Departmental Student Award Winners

2024

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Avery Vess
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: John Brock
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Becca Kelly
• HESP Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award:  Sierra Hall, Avery Vess, Rachel Horan
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Sophie Redwine and Vanessa Reyes

Faculty Award Winners

2024

• Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award: Matt Goupell, PhD
• BSOS Excellence in Service Award: Nicole Nguyen, AuD, CCC-A
• Provost's Excellence in Service Award for PTK Faculty: Nicole Nguyen, AuD, CCC-A
• Provost's Excellence in Teaching Award for PTK Faculty: Sarah Sohns, AuD, CCC-A

2023

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Allison Godsey
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Maddie Trageser
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Sarah Weinstein Menendez
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Claire Bowler and Allison Choi
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Lauren Campbell
• HESP Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: Connie Benson, Allison Godsey, Patricia Daniels, Avery Vess, and Seetal Ahluwalia

2023

• BSOS Dean's Medal: Colleen Worthington and Sandy Gordon-Salant

2022

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Jessica Lee
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Bushra Lohrasbi
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Calli Yancey
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Natalie Field and Alyssa Pasta
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Sarah Comer and Miriam Hwang-Carlos
• HESP Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: Valerie Coleman, Felicity Vasek, and Meghan Longo

2022

• The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Excellence in Service for Diversity and Inclusion Award: José Ortiz

2021

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Chidinma Ogbonna
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Daniella Otarola-Seravalli and Elisa Rademacher
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Kellly Cooke Johnson
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Allison Vance and Erin Doyle
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Bushra Lohrasbi and Meghan Nichols
• HESP Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: Taylor Trent, Michaela Ehm, and Cameron Barnes, Yomna Nassar, Robyn Toler, Alessandra Molina, and Jillian Weinman

2021

• Outstanding Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) Award: Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah
• Faculty-Student Research Award (FSRA): Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah

2020

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Sarah Elazar and Alexandra Papanicolaou
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Avery Rain
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Kelsey Oppler and Lindsey Roque
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Marina Cox and Danielle Zukerman
• HESP Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: Anhelina Bilokon, Allesandra Vidal, Caroline Hammond, and Emma Peterson

2020

• University of Maryland, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award: Rochelle Newman
• Honors of the Association by ASHA: Froma Roth

2019

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Daniella Otarola-Seravalli
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Madeline Pifer and Tiara Booth
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Calli Fodor
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Mary Zhou and Bridget McNamara
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Claire Crossman
• HESP Excellent Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: Bridget McNamara and Amanda Giordano

2019

• Distinguished alumni award from CUNY's Graduate Center Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences: Jan Edwards
• Excellence in Diversity Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences: Kathy Dow-Burger
• Provost's Excellence Award for Professional Track Faculty: Eusebia Mont

2018

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Emily Waddington
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Sarah Fisher
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Mikayla Abrams
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Alyssa Giammetta
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Rosy Lemus-Elkurd and Erica Younkin

2017

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Jourdan Richards
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Isabel Martin
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Mary Barrett
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Dayna Gager
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Nisha Sharma

2017

• Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award (2017-2018): Sandra Gordon-Salant
• Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences: Samira Anderson
• Provost’s Award for Excellence – Professional Track Faculty: Colleen Worthington
• College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Award for Outstanding Service among Professional Track Faculty: Colleen Worthington

2016

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Kerianna Frederick
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Candace Nuzzo Michiels 
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Chelsea Vogel 
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Arielle Iola
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Ashlyn Vander Woude

2016

• Professional of the Year, National Stuttering Association: Nan Bernstein Ratner
• Distinguished Alumni Fellow, Temple University School of Public Health: Nan Bernstein Ratner
• College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Teaching Award: Kristin Slawson

2015 

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Allison Urbanus
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Alison Romano
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Olga Stakhovskaya
• Karin E. Young Memorial Award: Casey Gaskins
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Erin Hollister

2014

• Outstanding Undergraduate: Katelyn Lippit
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Heather Davis
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Erin Pickett
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Julia Thorne

2014

• Honors, American Speech, Language and Hearing Association: Nan Bernstein Ratner
• R. Bruce Lindsay Award – Acoustical Society of America: Matthew Goupell
• Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year, National Stuttering Association: Vivian Sisskin

2013

• Outstanding SLP Undergraduate: Maria Payne
• Outstanding AuD Undergraduate: Lindsay Roberts
• Outstanding SLP Graduate: Julia Sampson
• Outstanding AuD Graduate: Viral Tejani
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Merena Gettman

2013

• BSOS Mentorship Award: Rochelle Newman
• Dean’s Medal, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences: Nan Bernstein Ratner
• Society for Language Development: Peter Jusczyk Award for Best Paper: Yi Ting Huang
• Teaching Excellence Award, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (2012-2013): Sandra Gordon-Salant

2012

• Allyn & Bacon Awards for Scholarly Excellence
  • Undergraduate Award: Justine Dombroski and Anna Martin
  • MA in SLP Award: Erica Levinson and Megan Janssen
  • AuD Award: Julia Rainsford
• Rao Family Award in Memory of Carol Frattali: Kaitlyn Fratantoni

2012

• Fellow of the Association, ASHA: Vivian Sisskin

2010

• Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year, University of Maryland: Nan Bernstein Ratner

2009

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Diversity Champion: Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah

2008

• Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland: Vivian Sisskin