Below is a summary of awards given to members of the Pauli Murray Community.
Pauli Murray College Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
Awarded annually, the Outstanding Academic Achievement award recognizie the senior with the highest GPA in the college at commencement.
Year | Awardee(s) |
2018 | James Diao |
2019 | Ishaan Srivastava |
2020 | Nancy Lu |
2021 | Alya Ahmed Amer Al-Hiyasat |
2022 | Andrew SOrota Daniel Kaplowitz |
2023 | Eric Geoffrey Sun |
2024 | Soyoung Cho |
Pauli Murray College Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
Awarded annually, the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts award recognizie the senior with an outstanding contribution to the arts while at Yale.
Year | Awardee(s) |
2018 | Solon Snider |
2019 | Skyler Chen |
2020 | Emil David Beckford |
2022 | Kyra Gee |
2023 | Kaloyan Kolev |
2024 | Jonathan F. Weiss |
Pauli Murray College Award for Outstanding Citizenship
Awarded annually, the Outstanding Citizenship award recognizie the senior who has made a significant contribution to the college community and life.
Year | Awardee(s) |
2018 | Maxwell Sauberman |
2019 | Emily AnMin Chu |
2020 | Sarah Mary-Ann Geach |
2021 | Sam Brakarsh |
2022 | Helen Zhuo |
2023 | Karen Li |
2024 | Emma Peterson |
Junior Awards
The Junior Awards are awarded annually by the Council of Head of Colleges (CHC)
F. Wilder Bellamy Jr. Memorial Prize
Established in 1939 by friends of F. Wilder Bellamy Jr., B.A. 1937, the prize is awarded to a junior who best exemplifies the qualities for which F. Wilder Bellamy, Jr. is remembered, including personal integrity, loyalty to friends, and high-spiritedness in athletics, academics, and social life.
- 2024 - R. Tyler Schroder
- 2023 - Grayson B. Phillips
- 2021 - Helen Zhuo
John C. Schroeder Award
This award, which honors former Calhoun College master John C. Schroeder, is given to students who have contributed to residential college life and who, in the opinion of the committee, will “play a part in the good labor of the world.”
- 2024 - Zawadi Kigamwa
Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award
The Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Junior Award is given each year to a member of the junior class of Yale College whose verve, idealism, and constructive interest in music and the humanities exemplify those qualities for which Selden is remembered. In recent years this award has gone to students especially notable for their contribution in the field of music.
- 2023 - Jonathan F. Weiss
- 2021 - Will Wegner