Department Student Service Award
This award was previously given to an outstanding student member of the Department’s Colloquium Committee. The Monday Colloquium series is one of the centerpieces of the scholarly and intellectual life of this department. Every Monday during the academic year, we host front-line thinkers and scientists in our field as Colloquium speakers.
Prof. Larissa Back has been the faculty organizer of the Colloquium series for several years and deserves our gratitude for her efforts. In this responsibility over the past couple of years, she has enjoyed substantial enthusiastic assistance from graduate students who have helped with selecting speakers and for organizing their visits, including meetings, meals, and other activities. We recognize these invaluable contributions to the department by awarding the Colloquium Student Services Award.
Due to the exceptional service in many aspects of the department from current students, we decided this year to expand the award to encompass all department service. The department is a better place because of the contributions of our students.
Past recipients include:
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Emily Mather |
| 2023 | Alicia Hoffman |
| 2022 | Bailey Murphy |
| 2021 | Zoë Brooke Zibton |
| 2020 | Anne Sledd and Megan Caldwell |
| 2019 | Juliet Pilewskie and Julia Shates |
| 2018 | Kai-Wei Chang and Alyson Douglas |
| 2017 | Brian Zimmerman |
| 2016 | Melissa Breeden |
| 2015 | Claire Petterson |
| 2014 | Croix Christenson and Ross Dixon |
| 2013 | Ross Dixon |
| 2012 | Nicole Colasacco-Thumm |
| 2011 | Brent Maddux and John Sears |
| 2010 | Amanda Fay and Mark Wehrenberg |
| 2009 | Val Bennington and Amato Evan |
| 2008 | Gijs deBoer and Mark Kulie |
| 2007 | Gijs deBoer and Mark Kulie |
| 2006 | Gijs deBoer and Will Lewis |
| 2005 | Amanda Adams and Will Lewis |
| 2004 | Will Lewis and Justin McLay |