Remarkable Scholars [Volume II]: 2005-2006 Academic YearThe following
list of Scholar awards, accomplishments, and activities reflects the
mission of the Honors Program and the stature of the remarkable
students who participate in it. It is a partial list, with
apologies to those Scholars who whose names and merits have been
overlooked. This list is an affirmation of Scholars’
abilities, their motivation, their commitment to serving the college
and outside community, and the diversity of their
interests. Zoie Blackwood is participating in the Summer Civil
Rights and Social Justice Institute, hosted by the Rachel Klapper organized an event for Holocaust
Remembrance Day, which over 500 people
attended. Yan Kuznetsov
was the recipient of a
Colin Powell Fellowship for an eight-week summer internship at
either the State Department or the US Mission to the United
Nations. This highly selective fellowship is for students who
are interested in pursuing careers in international relations.
Yan previously worked at the office of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. He was also given a Weissman School Service Award at a ceremony on
May 11th. Sarah Li,
a
Biology major, has
been selected as a CUNY Jonas E. Salk Scholar. This award
includes $6000 in scholarship money to support graduate study in
medicine. A Salk
Scholarship is one of the most prestigious awards bestowed upon a
CUNY graduate. Jeffrey Lowenhaupt was one of this years winners of this
year’s Ethics Bowl Debates. Katherine
Maher named CUNYAC
2005-2006 Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Katherine has been one
of the top pitchers in the CUNY Athletic Conference for the past
four seasons. In 2004, she was named the Bearcats Most
Valuable Player Sofiya Masterovaya was the recipient of a $5000 College Now
scholarship for Continued Excellence in Civic Responsibility.
She will be attending Hunter School of Social Work this
fall. Mary O’Regan was awarded a $2000 BP Community
Scholarship award for the third straight year.
Hamid Rashidzada, a junior Finance major, won the
undergraduate Abraham Briloff Prize in
Ethics for his essay “Sharing Consumer Information: US Banking
Deregulation and its Impact on Consumers. The Summer 2006
Baruch Alumni Magazine’s cover article is entitled “A Fine
Romance: Couples who found Love at Baruch, features Scholar alumni
Nimisha Dave Baball and her husband Kevin, as well as
Keith Harden and his fiancée Diana Lazarte. Not featured in that article were
Matt Benecke and Heather
McLaughlin, who were recently engaged. A number of
Scholars have served on the staff of this year’s Encounters
Magazine, the English Department-sponsored literary journal.
They include Dov Gibor, Editor-in-Chief, Julie Solovyeva, Managing Editor, Maria Dorfman, Business Manager, and Jennifer
Blecher, Copy Editor. The Spring 2006 publication included submissions by
Andrew Lawler, Irina Golub,
Dalton Randall, Boris Berdichevskiy, Jana Kasperkevic, and Laura Vardanian. Another Baruch
publication, Dollars and Sense, was edited by Liman Cheng. Prijo Thomas contributed an
article entitled “Steroids Strike Out: Baseball Finally Takes a
Tougher Stand on Substance Abuse” to the May 2006
issue. Scholars are
serving on the editorial staff of The Ticker. They
include Jana Kasperkevic. Features
Editor, Jacqueline Chancer, Arts
Editor, and Dov Gibor, Copy Editor. For the fourth
consecutive year, the Baruch Chapter of Model UN participated in a
simulated United Nations Conference. This year’s team,
“representing” the Kingdom of Jordan, included Nino Makharadze, Danika
Chen, Tamara Fazylova, Yelena Kalontarov, June Khin,
Carolyn Kingston, Chong Li, Evandro Migoti, Vadim Partin, and
Laura Vardanian,
A number of
scholars have assumed positions of leadership on campus.
Stephanie Lew served as President
of Golden Key International Honor Society in the fall 2005 semester,
with Natamil Abreu assuming this position in spring 2006.
Ryan Meltzer was just elected to the position of
President and Nicole Lee the position of Vice President of
Golden Key International Honor Society for the 2006-2007 academic
year. Ryan is also serving as President of
the Archery Club. Crisann Shair will serve as President and Sonal Mehta as Executive Vice
President of of Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society This past year, Josif Kharazishvili was President of the Baruch
chapter of AISEC, the largest international student
organization. Yan Kuznetsov was President of the Finance and
Economics Society. Nino Makharadze was elected to serve as President
of Baruch’s chapter of Model UN. Vadim Partin, Laura Vardanian, and Sneha Vazirani have also served as officers of
MUN. Dov
Gold-Medina was the Editor-in-Chief of Encounters
Magazine. Liman Cheng
was Editor-in-Chief of Dollars and Sense this past year.
Danielle Lemberg was President of
the college’s new Debate Team. Nicole Lee was the
co-founder and coordinator of the Baruch chapter of Project
Sunshine, a not-for-profit organization that provides services to
children with AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening
illnesses. Aiola Tufa was President of the Albanian Student
Council. Boris Genchev was
President of the Chabad Club. Andrey Teverovskiy,Vitaly Popov, and Henri Myftiu were all officers of The Chess
Club. Sophia Leung was an officer of Chinese Christian
Fellowship. Julie Solovyeva
was founder and President of the Cinema Society. Uri Dallal was an officer in College
Republicans. Ekaterina Ogorodnik was President of Epsilon Phi
Omega. Marina Goldenberg, Alona
Vorobyov, and Dorin Rosenshine were all officers of the Hebrew
Culture Club; Arvind
Jagarnath served as President of the
Investment Banking Club. Solomon Choicha was an officer for the Jewish
Business Leaders and the Philanthropy/Community Service Chair for
Alpha Epsilon Pi. Through the latter position, he led a
successful canned food drive for City Harvest and a bone marrow registry drive. Dahlia
Masri was President of the Jewish
Women’s Group, while Rachel Klapper
and Adam Krantz were officers in
KOACH, a Jewish cultural organization. Stacy [Xi] Chen
was President of the National Asian American Society of
Accountants. Andrew Joe and Franklin Cho were
officers of the Political Discussion Group. Raqshinda Khan served as President
and Dalton Randall and Diana Govshiyevich as officers of the Pre-Law
Society. Noguese Aigbogun was Vice President of the United
International Student Body. Sana Tariq was President of Women in
Islam. The Baruch
Debate team was formed approximately one year ago. Its
participants include Danielle Lemberg,
Nicole Lee, Dimitry Povazhuk and Vadim Yerokhin. This year the team succeeded
to the Octafinal Round of the Novice and
Junior Varsity National Tournament, held at Several scholars
were honored at the Baruch College Awards Ceremony, held on May
25th.
Each year, the
Chancellor’s Awards are giving to Too many of you
to mention individually were elected to campus chapters of Golden
Key International Honor Society, Phi Eta
Sigma, and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies.
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