School Awards

2025

Faculty/Staff Awards

  • Staff Excellence Award: Anastasia Lagmay
  • Excellence in Research: Natalie Khazaal
  • Excellence in Service: Hongchen Wu
  • Excellence in Teaching: Suzuki Chenoweth

Student Awards

  • Excellence in GEML Award: Sherry Wang (Japanese)
  • Excellence in ALIS Award: Jessica Rich (Japanese)
  • Excellence in IAML Award: Isabella Smalls (Korean)

Outstanding Senior Awards

  • Arabic: Sophia Refeca
  • Chinese: Kaylin Nolan
  • French: Aidan Zeissner
  • German: Nicholas Oselette
  • Japanese: Taiki Aiba
  • Korean: Laura Yim
  • Linguistics: Ana Silva Carvalho
  • Spanish: Kyle Robinson

Posthumous Student Award

  • Excellence in French Award: Penelope Sophia Abellera

Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Yvonne Ploder

Previous Award Winners

2024

Faculty/Staff Awards

  • Staff Excellence Award: Ed Able
  • Faculty Excellence in Research Award: Jin Liu
  • Faculty Excellence in Teaching and Curricular Innovation Award: Hyoun-A Joo
  • Faculty Excellence in Service and Program Development Award: Britta Kallin

Student Awards

  • Excellence in M.S. ALIS Grad Student Award: Elayne McGrail
  • Excellence in ALIS: Zainub Ahmed (Japanese)
  • Excellence in IAML: Olivia Quern (French)
  • Excellence in GEML: Brian Kim (Korean)

Outstanding Senior Awards

  • Arabic: Sophie Goguillon
  • Chinese: Jenny Shi
  • French: Sophia Stahl
  • German: Lindsey Alexander
  • Japanese: Aarav Jani
  • Korean: Noah Grant
  • Linguistics: Alexandra Carly Soong
  • Spanish: Zane Nolte

Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Kelly Kloster Hon

2023 and Earlier

2023 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Daniela Galvez Sghiatti

2022 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Tabatha Pilgrim Thompson

2021 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Ted Danowitz III

2020 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Sterling Gerdes

2019 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Kristin Lundberg

2018 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Hannah Taylor

2017 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Parker Kemp

2016 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • Benjamin Bennett

2015 Distinguished Alumni Award

  • John Lambert