Pauli Murray Awards

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.

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.”

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.