2025 Baehr Awards for Excellence

It is our great pleasure to announce this year's recipients of our annual Baehr Undergraduate Awards for Excellence in Slavic Language Study featuring recognition from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and a $250 prize.

Congratulations to these undergraduate students who displayed excellent progress in studying Czech, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian this year! We wish our graduating students all the best and hope to see the rest of you continuing to higher levels in your various languages!

Živa Benedejčič, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Advanced Russian (Fourth-Year)
Soren Cowell-Shah, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Elementary Russian
Feodora Douplitzky-Lunati, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Intermediate Russian
Melissa Edwards, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Heritage Russian
Kathryn Harper, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Polish
Gladys Kozyra, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Polish
Katherine McPhie, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Advanced Russian (Third-Year)
Alexzandra Medina, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Czech
Diana Nichvoloda, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Ukrainian
James Sun, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Advanced Russian (Third-Year)
Ričards Umbraško, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Ukrainian
Julia Vonic, Baehr Award for Excellence in Slavic Language Study for Elementary Russian