GARRISON THEATER
2:00 P.M., SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2025
GUEST SPEAKER
MARTHA GONZALEZ
Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies
SCRIPPS COLLEGE
2025 SENIOR AWARDS CONVOCATION PROGRAM
Welcome
Mary Hatcher-Skeers, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
Introduction of the Speaker
Melina Durre, 2024-25
President of Scripps Associated Students
“INCIPIT
HOPE: SIEMBRA ESPERANZA”
Martha Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies
Presentation of the Senior Class Gift
Abbie Oh Arroyo and Belén Yudess Senior Class Co-Presidents
Recognition of Students and Presentation of Awards
Mary Hatcher-Skeers, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
Marion Preest, Pritzker Family Foundation Professor of Biology
Emily Rankin ’97, Alumnae Association President
Awards & Recipients
Fulbright Scholar Awards
The Fulbright Program was established by Congress in 1961 to “enable the government of the United States to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” Although the majority of grants are for graduate students, a small number of awards are reserved for graduating seniors who wish to further their studies or teach English abroad.
Alondra Cobain Mexico
Maya Lobo German Open Study/Research Award
Sophie Dinerman Germany
Momoka Schmidt Spain
Angela Zhou Taiwan
Projects for Peace Award
The Projects for Peace program supports undergraduates at the American colleges and universities in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to propose grassroots projects that they will implement during the summer of 2025 and 2026. The objective is to encourage and support today's motivated youth to create and try out their own ideas for building peace.
Corina Silverstein
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Award
Seleny Arroyo
Anya Nyman
Corina Silverstein
Napier Fellow Award
Each of the Claremont Colleges may nominate annually up to three seniors to be Napier Fellows. These are students who have the proven ability to provide leadership for social change and are proposing a project they would like to carry out after graduation. All those nominated are encouraged to work with a mentor at Pilgrim Place, a service-oriented retirement community in Claremont, California.
Emily Dong
Diana Reiss
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is a one-year grant for purposeful, independent study outside the United States, awarded to graduating seniors nominated by one of 40 partner colleges.
Momoka Schmidt
Critical Language Scholarship Program
Anya Nyman
Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Jana Gaskin
Omicron Delta Epsilon
Founded in 1915, Omicron Delta Epsilon is one of the world’s largest academic honor societies. The Scripps College chapter, Alpha Upsilon, was established in 2009 to recognize scholastic attainment and honor outstanding achievements in economics and to foster closer ties between students and faculty in economics within the College.
Elena Creason
Ryia Hariharan
Ava Hinz
Jacqueline Hsu
Simar Malhorta
Erica Matthisen
Laila Rhenifel
Catherine Sunding
Sydney Watson
Phi Beta Kappa
The Theta of California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa was established at Scripps College in 1962. Seniors are elected to membership on the basis of their academic standing and the regulations for eligibility established by the chapter and the national society.
Ella Gillespie Bailey
Jemma Fastiggi Bosselman
Evelyn Emma Chan
Sophie Elizabeth Dinerman
Aiko Rei Dougherty
Iris Clare Ducker
Anna Frances Ermoian
Alice Ge
Golda Gene Grais
Stella Maxine Karm
Lilly Sway Katts
Sylvie Rosa Kromer
Audrey Haeyoung Lee
Cassidy Annette Lee
Isabel Li
Maya Tilos Lobo
Clara Rose Louden
Jane Orkand Lovett
Lauren Nicole Mar
Erica Suzanne Mattisen
Meredith Grace McKinley
Erika Alana Moore
Georgia Elizabe Norton de Matos
Anya Nyman
Zoe Ruth Pancoast
Devyn Elaine Paul-Wilson
Mai Phuong Pham
Marin Grace Plut
River Rafferty
Emma Haven Breen Rosenberg
Momoka Joy Schmidt
Eliyah Rose Stern
Dawn Stitt
Catherine Ann Sunding
Ella Rae Haws Sundstrom
Gwen Morgan Tucker
Hope Gwendolyn Walter
Ellen Wang
Eliet Lee Williamson-Diaz
Phi Alpha Theta is a national honor society in history. Students who meet the criteria are invited to join.
Elena Creason
Psi Chi
Psi Chi is the National Honor Society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. Membership is open to undergraduate and graduate students who are making the study of psychology one of their major interests, and who meet the minimum qualifications.
Leah Atkins
Riya Hariharan
Shalini Shyam Kumar
Frances McMillan
Alicia Lamkin
Athena Lewin
Abigail Lim
Karina Lipe
Lacy Parrett
Lucy Rippey
Eliyah Stern
Kendra Teraoka
Cherish Voyticky
Phi Alpha Theta
Sigma Delta Pi
Sigma Delta Pi is a national honorary Spanish society. Juniors and seniors are elected to membership on the basis of academic standing.
Olivia Grace Gaetz
Stella Maxine Karm
Amalia Marie Koch
Peregrine Sky Lane-Thurlow
Lindsay Rose Ravetz
Lucy Sherwood Thomas
Sage Anais Wong-Davies
Sigma Xi
The Claremont Colleges Club of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, elects seniors to associate membership in the national society on the basis of outstanding aptitude for scientific research and achievement in science.
Charlotte Jo Abeshaus
Lucia Blumling
Molly Booth
Ysabel David
Amelia Douglass
Anna Ermoian
Fiona Irving-Beck
Maya Lobo
Theta Alpha Kappa
Scripps College is a member of The Claremont Colleges chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa, a national honor society for religious studies/theology. Students are elected to membership on the basis of academic standing and regulations for eligibility established by the national society.
Mara Halpern
Lydia Jung
Lucy Waggoner-Wu
Annual Alumnae Award
Each year the Scripps College Alumnae Association presents this award to one or more seniors in recognition of outstanding contributions to the life of the College.
Ysabel David
Marin Plut
Ellen Wang
Belén Yudess
Alumnae Athletic Award
This award is funded in part by the parents of Mollie Clyde Wilson ’32, and is given for excellence in athletics by the Scripps College Alumnae Association.
Ashley Murashige
Anthropology Senior Thesis Award
This award recognizes the senior thesis in anthropology that best engages all aspects of the ethnographic process, from conception to fieldwork to analysis and final written presentation.
Clara Louden
"COLD WATER IMMERSION: COMMUNAL INTIMACY AND EMBODIED WELLNESS"
Established in 2012, the Innovation Award goes to a senior art project that is noted for its innovative spirit and may be in any media.
Ali Ge clayroot
Art Innovation Award
The Paul R. Bishop Memorial Award
The Paul R. Bishop Memorial Award in Choral and Vocal Music will go to a student who exhibits exemplary work in the choral and vocal areas of the Scripps College Music Department and the Joint Music Program.
Taylor Levinson, Harvey Mudd College
Josie Nelson, Harvey Mudd College
Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award
The Noëlle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award was established in 2006 by Thierry Boucquey, Professor Emeritus of French at the College, in honor of his daughters. The scholarship annually recognizes a senior student athlete who was distinguished during four years of athletic eligibility by an outstanding performance or other extraordinary achievement or distinction in one of CMS’ competitive sports, while concurrently earning a minimum cumulative GPA of A- The student is selected by the Joint Athletics (CMS) coaching staff.
Ashley Murashige
Ray Buriel Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Senior Thesis Award
The Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies Senior Thesis Award recognizes excellent work in the field of Chicana/o-Latina/o studies.
Michel Silverstein
“Crafting Cultural Power: Artistic Interventions as Tools for Political Organizing Among Los Angeles Street Vendors”
Crombie Allen Award
This award, presented for the best creative written work: essay, short story, poetry, or play, was established in 1927 by Mr. Crombie Allen, a former editor of the Ontario Daily Report.
Adi Jolish
“Forget-Me-Not in Ten Constellations”
Corina
Loralyn Ledwell Cropper ’84 Dance Award
Established by the Class of 1984 in memory of their classmate Loralyn Ledwell Cropper, this award is given to an outstanding Scripps College senior whose persistence, creative spirit, and passion for dance reflects the high standards of its namesake.
Jana Gaskin
English Senior Thesis Award
This award recognizes the English senior thesis that best meets the criteria of an important, wellsustained, and cogently developed argument; of thoughtful, discriminating use of secondary sources; of thoroughness of research; and of excellence in writing.
Taylor Kindron
Taylor Nelson
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Award
This award recognizes the accomplishments of a graduating senior majoring in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies who has significantly contributed to the department through the quality of academic work, the collegiality of interactions, and commitment to the advancement of feminist ideals.
Emily Rose Dietrick
Zola Bea Hefta-Gaub
Danielle Electa Jordan
The Frederick Hard Award
This award, named in honor of the distinguished Shakespearean scholar who served as president of the College from 1944 through 1964, is presented to a Scripps student for outstanding contributions to our knowledge and appreciation of the Elizabethan Age.
Anabhra Singh
“Garcia de Orta and the Colloquies: The role of Imperialism and Colonialism in Shaping Knowledge during the Scientific Revolution”
The History Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented by the History Department faculty for the best senior thesis in history and its related disciplines.
Anya Nyman
“Constructing the Market: Development, Revolution, and History in Ghana’s Urban Markets”
Sarah Ladwig Prize in Italian Studies
This award was established to honor the memory of Sara Ladwig, who taught Italian for many years at Mt. San Antonio College. It is awarded to a student who is studying or has studied Italian (at the upper division level) and who, through a student’s course work, demonstrates an in-depth interest in a particular aspect of Italian culture, literature, history, or politics. The prize is used to support travel to/from Italy during the summer or provide additional support for study abroad programs.
Emma Rosenberg
Langland Award
This award, named in honor of Lois Langland, Professor Emerita of Psychology who retired from Scripps after 20 years of teaching, is given annually to one or more students majoring in psychology who wish to study the attributes and functioning of women in their various capacities as individuals and as members of society.
Alicia Lamkin
Paola Ojeda
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented by the Latin American Studies faculty for the best senior thesis in Latin American and Caribbean studies.
Jocelyn Andrade
Platicas, Poetry, & Perteneciendo: First Generation Chicanas’ guidebook navigating PWI’s
Melanie Gonzalez
The Legacy of Spanish Colonization in México: A Tale of Reclamation, Transformation and Decolonization of La Virgen de Guadelupe
Lois
Legal Studies Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in legal studies.
McKenzie Issac
“Bright-Lines in Sentencing: A Legal and Moral Case Against Juvenile Life-Without-Parole”
The Lind Family Prize in Mathematics in Honor of Mary Barron and Professor Louis Barron
This award is designated in loving memory by their nephew, Matthew M. Lind, parent of Katy Lind ’06. The prize is awarded to an outstanding senior who is a math major.
Laurel JP Walker
Holy Rubber Triangles: Algebraic Topology for Data and Learning.
Barbara McClintock Science Award
The Barbara McClintock Science Award, named for America’s first woman Nobel Laureate, was established in 1991 in honor of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The prize is awarded for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in the sciences.
Amelia Douglass
Agnes Moreland Jackson Outstanding Senior Thesis and Project Awards
This award is presented by Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies faculty for the best senior thesis in Africana Studies.
Anya Nyman
Markets, Development, and Constructing Urban Traders in Ghana (1952-Present)
Gladys Pattison Award in Music
Established in 1973 in memory of the widow of Lee Pattison, Professor of Music at Scripps from 1941 to 1962, this award is given to the most deserving student in the field of music for the purpose of enriching the recipient’s music library.
Isabel Li
Anna Ravid
Watkins ’09 Media Studies Award
The Watkins Award recognizes the accomplishments of a Scripps graduating senior majoring in media studies who has significantly contributed to the Intercollegiate Media Studies program through the quality of academic work, committed exploration of creative possibilities, and the mastery of chosen media as a means for issuing social thought.
Marina Shishkina
Local as Global
Payton
The Padelford French Award
Established in memory of Louise Restieaux Hawkes Padelford, Assistant Professor of French from 1929 to 1931 and trustee emerita. The book award is given to an outstanding Scripps College senior who is distinguished in French Studies. The student is selected by the French faculty.
Sophie Feldman
"From Arabization to Anglicization: Unmasking Language Policy Shifts in Algeria"
Annika Heaton-Brandt
"Une Comparaison des indicateurs de stresse dans les populations de bruants à couronne blanche, de gambel et de tohis de Californie au sein d'habitats naturels et suburbains"
The Politics and International Relations Senior Thesis Award
The award is presented for the best senior thesis written by a graduating Scripps senior in politics and international relations.
Sophie Dinerman
Memory and Myth: Archetypal Remembrance of the Holocaust
Marin Plut
Reframing Progress: The battle over the Lower Snake River dams
Edith Potter German Award
The Edith Potter German Award is given to one or more students majoring in German or German Studies. This award honors Edith Potter, the late professor of German, who retired in 1990 after 23 years of teaching at Scripps College.
Clara Louden
Bauhaus Building Kits. Futurism and Emotion in Designs by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
The Margaret Siler Faust Psychology Senior Thesis Award
This award, named in honor of Margaret Siler Faust, Professor Emerita of Psychology, who retired from Scripps College after more than 30 years of teaching and research in psychological science, is given to the senior whose thesis best exemplifies the use of careful, empirical research to address important psychological questions about human behavior and experience.
Alicia Lamkin
Joan Robinson Prize in Economics
The Joan Robinson Prize in Economics was established in memory of a highly accomplished female economist. The prize is given by the economics faculty for superior accomplishment in senior thesis, judged on analytical and creative merit.
Samantha
Ford
"Built to Last: Intergenerational Transfers and the Architecture of Inequality”
Slocum Award
The Slocum Award was established in 1936 by Mr. and Mrs. M.S. Slocum, whose two daughters attended Scripps. This award is presented annually to the senior who has formed the best personal library during four years of college.
Elle Propp
Eliet Williamson-Diaz
The Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures Senior Thesis Award
This award is presented by the Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures faculty for the best senior thesis in Spanish and its related disciplines.
Abigail Nicole Barahona
¡Despertemos, humanidad! Leyendo, escuchando y mirando la resistencia ambiental indígena en Honduras
Belén Silvia Yudess
"A Lesson in Reminding Youth that the World Belongs to Them: Un análisis literario, histórico, y creativo de tres novelas por Benjamin Alire Sáenz"
Established in 1973 in memory of Lucia Suffel of the class of 1960, this award is given annually to an outstanding student in the field of art.
Cayman Chen, Claremont McKenna College
Home: Work in Progress
Jamie Haith
Radical
Jessica Yim
The Ag(new) Clinic
Sallie Suzanne Tiernan Memorial Award
Sallie Tiernan Reynolds attended Scripps College before graduating from Stanford University in 1945 with a degree in chemical engineering. She was one of four women to graduate from the first law school class of UCLA in 1953 and served on the Scripps Board of Trustees for over four decades. The award is given to a student who will be attending law school.
McKenzie Issac
Edward A. White Award in American Studies
This award was established in 1976 as an appropriate honor to Edward A. White, the late Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor Emeritus of History and Biography at Scripps College, and is given to a senior who has done outstanding work in the study of the United States and its history, culture, or politics.
Tamsin Urbas
“Rooted in Neutrality: Cassava, Colonial Histories, and the Evolution of Cultural Identity”
Lucia Suffel Crafts Award
Kathleen Wicker Religious Studies Senior Thesis Award
This award was established in 2003 by Professor Kathleen O’Brien Wicker and Religious Studies students to recognize the senior thesis that best deals critically and insightfully with a topic in the area of religion.
Lydia Jung
"Relief, Alienation, Identity Formation: Heterogeneous Narratives of Lower-Support-Needs Autistic Adults in Christian and Jewish Religious Contexts"
Writing Program Thesis Award
This award is presented by the Writing Program faculty for the best senior thesis produced by a selfdesigned writing major.
Jada Shavers
“My Grandpa: How One Man Changed Our Life”
Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award
The Rosalyn S. Yalow Science Award, named for the 1977 Nobel Laureate, was established in 1991 in honor of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. The prize goes to a graduating Scripps science major with the highest GPA.
Erika Moore
Eliyah Stern