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Elizabeth Mudd Senior Prize
Daniela Nicole Extrum-Fernandez
Alison Claire Mirin
This monetary award was established in 1927 for excellence in scholarship.
Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Faculty Purse for Graduate Study
Weyam Ghadbian
This award is given to an outstanding graduate to support graduate study abroad or in the U.S.
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Madeleine Stuart Anderson, Margaret Shurcliff Cook, Christie Nicole Frakes, Rachel Marie Girouard, Kiya Dorothy Komaiko, Tova Nicole Osborne, Jennifer Louise Peart, Margaret Kaye Pixley, Aliza Penelope Rood, Robin Charlene Roth, Cheryl Jacqueline Sundheim
Members are elected each year in acknowledgement of their high scholarly achievements, their pursuit of liberal learning, and their intellectual integrity and curiosity. Mills College was granted a charter by the national honor society of Phi Beta Kappa on September 12, 1928. Zeta Chapter in the State of California was installed March 16, 1929.
Fulbright Award
Julia Chandler
Fullbright grants are prestigious international awards in support of a research or study project in a foreign country.
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Katherine Allen, Emily Bakucz, Eve Bauman, Bryn Baumer, Rachel Cefalu, Lindsay Clegg, Rebecca Cord, Samantha Curran, Nia Daniel, Michele Ezaki, Rebecca Freeman, Amelia Gurley, Julianne Gurnee, Nicole Harrison, Summer Hazly, Johanna Jenkins, Kriti Khari, Brittney Miller, Joana Orta, Erika Refsland, Katherine Scholp, Jillian Steele, Kathryn Tomita-Dodo, Caroline Wu, Alisa Rodriguez
An honor society inviting high-achieving freshmen and sophomores. Members must have a GPA of 3.4 or above and rank in the top 20 percent of their class.
Departmental Awards
Art
Grace Ty Searing Dhaemers Art History Award
Kathryn Humphrey
This honor is given to members of the junior class who are majoring in art history and are returning for their senior year.
Ralph DuCasse Endowed Scholarship
Kellesimone Waits
This scholarship is awarded to a student majoring in studio art. It is given in recognition of outstanding achievement.
Mary Laughlin Beardmore Award
Meri Page
This award goes to students for excellence in the field of art history, in memory of Mary Laughlin Beardmore who served as secretary to the Honolulu Mills College Club for 25 years.
Defeo MFA Award
Alexa Alexander, Amy Ho, David Johnson
This prize was established in 1968, from the estate of William L. Crum in honor of his wife. This award is given to students for excellence in ceramics.
Herringer Prize for Excellence - Art History
Jennifer Benitez, Ellen Newton, Jennifer Nicholson, Patrisia Spezzaferro
This prize is awarded for excellence in scholarship in art history.
Herringer Prize for Excellence - Art Studio
Anna Elena Basalaev-Binder, Aarika Linette Nicole Martin, Jennifer Louise Peart, Alysson Michelle Raymond
This prize is awarded for excellence in artistic practice.
Wellhausen Family Award
Christine Mary Shea
This award is given in honor of Dorothy Bank to the most deserving senior studio art major.
Eleanor E. Crum Award
Kristin Dayle Palmblad
This award is given for excellence in ceramics
Athletics, Physical Education & Recreation
Eugene Trefethen Award
Cheryl Jacqueline Sundheim
This award recognizes the senior with the highest GPA who has participated on a varsity intercollegiate sport team.
Karen Koshak Prize
Anita Lopez
This award is given in recognition of an exemplary healthy, well-balanced and physically active lifestyle and promotion of the physical education Program.
Biology
Caryl Parker Haskins Prize
Virginia Fung, Rasheedah Godfrey, Erin Gutilla, Stephanie Summers
This prize was established in 1966 in honor of former Trustee Dr. Haskins for distinction in the life sciences.
Vera Long Prize
Daniela Nicole Extrum-Fernandez
This prize was established in 1987 and given in honor of an outstanding paper written on environmental biology.
Book Art
Rosalind Keep Book Art Award
Weyam Ghadbian
This award recognizes general excellence in the area of book art as well as a substantial contribution to the program.
Chemistry
Alie Ogborn Jackson Barry Prize
Seham Afaghani
This award is presented to a student for excellence in chemistry.
Computer Science
Helen Pillans Award
Kathryn Feeney
This award is given in honor of Helen Pillans, who taught at Mills for many years and was responsible for the establishment of the computer science program in the 1960's.
Lenox-McEntyre Award
Simon Fishel
This award is given for excellence in computer science and contributions to the computer science community
Dance
Dance Department Merit Award
Alana Giannotta-Ortiz, Kate McGinity, Magee Page
This award is given for overall artistic and academic merit.
Dance Department Innovator Award
Judene Small
This award is given for exceptional originality in performance and choreography.
E. L. Wiegand Foundation Award
Kristine Anderson, Jochelle Pereña, Nzinga Wood
This award is given for excellence in performance and choreography.
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Economics
Marion Ross Merit Scholarship
Jaia E. Orient
This award is given to students excelling in economics in honor of Dr. Marion Ross, respected alumna and former Mills economics professor.
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Chiara Coombs, Ciera Cummings, Aida Diaz Nunez, Rebecca Ferguson, Maritess A. Magtanong, Daisy Medina, Lillian Miller, Tova Osborne, Lakshmi Poti, Ashley Ramirez, Robin Roth, Marjan H. Soleimanieh, Katherine Whiting, Anne Wittig
Omicron Delta Epsilon is the International Honorary Society in Economics. Students are selected based on their performance in economics courses and are selected from economics, business economics and PLEA-econ majors.
Education
Joan Henry Endowed Scholarship
Elizabeth Mulcahy-Morgan
This award recognizes undergraduate child development majors who demonstrate a strong history of commitment, as well as, future goals for pursuing work in the area of Early Childhood Education.
Jane Bowyer Award
Brennan Miller
This award is for excellence in undergraduate teacher education
English
Mary Merritt Henry Prize
Undergraduate Poetry - Jackqueline Frost
Graduate Poetry - Aichlee Bushnell
Honorable Mention - Lyall Harris
Established in 1921, these prizes are awarded for a group of poems by students.
Ardella Mills Prize for Literary Composition
Fiction:
Undergraduate - Tara Nelson
Honorable Mention - Ashley Shaffer
Graduate - Mia DeBono
Creative Nonfiction:
Undergraduate - Veronica Philipsborn
Honorable Mention - Jules Shendelman
Graduate - Shareena Clark
Honorable Mention - Shay Belisle
Critical Essay:
Undergraduate - Kristen Skjonsby
Graduate - Jennifer Massoni
Prizes given for excellence in literary composition was established in 1931, by a bequest of Maria Elizabeth Mills, in memory of her daughter.
Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize
Undergraduate - Learkana Chong
Graduate - Sara McInerney
The award is given for excellence in children's and young adult literature.
English I Essay Prize
Lora Chau Davis
This award is for an essay written in an English 001 section for both fall and spring semesters.
Journalism Prize
Lauren Soldano
This prize is given for excellence in reporting and writing.
Amanda Davis MFA Thesis in Fiction Award
Jennifer Massoni
Honorable Mention - Kellie Parkinson Landrum, Mia DeBono
This award is in memory of Mills English professor Amanda Davis who died in a plane crash while promoting her first novel in March 2003.
Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies Outstanding Academic Scholar Award
Weyam Ghadbian
An award initiated in 2000 recognizing an outstanding senior thesis in ethnic studies and excellent academic achievement.
Reaching Beyond Award
Shunkila Black Calf
This award is for excellence in building coalitions between communities of color on campus or through service to the community. Rewarding efforts to teach beyond one's own identity, this award highlights the importance of building unity in diversity in order to achieve social change.
The Spirit of Dolores Huerta Award
Gloria Huerta
This award recognizes students who have demonstrated the kind of courageous, conscientious and intellectual pursuit of justice as evidenced in the person of Dolores Huerta.
French and Francophone Studies
Germaine Thompson Prize
Ivy Cook, Susan Luneburg, Nora Thomas
Germaine K. Thompson established this award in 1985 as an expression of admiration for the excellent teaching of Martha Cottam. It is awarded to students for excellence in French.
Government
Phi Sigma Alpha
Nicole D. Beckerman, Hadley Clarke, Katrina, L. Corbosiero, Rachel N. Gregg, Courtney E. Lewis, Jaia E. Orient, Kit I. Turner
Phi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society was founded in 1920 at the University of Texas for the purpose of bringing together students and faculty interested in the study of government and politics. Today there are over 600 chapters throughout the country. Mills College is home to the Phi Eta chapter.
Lawrence Shrader Prize
Sahar Momand
This award was established in 2007 for the outstanding senior thesis in government or international relations.
History
Anne Hummel Sherrill Scholarship
Breana Montgomery, Jessica Walker
This scholarship is awarded to the top junior student in history. The award is determined in the spring and applied toward senior year tuition.
Reynold M. Wik Prize
Connie Payne
Established in 1998, this prize is awarded to the outstanding senior in history.
Phi Alpha Theta
Deborah Barragan, Zoe Byrne, Victoria Garcia, Ashley Heine, Jenny Hoang, Alyssa House-Thomas, Rachel Jackler, Katherine Johnson, Brianna Marron, Angela Moffett, Breana Montgomery, Anna Moreno, Allison Morris, Ellen Newton, Lauren Overmier, Connie Payne, Erin Poole, Hazel Rogers, Jessica Stewart, Desirae Tongco, Lindsay Tracy, Jessica Walker, Melanie Weston
Phi Alpha Theta is the national honor society for history. It is a professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragements of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. It seeks to bring students, teachers, and writers of history together for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical research and publication by its members in a variety of ways.
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Mathematics
Lenore Blum Award
Alison Mirin
This award is given for outstanding scholastic achievement in mathematics.
Music
Elizabeth Mills Crothers Award
Evan Adams, Alex Christie, Robert Seaback
Endowed in 1931 by Maria Elizabeth Mills in memory of her daughter, this is awarded for outstanding musical composition.
Maurthea Friedberger Cup
Dorothy Berry
This award is given to the most outstanding senior music major.
Paul Merritt Henry Prize
Daniel Steffey
This prize was established in 1928 by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt during her presidency at Mills as a memorial to her brother. It is awarded for excellence in the musical composition of stringed instruments.
Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award
Michael Walker, Peter Wong
This award is given to graduate students who had completed an outstanding thesis on experimental music or who has contributed to the community of experimental music.
Margaret Lyon Music Student Prize
Ernesto Carcamo-Cavazos, Drew Ceccato, Farley Miller, Christina Stanley
Established in 2004 in memory of Dr. Margaret Lyon, head of the music department for twenty-five years, by her family, friends and students. This award is given to outstanding music students.
Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize
Lona Kozik
This award is given for outstanding piano performance.
Donna Petersen Vocal Prize
Dorothy Berry
This award is for excellence in vocal performance.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division
Bruce McCollum Prize
Daniela Nicole Extrum-Fernandez
Established in 1960 by Mrs. Bruce McCollum in memory of her husband, this award is given to a senior majoring in science or mathematics with the highest attainment in scholarship.
Scheffler Junior Scholar Award
Amanda Humphrey
This award is given for outstanding performance in natural sciences.
Sociology and Anthropology
Anthropology Students of the Year
Margaret Pixley
This award is given for outstanding contributions and volunteer service in anthropology.
Sociology Students of the Year
Christina Morrow, Kerri Lynne Thorp
This award is given for outstanding contributions and volunteer service in sociology and to honor the memory of Ruth Gillard as the first instructor to teach a sociology course at Mills.
Spanish and Spanish-American Studies
Gabriela Mistral Prize
Jessica J. Vazquez
This award is for excellent academic work in the field of Hispanic letters. Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945. She received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Mills College in 1947.
Women's Studies
Essay Prize
Veronica Beaty
This award is given to an undergraduate student with an outstanding non-fiction paper on issues of women and gender.
Zimmer Prize
Alisa Plath
This is awarded annually to a senior women's studies major for outstanding scholarship and community service in women's studies.
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Leadership and Service Awards
Outstanding Senior Award
Shunkila Black Calf, Daisy Medina
This award was established to honor a graduating senior who has demonstrated strength in scholarship and extraordinary service to Mills and the local community. Criteria are divided into four areas: scholarship, on-campus activities, off-campus activities, and special initiative.
Student Organization of the Year
Henry Reinhardt Historical Society
This award is presented to an organization that has demonstrated campus leadership; collaboration with other student organizations, faculty, and staff; and devotion to educating its members and the broader community. This organization's events, activities, and presence help support both the college's and the ASMC's mission.
Student Organization Advisor of the Year
Kim Baranek
This award recognizes a campus advisor who dedicates time and resources to the advancement of a club or organization. This person exemplifies the college's mission, acts as a positive change agent, fosters high ideals, and provides sustained support to a club or organization. This person offers support to students through mentorship, guidance, and advocacy. She or he serves as an educator and role model for undergraduate students at Mills College.
Christine LaFia Award
Amelia Lopez
This award is given to students for outstanding service to Mills College.
Palladium
Iris Corey, Alliah Gilman-Bey, Rachel Gregg, Bonnie Horgos, Amelia Lopez, Melissa Lozano, Emily Meike, Kelsey Mercado, Mariah Olivera, Samantha Sahnow, Megan Smaker, Cheryl Sundheim, Desirae Tongco, Kathryn Young
Founded in 1930, this distinctive honor society recognizes juniors and seniors who combine academic excellence with service to Mills.
Peg Dean Award
Amanda Cha, Xing Dawn Liu
This award was established by alumna Edyth Chang to recognize an Asian American student for leadership on campus.
Helen Carroll Award
Terrilynn Cantlon
This is an award given to a faculty, staff or student for dedication to securing equal rights and combating discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Coleen Gragen Award
Rachel Gregg
Created in honor of a Mills College Personal Defense Instructor, this award recognizes Mills faculty, staff, or student who exemplify Gragen's lifelong dedication to the advocacy of women.
Patrice Griffin Aquatics Award
Tawanda Sterrett, Allyson Raymond, Mackenzie Bean
This prize was established in 1989 by Chris and Edy Hum for outstanding enthusiasm and support for aquatic programs in the department of athletics, physical education and recreation.
Ruth Masayko Award
Jess Miller
Created by the Mills Disability Alliance, this award recognizes a staff or faculty member who has shown a unique willingness to accommodate students with disability needs.
Shirley Weishaar Award
Alliah Gilman-Bey
Created in honor of a former Dean of Students, this award recognizes outstanding service to the Division of Student Life.
Dr. Laura Nathan Scholarship for Social Justice and Community Service Award
Molly Hart and Melodie Dankmeyer
Endowed by an anonymous Mills alumna who hoped to acknowledge in future students the commitment to social justice imparted to her by Dr. Laura Nathan, emerita Professor of Sociology at Mills. Twovscholarships are honored as Dr. Laura Nathan Women of Distinction.
Student Leadership in Campus Sustainability
Miranda Felix and Margaret Pixley
Awarded in honor of outstanding stewardship of the Mills College campus and for encouraging the local community to create sustainable practices.
Mills of Color Awards
Mills of Color Awards recognizes students, faculty or staff of color for outstanding achievement and service. Each of the following categories honors both individual accomplishments and the creation of community change:
MOCA Freshwoman Leaders of the Year: Jennifer Thao, Phuong Tseng; Honorable Mention: Lora Chau-Davis
MOCA Sophmore Leaders of the Year: Desire Johnson
MOCA Junior Leader of the Year: Liliana Gonzalez
MOCA Senior Leader of the Year: Chloe Garcia
MOCA Graduate Leader of the Year: Lisa Kelly
MOCA Student Organization of the Year: Indigenous Women's Alliance
MOCA Outstanding Athlete: Kim Chew
MOCA Artist of the Year: Dru Anderson
MOCA for Community Service: Melissa Lozano
MOCA for Community Activism: Carla Gonzalez
MOCA Staff Member of the Year: Christina McWhorter
MOCA Faculty Member of the Year: Christie Chung
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