grants
Johel Chaves
Kristene Henne
Di Jia

Purdue Graduate Student Government Travel Grant
Candida Perera

Biological Sciences Alumni Scholarship
Ieva Jansons
Megan Patten

Will and Hellen Carpenter Scholar
Amanda Harris

Dr. Eric Dwayne Miller Scholarship
Allison Mayer

Donald N. Jessup Memorial Scholarship
Matthew Cerasale
Katherine Andry

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Interns
Irene Chiu
Joseph Kantner

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Intern Honor Roll
Christine Thompson
Kevin Walters
Erika Wesby

Department of Chemistry Student Awards and Scholarships

Houghton Mifflin/International Center First-Year Undergraduate Chemistry Award
Carl Liskey

Alpha Chi Sigma Award
Audra Meiser

Merck Index Award
Joshua Tierney

American Chemical Society Analytical Chemistry Award
Joseph Franses

Ben Freiser Award in Analytical Chemistry
Sarah Stepro

Merck Outstanding Junior
Sarah Stepro

R.S. Tobias Merit Scholarships
Derrick Grover
David Kissick
Rachael Martindale
Matthew McDermott
Sarah Stepro

Hypercube Scholar
Chase Douglas

Alumni Award in Physical Chemistry
Scott Leffler

Lilly Industries Award
Hayley Knollman

Lubrizol Foundation Scholarship
Spencer Hahn

D.W. Margerum Undergraduate Research Award
David Sauer

D.W. Margerum Undergraduate Summer Fellowship
David Kissick

Eli Lilly & Co. Undergraduate Summer Fellowship
Zachary Van Winkle

Harrison M. Stine Memorial Scholarship
Olivia Johnson

Alex & Bessie Oblad Scholarship
Eric Sundstrom

John J. Nash Academic Development Award
Michael Cantu

Robert R. Squires Scholar
Linan Yang

Thomas W. Keough Graduate Scholar
Brian Laughlin

Alumni Graduate Student Teaching Award
Spring 2004, Bonnie Schafman
Fall 2004, Sen Li

William F. Epple Teaching Award
Spring 2004, Provi Mayo
Fall 2004, Freddie Arocho-Perez

M.G. Mellon Award in Analytical Chemistry
Bogdan Gologan
Jason Hogan

Ian P. Rothwell Outstanding Inorganic Seminar Award
Research: Beth Hamilton
Literature: Matt Siegfried

Chemistry Honors Degree Candidates
Joseph Franses
Michael Goodwin
Michelle Jones
Elizabeth Kruse
David Sauer
David Stewart
Nolan Wright

John Leighty Freshman Scholars
Melissa Brink
Marc Willerth
Paul Wrighton

Emerson Kampen Scholar
Jonathan Warus

H.C. Brown Organic Graduate Research Award
You Seok Hwang
Tamara Munsch

Jon & Ruthanna Amy Travel Award
Sharon Pitteri

Women In Science Travel Grant
Aarti Bhatia
Karinna Campbell
Silvi Chacko
Ndeye Diop
Karin Ejendal
Elizabeth Gamble
Tamara Munsch
Shalini Sharma
Jayalakshmi Somuramasami
Bindu Varghese
Erina Vlashi

ACS Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship
Amy Tabert

PINDU Student Speaker Award
Beth Hamilton

Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
Tamara Munsch

Merck Graduate Fellowship
Samir Julka

Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies Outstanding Presentation Award
Yong Xie

Department of Computer Science Student Awards and Scholarships

Baker Hill Corporation
Vaibhav Sahgal

Cisco Systems
Jeremy Orlow
Daniel Tang
Nicolas Widman
Hananto Wijaya

CPP Continuing Student Scholarship
Kevin Hassett

Crowe Chizek and Company LLC
Zachary Kobza, James Roberts

CS-EPICS Scholarship/Microsoft
Michael Armbrust
Alexei Czeskis
John Horst
Peter Morici
Ryan Rueth

Eli Lilly and Company
Brett Bavar (Outstanding Freshman)
Maria Davis (Outstanding Sophomore)
Jay Gengelbach (Outstanding Junior)
Ferry Unardi (Outstanding Freshman)

David and Janice Fairchild Memorial for Nathaniel A. Johnson
Joseph Fath

Guidant Foundation
Bess Walker

Halstead Award
Filip Pizlo

Harris Corporation
Jeff Seibert, Daniel Spaid

Hewlett-Packard
Bill Harris, Yen Hock Tan

Honeywell
Paul Marks

IBM
Nathanael Logan

Intel Foundation
Keith Frikken

Aaron and Morgan Kunze Scholarship
Phil Harnish

Lighthouse Award
Jason Hill

Lockheed Martin
Kurt Ackermann
Robert Burns
Amanda Denton
Alexander Hanna
Adam Polomchak

Motorola
Christopher Isaac, John Valko

Neel Scholarship
Mehmet Demirci

Northrop Grumman
Lee Ballard
Brad Gates
Jason Singer
Chris Willmore

Raytheon Systems
Zachary Tatlock, Bob Insley

Severance Endowment
Arthur Nisnevich

Verizon Foundation
Abhilasha Bhargav
Hazem Diaa Eldin Elmeleegy
Sarvjeet Singh

CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Program
Stanislav Luban, Christopher Kanich, Elizabeth Saftalov

2005 Howard Hughes Foundation Summer Internships
Yen Hock Tan, Stan Luban

Microsoft Technical Scholarship
Nicolas Widman

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Student Awards and Scholarships

ExxonMobil Undergraduate Scholarships
Ryan Horine - Outstanding Junior
Rebecca Boltz - Outstanding Sophomore

Geology Graduate Award established by Mobil Oil
Andrew Cyr and Dibyajyoti Tripathy

Linda Horn Memorial Scholarship
Carrie Davis and Alison Goss

Cedric J. Newby Scholarship
Spencer Fairfax, Jake Griffiths, and Alison Goss

Terry R. West Scholarship
Lindsay Collins and Spencer Fairfax

Freshman Scholarship
Richard Fisher and Nicholas Paluch

Field Camp Scholarships
Justin Fitch, Matthew Sheridan, and Megan Utley

Henry Silver Undergraduate Scholarship
Megan Utley

Henry Silver Graduate Scholarship
Dibyajyoti Tripathy

Michael C. Gardner Memorial Award
Michele Gutenkunst, Brian Hampton, Piotr Przybylski, and Emre Unal

Donald Levandowski Memorial Scholarship in Field Geology & Remote Sensing
Spencer Fairfax, and Joseph Monks

Ned Smith Memorial Field Camp Award
Spencer Fairfax

Outstanding Seniors
Lindsay Collins and Kent Knopfmeier

Outstanding Graduate Student
Kimberly Hil

Earth & Atmos. Science Student Research Expo
Best Talk and Poster Presentations
Talks:
Angel Acosta-Colon: The effects of scale on seismic monitoring of a fracture subjected to reactive flow
Brian Hampton: Using U-Pb detrital zircon ages to strengthen sandstone provenance data sets
Dustan Wheatley: Radar and damage analysis of severe bow echoes observed during BAMEX

Department of Mathematics Awards and Scholarships

Michael Golomb Math Award
Jason Anema, Damir Dzhafarov

Eugene V. Schenkman Memorial Award
Sarah Shoup

Jerison Memorial Award in Analysis
Kyle Riggs

Mathematics Faculty Awards
Daniel Bryant, Joshua Robinson, Bradley Rodgers

Merrill E. Shanks Memorial Award
Sally Diekelman, Nicole Irving

Senior Achievement Award
Christopher Scheper, Kenneth Wakeland

MAA Math Competition Team (1st Place)
Kyle Riggs, Bradley Rodgers, Christopher Willmore

Putnam Exam
Bradley Rodgers

Thomas Arai Scholarship
Michael Eusebio

Glen E. Baxter Memorial Award
Bess Linden Walker

Leonard D. & Anna W. Berkovitz Scholarship
Matthew Barrett

Meyer Jerison Scholarship
Kari Cripe

Alton D. and Juanita S. Andrews Scholar
Bess Linden Walker

Virginia Mashin Scholars
Ashwin Adhikari, Jennifer Hicks

Helen Clark Wight Scholars
Shauna McClure, Deborah Simon

Arthur Rosenthal Memorial Scholars
Lance Aschilman
Megan Barr
Lisa Bramer
Margaret Brown
James Martindale
Kevin Query
Kyle Riggs
Clinton Walden
Sarah Wilson

Jean E. Rubin Scholars
Ashwin Adhikari, Lee Ballard, Malik Haddadin

Problem of the Week First Prize Award
Fall 2004: Yuandong Tian

Problem of the Week Participants
Fall 2004 Certificates of Merit, Graduate Students: Ashish Rao, Amit Sirsat
Spring 2005 Certificates of Merit, Undergraduate Students: Jason Anema, Alan Bernstein, Justin Woo, Jr.
Spring 2005 Certificates of Merit, Graduate Students: Niru Kumari, Ashish Rao

Actuary Awards
Towers-Perrin Scholarship
Amanda Brown
Kevin Query
Rahul Jyoti
Jennifer Miller

CIGNA Exam Awards
Jason Anema
T.J. Cornwell
Christopher Porter
Ching Fong Sin

Gerald R. MacLane Award
Andrea Rubiano

2004-05 Outstanding Teaching Assistants
Withit Chatlatanagulchai
Kuan-Hua Chen
Angela Hodge
James Price
Yalcin Sarol

Department of Physics Awards

King Award
Paris Miles-Brenden

Celebration of Graduate Student Teaching
Jacob Millspaw, Ricardo Vasquez

AAPT – Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Glynn Bricker

Lark-Horovitz Award
Manoj Varma

Edward Akeley Award
George Simion

Mandler-Akeley Award
John Millis

Fan Award
Leilei Peng

Tautfest Award
Kim Giolo, Amitava Roy

Society of Physics Students Awards
Freshman: Michael Slosson
Sophomore: Nicholas Mellott
Junior: Kyle English
Senior: James Johnson

Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
Mary Yang

Department of Statistics Awards

V.L. Anderson Scholarship
Mohd Hafiz Ab Hamid

I.W. Burr Award
Ionut Florescu, Hongmei Jiang

L.J. Cote M.S. Excellence in Statistics Award
Alexander Lipka

Outstanding Teaching by a Teaching Assistant Award
Martina Muehlbach

STATCOM Award
Nilupa Gunaratna

College of Science Scholarships

Dr. Melvin J. Glimcher Scholarship Fund
Xiaoqing Lin

Violet B. Haas Memorial Scholarship
Anna Ruth Treaster
Megan Michelle Utley

Edmond R and Mary L. Henelt Scholarship
Scott Anthony Burdick
Tan Hoi Tracy Chow

Financial Assistance for Hispanics
Rusty Daniel Burch
Stephanie Marie Castor

Lilly-Purdue Alumni Scholarship
Henry Yu-Hang Chou
Emma Helen Doud
Michael Peregrim
Shruthi Rajashekara

Lilly Undergraduate Program For Minority Scientists
Roger Maurice Elion

Math Counts Scholarship
Alexander James Polky

The McKelvey Merit Scholarship
Scott Thomas Leffler

National Merit
Ryan Scott Adams
Brett Adam Bavar
Andrew Jonathan Brower
Daniel Bryant
Zachary Edward Catlin
Michael C. Chang
Henry Yu-Hang Chou
Amanda Lenn Denton
Claire Engelbrecht
Kathryn Elizabeth Ess
Jay Gordon Gengelbach
Karyn Sophia Gerber
Brett Lovell Goodwin
Brittany Grayson
Zachary James Gutmann
Spencer Johnny Hahn
William Robert Harris
Nicholas M. Heilmann
Andrew Steven Keller
Christen Jean Kenrick
Casey P. Kolderup
Matthew J. Kramer
Michael Thomas Landrigan
Andrew John Lautz
Daniel Thomas Marthaler
Allison Kasey Mayer
Todd E McCready
Jonathan Clayton Mcintosh
Rebecca Mercer
Jennifer L. Nelson
Danielle C. Noel
Kara R. O’Shaughnessey
Jeremy K. Porath
Jenni Elizabeth Prior
Elizabeth A. Proctor
Laralynne Michelle Przybyla
Kyle Walter Riggs
Deborah Ruth Simon
Michael Joseph Slosson
Andrew Gordon Steenman
James K. Steinhiser
Jeffrey S. Stults
Kensey Thurner
Bess Linden Walker
Jamien Emanuel Watson
Gretchen C. Zahm
Luobei Zhu

Ellen Aldag Sawyer Memorial Scholarship
Michelle Lynn Houck
Amber Diane Meyerratken

Science Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award
Scott Anthony Burdick
Tan Hoi Tracy Chow
Deborah Lynn Groth
Steven Michael Hood
Michelle Lynn Houck
Hayley Michelle Knollman
Matthew David McDermott
Amber Diane Meyerratken
Paris Samuel Miles-Brenden
Laralynne Michelle Przybyla
Megan Michelle Utley
Bess Linden Walker

College of Science Distinguished Scholar
Andrew Jonathan Brower
Scott Anthony Burdick
Joseph Parker Fath
Spencer Johnny Hahn
Thomas Michael Landrigan
Andrew John Lautz
Jenni Elizabeth Prior
Kyle Walter Riggs
Bradley William Rodgers
Michael Joseph Slosson

Science Scholarships
Paul Eugene Carey Jr.
Jodi Justine Galla
Deborah Lynn Groth
Amanda Marie James
Michelle Lynn Jones
Hayley Michelle Knollman
Kate Georgia Lehman
Bo Li
Paris Samuel Miles-Brenden

Mary Frances Seever Alumni Scholarship
Emily Louise Claretto
Edward and Annette Shapiro Scholarship
Jeffrey William Meekins
Anna Ruth Treaster

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