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ILR Announces 2025 McPherson Honors and Awards

The 32nd annual ILR School McPherson Honors and Awards Dinner occurred April 29 at the Statler Hotel.

Opening remarks were made by ILR Dean Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. '99, the Kenneth F. Kahn '69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman '75, MS '76, Professor of Conflict Resolution. The names of award recipients were presented by Kevin F. Harris, Frank B. Miller Director of Student Services, and Bradford S. Bell, William J. Conaty Professor in Strategic Human Resources and Director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies.

The MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Undergraduate Teaching & Advising was presented to Robert Smith, professor of Economics, while the Graduate award was given to Ben Rissing, associate professor of organizational behavior.

The Robert N. Stern Award for Teaching & Mentoring was given to Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research.

Students who received awards based on scholarship, leadership and service to the community include:

James E. McPherson Scholarship

Andres Castellanos

SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence

Shruthisri Ravisankar

Alex Herazy

Merrill Presidential Scholars

Sakiel Ruff

Alex Herazy

Eric Lawrence Ehrenberg Memorial Prize

Claudia Azevedo

Reagan Patterson

Virginia Freeman Memorial Prize

Shruthisri Ravisankar

Daniel Alpern Memorial Award

Takehiro Toda

James Campbell Award

Eli Goodwin

Irving M. Ives-Felix Kaufman-Sophie Seidenberg Memorial Senior Award

Zach Segar

John O’Donnell Prize in Labor Law

Valerie Kandel

Joel Seidman Memorial Award

Genevieve Galluccio

Ariana Shapiro

Salvatore Family Prize in ILR

Ally Leighton

Hazel Rak

Steven Spencer Memorial Award

Erin Fennessy

Professor James A. Gross Award

Rene Cabrera

ICS Scholars Prize

Bradley Matican

Deepak Ramachandran

Clete Daniel Memorial Medal

Andres Castellanos

ILR Global Scholars

Isabelle Shook

Avery Brull

Alice He

Sharon Lee

Alisha Veera

Mackenzie Lewis

Joaquin Rivera

Eva Telesca

Candidates for graduation with Honors

Kiran Abraham Aggarwal

Anastasia Assenso

Zoe Cantor

Kelly Chu

Genevieve Galluccio

Hannah Grossman

Jessica Harris

Alex Herazy

Kamala Karuppiah

Mackenzie Lewis

Lauren Madrigal

Dezmon Nash

Nkemdi Obiamalu

Kevin Ourvan

Reagan Patterson

Adam Rose

Sakiel Ruff

Isabelle Shook

Marina Starikovsky

Ron Varghese

Sloane Wagreich

Simon Wigdor

Catherine Zannetos
 

Additional faculty and staff awards include:

General Mills Award for Exemplary Graduate Assistant Teaching

Duy Ho

Martha L. Smith Award for Staff Advising and Mentoring

Debbie Beausejour

Lou Jean Fleron Award for Engaged Learning

Samuel Nelson

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