2023 Award Winners
Author: lskramer
Congratulations to our 2023 faculty, staff, and student award winners. These awards recognize your hard work and dedication to your students and your studies.
LAS Award for Early Achievement in Teaching
This award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding teaching performance, unusually early in their professional careers.
Lesley Bartlett
LAS International Service Award
This award recognizes ISU faculty for outstanding international service in terms of teaching, research, or administration, within the United States or abroad.
Tina Coffelt
LAS Institutional Service Award
This award recognizes a member of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty or staff for a history of exemplary institutional service that has benefited the department, College and/or the university.
Bethany Gray
LAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research
This award recognizes faculty members for outstanding career achievements in research and/or creative activity.
Jo Mackiewicz
LAS P&S Outstanding New Professional Award
This award recognizes and honors professional and scientific staff members who have been employed by Iowa State University for five years or fewer and have achieved outstanding performance in their respective fields.
Julia Hutchcroft
Cross-Disciplinary Linguistics Scholarship
This award is presented annually to one student majoring in
linguistics for exceptional academic performance.
Adam Haut
Quentin G. Johnson Award
This award recognizes an undergraduate senior or graduate student
who has a strong academic record and shows promise
in the study of linguistics.
Sydney Crowley
Teaching Excellence Award
This award recognizes graduate students who have
demonstrated excellence in teaching.
Nergis Danis – Agata Guskaroska – Leyla Karatay
Tara Labovich – Al Ozkul – Leah VanSyckel
Research Excellence Award
This award recognizes graduate students who have demonstrated excellence
in a scholarly or creative thesis or dissertation.
Benjamin DuBow – Zoë Fay-Stindt – Kristin Terrill
Outstanding Service by a Graduate Student Award
This award recognizes the contributions of students who show a pattern of outstanding service throughout their degree programs at ISU.
Fatemeh Bordbarjavidi – Zoë Fay-Stindt – A’Ja Lyons
Sanne Langbroek – Kristin Terrill – Kelsey Zimmerman
Applied Linguistics Graduate Student
Best Publication Award
This award recognizes the research achievements of graduate students enrolled in the Ph.D. program for Applied Linguistics & Technology or MA program in TESL/Applied Linguistics.
Mutleb Alnafisah – Erik Goodale
Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing
This award recognizes graduate students who show
extraordinary promise in creative writing.
Summer Awad – Jordan Castinado
Tara Labovich – Zoe Stonetree
Pearl Hogrefe First-Year Student Scholarship
in Creative Writing
This award recognizes a first-year student whose work exemplifies
promise or talent in one of the genres of creative writing.
Antonia Kubas – Malcom Wei
(Those awarded in the fall of 2022 are listed below):
Lilian Atchison – Ethan Primrose – Sophia Vanderpool
Pearl Hogrefe Sophomore Scholarship in Creative Writing
This award recognizes an original and imaginative use of language
and future promise in creative writing.
Brenna Akason – Reza Choudhury
Meadow Edwards – Mohamed Ragab
Pearl Hogrefe Junior Scholarship in Creative Writing
This award recognizes an original and imaginative use of language
and future promise in creative writing.
Kaylin Beadle – Alexandra Harwood
Ainsley Kennedy – Mackenzie Vogt
Pearl Hogrefe Senior Scholarship in Creative Writing
This award recognizes outstanding originality, unusual perspective,
and a unique voice in creative writing.
Valentine Chenus – Danielle Robinson
Morgan Sheeder – Allison Weiler
Kurt Moody Creative Writing Award
This award, given in honor of Kurt Moody, recognizes Iowa State undergraduate
students who demonstrate excellence in creative writing.
Sophie Byroade – Robert Katseres – Lydia Lee
Will C. Jumper Scholarship
This award recognizes Iowa State undergraduate students
who demonstrate excellence in poetry writing.
Bobbie Buie – Danielle Robinson – Sadie Smeenk
Herta David Scholarship in English
This award recognizes Iowa State undergraduates majoring in English.
Alexandra Harwood – Alayna Sinko – Hannah Yetter
EnglQueer Outreach Award
This annual award is given for raising awareness in the Iowa State community
about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual issues.
Samantha Robinson-Adams
Paul L. & Carolyn Errington Award
This award recognizes academic excellence, clarity, and effectiveness in expository writing related to environmental literary criticism.
Zoë Fay-Stindt
Critical Literary Analysis Writing Award
This award recognizes an undergraduate or graduate student for a
single piece of critical exposition originally written
for an English course at Iowa State University.
Bobbie Buie
Albert L. Walker Excellence-in-English Award
This award recognizes two undergraduate students and one graduate student who show demonstrated ability in the study of literature.
Bobbie Buie (Undergrad)
Tara Labovich (Graduate)
Mackenzie Vogt (Undergrad)
James and Rachel Lowrie Family Awards
This award recognizes a junior or senior whose oral and written performance
in English courses demonstrates outstanding growth, perception, and
capability in the study of literature.
Madeline Gillette – Jacqueline Murphy
Mackenzie Vogt – Allison Weiler
Freda Huncke Endowment Award
This award recognizes undergraduate students majoring in English who demonstrate academic excellence and expository writing ability.
Bobbie Buie – McKenna Flood
Taylor Heuthorst – Alexander Rios
Excellence in Writing and Communication Award
This award recognizes English 150 or English 250 students who
demonstrate excellence in multimodal communication.
Ismail Barry – Zachary Campbell
Humza Maqsood – Penny Mayer
Desere’ McCargar – Mara McClimon
Grace McEvoy – Zach Merwin
Jack Ng- Gabriel Rodriguez-Arroyo
Madison Rule – Hermione Zhou
W. Paul Jones Scholarship
This award recognizes a full-time student in the RPC program for scholarly excellence in rhetoric and professional communication.
Ma-aruf Al-hassan
Pamela Henry Lassahn Scholarship in Technical Communication
This award recognizes an undergraduate student majoring in Technical
Communication with a minor or designated area of
concentration in a technical or scientific field.
Hannah Yetter
Richard R. Wright Award
This award recognizes academic excellence and
demonstrated ability in expository writing.
Shangyu Jiang
Speech Communication Ray Dearin Award for Academic Excellence
This award recognizes a Speech Communication major who exhibits
a strong academic record within the major.
Mikayla Klein – Nina Mitchell