Taubman College congratulates the students who graduated the weekend of May 1, 2022, and joined the college’s global community of 10,000 alumni. View a recording of Commencement. As part of weekend festivities, the following students and faculty received annual awards for excellence.

2022 MASTER OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING AWARDS

Service to Taubman College and the Urban and Regional Planning Program: Emily Soderberg
The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the program, to the student body, and to advancing the mission of the program.

Eric Dueweke Service to the Community Award: Juan Francisco Jhong Chung
The award recognizes service contributions to people or organizations outside of the University of Michigan.

Academic Achievement Award: Rebeka Jeanette Rooks
The award recognizes an exceptional student based on academic achievements and strength of contributions toward fostering a learning environment.

American Institute of Certified Planners Award: Danielle Nicole Stewart
The award recognizes outstanding attainment in the study of planning. The program chair and faculty select the recipient each year based on a combination of academic achievement, leadership, commitment to planning as a career, and community service.

2022 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

AIA Medal for Academic Excellence: Allison J. Stamm
In each recognized school of architecture in the United States, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) annually awards an engraved medal to the M.Arch. degree candidate with the highest scholastic standing.

Alpha Rho Chi Medal: Ellis Wills-Begley
Alpha Rho Chi, a national professional fraternity for students of architecture and the allied arts, awards its medal to recognize the M.Arch. degree candidate who has shown leadership and given service to the school and whose personality and attitude give promise of real professional worth.

Program Distinction Award: Akima Tahanee Brackeen
The Program Distinction Awards are awarded to graduating architecture students who have made significant contributions to the college by a combination of exceptional academic performance and fostering community-building activities within the program.

2022 Burton L. Kampner Memorial Award: Jasmine Wright, “Brickworm”

Honorable Mention: Wing To Victoria Wong, “Into the Void: Fragmented Time, Space, Memory, and Decay in Hiroshima”

Honorable Mention: Qian Li and Kamon Nartnarumit, “Growing Buttress”
Established in 1967 by contributions from alumni and friends of Burton L. Kampner, B.Arch.’53, this memorial award is presented annually to one student in the Thesis Program, based on the academic year. The selection is made by a jury consisting of architecture faculty appointed by the chair of the architecture program.

2022 MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN AWARDS

Master of Urban Design Award: Anmol Poptani

2022 MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND RESEARCH AWARDS

Master of Science in Architecture Citizenship Award: Laurin Danielle Aman

2022 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE AWARDS

Program Distinction Award: Lauren Marie Conroy and Maximilian Erik Coolidge Crouthamel
The Program Distinction Awards are awarded to graduating architecture students who have made significant contributions to the college by a combination of exceptional academic performance and fostering community-building activities within the program.

2022 UNDERGRADUATE WALLENBERG STUDIO TRAVEL AWARD RECIPIENTS

Winners Within Each Studio

• Madeleine Smith
  “In Transit Exposing Negligence through Intervention in Order to Remake”
  Ian Donaldson studio
• Muzi Li
  “MANUFACTURE REFORM Community-making and Identity Building”
  Dawn Gilpin studio
• Audrey Louie
  “Polaris Medical Center”
  Gina Reichert studio
• Madeira Booy de Graaff
  “Like a Version”
  Anca Trandafirescu studio
• Sydney Cleveland-Datesman
  “Shaping Domestic Space Shifting Women’s Domestic  Labor to be a Labor of Love”
  Craig Wilkins studio

Winner Across All Studios

• Madeira Booy de Graaff
  “Like a Version”
  Anca Trandafirescu studio

Honorable Mention

• Max Coolidge
  “Different from the Others”
  Anca Trandafirescu studio

The Wallenberg Awards are made possible through the generosity of the Benard L. Maas Foundation and recognize the best conceived and executed studio work by one or more Taubman College seniors. The funds are disbursed in the form of a stipend for international travel to a country of the student’s choosing. Wallenberg Award winners engage in the culture and people of the country they visit, exploring how these shape the experiential qualities of architecture.

Born in 1896, Benard Maas achieved success as an innovator and industrialist for the automotive industry. He dedicated himself and his fortune to enhancing the lives of young people and became one of the state of Michigan’s most generous philanthropists. The Benard L. Maas Foundation continues his lifelong support of higher education through grantmaking, including the gift to establish the Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship Fund at Taubman College.

2022 FACULTY AWARDS

Urban and Regional Planning Faculty Excellence Award: Joe Grengs and Ana Paula Pimentel Walker

Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence: Jen Maigret and Anca Trandafirescu
The Donna M. Salzer Award for Teaching Excellence recognizes excellence in teaching and advising.