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