HSOC and STSC Student Achievements

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

Dhivya Arasappan '24 (HSOC): Alumni Society Prize

Steven Chen '24 (HSOC): Sol Feinstone Undergraduate Award

Alexander Eapen 24 (HSOC): HSOC Flag Bearer

Sarah Girgis '24 (HSOC): College Alumni Society's 250th Commemoration Award

William Han '24 (HSOC): Fulbright (South Korea, English Teaching Assistant)

Catherine Hood '24 (HSOC): President's Engagement Prize

Claire Jun '25 (HSOC): Davis Projects for Peace

Simran Rajpal '24 (HSOC): President's Engagement Prize

Neha Shetty '24 (HSOC): Hassenfeld Social Impact Grant; Projects for Progress

Mia Shiue '24 (STSC): STSC Flag Bearer

Hertha Torre Gallego '24 (HSOC): Penn Alumni Student Award of Merit; Society of the College Prize, awarded for the best HSOC senior honors thesis; Phi Beta Kappa 2024

Destiny Uwawuike '25 (HSOC): Davis Projects for Peace

Zhangyang Xie '24 (STSC): Society of the College Prize, awarded for the best STSC senior honors thesis; Phi Beta Kappa 2024

 

Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

Gabriela Alvarado '23 (HSOC): Society of the College Prize, awarded for the best HSOC senior honors thesis; Phi Beta Kappa 2023

Dhivya Arasappan '24 (HSOC): College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant

Soline Boussard '23 (STSC): STSC Flag Bearer; Amazon Day One Fellowship, Harvard Data Science, Harvard University

Ezra Chan '24 (HSOC): 2022-2023 Wolf Humanities Center Undergraduate Research Fellow; Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant; 2023-2024 Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy Undergraduate Research Fellow

Alexander Eapen '24 (HSOC): NIH Amgen Scholar, Center for Interventional Oncology, NIH Clinical Center

Hertha Torre Gallego '24 (HSOC): Mazzatenta Scholars Award Grant; Andrea Mitchell Center Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Christine Kong '24 (HSOC): Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant; Endowed Dean's Research Award

Timothy Lee '22 (HSOC): Phi Beta Kappa 2023

Sophie Qi '23 (HSOC): Phi Beta Kappa 2023

Oluwatomilola Oyasiji '23 (HSOC): HSOC Flag Bearer

Jenna Schulman '23 (HSOC): Rose Undergraduate Research Award; Alumni Society Prize awarded for HSOC for her outstanding academic performance and her service to the major; Phi Beta Kappa 2023

Mary Shin '22 (STSC): Phi Beta Kappa 2023

Audrey Singer '23 (HSOC): College Alumni Society 250th Commemoration Award

 

Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Tathagat Bhatia '21: Phi Beta Kappa 2022.

Natalie Doppelt '22: HSOC Flagbearer awarded for excellent academic performance and contributions and service to the major. 

Sarah Finkelstein '22: Honorable Mention, Carroll-Smith Rosenberg Senior Thesis Award in Women's Studies for her thesis, "Reframing Caregiving and Medical Professionalization: Using the History of Modern Doula Care to Recognize the Value in Viewing Care Work and Professionalized Technomedicine along a Continuum," supervised by Professor Elly Truitt.

Mary Shin '22: STSC Flagbearer awarded for excellent academic performance and contributions and service to the major. STSC Undergraduate Advisory Board President.

Nicholas Thomas-Lewis '22: Rhodes Scholar and Society of the College Prize for the best HSOC thesis, "Recovery of the Self...From Addiction, Adolescence, and Neuromedicalization," supervised by Dr. James McKay and Dr. Meggie Crnic. Phi Beta Kappa 2022.

Nikki Zinzuwadia '22:  Alumni Society Prize awarded for HSOC for her outstanding academic performance and her service to the major. HSOC Student Advisory Board president. Phi Beta Kappa 2022. 

Senior Honors Students: Michelle Anzabi, Natalie Doppelt, Sarah Finkelstein, Mae Mouritsen, Daryn Smith, Noelle Kristen Smith, Nicholas Thomas-Lewis, Nikki Zinzuwadia

 

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020

Humphrey Shen HSOC '21: Merton C. Bernstein Internship on Social Insurance.

Connor Hardy HSOC '21: Davis Projects for Peace Recipient

Heta Patel HSOC '21: Davis Projects for Peace Recipient

Catherine Campbell HSOC '20: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Prize, Society of the College Prize for HSOC, Phi Beta Kappa

Nurul Ezzaty Binti Hasbullah HSOC '20: Rhodes Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa

Kelcey Gibbons STSC '20: Society of the College Prize for STSC, Phi Beta Kappa

Carolyn Chow HSOC '20: College Alumni Society Prize, Phi Beta Kappa

Morgan Taylor HSOC '21: Andrea Mitchell Center Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Angela Kumirai HSOC '21: Andrea Mitchell Center Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Brian Goldstein HSOC '20: Phi Beta Kappa

Pearl Liu STS '21: Wolf Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellowship for 20-21, Kelson Family College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant , Benjamin Franklin Scholars Summer Grant 

Tathagat Bhatia STS '21: Wolf Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellowship for 20-21

Kristina Mullen HSOC '21: Wolf Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellowship for 20-21

Neelu Paleti HSOC'21: CASI ((Center for Advanced Study of India) Summer Research Grant); Asian American Studies Fellows Program; Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant 

Julci Areza HSOC'21: Asian American Studies Fellowship; The College Alumni Society Board of Managers and Presidents Undergraduate Research Grants

Alea Zone HSOC'21: Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant from the College Alumni Society in the amount of $650

Grace Mock HSOC ’21: Mary L. And Matthew S. Santirocco College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant

Isabelle Breier HSOC’21: College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant

Catherine Campbell HSOC'20: Frederick W Meier Jr. Phi Beta Kappa Thesis Prize.

Senior Honors Students: Catherine Campbell, Merubi Degefa, Kelcey Gibbons, John Ortega, Samantha Stein

 

Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

Adamseged Abebe HSOC '19: Global Rhodes Scholarship, College Alumni Society Prize for HSOC

Catherine Campbell HSOC '20: Louis H Castor, M.D., C'48 fellowship, Wolf Center for the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Merobi Degefa HSOC '20: Association of Alumnae Rosemary D. Mazzatenta Scholars Award, Andrea Mitchell Undergraduate Research Grant

Lea Eisenstein HSOC '19: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Senior Thesis Award (for Senior Thesis) the Rose Award (for Senior Thesis), Phi Beta Kappa Prize (for Senior Thesis)

Joshua Goldenberg STSC '19 Academic All-American (2017-2018, 2018-2019), Academic All-Ivy

Joelle Goldston HSOC '19: Marjorie A. Bowman Award for Undergraduate Public Health Service

Connor Hardy HSOC '21: College Alumni Society research grant

Louis Lin HSOC '20:  Truman Scholar

John Ortega HSOC '20: CURF Jumpstart for Juniors Research Grant, Wolf Center for the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Samantha Stein HSOC '20:  Andrea Mitchell Undergraduate Research Grant, the Ruth Marcus Kanter College Alumni Society Undergraduate Research Grant 

Cathy Zhang HSOC '19, Abraham D. Cohn Senior Award for outstanding senior

Phi Beta Kappa: Minna Fingerhood STSC '19, Lea Eisenstein HSOC '19, Anissa Saylany HSOC '19

President's Engagement Prize: Princess Aghayere HSOC '19, Summer Kollie HSOC '19  

Flagbearers: Foladade Lapite HSOC '19, Minna Fingerhood STSC '19

College Alumni Society Prize for HSOC: Adamseged Abebe HSOC '19

Society of the College (best senior thesis): Lea Eisenstein HSOC '19, Avalon Morell STSC '19

Senior Honors Students: Lea Eisenstein, Lara Jung, Folasade Lapite, Phoebe Ruggles, Leah Sprague, Minna Fingerhood, Ariel Friedman, Avalon Morell, Kaylah Walton

 

 

2024

Trevor Arellano '24 (Health Policy and Law): Non-profit and community work in NYC

Shahana Banerjee '24 (Health Policy and Law): Working in management development before applying to law school

Margaret Jankowski '24 (Public Health): Research Assistant, Center for Pediatric Research in Obesity & Metabolism, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Christine Kong '24 (Public Health): Working as a clinical research coordinator while applying to medical school

Tiffany Nakajima '24 (Public Health): Urban Health Policy fellow at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health

Melissa Nong '24 (Global Health): Launching her community data start-up, Panbo, in Philadelphia, before going to law school

Dylan Norton '24 (Public Health): Clinical Research at Mass General in Boston during pre-med gap year

Simran Rajpal '24 (Public Health): Building an intervention to increase breast cancer screening utilization in Philadelphia through individual risk analyses and community education as a Penn President's Engagement Prize recipient

Mena Tausner '24 (Public Health): Life Sciences Consulting at Acsel Health

Hertha Torre Gallego '24 (Global Health): Pursuing an MPhil in Population Health Sciences at the University of Cambridge (2024-2025)