Undergraduate Awards

Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Studies

Winner: Katherine Archer
This award is given to a student who has demonstrated excellence in being educated, empowered and engaged in their academic studies. The recipient has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement by graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and also has excelled in disciplinary and/or co-curricular activities related to their major, thus modeling excellence as an empowered young scholar who shows engagement in their discipline.

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

A certificate is awarded to each student with a 4.0 GPA.

  • Ayesha Alam
  • Katherine Archer
  • Edwardo Bravo
  • Marcia Maria Campedelli Barbosa Graca
  • Courtney Essien
  • Jose Guerrero
  • Ebony Peguero Valdez
  • Jimmy Sanchez
  • Aidee Silva
  • Milena Blue Spruce

The Global Excellence Award

Winner: Quameisha E. Moreno
This award is given to a student who has exemplified global citizenship and service during their time at Lehman College. This student has embraced unique and creative ways to engage with communities across the globe in areas including, but not limited to, study abroad, international service-learning, global studies, and Peace Corps Prep.

Excellence in Leadership Award

Winner: Jonathan Yubi Gomez
This award recognizes a student who has shown outstanding leadership during his or her time at Lehman College. Through innovation, motivation, initiative, and perseverance, this person has demonstrated a commitment to creating positive change in our campus community.

The Lehman Scholars Program & Macaulay Honors College at Lehman College There are two collegewide honors programs on our campus: The Lehman Scholars Program (LSP) and Macaulay Honors College (MHC) at Lehman College.

LSP, founded in 1980, is Lehman’s liberal arts honors program, designed for accomplished and highly motivated students with the desire and ability to pursue a more independent liberal arts course of study. The program offers the advantages of a small, intimate college, including special honors sections, seminars, and individual academic advising and personal mentoring. MHC, CUNY’s highly selective liberal arts honors college, was founded in 2001 and is located on eight of CUNY’s senior college campuses.

  • Noor Begum
  • Alexander Capellan Moronta
  • Achsah Chempola
  • Sebastian Cruceanu
  • Matthew Dennis
  • Hossam Elshendidi
  • Jasmine Euyoque Ayala
  • Ngozi G. Fisher
  • Ramata Fofana
  • Nasley A. Garcia-Otero
  • Lauren Hasso
  • Robert Hintze
  • Christina I. Hitchman
  • Goodness Obiageri Iheanachor
  • Sarah V. Jean Baptiste
  • Carlos A. Jeronimo
  • Matthew Mallary
  • Deborah Ofosu
  • Andy Peralta
  • Tera A. Phelps
  • Ricardo E. Ponce
  • Jonathan Ramsaywack
  • Bryan Rosendo
  • Tess Russell-Grad
  • Jordi Saenz
  • Lisa M. Sanchez
  • Mobassara Tabassum
  • Daisy A. Tetecatl
  • Jaquira M. Truesdale

Macaulay Honors College students receive a dual degree from Lehman College and Macaulay Honors College. Macaulay Scholars are personally guided through their four years by a Macaulay academic advisor. The advising and mentoring aspects of both LSP and MHC are some of the hallmarks of the two programs, designed to maximize their students’ college careers. Both LSP and MHC have seminar-driven curricula encouraging vigorous, holistic, and comprehensive examination, through discussion on topics of immediate and long-range concern for improving the human condition. The two programs interact with one another in shared seminars and classes, forming a rewarding and rich scholarly and social community. It is the conscious aim of the faculty who teach and guide students in LSP and MHC to develop sentient, highly informed, reflective, versatile citizens who can both understand and support the needs, wants, and welfare of others, as well as pursue their own personal interests and goals.

  • Ryan D. Cabrera
  • Raquel Calero
  • Sebastian Cruceanu
  • Jeremy E. Cumberbatch
  • Matthew Dennis
  • Mei Ling Gilbert
  • Jonah Green
  • Kara Hernandez
  • Lucas Iannucci
  • Natalia Kierzkowska
  • Ashley Lum
  • Shane Martin
  • Julia L. Muallem
  • Nira Rahman
  • Abirami Rajeev
  • Bryan Rosendo
  • Victoria E. Smith
  • Michael Sutherland
  • Daisy A. Tetecatl
  • Elen A. Thomas