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Honors and awards to first-year students, sophomores and juniors 2019-20

These departmental honors, scholarships and awards were accorded to first-year students, sophomores and juniors in the 2019-20 academic year.

Accounting

Augustana Accounting Association Scholarship
Freja Hager
Justine Gorzny

Friends of Augustana Accounting
Zeeshan Ali
Amen Belayneh
Oscar Almanza Cisneros
John Currie
Jake Dooley
Benjamin Henrikson
Matthew Hoban
Connor Hughes
Muhammed Imdad
Alyssa Luczynski
Molli Naber
Muhammad Naqvi
Mitchell Owens
Jacob Reaban
Abby Redlinger
Aakanchha Shahi
Karli Stankus
Adam Vogel

Arthur Andersen Scholarship
Zeeshan Ali
Carley Berneking
Anh Cao
Megan Crawford
Nicholas Dispensa
Jake Dooley
Cameron Duffy
Haley Dulabaum
Thomas Dyer
Matthew Hoban
Alyssa Luczynski
Muhammed Naqvi
Huy Nghiem
Amartya Rajbhandary
John Stoltz
Joshua Wintroub

S. James Galley Scholarship
Omidullah Barikzay
Carley Berneking
Nolan Blassingham
Vladislava Botsul
Maxx Carpenter
Zachary Clough
Phong Doan
Mai Duong
Joshua Dyer
Thomas Dyer
Emily Edwall
Logan Giesler
Justine Gorzny
Zachary Gunderson
Freja Hager
John Hayes
Ryan Hirschel
Matthew Lampasona
Daniele London
Megan McDonald
John McGuire
Nicolete Moyo
Mai Nguyen
Genesis Sarmiento
John Stoltz
Lupita Toscano
Emmanuel Yeboah

KPMG Peat Marwick Scholarship
Zachary Gunderson

RSM Scholarship
Lupita Toscano

Biology

Anderson Swedo Science Education Endowed Scholarship
Iva Vucic

Bertil Gottfrid and Lorraine Ossian Anderson Endowed Scholarship
Skye Brugler

Dr. Patricia Ann Zygmun Pre-Med Award for Academic Excellence
Jazmin Martinez

Business Administration

Harold E. and Louise Lage Swanson Scholarship
Ngoc Bui
Jason Cassens
Houssam Diouri
Ha Do
Jake Dooley
Mai Duong
Jenna Dvorak
Emily Edwall
Justine Gorzny
Freja Hager
John Hayes
Daniele London
Mai Nguyen
Duc Pham
Amartya Rajbhandary
Celina Rippel
Sander Soerhaug
Lupita Toscano
Mackenzie Walk

Thomas C. Montgomery Memorial Scholarship
Zeeshan Ali
Olivia Banach
Ahn Cao
Kennedy Carey
Zachary Clough
Megan Crawford
Jessica Crofton
Nicholas Dispensa
Haley Dulabaum
Thomas Dyer
Zachary Gunderson
Benjamin Henrikson
Damon Hulick
Brandon Johnson
Matthew Lampasona
Andrew Mayszak
Hunter Menke
Andrew Mimlitz
Alison Ng
Khue Nguyen
Jack Olson
Kendall Schmidt
Sambridha Shrestha
Marissa Smith
Michael Turzynski

Chemistry

Albert L. Eliason Chemistry Endowed Scholarship Award
Rae Pooley

First-Year Chemistry Achievement Award
Jared Tarantino

Communications Multimedia Journalism and Mass Communication

1st Place Headline Writing – Brady Johnson
1st Place Photo Essay – Sophie Reid
1st Place Sports Photo – Alia McMurray
1st Place General News Photo – Tran Le
2nd Place Graphic Illustration – Alyssa Duckett
2nd Place Sports Photo – Augustana Observer Staff
3rd Place Online News site – Augustana Observer Staff
3rd Place Feature story – Other than Sports – Brady Johnson
3rd Place Column – Excluding Sports – Paige Sheppard
3rd Place Front Page Layout – Kevin Donovan
Honorable Mention General Excellence Non-Dailies – Enrollment less than 4,000 – Augustana Observer Staff
Honorable Mention News story – Thea Gonzales
Honorable Mention Feature Page Design – Alyssa Duckett
Honorable Mention Feature Story – Audrianna Schneider
Honorable Mention Opinion Page – Augustana Observer Staff
Honorable Mention Editorial Cartoon – Cassie Talbot
Honorable Sports Features Story – Margaret Cecilio

Economics

Bruce R. Milligan Endowed Scholarship
Ngoc Bui
Thu Ho
Thao Nhi Truong Huynh
Aleksander Jacobs
Ruhee Shrestha
Joshua Teets
Ruth Wolde-Gabriel

Thomas C. Montgomery Memorial Scholarship
Alexander Anderson
Cameron Duffy
Matthew Lampasona
Priyanka Malla
Irfan Jan Sora Mughal
Huy Nghiem
Duy Thai Nguyen
Nguyen Thao Thi Nguyen
Samridha Rana

Tallgrass Capital Endowed Award
Joshua Teets

English

Tom and Wanda Hanson Scholarship in English Studies
Paige Sheppard
Emma Terronez

Geology

Dr. C. Leland Hoberg Merit Scholarship
Allison Bandera
Carson Cerquone
Joel Padgett
Quintin Powers
Thomas Stritch

Mathematics and Computer Science

Pi Mu Epsilon, National Honorary Mathematics Society
Olivia Hogenkamp
Ahn Nguyen
Ngoc Nguyen
Duc Pham
Jonathan Reaban
Chi Tran
Tuan Truong
Georgia Votta
Michael Wardach
Emmanuel Yeboah

CSI Honor Society

Juniors
Anh Nguyen
Hai Nguyen
Duc Pham
Chi (April) Tran
Nguyen Truong
Tuan Truong
Jonathan Reaban
Michael Wardach

Music

Louise Nathanson Applied Lesson Award
Anne Bak
Ariane Omerza
Joel Padgett
Kevin Perez
Madeleine Rodriguez
Carmella Russell

Physics

Physics Service Award
John McDonaugh

Religion

Floyd & Louise Anderson Fund for Excellence in Religious Studies
Chloe Anderson

World Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Chinese
Pierce Albert

Excellence in Swedish – Intermediate or Advanced
Chance Vicary

Excellence in Swedish – Beginning Level
Emma Cintado

Freistat Center Student-Language Awards
Mayra Almanza
Breanna Banker
Jordan Bartels
Jouwana Bzal
Maya Chavez
Emma Cintado
Oscar Cisneros
Tessa Damien
Rachel Flacco
Mary Therese Gehrmann
Julia Janis
Alyssa Klauer
Landon Love
Alondra Ochoa
Lauren Palmer
Emma Paulson
Shannon Rees
Isabel Sales
Anne Stanislawski
Nicholas Teng

Student-Faculty Fellows Undergraduate Research
Caroline Morris
Nichole Pacheco

Student Research Award
Celina Rippel

Class Honors

(4.0 GPA)

Juniors
Daniel Cuneo
Marina Belshause
Erich Fang
Brooklynn Schelling
Carl Schoenfield
Jared Tarantino

Sophomores
Emily Acquaviva
Michael Aumuller
Jack Beemster
Alexander Mortenson
Rachel Murray
Huy Nghiem
Alyssa Parisi
Emma Raczka
Jared Reiling
Eric Reinertsen
Allison Schmoll
Erica Smith
Margaret Talbott
Blake Traylor
Joshua Van Essen
Meghan Walsh
Bailey Willis