Commencement

Prizes and Awards

David A. Alexander ’79 Memorial Award for Social Consciousness and Activism
  • Caitlin Iris Samson
  • Cameron Samuels
American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
  • Qianyi Yang
American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research
  • James Anthony Griesmer
American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Senior Organic Chemistry Student
  • William Jinwei Lau
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
  • Hyeseong Moon
American Poets Honorary Prize
  • Henry Samuel Wicks
Anna S. Aronson Memorial Award
  • Peter Zachary Mitelman
Elliot Aronson ’54 Prize for Excellence in Psychological Research
  • Joshua Silbersweig
Athletic Director’s Award
  • Gabriel Haithcock
  • Sabrina Kristianna Loui
  • Bronwyn Rose Rothman-Hall
Award for Academic Achievement in Business
  • Ally Chen
  • Brooke R. Funtleyder
  • Stefan Liu
  • Jon Standlee
Award for Academic Excellence and Community Contribution in Computer Science
  • Sijia Deng
Award for Computer Science Graduate Community Leadership
  • Jack William Garbus
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research and Teaching by a Computational Linguistics MS Student
  • Bohan Jiang
Celia Epstein Barron Award in Fine Arts
  • Valeria Ayala
Dr. Ralph Berenberg ’65 Prize
  • Kunga Chime
Stephan Berko Memorial Prize
  • Valérie Leia Bettaque
Rishon M. Bialer ’64 Memorial Prize
  • Kyle Kane Pandiscio
Biology Department Award for Excellence in Research
  • Morgan Susanna Collins
  • Athena Lam
  • Dina Maller Ocken
Eugene C. Black Prize for Excellence in History
  • Mira Lena Guaspari
  • Audrey Sara Kiarsis
Herman and Bessie Blum Memorial Award
  • Victoria Mei
  • Szu Li Wei
David John Boros and Emidia Meloncelli Award in Music
  • Ruide Gao
Boston Intercollegiate Poetry Prize
  • Henry Samuel Wicks
Elise Boulding Sociology and Social Activism Award
  • Natalie L. Saltzman
Justice Louis D. Brandeis Essay Prize
  • Julia A. Fair
Justice Louis D. Brandeis Internship Research Prize
  • Maya Ruth Kushner
  • Gretchen Wang
Brandeis National Committee Presidential Award
  • Alexandra Maddock-Mark
Brandeis University Departmental Award for Engaged Anthropology
  • Fischer Caplin
  • Hana Renate Klempnauer Miller
Joseph and Ida Butman Award
  • Tram Thi Quynh Tran
Paul Caine Memorial Award
  • Mei Davis Sutherland
Evelyn Caira Award for Excellence in Research and Service
  • Anastasia Bekou
Patrick Thomas Campbell Award in History
  • Harold Robert Watkin-Fox
Gertrude Carnovsky Prize in Creative Arts
  • Vincent Baltazar
Rachel Carson Award for Environmental Citizenship
  • Katy M. Tanzer
Henrietta and David Chassler Prize
  • Zachary Lev Gold
Chemistry Department Excellence Award
  • Mark Shamis
Katharine A. Chernosky Memorial Award for Conscientious and Creative Living
  • Derek Oluchukwu Ibeagha
  • Gracious Kajah
Max Chretien Award in Computer Science
  • Tal Kronrod
  • Eliora Chedva Kruman
Class of 1955 Prize for Creative Ability
  • Yiyang Jiang
Phyllis and Lee Coffey Award in Music
  • Benjamin Sassler Lichter
Deborah Josepha Cohen ’62 Endowed Fine Arts Award
  • James Joseph Ciriello
  • Samuel Andres Diaz Perdomo
  • Eli James Dunn-Feiner
  • Cheng Xu
Doris Brewer Cohen Endowment Award in Chemical and Biological Sciences
  • Liora Ida Katz
Doris Brewer Cohen Endowment Award in the Humanities
  • Elise Nicole Andelman
Doris Brewer Cohen Endowment Award in Justice and Public Life
  • Mandy Feuerman
Jacques Cohen Award in Computer Science
  • Areen Khalaila
Sidney S. Cohen Award in Economics
  • Ally Chen
Angela Davis ’65 Prize for Commitment to Disciplinary Service and Activism in African and African American Studies
  • Phebean O. Ogunsanwo
Diane A. Rottenberg Davis Memorial Endowed Prize
  • Elise Nicole Andelman
Departmental Prize for Excellence in Political Science
  • Gonny Dalia Nir
Dewey-Boyte Prize for the Scholarship and Practice of Democracy
  • Aviva Louise Gornick
Division of Science Outstanding Research Award
  • Gabriel Abreu
  • Elliot Mara Busch
  • Caelen Hilty
W.E.B. Du Bois Award for Academic Achievement in African and African American Studies
  • Anana Janee Turner
Emily Dudek Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
  • Angela Chen
  • Gwendolyn Fuellemann
  • Gauri Devendra Gajeshwar
  • Kyle Kane Pandiscio
East Asian Studies Outstanding Student Award
  • Simon M. Eber
  • Adeline Evans
English Department Allen Grossman Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis
  • Adrienne Donna Woolf
English Department Award for Outstanding English Honors Essay
  • Rane Norrell Jackson
Marcia Bloch Epstein ’55 Endowed Prize for Demonstrated Commitment to Social Justice Through Teaching
  • Emma Susan Witaszek
Exceptional Achievement Endowment Award in the Creative Arts, sponsored by Herbert and Sandra (1956) Fisher, and Family
  • Anika Megan Hahn
  • Orly Shayna Krupp
  • Ofri Levinson
  • Samuel Long
  • Lynca Saito
  • Tia Tomco
  • Sarah Elizabeth Wickless
  • Adrienne Donna Woolf
  • Molly Hannah Zimmerman
David L. Falkoff Graduate School Prize in Physics
  • Guglielmo Grimaldi
Morris and Anna Feldberg Prize in Economics
  • Allen Joseph Minch
Ramón Feliciano Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets
  • Henry Samuel Wicks
Selma and Joseph Finstein/Jeanette and Meyer Saval Prize
  • Gabriella Chaya Chiquiar-Rabinovich
  • Tamara Geula Sragow
  • Nathaniel Gregor Weinstein
  • Noa Joy Yolkut
Jacqueline Foster Vocal Music Instruction Award
  • Ardelia Noel Conner Doyle
Lawrence Fuchs Award
  • Maya R. Ungar
Professor Chandler Fulton Prize for Undergraduate Research
  • Ellie-Georgie Balogun
Giller-Sagan Prize in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Dahlia Clara Matanky
Nahum and Anne Glatzer Endowed Prize in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  • Anthony I. Lipscomb
Kate Goldfield Community Leadership Award
  • Muhammad Salman Haider
  • Akanksha Majumder
Laura Goldin Environmental Health and Justice Prize
  • Lily Catherine Lyons
Esther Goldman Prize for Excellence in Classical Art, Archaeology, and Ancient History
  • Zachary Scott Mayer
Esther Goldman Prize for Excellence in Classical Languages and Literatures
  • John Francis Bruel Mauro
Jacob B. Goldston Family Award for Environmental Excellence and Activism
  • Declan Tadashi Tsuyuki
Ruth Nessel Gollan Prize in Hebrew Language or Literature
  • Esther Leah Cabot
Eli D. and Mollie L. Goodstein Prize in Hebrew
  • Jadyn Liora Maher
Eli D. and Mollie L. Goodstein Prize in Spanish
  • Molly Elizabeth Brown
Susan Mae Green Award for Creativity in Poetry and Photography
  • Lucia Rachel Shpuntoff
David A. Greene ’71, MD, Memorial Prize in Music
  • Olivia Dakota Pantaleon Lichauco
Andrew Grossbardt ’72 Memorial Poetry Prize
  • Mina Rowland
Andrew Grossbardt ’72 Memorial Prize for Best Poem Published in a Brandeis Literary Journal
  • Sean Walker
Andrew Grossbardt ’72 Memorial Prize for Senior Thesis in Fiction
  • Vincent Xue Lian
Ken Hale Award for Excellence in Linguistics
  • James Anthony Griesmer
  • Braedon Asher Kellar Guenther
Barbara A. Harris Prize for Stage Management
  • Skylar Olive Neidig
Bernard H. Herman ’08 Endowed Prize in Creative Writing
  • Viviana Infante
John-Edward Hill Memorial Prize
  • Liam Richard Delaney
Edwin E. Hokin Memorial Prize
  • Alexandra Maddock-Mark
Morris Homonoff Prize in Yiddish
  • Jared Marc Silverman
International and Global Studies Award for Global Citizenship
  • Maya Venkata Subramanian
Jane’s Essay Prize in Latin American Studies
  • Ilan Maurer Recanate
Jane’s Photography Prize
  • Alanis Gonzalez
Jane’s Travel Grant
  • Hector Aguirre
  • Chloe Lucille Bromeland
  • Grace Anne Toscano
William P. Jencks Award in Biochemistry
  • JD Rittenberg
Otto Jespersen Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Linguistics
  • Mira Lena Guaspari
Karen Spärck Jones Award for Outstanding Achievement in Natural Language Processing
  • Zachary Matthew McCormick
Aravind K. Joshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computational Linguistics
  • Maxwell Pickering
Michael Kalafatas ’65 Admissions Prize
  • Zachary Scott Mayer
Linda Heller Kamm ’61 Prize
  • Ananya Rajesh Kadwe
Ellen Lasher Kaplan ’64 and Robert S. Kaplan Prize
  • Jacqueline Floro
Nathan O. Kaplan Prize in Biochemistry
  • Jonathan Junsik Eom
  • Ruijia Wan
Kappa Eta Sigma Award
  • Syon Lewis
  • Aishwarya Subramaniam Ramesh
Esther Kartiganer Prize for Social Activism and Academic Excellence in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Mel Lord
Richard Kaufman ’58 Memorial Prize for Leadership and Academic Excellence
  • Giselle Gabriel
  • Hana Renate Klempnauer Miller
Isak Kazes Prize in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Taylor M. Harmon
Attila Klein Environmental Conservation Award
  • Avery Rose Catubig Nolan
Kukin Moskowitz Prize for Excellence
  • Lígia Helena Azevedo Nishida
  • Miles Barit Goldstein
Renee B. Lang Prize in Literature
  • Benie Rochelle Cohen
Chris Lerman Prize for Essays on Extraordinary Women
  • Adrienne Donna Woolf
Jerome Levine Prize
  • Kamryn P. Spinelli
Rosalind W. Levine Prize in Fine Arts
  • Valeria Ayala
  • Nusrat Khan
Harry S. Levitan Prize
  • Rani Dhanda Balakrishna
Joseph M. Linsey Endowed Athletic Fellowship Award
  • Spencer Evan Lee
  • Bronwyn Rose Rothman-Hall
John Lisman ’66 Memorial Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Research
  • Qihao Xie
MA Program Award for Academic Excellence
  • Benjamin Chait-Walter
  • Zeyu He
Lester Martin Foundation Award in Legal Studies
  • Peyton Taylor Gillespie
  • Sabrina Marie Waddell
Math Graduate Teaching Award
  • Joshua Bernard Perlmutter
  • Kamryn P. Spinelli
Mathematics Mentor Award
  • Mai Al Shaaban
  • Xiao Lin
Bruce R. Mayper Memorial Award
  • David Cahn
  • Justine Ankyaah Sarkodie
MBA Prize for Excellence in Business Leadership
  • Sana Ijaz
  • Kathryn Avery Messenger
James McCully ’86 Award
  • Antonio Valentine Escueta III
  • Lara Elena Verstovsek
Michtom Prize for Academic Excellence in Computer Science
  • Facundo Roitman
Florence and Charles H. Milender Prize in Music
  • Maximillian Levi Ansonoff
Dorothy Blumenfeld Moyer Memorial Award
  • Gustavo Pereira do Nascimento
MSBA Program Award for Academic Excellence
  • Carolyn Joanne Lisboa
  • María Fernanda Navarro Castillo
MSF Program Award for Academic Excellence
  • Shivam Gossain
  • Jia Si
  • Zijie Wang
Pauli Murray Award
  • Daniel Dollinger Block
Charles A. Napoli ’58 Scholar Athlete Award
  • Tristan Delaney Boyer
  • Elias Rodl
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Academic Excellence Award
  • Mandy Feuerman
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Prize in Arabic
  • Javier Acuña-Ramírez
Oliveri Family Prize in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Maia Eden Lefferman
Bernard ’61 and Rena J. ’56 Olshansky Prize in Jewish Communal Service
  • Elaine Sultana Berger
Rena J. Olshansky ’56 Grant for Research on Jewish Family Life
  • Ofri Levinson
Outstanding BA Student in Health: Science, Society, and Policy Award
  • Sydney Anne Duncan
Outstanding BS Student in Health: Science, Society, and Policy Award
  • Marianne Coindreau Phillips
Outstanding Undergraduate Departmental Representative Award
  • Cooper Gottfried
  • Mia Tang Nydam
  • Jon Standlee
  • Alicia Tsao
  • Shaolong Yan
Dr. Joseph Garrison Parker Prize
  • Allen Joseph Minch
Perlmutter Award for Interdisciplinary Studies
  • William Alan Messenger
Philosophy Prize
  • Gonny Dalia Nir
  • Lana Koko Taffel
Physics Faculty Prize
  • Samuel Arthur Kelson
  • David Scott Merges
Physics Faculty Prize for Excellence in Research
  • Emily Rose Duden
Physics Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching
  • Sasha Ruth Toole
Physics Faculty Prize for Outstanding Teaching by an Undergraduate
  • Daniel A. House
  • Penelope Llibre
Politics Faculty Prize for Best Senior Thesis
  • Mandy Feuerman
Poses Institute Prize for Dedication to the Arts
  • Audrey S. Gurock
Louis P. Rabinovitz Art Award
  • Adrienne Donna Woolf
Ellen (Ilana) Raskin ’75 Memorial Award
  • Anh Chau Nguyen
Samuel and Jennie Raucher Prize
  • Sophia Helen Tuchinsky
Tzvi and Ariella Raviv Writing Award for Hornstein Students
  • Sela Shulamit Yerushalmi Goldstein
Reiner Prize in Music Composition
  • Marco Antonio Hernan Ferral Hernandez
Reis and Sowul Family Prize in Neuroscience at Brandeis University
  • Catherine Shi
Professor Dagmar Ringe Biochemistry Award
  • Gauri Devendra Gajeshwar
Rookie of the Year Award
  • Sarai Olivia Sealy
  • Daniel Shemesh
Richard Saber Undergraduate Research Grant in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Maia Sophia Katsnelson
Murray Sachs Prize for Outstanding Work and Dedication in French and Francophone Studies
  • Alicia Tsao
Safier-Jolles Prize for Best Senior Thesis in the History of Ideas
  • Gonny Dalia Nir
  • Lana Koko Taffel
Pulin Sampat Graduate Teaching Award in Biology
  • Katherine Gourianova
  • Emily Claire Metcalf
Marjorie M. and Theodore L. Saxe Award in the Social Scientific Study of Jewry
  • Samantha Emma Przybisiki
Margaret Scheinman Prize in Film
  • Tibria J. Brown
  • Preston Lincoln Merrill
  • Emily Pahuamba
Molly W. and Charles K. Schiff Memorial Award in Anthropology
  • Tamar Ariel Cohen
Molly W. and Charles K. Schiff Memorial Award in Fine Arts
  • Jenny Wool
Molly W. and Charles K. Schiff Memorial Award in Science
  • Mason Price
Rose Schlow Award
  • Adhithri Rajaragupathi
  • Samuel Siaw
Morris Sepinuck Sportsmanship Award
  • Rani Dhanda Balakrishna
Maurice L. Shaer Memorial Prize
  • Serenity Ghian Geronimo Dimatulac
  • Maria Camila Escamilla-Gil
  • Abygail Brianna Francis
  • Alanis Gonzalez
  • Hemdeepika Muthuswamy
  • Gustavo Pereira do Nascimento
  • Samantha Emma Przybisiki
  • Zahira Yolanda Ramirez Caceres
Arnold Shapiro Prize in Mathematics
  • Phuong Ha Pham
Betty and Harry S. Shapiro Endowed Award in Anthropology
  • Javier Acuña-Ramírez
Ezra Z. Shapiro Endowed Family Prize
  • Elisha J. Gordan
Robert B. Sherman ’67 Memorial Prize
  • Kamila Haieva
Max I. Silber Award for an Outstanding Athlete
  • Peterly Leroy
Elihu A. Silver Prize
  • Emma S. Liu
Mitchell Siporin Memorial Prize
  • Molly Hannah Zimmerman
Theodore R. and Nancy F. Sizer Endowed Prize in Education Studies
  • Noa Olivia Abigail Brudny
Melvin M. Snider Prize in Chemistry
  • Sophie Ryan Kleinberg
  • Joseph Charles Levine
Harry, Joseph and Ida Stein Memorial Award
  • Tobin Michael Harris
Morrie Stein ’58 Award of Valor
  • Dominique Paglia
Steinberg Prize in Physical Science with Interest in History
  • John Francis Bruel Mauro
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best Original Play
  • Emily Margret Bial
  • Liza Joy Heck
  • Maya Mondlak-Reuveni
Carol Ann Steinfeld Memorial Prize in Economics
  • Janine Curmally
Roy K. Stevens ’68 Prize in Theater Arts
  • Emily Margret Bial
  • Orly Shayna Krupp
Student Life Award
  • Leah Beck Goldstein
  • Shamsi Mumtahina Momo
Detlev Suderow ’70 Prize for Academic Excellence in Business
  • Nicholas Altman
Textile Veterans Association Honor Award
  • Gerald Deng
Theater Arts Outstanding Student Collaborator Award
  • Nicole Emily Albright
  • Atlas Kae Rosenfeld
Jacob and Bella Thurman Award for Social Citizenship
  • Cooper Gottfried
  • Nemma Kalra
  • Riley Genevieve Miner
Turock Family Prize in Italian Studies
  • Jillian Livia Bertolami
  • Ethan Elliott Hortelano
Rosalie L. Warren Award in Music
  • Joy Junhan Ren
Rose and Joseph M. Weissman Prize in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  • Stephanie Kallish
David S. Wiesen Memorial Prize
  • Alexis Paige Stanley
Elsie Witt Award in Jewish Studies
  • Miriam S. Fisch
Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Fiction Award
  • Sarah White Baskin
Dafna Zamarripa-Gesundheit Memorial Prize for a Senior Thesis
  • Viviana Infante
Martin Zelnik ’61 Award
  • Eva Grace Goldstein Parson
Anatol Zhabotinsky Memorial Prize
  • Sam Henry Finkelstein
Irving Kenneth Zola Prize for Excellence in Sociology
  • Tia Tomco