{"id":9115,"date":"2015-05-21T23:44:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T03:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=9115"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:44:15","slug":"directors-prize-recipients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=9115","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year during the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) commencement ceremony, the program director presents awards to high-performing individuals and teams, as identified by the institute&#8217;s faculty and staff. Past recipients are:<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2025<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Mairin Kelly<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professionalism Award:<\/strong> Mary Grace Stachnik<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community Spirit Award:<\/strong> Cameron Houston<\/li>\n<li><strong>Practicum Team Award:<\/strong> Elevate Team (Kyle Hardy, Aishwarya Murugan, Relwan Onikoyi, Jacob Stanley and Louisa Swintosky)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>MSA 2024<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Becca Chemmanam, Kush Patel<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professionalism Award:<\/strong> Carlos Castillo, Rena Marrotta<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community Spirit Award:<\/strong> Cinoon Bak, Michelle Chen, Tyler Farr<\/li>\n<li><strong>Practicum Team Award:<\/strong> Antares Team (Andrew Burnette, Violet Evans, Blake Holmes, Tae Lee and Salem Wear) and Exovera Team (Sam Dotson, Jin Lee, Sam Loch, Kush Patel and Ashley Vann)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>MSA 2023<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Stef\u00e1n Ragnarsson, Kimberly Scheiber<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professionalism Award:<\/strong> Trenton Simmons, Julian Taylor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community Spirit Award:<\/strong> Kay Bean, Noah Johnson, Kate McManus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>MSA 2022<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Jonathan Luettgen, Hannah Stanley<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2021<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Erin St. Jeor<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2020<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Jackson Cabell, Sarah Wotus<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2019<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Anthony Berghammer, Kieran Riban<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2018<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Sophia Bessias, Emily Hadley, Daniel Li, Ricky Tharrington<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2017<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Kevin Danchisko, Emily Doyel, Nicole Helmer<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2016<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Carlos Blancarte, George Taylor Corbett, Viola Glenn, Leah Wolosiansky<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2015<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Justin Feerhusen, Natali Ojeda<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2014<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Stephen Neola, Keith Walthall<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2013<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Erin Cutrell, Taylor Shipman<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2012<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Patrick Hall, Scott Sims<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2011<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Arturo Silva<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2010<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Jennifer Holmes<\/p>\n<h4>MSA 2009<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Director&#8217;s Award:<\/strong> Doris Rowe, Andrea Villanes Arellano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year during the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) commencement ceremony, the program director presents awards to high-performing individuals and teams, as identified by the institute&#8217;s faculty and staff. Past recipients are: MSA 2025 Director&#8217;s Award: Mairin Kelly Professionalism Award: Mary Grace Stachnik Community Spirit Award: Cameron Houston Practicum Team Award: Elevate Team (Kyle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26444,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9115\/revisions\/26444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}