Annual Awards & Prizes

Prizes are awarded to Sarah Lawrence’s outstanding students and faculty each year to recognize and reward them for their artistic and academic achievements in the following areas: fiction writing, human genetics, humanities, mathematics and science, music, playwriting, poetry, stage management, and teaching. We are grateful to the donors who have created and continue to support these meaningful prizes.

2026 Prizes Given by Sarah Lawrence College

The Chamber Music Certificate for Excellence
Amelia Collins ’26
Renae Sullivan ’25

The Geraldine Putman Clark Prize for Visual Arts
Sahara Curry ’26

The Edward Cogan Prize for Mathematics and Science
Elijah Shohat ’26

The Lucy Grealy Prize for Poetry
Chloe Milling ’27
Maya Olivo ’26
Hayley Hutchings Stone '26

The Lori Hertzberg Prize for Creativity
Sydney Walter ’26

The Lipkin Family Prize for Human Genetics
Samantha Salvador MS ’26

The Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for the Humanities
Amanda Machung ’26
Ines De Backer ’26

The Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting
Viktor Nicole MFA ’26

The Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Poetry
Saskia Gori-Montanelli ’26
Naomi Marx ’26
Leni Rogers ’26

The Ian Lipkin ’74 Science Prize
Avery Yanowitz ’27

The Greta Minsky Prize for Stage Management
Alissa Mills ’26
Logan Celeste Schaerer ’26

The Moser Marsh Annual Fellowship in the Visual Arts and Visual Culture
Lucy Millar ’27

The Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award in Music
Renae Sullivan ’25

The Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction
First Place: Kaitlyn Roth ’27
Second Place: Charlotte Ranney ’29
Third Place: Mia Juusola ’27

The Raymond Seidelman Award for Political Advocacy
Hugo Jorge Catarino ’27
Teona Conevska ’28
Natalie Rose Goldberg MFA ’26
María Guzmán-Scherenberg ’27
Garner Swan ’26

The Vereshchagin Traveling Prize for Excellence in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Manahil Rashid Awan ’28

The Andrea Klein Willison Prize for Poetry
Hazel Green ’28
Sarah Palmer ’26
Milo Peppard ’26

The Lipkin Family Prize for Inspirational Teaching
Jerrilynn Dodds

Fellowships and Special Grants

Davis Projects for Peace
Lamija Hakalović ’28