2023 Newhouse Awards

Each spring, the Newhouse School recognizes those students whose dedication, ingenuity, academic excellence and creativity exhibit extraordinary talent and effort. Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Undergraduate Awards

Advertising Awards

Deborah Fink Green Award

• Drew Bartelstein
• Maya Tsimmer

Harry D. Meyers Memorial Prize in Advertising

• Jasper Nusbaum
• Rhea Srivastava

Most Promising Advertising Student

• Brooke Hirsch
• Philip Lockett

Newhouse Advertising Department Award for Academic Excellence

• Charlotte D’Orsi
• Kathleen Kavanagh

Newhouse Advertising Student of the Year

• Megan Adams
• Alex Schneider

Bandier Program Awards

Bandier Leadership Award

• Joyce Chen
• Elizabeth Taszarek

Bandier Innovator/Operator Award

• Sydney Panzer

Broadcast and Digital Journalism Awards

Don Edwards Broadcast Journalism Award

• Louise Rath

The Radio-TV-News Power Producer Award

• Nardeen Saleep

Magazine, News and Digital Journalism Awards

Henry J. Leader Memorial Prize in Editing

• Zoe Glasser
• Kyle Henderson

Henry J. Wolff Prize

• Jordan Greene
• Roshan Fernandez

The Samuel V. Kennedy III Award for Newspaper Editing

• Sydney Bergan
• Tolu Fajolu
• Christopher Hippensteel

William Glavin Award for Excellence in Magazine Writing

• Maggie Hicks
• Zoe Glasser

The John Mitchell Award for Sports Reporting

• Samuel Warren

All Journalism Awards

Bob Heisler Award for Excellence

• Roshan Fernandez
• Marnie Muñoz
• Maya Pow

Photography and Graphic Design Awards

Bertram J. Davis Scholar Award

• Scarlett Benson

Dr. Frank Meola Photography Prize

• Emily Steinberger

Jeff Licata Photography Award

• Joohee Na

Kodak Professional Photo Scholarship

• Emily Steinberger

Society for News Design/Marshall Matlock Designer of the Year

• Shannon Kirkpatrick

The Visual Communications Department Prize in Graphic Design

• Natalia Deng Yuan

The Visual Communications Department Prize in Immersive Media

• Matthew Brodsky

The Visual Communications Department Prize in Motion Graphics

• Elizabeth Carlson

The Visual Communications Department Prize Video Production

• Murphy McFarlane

Public Relations Awards

Julie Mendez Diversity and Inclusion Award in Public Relations

• Giana DiTolla
• Kiana Khoshnoud
• Lillian Koller

The Public Relations Department Chair Award for Leadership

• Giana DiTolla

The Public Relations Public Service Award

• Quinn Schmidt

The William P. Ehling Award

• Daniella French

Television, Radio and Film Awards

Edward L. Hersh Award

• David Barbier

Glenn Steinfast Award for Excellence in Documentary Film Production

• Alexandra Siambekos

Gordon J. Alderman Memorial Prize

• Aine Hunt
• Gretchen Harken
• Chris Nichols

Irene M. Sholkin Prize in Script Writing

• Michael Bliss
• Thomas Hober

Oscar Micheaux Filmmaking Award

• Chelsea Brown

Stan Alten Excellence in Audio Award

• Vir Batra

The Zach Trifone Love of Life and Music Award

• James Cunningham

All Undergraduate Majors

Dean’s Service Award

• David Barbier
• Adam Campos
• James Cunningham
• Giana DiTolla
• Marnie Muñoz
• Marisa Mastropieri

The Beth Mowins ’90 Award in Sports Media

• Stella Balaskas

Excellence in Web Development and Coding Award

• Catherine Haugen
• Alexandra Hodge

Mary Zoretski Award

• Christopher Hippensteel

Newhouse First-Year Achievement Award

• Sarah Torres

George Plavocos Award

• Madelyn Doolittle

David Rubin 1st Amendment Prize

• Robert Chappell
• Myra Labiche
• Dominic Naggar

Class Marshals

• Porter Holt
• Mykenna Maniece

Newhouse Scholars

• Chelsea D. Brown
• Phoebe L. Bogdanoff
• Gianna M. Corrente
• Aaron Hall
• Kyle J. Henderson
• Kiana C. Khoshnoud
• Mykenna A. Maniece  
• Maya A. Pow
• Louise C. Rath
• Jane S. Shevlin
• Alexandra K. Siambekos
• Maya Tsimmer
• Samuel A. Warren
• Martha G. Welker

Graduate Awards

Graduate School Master’s Prize

• Michael Alessie
• Shannon Burth
• Timothy Cato III
• Robert Child
• Meghan Curtis
• Tanner Garza
• Zoe Maxey
• Danyell Monk
• Tashna Nair
• Natalie Rieth
• Soo Min Seol

A. William Bluem Award

• Tashna Nair

Armando Doreste Award

• Molly Lin

Catherine L. Covert Research Award

• Ryan Wen

Charnice Milton Award for Community Journalism

• Isabel Flores

Oh, The Places You’ll Go Award

• Daisy Leepson
• Joyelle Ronan

Public Relations Certificate of Achievement

• Samuel Cestari
• Tanner Garza
• Emma Hudson
• Xin Lan
• Cynthia Zych

The Magazine, News and Digital Journalism Graduate Achievement Award

• Meghan Curtis

The William Doescher Outstanding Public Relations Master’s Degree Student

• Siyang Chen