Oxford recognizes outstanding students at 2023 Awards Ceremony

Daniel Christian • May 5, 2023

student award winners pose with faculty — Photo by Paul Beezley

Oxford announced the winners of the 2023 student awards at the annual ceremony.

The Oxford community came together on April 19 to celerbate the 2023 Student Awards Ceremony—an annual gathering in honor of student achievement across academic disciplines and campus life. In the Greer Forum of the Student Center, faculty and staff presented students with awards, and Oxapella and the Chamber Orchestra performed a selection of musical arrangements. After the ceremony, award winners and faculty/staff presenters attended a reception in the students' honor.

The full list of award winners and scholarship recipients from the ceremony can be viewed below:

Academic Awards

DIVISION OF HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Ina Jane Wundrum Anthropology Award
Theo Lin

Economics Award
Ben Damon and
Max Migdon

Linguistics Award
Janelle Cai and
Lydia King

William Cody Political Science Award
Siri Johnson and
Raaj Kumar

Patti Owen Smith Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Award
Nina Shangguan

Outstanding Psychology Student Award
Virginia Cano and
Abby Furey

Michael McQuaide Sociology Student of the Year Award
Milouse Brice and
Eva Capelson

Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Award
Ella Arrant and
Sophia Lee

QTM Award
Eva Capelson

U.S. History Award
Robert Finegar and
Alex Minovici

Neil Penn Award in European History
Rachel Friedman

DIVISION OF HUMANITIES

English Award
Elizabeth Fulton and
Lauren Katz

The Mark Twain German Studies Award
Paola Torres

Music Award
Delia Savin

Logic Award
Garrett Mallette

Philosophy Award
Zach Hammond

Religion Award
Amanda Grace Sotolongo

Excellence in Spanish Award
Abby Furey

Oxford Writing Center Award
Rachel Lawrence

Arabid Studies Distinction Award
Jonathan McCarthy-Weaver

Studio Art Awards
Trinity Peck and
Isabel Shainin

Art History Award
Maily Pham

Humanities Award
Makalee Cooper and
Mercedes Sarah

The Hoyt P. Oliver Interfaith Dialogue Award
Sheryar Lakhani

DIVISION OF NATURAL SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

Biology Academic Achievement Award
Ian Goldman

Biology Research Award
Peyton Panos

Biology Service Award
Audrika Chattaraj,
Sarah Roderick and
Skye Williams

Chemistry Academic Excellence Award
Allison Chang

Chemistry Research Excellence Award
Trinity Peck

Chemistry Service Award
Ivan Zhu

Environmental Science Award
Benji Jackson and
Emily Zhou

Computer Science Award
Zachary Hammond and
Helen Jin

William Baird Physics Award
Fahd Hatoum

William H. Murdy Natural Science and Mathematics Award
Fahd Hatoum

Leadership Awards

GOLD AND BLUE LEADERS

Amisha Agrawal
Kimberly Andres Rivera
Jordan Antwi
Virginia Cano
Audrika Chattaraj
Margaret Warren Clark
Ammanuel Dawit
Michael Dehn
Chloe Helsens
Zaria Herriman
Lydia King
Sheryar Lakhani
Emma Martin
Nathaniel Skye Nash
Doreen Okeh
Kush Patel
Jean Qian
Shehreen Siddiqui
Isaac Snyder
Urvi Vallapareddy
Junhyeok Yang