Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Awards

Excellence Awards Ceremony
Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Awards
These awards were added to the Excellence Awards ceremony in 2016. The Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Awards seek to recognize graduate, professional, and/or adult students who demonstrate a commitment to excellence, service that promotes justice, and demonstrate values-based leadership in each award category.
2024-2025
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, or Adult Student Leader Award
- Recipient: Caitlin Osei
- Finalists: Evan Nave, Naida Softic Batson, and Grant Steiner
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Organization Award
- Recipient: Trust & Estate Law Society
- Finalists: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Black Graduate Student Alliance, and History Graduate Student Association
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, Adult Program of the Year Award
- Recipient: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Career Development Forum
- Finalists: Black Graduate Student Alliance, with the Black Graduate Student Mixers and Empowerment Dinners, History Graduate Student Association (HGSA), with The Lakefront Historian and Graduate Student Conference, and Trust & Estate Law Society, with the Chicago Estate Planning Council Luncheons
2023-2024
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, or Adult Student Leader Award
- Recipient: Emma Kelley
- Finalists: Nina Frankovic,Richa Khatiwada, and Vanessa Mendoza
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Organization Award
- Recipient: ºÚÁÏÃÅStands
2022-23
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, or Adult Student Leader
Recipient
- BridgetBrodlo
Finalists
- Bridget Brodlo
- Brandon Thomas
- Nneka Ugqu
2021-22
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Leader Award
Recipient
- TJ DiPuma
Finalist
- Krislyn Zhorne
2020-21
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Leader
Recipient
- Jessica Simpson
Finalists
- Thomas (TJ) DiPuma
- Alysia (Cici) Gazder
- Adriana Lugosan
- Jonathan Okstad
- Asura Osborne
- Crystal Quinones
- Colleen Reaney
- Guadalupe Rosas-Rico
- Ryan Wong
- Country Yablon
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Organization
Award Recipient
- Graduate Student Advisory Council
Finalists
- Academic Medicine Interest Group
- First-Generation & Low-Income (FGLI) Support Committee Graduate Student Advisory Council
- Higher Education Student Association (HESA)
- Student Wellness Advisors
- The AOA Cascade Leadership Program
Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Outstanding Program of the Year Award
Recipient
- The Ripple Effects of COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Advocacy During the Pandemic
Finalists
- Open Forum by Black Graduate Student Alliance and Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
- Careers in Higher Education Panel by Higher Education Student Association (HESA)
- Gender Disparities in Health Care Industry by Women in Neurology Group and Student Interest Group in Neurology
- Student Wellness Advisory Group Programming
2019-20
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Leader
Recipient
- Mark Solinski
Finalists
- Ryan Evans
- Yucheng Jiang
- Sergio Juwa
- Nephtalie Lesperance
- Crystal Quinones
- Justin Sia
- Mark Solinski
- Laurie Thompson
- Matthew Williams
Outstanding Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Organization
Award Recipient
- Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE)
Finalists
- Medical Polish Peer-Led Language Program at Stritch School of Medicine
- Society of Women’s Health – ºÚÁÏÃÅStritch School of Medicine
Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Outstanding Program of the Year Award
Recipient
- Stritch Peer Professional Education Program
2018-19
Outstanding Student Leader Award
Winner:
- Rebecca Valeriano-Flores
Finalists:
- Abby Cannon
- Jonathan Eby
- Adriana Lugosan
- Yver Melchor- Hernandez
- Yahitza Nuñez
- Adam Regnier
- Melissa Regnier
- Rebecca Valeriano-Flores
- Jessica Vitkin
- Hye-Jin Yun
Outstanding Program of the Year Award
Winner:
- Graduate Organizers and Mentors for the Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
2017-18
Outstanding Student Leader Award
Winner:
- Sahand Ghodrati
Finalists:
- Abby Cannon
- Paola Carrera
- Sydney Curtis
- Christina Gikas
- Flor Navarro
- Jessie Payne
- Joshua Shannon
- Elizabeth Southworth
- Kristen Surla
- Bingya Wu
- Tiffany Yi
Outstanding Student Organization Award
Winner:
- Women in Science (WINS)
Finalists:
- Higher Education Student Association (HESA)
- LUC Operation Smile
Outstanding Program of the Year Award
Winner:
- Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians Academic Medicine Interest Group – Leadership Certificate
Finalist:
- Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program
2016-17
Outstanding Student Leader Award
- Grace Montero
Finalists
- Soulit Chacko
- Megan Monahan
Student Social Justice in Action Award
- Anthony Sis
Finalists
- Hilary Thomas
- Charla Trubey-Hockman
Outstanding Student Organization Award
- Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education & Student Affairs (JCSHESA)
Finalists
- Nursing Student Council 2017
- SCPS Student Ambassadors
Outstanding Program of the Year Award
- Women’s Day Conference 2017
Finalist
- Second Year Master’s Dietetics Nutrition Program
2015-16
Outstanding Student Leader Award
- Christina Beynon
- Rebekah Turnbaugh
Finalists
Taiwo Adefiyiju, Naseeb Bhangal, Brett Beasley, Shannon Cervantes, La Wanna Wells, Gregory Deye, Briellen Griffin, Katherine Knight, Joanna McAdams, Matthew Miniscalco, Grace Montero, Melissa Moses, Blake Spesard, Anthony Sis, Tracy Smith
Staff Member of the Year Award
- Natasha Teetsov
Finalists
- Nancy Argudo, Kelly Barry, Bianca Bulliner, Gregory Deye, Richard Renfro, Ph.D.
Faculty Member of the Year Award
- Elizabeth Burkhart, Ph.D.
Finalists
- Amy Heinke, Ph.D., Amy Jordan, Ph.D., Sabina Neugebauer, Ed.D.
Student Social Justice in Action Award
- Marcos Gonzales, S.J.
Finalist
- James Johnson
Outstanding Student Organization Award
- Higher Education Student Association
Finalists
- History Graduate Student Association, School of Social Work Student Organization, Social Worker(s) of Color Alliance
Outstanding Program of the Year Award
- Black Lives Matter Conference
Finalist
- SCPS Student Ambassadors
Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Awards
These awards were added to the Excellence Awards ceremony in 2016. The Graduate, Professional, & Adult Student Awards seek to recognize graduate, professional, and/or adult students who demonstrate a commitment to excellence, service that promotes justice, and demonstrate values-based leadership in each award category.