Students recognized for 2024-25 achievements
Congratulations to the following students, who received recognition for their work in the 2024-2025 academic year from off-campus organizations.
Note: This page will be updated as more award recipients are named.
Iratze Aceves (center) with professors Dr. Kirsten Day (second from left) and Dr. Mischa Hooker (second from right) and parents Armando Aceves-Rodriguez (left) and Maribel Quintana-Madrigal (right).
Iratze Aceves '25, a classics, psychology and French major, was selected as first runner-up to the prestigious Fauci Award in STEM and Classics from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). This is the third year Aceves has been recognized by the association, having received the Rudolph Masciantonio Diversity Award in 2023 and the Manson A. Stewart Undergraduate Award in 2024. At this year's conference, Aceves presented her Senior Inquiry project, "Classics, Catharsis, and Community" with Dr. Kirsten Day.
Mackenzie Lauridsen '25, a Spanish and applied mathematics major from Des Moines, Iowa, was recognized with the Excellence in Spanish Award for "academic excellence and impressive evolution in learning Spanish" from SSA Education Abroad. Lauridsen is currently studying in Sevilla, Spain, for the 2025 spring semester program run by SSA. Lauridsen was nominated not only for excellence in her studies but also growth in her linguistic skills and cultural understanding of Spanish and Seville culture.