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Award Recipients

Creative Risk: Honors a senior student for a given project undertaken in their final year that demonstrates substantial creative risk
Awarded to: Xinyi Zhang ’25

Outstanding Departmental Citizenship: for exceptional commitment to supporting peers and cultivating a positive community across the department and the arts
Awarded to: April Levy ’27

Most Dedicated First-Year Student: Honors a first-year student for exceptional commitment to their work and depth of engagement in the department
Awarded to: Elaine Llewellyn ’28

Collaborative Leadership: Honors a student for their stewardship of collaborative work in the department
Awarded to: Tyler Garvey ’26

Outstanding Senior Scholar: Honors a senior student for the rigor and depth of their critical scholarship
Awarded to: Xinyi Zhang ’25

Social Engagement: Honors a student for the rigor and depth of their engagement with a social milieu and community that extends beyond Colby
Awarded to: Zoe Anderson ’28

Creative Risk: Honors a senior student for a given project undertaken in their final year that demonstrates substantial creative risk
Awarded to: Elena Michael ‘24

Outstanding Departmental Citizenship: for exceptional commitment to supporting peers and cultivating a positive community across the department and the arts
Awarded to: Raine Broussard ’27

Most Dedicated First-Year Student: Honors a first-year student for exceptional commitment to their work and depth of engagement in the department
Awarded to: Tyerra Osborne ’27

Collaborative Leadership: Honors a student for their stewardship of collaborative work in the department
Awarded to: Kiara Katwatsure ’27

Outstanding Senior Scholar: Honors a senior student for the rigor and depth of their critical scholarship
Awarded to: Favour Ajibade ’24

Social Engagement: Honors a student for the rigor and depth of their engagement with a social milieu and community that extends beyond Colby
Awarded to: Gabby Vogel ’26

Honors Outstanding Students Whose Contributions Exemplify Excellence in the Department

2021-2022 – Courtney Naughton

2020-2021 – Cora Merrick

2019-2020 – Sunny Dangui

2018-2019 – Kaylee L. Pomelow and Gabriella Foster

2017-2018 – Kelsey R. Book

2016-2017 – Kathryn I. Butler

2015-2016 – Brendan F. Leonard

2014-2015 – Emilie Jensen

2013-2014 – Jack Gobillot

2012-2013 – Delaney McDonough

2011-2012 – Ahmed Asi

2010-2011 – Alexandra Desaulniers

2009-2010 – Sean T. Senior

2008-2009 – Ashlee Holm

2007-2008 – SiuMan Ko

2006-2007 – Meagan Berg

2005-2006 – Julie Miller

2004-2005 – Rachel E. Damon

2003-2004 – Breilyn A. Brantley

2002-2003 – Sarah D. Style

2001-2002 – Stephanie Spitko

2000-2001 – Stacy Reid Erickson

1999-2000 – Michael Peter McNeil Eller

1998-1999 – Julia Louise McDonald

1997-1998 – Joshua Stevens Scharback and Shelley Kay Wollert

1996-1997 – Danielle Lee Herget

1995-1996 – Julie A. Gerry

1994-1995 – Lisa Jean DeHahn

1993-1994 – Zachary Ferenc Geisz

1992-1993 – Bruce A. Villineau

1991-1992 – Jennie Jean Holman

1990-1991 – Rebecca Rae Pease

1989-1990 – Richard Steinman Marcus

1988-1989 – John Thomas Reynolds

1987-1988 – Patricia M. Cirigliano

1986-1987 – Maura Suzanne Murphy

1985-1986 – Linda M. Elliott

1977-1978 – Robert Leland LeFeber

1976-1977 – Michael Todd Yeager

1975-1976 – John William Mulcahy, Jr.

1974-1975 – John Anthony Orefice, Jr.

1973-1974 – Toinette Helen Fontrier

1972-1973 – Cynthia Carol Santillo

1970-1971 – Thomas D. Frick

1969-1970 – Nancy Priscilla Anthony

1968-1969 – Linda Jo-Ann Palton

1967-1968 – Harlan Aaron Schneider

1966-1967 – Nancy Wallace Hellmann