Awards and Fellowships

Established by Mrs. Jane Ellen Winchester and Mrs. Hannah Bennett as a memorial to their son and brother, William Wirt Winchester. Awarded each year to the graduate student in architecture whose academic performance has been consistently at the highest level, who has displayed the most promise and potential for a future professional role, and who has completed a piece of distinguished independent work. This award provides an opportunity for study and travel outside the United States and is considered to be the School’s most prestigious award. Since 1965, the following students have been awarded the William Wirt Winchester Traveling Fellowship:

John I. Pearce and Alexander Purves, 1965  John Wood Galston, 1966  Henry John Gilbert Hawthorn, 1967  Robert Terry Renfro, 1968  Meinhardt J.D. Christiansen Jr, 1969  Roland F. Bedford, 1970  Ray Steven Oliver, 1971  Carison Wade, 1972  John Paul Chadwick Floyd, 1973  Hillary Ann Brown, 1974  James Howard Jorgenson, 1975  Stefani Danes Ledewitz, 1976  Kevin Lichten, 1977  Frederic MacN. Ball, 1978  Kevin Hart, 1979  Turan Duda, 1980  Brian E. Healy, 1981  John A. Boecker, 1982  Frank M. Lupo, 1983  Michael R. Davis, 1984  Robert L. Bostwick, 1985  John B. Tittmann, 1986  Douglas A. Garofalo, 1987  Alan W. Organschi, 1988  William Franklin Conway, 1989  Stephen Ellson Brockman, 1990  Sophie Harvey, 1991  Larry Cohen, 1992  Nora E. Demeter, 1993  Andrew David Reeder, 1994  Laura Y. King, 1995  Kumiko Inui, 1996  Leah S. Hall, 1997  Jennifer H. Bloom, 1998  Benjamin William de Rubertis, 1998  Jonathan David Bolch, 1999  Brian Papa, 2000  Robert T. Zirkle, 2001  Ameet N. Hiremath, 2002  Jonathan A. Toews, 2003  Katherine Elizabeth Davies, 2004  Ralph Colt Bagley IV, 2005  Christopher Ray Kitterman, 2006  Gregorio Santamaria Lubroth, 2007  Dana L. Getman, 2008  Parsa Khalili, 2009  Carlos Felix Raspall Galli, 2010  Daniel Gregory Markiewicz, 2011  Miroslava Brooks, 2012  Sara Francis Gill, 2013  Kathleen Bridget Stranix, 2014  Karolina Maria Czȩczek, 2015  Vittorio F. Lovato, 2016  Heather Jean Bizon, 2017  Claire Louise Haugh, 2018  Ryan Hughes, 2019  Sharmin Bhagwagar, 2019  Rhea Isobel Schmid, 2020  Jerome John Tryon, 2020  Rebecca Leah Commissaris, 2021  Leyi Zhang, 2021  Samar Halloum, 2022  Janelle Schmidt, 2022  Kyle W. Coxe, 2023  Inhwan Tae, 2023  Annika Babra, 2024  Tong Hsu, 2024  Alice Cochrane, 2025  Antonio Velasco Gonzalez, 2025 

Established by Gertraud A. Wood’s husband, Leonard Wood, as well as Mrs. Wood’s friends and associates. Mrs. Wood was the administrative assistant to three deans of the School of Architecture from 1967 through 1981. Awarded each year to an outstanding second-year student in the first professional degree program on financial aid for travel outside of the United States. The following students have been awarded the Gertraud A. Wood Traveling Fellowship:

Michael Davis, 1983  Chariss McAfee, 1984  Margaret Virginia Chapman, 1985  Jennifer Tate, 1986  Camilo Alberto Gonzalez, 1987  Stephen Donald Luoni, 1988  Frieda Margarite Menzer, 1989  Lisa Joyce Quatrale, 1990  Robert Schultz, 1991  Gitta Robinson, 1992  John Bertram, 1993  Michael Benjamin Levy, 1994  Steven Andrew Roberts, 1995  Victor Agran, 1996  Dean Sakamoto, 1997  Kara J. Bartelt, 1998  Cara M. Cragan, 1999  Katharine Stevens, 2000  Victoria Partridge, 2001  Jonathan Toews, 2002  Elicia Keebler, 2003  Jonah C. Gamblin, 2004  Frederick Scharmen, 2005  Elisa S.Y. Lui, 2006  Maria Claudia Melniciuc, 2007  Garrett Thomas Omoto, 2007  Catherine E. Anderson, 2008  Matthew A. Roman, 2008  Andrew Ashey, 2009  Matthew Aaron Zych, 2010  Miroslava Brooks, 2011  Christine Argyros, 2012  Robert Cannavino, 2013  Belinda Lee, 2014  Anne Wing Yan Ma, 2015  Margaret Jau-ming Tsang, 2016  David Alston Langdon, 2017  Samuel David Bruce, 2018  Menglan Li, 2018  Rhea Isobel Schmid, 2019  Rachel Mulder, 2020  Diana Smiljkovic, 2021  Tiana Kimball, 2022  Grace Lily Brooks, 2023  Byron Cai, 2024 

Established in honor of George Nelson (B.A. 1928, B.F.A. in architecture 1931), architect, product designer, and writer, by Herman Miller, Inc., and Mrs. George Nelson. Awarded each year through a competitive application process to a second-year student in the first professional degree program for support for an independent course of study. Recipients demonstrate skill as a designer, interest in critical thought, and the ability to express ideas in written and verbal form. The following students have been awarded the George Nelson Scholarship:

William Vahan Fereshetian, 1989  Erika Gabrielle Belsey, 1990  Maitland Jones III, 1991  Scott John Specht, 1992  Sergey Olhovsky, 1993  Andrew Jesse McCune, 1994  Courtney Elizabeth Miller, 1995  Bertha A. Olmos, 1996  Emily Sheya Kovner, 1997  Bruce David Kinlin, 1998  Samer M. Bitar, 1999  Paul Arougheti, 2000  Noah K. Biklen, 2001  Andrew F. Davis and Francine Hsu, 2002  Christopher Harrison Cayten, 2003  Ralph Colt Bagley IV, 2004  Michele Naomi Darling, 2005  Brook Giles Denison, 2006  Garret James Gantner, 2007  John C. Brough, 2008  Parsa Khalili, 2008  Aiden Doyle, 2009  Palmyra Geraki, 2009  Marija Brdarski, 2010  Emmett Zeifman, 2010  Can Vu Bui, 2011  Thomas Matthew Rolles Fryer, 2011  Gary Leggett, 2012  Ivan Farr, 2013  John Blakely Wolfe, 2014  Andrew John Sternad, 2015  Cathryn Garcia-Menocal, 2016  Ian Cameron Donaldson, 2017  Miguel Sanchez-Enkerlin, 2018  Melissa Kendall Weigel, 2018  Gioia Connell, 2019  Ife Adepegba, 2020  Audrey Fischer, 2021  Christina Zhang, 2021  Sosa Erhabor, 2022  Joshua Greene, 2022  Nicole Niava, 2023  Annika Babra, 2023  Calder Birdsey, 2024  Karina Encarnación, 2024  Samuel Boakye, 2025  Tony Salem Musleh, 2025 

Established by David Schwarz (M.Arch. 1974). Awarded to provide a graduating student with a fellowship to travel in Europe. The following students have been awarded the David M. Schwarz/Architectural Services Good Times Award:

Benjamin Bischoff, 2000  Mark Gage, 2001  Victoria Partridge, 2002  Hanson Liu, 2003  Gregory Walter Sobotka, 2004  Christopher Yost, 2005  Frederick Scharmen, 2006  Sallie Rebecca Hambright, 2007  Santiago del Hierro Kennedy, 2008  Isaiah King, 2009  Eliza Weyland Higgins, 2010  Jonah Asher Rowen, 2011  Amy DeDonato, 2012  Manuel Teodoro Quintana, 2013  William James Sheridan, 2014  Belinda Lee, 2015  Winny Windasari Tan, 2016  Gordon Daniel Schissler, 2017  Jeongyoon Isabelle Song, 2018  Zelig Fok, 2019  Liwei Wang, 2020  Angela Marie Lufkin, 2021  Saba Salekfard, 2022 

Awarded to the graduating student with the highest academic ranking in the first professional degree program.

Sarah Anne Rubinstein, 2004  Emily Alice Atwood, 2005  George Benedict de Brigard, 2006  Weston W. Walker, 2007  Pierre A. Reynoldson, 2008  John Capen Brough III, 2009  Andreea Cojocaru, 2010  Mark Talbot, 2011  Greta Modesitt, 2012  Caitlin Morgan Gucker-Kanter, 2013  Robert Anthony Cannavino, 2014  Mahdi Sabbagh, 2015  Dorian Ascher Booth, 2016  Cathryn Alexandra Garcia-Menocal, 2017  Tess Kathleen McNamara, 2018  Miguel Sanchez Enkerlin, 2019  Maya Sorabjee, 2020  Rachel E. Mulder, 2021  Katie Colford, 2022  Chi Zhang, 2023  Elmira Moskvina, 2024  Noah Silvestry, 2025 

Awarded to the graduating student with the second-highest academic ranking in the first professional degree program.

Abir Ahmad, 2004  Michael Alan Rey, 2005  Abigail Dunlop Ransmeier, 2006  Mathew Dryden Razook, 2007  Erica R. Schroeder, 2008  Mwangi Gathinji, 2009  Adam Joseph Tomski, 2010  Elizabeth Rose Haber, 2011  John Taylor Bachman, 2012  Amrita Jogesh Raja, 2013  Daniel Peter Jacobs, 2014  Sarah Elaine Smith, 2015  Justin David Oh, 2016  Paul Jacob Lorenz, 2017

Awarded each year to that graduating student who has shown an ability for leadership, performed willing service for the school and department, and given promise of real professional merit through attitude and personality.

Kanu Kartik Agrawal, 2004  David Charles Hecht, 2005  Christopher E.M. Beardsley, 2006  James Michael Tate, 2007  Leo Rowling Stevens IV, 2008  Mwangi Gathinji, 2009  A. Talley Burns, 2010  Lis Cena, 2011  Vincent Calabro 2012  Amy Gayle Mielke 2013  Jessica Ann Varner, 2014  Raphael de la Fontaine, 2015  Daphne Binder, 2016  Wesley Michael Hiatt, 2017  David Alston Langdon, 2018  Nicole Doan, 2019  Emily J. Cass, 2020  Anjelica Sanchez Gallegos, 2021  Rachael Tsai, 2022  R Noah Lee Sannes, 2023  Reem Sadek Elsaeid Ahmed Khorshid, 2024  Jessica Liu Chen, 2025

Established by Myra Louise Parsons as a memorial to her husband, William Edward Parsons (B.A. 1895, B.F.A. 1905), designer, architect, and city planner who, at the end of his career, established a program in city planning at the School. Presented each year to that member of the graduating class who has done distinctive work and demonstrated the greatest professional promise in the area of city planning.

Edward Emile Richardson, 2004  Aniket Arwind Shahane, 2005  Roy Foster Griffith, 2006  Jeffrey McBride, 2007  Michael Beaumont Crockett, 2008  Miriam Lynn Peterson, 2009  Brett Patrick Appel, 2010  Jacob Lawrence Dugopolski, 2011  Amir Shahroki, 2012  Owen Trowbridge Howlett, 2013  Craig Matthew Rosman, 2014  Jonathan Feng Sun, 2015  Andrew Sternard, 2016  Jeremy Caldwell Leonard, 2017  Jolanda Devalle, 2018  Lucia Venditti, 2019  Serena Ching Su Yen, 2020  Krystel Kay Yang, 2020  Martin Carrillo Bueno, 2021  Elise Barker Limon, 2022  Charis Elizabeth Armstrong, 2023  Barbara Micha Nasila, 2024  Kristen Perng, 2025

Established by Hyman I. Feldman (B.F.A. 1920). The Prize is awarded each year to the student who demonstrates the best solution to an architectural problem in an advanced studio, taking into consideration the practical, functional, and aesthetic requirements of that problem.

Christopher Allen Marcinkoski and Andrew Thomas Moddrell, 2004  Brian Edward Healy, 1981  Charles F. Lowrey, Jr., 1982  Stefan Ragnar Hastrup, 1983  Jun Mitsui, 1984  Herbert Martin Hodgman, 1985  David DuShane Harland, Jr., 1986  Douglas A. Garofalo and Madeleine Sanchez, 1987  Gilbert Pierson Schafer III, 1988  Steve Lawrence Dumez, 1989  Carrie M. Burke, 1990  Douglas Neal Kozel, 1991  Norberto Abel Bressano, 1992  Michael A. Harshman, 1993  Michael R. Haverland, 1994  Ira Thomas Zook III, 1995  Russell Starr Katz and Rosemary Welle, 1996  Gregory Joseph Goebel, 1997  Kevin P. Owens, 1998  Kok Kian Goh, 1999  Mark Foster Gage, 2000  David Mabbott, 2001  John M. Nafziger and Sarah Elizabeth Strauss, 2002  Marshall A. Bell, 2003  Christopher Allen Marcinkoski and Andrew Thomas Moddrell, 2004  Ralph Colt Bagley IV and Jonah C. Gamblin, 2005  Russell Jon Greenberg, 2006  Dana L. Getman, 2007  Dylan M. Sauer, 2008  Emily Arden Wells, 2009  Anne-Marie Paula Armstrong, 2010  Daniel Gregory Markiewicz, 2011  Ryan Welch, 2011  Amir Mikhaeil, 2012  Christina Argyros, 2013  Bryan Andrew Maddock, 2014  Kara Marie Biczykowski, 2015  Luke Anderson, 2016  Istvan van Vianen and Minquan Wang, 2017  Jack Lipson, 2018  Ryan Hughes, 2019  Camille Chabrol, 2020  Thomas Patrick Friesen Mahon, 2020  Alexandra Louise Pineda Jongeward, 2020  Araceli Lopez, 2021  Isabel Li, 2022  Sally S. Chen and Hannah Mayer Baydoun, 2022  Jia Ying Guan and Reem Nassour, 2023  Nabil Haque and Reem Nassour, 2024  Meghana Ramesh and Sombo Sisay, 2025 

Established by friends and family as a memorial to Wendy Elizabeth Blanning, class of 1978. Awarded each year to the student in the second year of the first professional degree program on financial aid who has shown the most promise of development in the profession.

Ralph Colt Bagley IV, 2004  Andrew Lyon, 2005  Michael Jejon Yeung, 2006  Nobuki Ogasahara, 2007  Cody W. Davis, 2008  Anne-Marie Armstrong, 2009  Jonah Asher Rowen, 2010  Amy Elizabeth DeDonato, 2011  Manuel Teodoro Quintana, 2012  Kathleen Stranix, 2013  Meghan Baker McAllister, 2014  John Walker Kleinschmidt, 2015  Tess Kathleen McNamara, 2016  Timon Covelli, 2017  Hsin-Ju Lai, 2018  Maya Sorabjee, 2019  Angela Lufkin, 2020  Rachael Tsai, 2021  Ana Batlle, 2022  Khalid Hassan, 2023  Grace Chan, 2024 

Established as a memorial by the family of Sonia Schimberg (M.Arch. 1950). Awarded each year to a graduating student for outstanding academic performance.

Wendy Westfall, 1982  Patricia MacDougall, 1983  Marti Cowan, 1984  Chariss McAfee, 1985  Susan Baggs, 1986  Jennifer Tate, 1987  Jennifer Whitley Smith, 1988  Claire Weisz, 1989  Patricia Brett, 1990  Carrie Burke, 1991  Anne Corvi, 1992  Gitta Robinson, 1993  Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, 1994  Dana Tang, 1995  Lee Shea, 1996  Stacie Wong, 1997  Elspeth Cowell, 1998  Celia Corkery, 1999  Meaghan Lloyd, 2000  Elizabeth Tilney, 2001  Stephanie Tuerk, 2002  Li-Yu Hsu, 2003  Valerie Anne Casey, 2004  Ashley McRainey Forde, 2005  Meaghan K. Smialowski, 2006  Federica Vannucchi, 2007  Kathleen L. John Adler, 2008  Olga Pantelidou, 2009  Hilary Zaic, 2010  Rachel Ching-Mei Hsu, 2011  Erin Colleen Dwyer, 2012  Jacqueline Ho, 2013  Brittany Lane Utting, 2014  Amy J. Su, 2015  Samantha Leigh Jaff, 2016  Margaret Jau-Ming Tsang, 2017  Margaret F. Marsh, 2018  Jennifer Lai, 2019  Rachel Nicole LeFevre, 2020  Leanne Kiyomi Nagata, 2021  Devi Nayar, 2022  Maya Bergstrom Gamble, 2023  Odette James, 2024  Precious Chidolum Ndukuba, 2025

Established by the Yale Architectural Alumni Association to honor Janet Sielaff, who, from 1976 until her death in 1983, served as the dean’s assistant for alumni affairs. Awarded each year to that graduating student who most significantly contributed to, and fostered, school spirit.

Christopher Harrison Cayten, 2004  Daniel Adam Barber, 2005  Fred Gray Shealy, 2006  Elisa S.Y. Lui, 2007  Maria Claudia Melnicinc, 2008  Iben Andrea Falconer, 2009  David Bijan Sadighian, 2010  Emmett Zeifman, 2011  Shuo Zhai, 2012  Ryan Michael Salvatore, 2013  Alice Winn Tai, 2014  Maya Catherine Alexander, 2015  Ting Ting Pearl Ho, 2016  Francesca Lena Carney, 2017  Radhika Singh, 2018  Menglan Li, 2019  Jennifer Yunhee Shin, 2020  Scott Austin Simpson, 2021  Lauren Carmona, 2022  Jahaan Dominique Scipio, 2023  Elise Margaret Kennedy, 2024  Jessica Rose Mitchell, 2025 

Established by family members as a memorial to Moulton Andrus (B.A. 1962, M.Arch. 1966). Awarded each year to a graduating student who has achieved excellence in art and architecture.

Kyle Stas Konis, 2004  Ceren Bige Bingol, 2005  Abigail Louise Coover, 2006  Seung Hwan Namgoong, 2007  Jeff L. Geldart, 2008  Seher Erdogan, 2009  Chat Travieso, 2010  Leticia Wouk Almino De Souza, 2011  Stephen Gage, 2012  Alexa Tsien-Shang, 2013  Constance Marie Vale, 2014  John Blakely Wolfe, 2015  Boris Morin-Defoy, 2016  Matthew James Bohne, 2017  Istvan van Vianen, 2018  Lani Barry, 2019  Adam Thibodeaux, 2020  Sasha Fisher Zwiebel, 2021  Sydney Maubert, 2022  Joshua Michael Greene, 2023  Nabil Haque, 2024  Danning Niu, 2025 

Awarded each year to the graduating student who has excelled at drawing as part of the design process, is articulate with pencil, and shows architectural ideas with a strong personal graphic style of presentation.

Patrick William Giannini, 2004  Brent Allen Buck, 2005  Nicole Lambrou, 2006  Clinton Prior, 2007  Brent C. Martin, 2008  Shane B. Neufeld, 2009  Aurora Virginia Farewell, 2010  Mark Allen Gettys, 2011  Cotton Estes, 2012  Lang Wang, 2013  Eleanor Kate Measham, 2014  Dionysus Roy Cho, 2015  Anne Wing Yan Ma, 2016  Nasim Rowshanabadi, 2017  James Douglas Coleman, 2018  Timon Covelli, 2018  Erin Hyelin Kim, 2019  Matthew Liu, 2020  Luka Pajovic, 2021  Meghna Mudaliar, 2022  Se Won Kim, 2023  Yumemaru Kashino, 2024  Samantha Ong, 2024  Caitong Duan, 2025  Renee Soraya Ammann, 2025 

Awarded each year to a graduating student who has shown promise for excellence in residential architecture.

Erin Carraher, 2004  Noah Riley, 2005  Scott Baltimore, 2006  Brook Giles Denison, 2007  Michael T. Krop, 2008  Felicia Gabrielle Martin, 2009  Helen Brown, 2010  Vivian Shing-Wei Hsu, 2011  Ashley Ozburn, Ian Starling, 2012  Christopher Parkinson, 2013  Thomas Michael Medek, 2014  Olen Snow Milholland, 2015  Andrew Eric Dadds, 2016  Daniel S. Marty, 2017  Meghan Stratton Royster, 2018  Diego Arango, 2019  Muhammad Hamzah Ahmed, 2020  Shikha Lhamu Thakali, 2021  Diana Smiljkovic, 2022  Andrea Sanchez Moctezuma, 2023  Khalid Hassan, 2024  Calder Birdsey, 2025

Established as a memorial to David Taylor, a student of the School from 1992 through 1994, who was stricken with an illness that took his life in 1995, to honor David’s strong interest in architectural criticism and his commitment to the pursuit of excellence in residential architecture. Awarded each year to a graduating student.

Gretchen B. Stoecker, 2004  Guvenc Ozel, 2005  Sara K. Stevens, 2006  Gary Britt Eversole, 2007  Nicholas W. McDermott, 2008  Alexander Maymind, 2009  Aidan Joseph Doyle, 2010  Emma Jane Bloomfield, 2011  Matthew Gin, David Sheerin, 2012  Aaron Michael Dresben, 2013  Ayeza Rahat Qureshi, 2014  Eric Wycoff Rogers, 2015  Shivani Shedde, 2016  Gregory Elias Cartelli, 2017  Jia Weng, 2018  Burton Jack Hanly, 2019  Matthew Leo Wagstaffe, 2019  Holly Marie Bushman, 2020  Mary Carole Overholt, 2021  Mila Samdub and Theodossios Issaias, 2022  Clare Connell Fentress, 2023  Georgios Papamatthaiakis, 2023  Austin Ehrhardt, 2024  Gioia Linnea Pappalardo, 2024  Grace M. Dube, 2025  Basel Hussein, 2025 

The Takenaka Corporation, one of Japan’s leading full-service architecture and construction companies offers a three month summer internship in the Architectural Design section of its Osaka office. A monthly stipend is provided for the duration as well as round-trip airfare.

Ashley McRainey Forde, 2004  Andrei S. Harwell, 2005  Marc Charles Guberman, 2006  Isaiah King, 2007 Carlos Felix Raspall Galli, 2009  Brian Oliver Butterfield, 2010  Dawood Farid Royben, 2011  Edward Hsu, 2012  Bryan Maddock, 2013  Phillip Josh Takeshi Nakamura, 2014  Ling Jun Chen, 2015  Heung-Sum Cecilia Hui, 2016  Pierre Thach, 2017  Iven Sze Kiat Peh, 2018  Matthew Liu, 2019  Srinivas Karthikeyan, 2020 

Established by David Schwarz (M.Arch. 1974). Provides a student with a summer internship and a traveling fellowship.

Christopher Pizzi, 2000  Jason Balecha, 2001  Robert McClure, 2002  DaeWha Kang, 2003  Emily Alice Atwood, 2004  Marisa Jocelyn Kurtzman, 2005  Geoffrey Lawson, 2006  Alexandra McCallum Burr, 2007  Amy Shu Chang, 2008  Carmel Bonfigli, 2009  Mark Talbot, 2010  Ashley Lauren Ozburn, 2011  Amy Elizabeth Kessler, 2012  Evan Wiskup, 2013  Meghan Lewis, 2014  Seyedeh Kiana Hosseini, 2015  Rashid Muydinov, 2016  Ronald Ostezan, 2017  Benjamin D. Olsen, 2018  Brenna Thompson, 2019  Benjamin H. Derlan, 2022  Sally S. Chen, 2023  Brent Kokonya Wafula, 2024  Mesut Sallah, 2025