ERIE, Pa. — Penn State Behrend held its 69th annual Honors and Awards Convocation on Sunday, April 22. Recipients of major awards for the 2017-18 academic year were:
COLLEGE-WIDE AWARDS
- Irvin H. Kochel Award — Hannah Carlino, Saxonburg, Pennsylvania
- T. Reed Ferguson Award — Karina Cuadrado, Tao Alta, Puerto Rico; Hannibal Pharathikoune, Okinawa, Japan
- Thomas H. Turnbull — Award Natalie Szalajko, South Bend, Indiana
- Eric A. and Josephine Walker Award — Jason Pettner, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
- Archie K. Loss Undergraduate Honors Thesis Award — Alexandra Alfonso Castro, Carolina, Puerto Rico; Kymberly Drapcho, Erie
- Outstanding First-Year Student — Daniel Wheeler, Erie
- Penn State Behrend Council of Fellows Undergraduate Research Award — Jonathon Schrecengost, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
- Benjamin A. Lane Outstanding Service Award — Kristy Bunce, Administrative Support Coordinator, School of Engineering
- Division of Undergraduate Studies Award, First Year — Madison Clapper, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania
- Division of Undergraduate Studies Award, Second Year — Dalton Dougherty, Mayport, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Tutor Award, Business — Margo McCullough, Meadville, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Tutor Award, Engineering — Joseph Reynolds, Saegertown, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Tutor Award, Mathematics — Gordon Garrett, Wexford, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Tutor Award, Science — Alec Payne, Beaver, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Tutor Award, Writing — Andrew DeVarney, Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
BLACK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AWARDS
- Accounting — Brianna Riley, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Award — Catherine Brooks, Erie
- Institute of Management Accounting (IMA) Award — Justin Araki, North East, Pennsylvania
- Association for Supply Chain and Operations Management (APICS) Award — Nicholas McKee, Bridgeville, Pennsylvania
- Business Club Leader — Brianna Riley, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
- Business Economics/Economics — Nicholas Findley, Meadville, Pennsylvania; Natalie Szalajko, South Bend, Indiana
- Delta Sigma Pi Scholarship Key Award — Jason Pettner, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
- ETS Major Field Test Award — Zachary Boyd, Erie
- Finance — Jason Pettner, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
- Finance, World Campus — Prativa Luitel, Shelton, Connecticut; Stefan Moscalu, Lynchburg, Virginia
- Interdisciplinary Business with Engineering Studies — Ashley Pettit, Meadville, Pennsylvania
- International Business — Kristopher Knorr, Erie
- Kenneth L. Spencer Award, Accounting — Luke Popovich, Indiana, Pennsylvania
- Kenneth L. Spencer Award, Finance — Matthew F. Colpoys, Erie
- Management Information Systems — Anna Reed, Erie
- Marketing Katharina Becker, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Master of Business Administration, Erie — Lizabeth Gerber Lewis, Erie
- Master of Business Administration, Cranberry Township — Brett Tucker, Apollo, Pennsylvania
- Professional Readiness Award — Adam Wisniewski, Erie
- Project and Supply Chain Management — Parker Faix, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
- Student Entrepreneur Award — Yu Ting Wang, Taichung, Taiwan
- Outstanding Honors Graduate Award — Jason Pettner, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES AWARDS
- Corey N. Farrell Nonfiction Award — John Patrick Jarecki, Fairview, Pennsylvania
- Clarence A. and Eugenie Baumann Smith Fiction Award — Alexandria Smiley, Union City, Pennsylvania
- Kenneth Jonathan Sonnenberg Poetry Award — Alexandria Smiley, Union City, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Achievement in Communication — Echo Seiersen, Erie
- Outstanding Creative Writing Major — Taylor Powell, West Springfield, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding English Major — Kymberly Drapcho, Erie
- Outstanding English and Professional Writing Major — Amy Kiehl, Fairview, Pennsylvania
- Best Contributing History Major — Eden Safar, Monroeville, Pennsylvania
- Dr. John Rossi Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award — Samuel Garwig, Harborcreek, Pennsylvania; Dylan Perry, Moon Township, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Political Science Major — Echo Seiersen, Erie
- Zachary T. Irwin Humanitarian Award — Jaclyn Mitchell, Erie
- Outstanding Psychology Student — Christina Murzynski, Erie; Chelsea Ptak, Erie
- Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in Psychology — Bryce Chong, Singapore
- Myron Jones Broadcasting Award — Rachel Cotton, Media, Pennsylvania
- Outstanding Elementary and Early Childhood Education Graduate — Janine Zaunegger, Erie
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AWARDS
- Academic Excellence in Biology — Sean Artello, Erie
- Aaron Meehl Biology Award — Rachael Adams, Erie; Gunjan Patel, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
- Academic Excellence in Chemistry — Alexandra Alfonso Castro, Carolina, Puerto Rico
- Outstanding Freshman in Chemistry/American Chemical Society Award — Windsor Lundy, Bettendorf, Iowa
- Academic Excellence in Environmental Science — Celeste Bentley, Erie; Grace Schoeniger, New Tripoli, Pennsylvania
- CRC/Outstanding Freshman — Erin Loc, Henniker, North Carolina
- Mathematics Competition Award — Kade Kolheffer, Millford, Pennsylvania
- Academic Excellence in Mathematics — Lauren Minner, Erie
- Most Promising Freshman in Mathematics — Patricia Brotherson, Erie; Angela M. Dale, Clinton, Pennsylvania
- Academic Excellence in Physics — Jonathon Schrecengost, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AWARDS
- Computer Engineering — Dylan Hoffman, Evans City, Pennsylvania
- Computer Science — Andres Valenzuela, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
- Electrical Engineering — Tyrell Yoder, Hadley, Pennsylvania
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology — Arkadiy Burdak, Erie
- Industrial Engineering — Katherine Collins, Harleysville, Pennsylvania
- Mechanical Engineering — Derek J. Shaffer, Stoneboro, Pennsylvania
- Mechanical Engineering Technology — Jeremy Main, Warren, Pennsylvania
- Plastics Engineering Technology — Ryan Bauer, Tionesta, Pennsylvania
- Software Engineering — Johanna Appallonia Hardner, Erie
- Master of Manufacturing Management — William Jones, Meadville, Pennsylvania
- Jake Boyle Memorial Award — Nolan Beresford, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
NURSING PROGRAM AWARDS
- B.S.N. Academic Excellence — Moran McBride, Hermitage, Pennsylvania
- RN to B.S.N. Academic Excellence — Patricia Donnelly, Erie
- Excellence in Professional Nursing and Caring — Lauren Myers, Kane, Pennsylvania; Megan Thorpe, Albion, Pennsylvania