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