Students, Faculty and Staff Celebrated at Departmental Awards Ceremony

For the first time since 2019, members of the Department of Geographical Sciences gathered in-person for the Annual Departmental Awards Ceremony. Over 100 students, faculty and staff were honored for academic achievements, research honors, Departmental Awards and more. Congratulations to all awardees and thank you to those who could attend! View the list of Departmental Award winners and pictures from the ceremony below.

Departmental Award Winners:

Excellence in Graduate Research 1st Place: Aolin Jia

Excellence in Graduate Research 2nd Place: Jiaming Lu, Ruohan Li

Excellence in Graduate Research 3rd Place: Yunting Song, Rebecca Traldi, Zhiyue (Luna) Xia

Brian R. Melchior Endowed Research Fund: Alice Barnsdale, Peter Fath, Natalie Memarsadeghi, Camille Hoffman Delett

Graduate Student Appreciation Award: Dave Cook

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Matthew Tralka and Michael Adegbenro

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Xueyuan (Eric) Gao

Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant: Ruohan Li

Robert A. Harper Undergraduate Research Paper Award: Zachary Jarjoura

Undergraduate Independent Research Award: Marie Panday

Highest GPA Undergraduate (Geographical Sciences): Sean Ray

Highest GPA Undergraduate (Environmental Science and Policy): Marie Panday

James R. Anderson Award: Marie Panday

Outstanding MS GIS Student: Renee Dauerer

Outstanding MS GEOINT Student: Amanda Lopez

O.E. Baker Award: Jeff Sauer

Outstanding Faculty Specialist: Blake Munshell

Outstanding Post-doctoral Associate: Maria Zubkova

Outstanding Research Faculty: Dong (Tony) Chen and Alyssa Whitcraft

Outstanding Instructional Faculty: Jonathan Resop

Special thanks to Catherine Miranda, Amanda Hoffman-Hall, Allison Baer, Byron Marroquin, and Erin Jacobs for coordinating this event!

Amanda Hoffman-Hall speaks at the podium in front of the awards slideshow — Dr. Amanda Hoffman-Hall, emcee for the evening, kicks off the awards ceremony.

Maria Zubkova and Tatiana Loboda smile together on a stage — Outstanding Post-doctoral Associate winner Maria Zubkova smiles for a picture with Department Chair Tatiana Loboda.

Sergii Skakun, Matthew Tralka, Michael Adegbenro, and Amanda Hoffman Hall smile on stage together — Matthew Tralka and Michael Adegbenro receive their awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, accompanied by nominator Sergii Skakun and Undergraduate Director Amanda Hoffman Hall.

GEOG students, staff, and faculty chat and eat food in a large room with red tables. — GEOG students, faculty and staff mingle following the awards presentation in Prince George's Room of the Stamp Student Union.

Published on Mon, 05/09/2022 - 11:44