WCC Honors and Awards Recipients Announced
June 12, 2019
Whatcom Community College held its 24th annual Honors and Awards ceremony on June 6, recognizing more than 30 students for exemplary academic excellence and community service. Students were nominated throughout the year for the various awards by WCC faculty and staff. The top honors—the Laidlaw and President’s Award—went to Mason Green and Emmanuel Valencia, respectively.
Special Awards:
Outstanding Service to Students Awards: Mohamed Sheikh-Aden
International Service Award: Taufek Adib-Thaqif
All-USA Academic Team Nominees: Alejandra Hobi, Rukhsar Sadat, Emmanuel Valencia & Elizabeth Sugarman
All-Washington Academic Team: Alejandra Hobi and Rukhsar Sadat
Transforming Lives Award: Steve Gnyp
Laidlaw Award: Mason Green
President’s Award: Emmanuel Valencia
Academic Excellence and Achievement Awards:
Accounting: Kayla Wiest
Anthropology: Amber Owen
Biology: Benjamin Petropoulos
Chemical Dependency Professional: Lourdes V. Liera
Communication Studies: Dhiyaa Ramadhan
Computer Information Systems: Josephine Hollandbeck
Computer Science: Anna Thomas
Criminal Justice: Angela Cash
Early Childhood Education: Joey Standley
Engineering: Benjamin Shtunyuk
English Composition: Leslie Mendez
English Literature: Danielle Kennedy
English as a Second Language – Academic: Ariel Susanto
English as a Second Language, Transitional Learning: Victor C. Gutierrez
Film Studies: Kenny Mendez
Geography: Thi Le
Humanities/Interdisciplinary Studies: Violet Harris
Japanese: Mary Peters
Massage Therapy: Spencer Belsvik
Mathematics: Kelland Harrison
Student Math League Award: Shahrul Kamil Hassan
Medical Assisting: Katreyna Garrison
Medical Interpreting: Nicolas Linares
Music: Austin Smith
Nursing: Aaron Brandt
Parenting Education: Rachel Bjarnason
Philosophy: Ian Brewer
Physical Therapist Assistant: Erin Kimber
Physics: Jared Rapp
Political Science: Carolyn Stewart
Psychology: Benedict Yeoh
Sociology: Lukas Harrington
Visual Arts: Elyse Lynch
Visual Communications: Alejandra Hobi
Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees! More photos from the event are available on WCC’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/whatcomcc.
About Whatcom: Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, WA is regularly recognized as one of the top 150 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute. The College, a destination for cybersecurity, healthcare and business studies, offers a bachelor of applied science degree, transfer degrees, career preparation, online courses and community education classes. WCC’s accomplished faculty and staff serve 11,000 students annually. For more information, visit whatcom.edu
Special Awards:
Outstanding Service to Students Awards: Mohamed Sheikh-Aden
International Service Award: Taufek Adib-Thaqif
All-USA Academic Team Nominees: Alejandra Hobi, Rukhsar Sadat, Emmanuel Valencia & Elizabeth Sugarman
All-Washington Academic Team: Alejandra Hobi and Rukhsar Sadat
Transforming Lives Award: Steve Gnyp
Laidlaw Award: Mason Green
President’s Award: Emmanuel Valencia
Academic Excellence and Achievement Awards:
Accounting: Kayla Wiest
Anthropology: Amber Owen
Biology: Benjamin Petropoulos
Chemical Dependency Professional: Lourdes V. Liera
Communication Studies: Dhiyaa Ramadhan
Computer Information Systems: Josephine Hollandbeck
Computer Science: Anna Thomas
Criminal Justice: Angela Cash
Early Childhood Education: Joey Standley
Engineering: Benjamin Shtunyuk
English Composition: Leslie Mendez
English Literature: Danielle Kennedy
English as a Second Language – Academic: Ariel Susanto
English as a Second Language, Transitional Learning: Victor C. Gutierrez
Film Studies: Kenny Mendez
Geography: Thi Le
Humanities/Interdisciplinary Studies: Violet Harris
Japanese: Mary Peters
Massage Therapy: Spencer Belsvik
Mathematics: Kelland Harrison
Student Math League Award: Shahrul Kamil Hassan
Medical Assisting: Katreyna Garrison
Medical Interpreting: Nicolas Linares
Music: Austin Smith
Nursing: Aaron Brandt
Parenting Education: Rachel Bjarnason
Philosophy: Ian Brewer
Physical Therapist Assistant: Erin Kimber
Physics: Jared Rapp
Political Science: Carolyn Stewart
Psychology: Benedict Yeoh
Sociology: Lukas Harrington
Visual Arts: Elyse Lynch
Visual Communications: Alejandra Hobi
Congratulations to all of this year’s honorees! More photos from the event are available on WCC’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/whatcomcc.
About Whatcom: Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, WA is regularly recognized as one of the top 150 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute. The College, a destination for cybersecurity, healthcare and business studies, offers a bachelor of applied science degree, transfer degrees, career preparation, online courses and community education classes. WCC’s accomplished faculty and staff serve 11,000 students annually. For more information, visit whatcom.edu
