Lauren Cox
Art Education Awards
Outstanding Senior
This award is given to a graduating senior for their outstanding achievements.
Natalie Bready
Teaching Excellence Award by a Graduate Student
This award is given to a graduate student who exhibits teaching effectiveness, impact on students, subject mastery and scholarship, and contributions to the teaching mission of the program. The recipient of this award was selected by the faculty of Art Education.
Jody Stokes-Casey
Ahu Yolac
Art History Awards
Outstanding Senior
This award is given to a graduating senior for their outstanding achievements. Kyndal Gragg
Teaching Excellence Award by a Graduate Student
This award is given to a graduate student who exhibits teaching effectiveness, impact on students, subject mastery and scholarship, and contributions to the teaching mission of the program. The recipient of this award is selected by the Graduate Faculty Committee. Kirstin Gotway
Kathleen Genis Memorial Scholarship Fund
This scholarship is awarded by application each year to an Art History major with demonstrated financial need. The award was established by Kathleen Genis’s daughter, Jeanne, in memory of her mother and her appreciation of art history. The scholarship is supported by her extended family.
Not awarded in 2020–2021
Mengchen Huang Memorial Endowment Fund
The Huang Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate and graduate students studying pre-modern Chinese studies, including literature, history, and religious studies, all with art history as a priority. This award was established to honor Mengchen Huang’s memory as a person who was dedicated to and meticulous in her work, as well as a passionate student, researcher, teacher, friend, and colleague at the University of Illinois.
Not awarded in 2020–2021
Olivia Pope - Stomp, Illustration
Graphic Design Awards
Outstanding Senior
This award is given to a graduating senior for their outstanding achievements.
Not awarded in 2020–21
Teaching Excellence Award by a Graduate Student
This award is given to a graduate student who exhibits teaching effectiveness, impact on students, subject mastery and scholarship, and contributions to the teaching mission of the program. The recipient of this award is selected by the Graduate Faculty Committee.
Faithful Oladeji
A. Doyle Moore International Travel Fund in Graphic Design
This scholarship, which is awarded by application, supports and supplements the cost of overseas study and travel of students in Graphic Design. Professor Moore retired from the School of Art + Design in 1991 after teaching graphic design for 33 years as well as teaching classes at Japan House on the theory of Japanese aesthetics.
Not awarded in 2020–21
Anthony J. Petullo Fellowship
The Antony J. Petullo fellowship awards at least two fellowships in Art & Design for students in the visual arts or design.
Faithful Oladeji
Luo Zhi
Industrial Design Awards
Outstanding Senior
This award is given to a graduating senior for their outstanding achievements.
Kate Roethler
Margaret T. Bullock Scholarship in Industrial Design
Established in 2020, the Margaret T. Bullock Scholarship in Industrial Design will be awarded to the graduating industrial design student with the highest cumulative grade point average in the Senior class.
This award was established and endowed by retired Professor William Bullock in memory of his mother, Margaret T. Bullock. Mrs. Bullock taught kindergarten and primary school for more than 50 years in Tuscumbia, Alabama. She was born in 1908 in Berkley, California and attended Hollywood High School and the University of California at Berkley. She was married to Henderson Carlisle Bullock, a Georgia Tech Electrical Engineering graduate.
Professor Bullock describes his mother as his first teacher and credits her for inspiring his love of learning and the joy that comes from helping others learn. He describes her as kind to all, a wonderful mother, and devoted wife, who was an inspirational teacher and role model.
Professor Bullock also credits her for calling his attention to industrial design as something “he might enjoy,” when a listing in a college course catalog caught her attention. His mom was right. He has enjoyed it.
William Bullock spent over 50 years in teaching and administration at major research
universities including the University of Kansas, Auburn University, Georgia Tech, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A UIUC professor of Industrial Design for more than 20 years, he chaired the program during a period when its enrollment and faculty doubled. He retired in June 2020.
With joy in his heart, he established this scholarship in tribute to his mother and to honor her memory.
Anna Chi
Jerome Caruso Significant Design Scholarship
This scholarship honors an outstanding junior or senior from the Industrial Design program who demonstrates the most ability to produce significant designs to benefit society through improvement of life and sustainability. Jerome Caruso, an awardwinning designer, received his BFA in Industrial Design at Illinois in 1959 and has maintained a lifelong passion for design. He has defined his long career by providing significant projects for major clients as a solo designer. Herman Miller, Sub-Zero, and Motorola are among his clients. With more than 95 design and utility patents, Jerome is endlessly fascinated by invention and the inventive use of materials.
Xingpan Jin
James G. Hansen Scholarship
This merit-based scholarship is awarded each academic year to a sophomore in Industrial Design. Mr. Hansen received both his BFA and MFA in Industrial Design at the University of Illinois.
Annika Sornson
Dr. Bryce G. Rutter Scholarship
Awarded to a junior or senior pursuing a degree in the Industrial Design program, this honor recognizes student excellence in the design of ergonomic products that possess strong aesthetic appeal to consumers. Industrial Design faculty members determine the awardee. Dr. Bryce Rutter received his PhD and MFA in design ergonomics and kinesiology between 1984 and 1987 from the University of Illinois and is now a leading expert in the research, ergonomics, and design of medical products and worldwide specialist in hand-intensive products and packaging. He has more than 120 international design excellence awards and has been awarded 117 patents.
Yifan Ding
Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) Merit Award
The Undergraduate Student Merit Award or SMA program at IDSA provides industrial design students with opportunities to showcase their talent and achievements at their schools, to their local professional communities, and at the district and national levels. The SMA program also allows schools with ID programs to gain acclaim and visibility among similar institutions. Further, it provides an ample platform for design managers and other talent acquisition professionals to see the industrial design geniuses of the future up close and in person.
Annabel Huber Hengbo (Hunter) Zhang
James Avery Scholarship
The James Avery Scholarship awards multiple scholarships to Art & Design undergraduate students. Industrial Design majors are eligible to receive funds annually over the four years of their undergraduate education. James Avery, BFA Industrial Design 1946, is a renowned educator and jewelry designer who donated the scholarship funds as a tribute to former Art & Design faculty member James Ross Shipley, a professor fondly remembered as “Coach.” Professor Shipley encouraged artistic innovation and experimentation in his teaching, which is the inspiring principle for these scholarships. Matias Bonta Clivio Sophia Guzman