The 2025 School of Design Student Award Winners

Each year, the School of Design holds our Design Awards program during Design Week of the spring semester. This event celebrates the academic talents of our students and their contributions to the school. Several awards are presented during the event: School of Design awards, Donors awards, and Partnership awards (organizations that the school has associations with). All of our awards are funded by generous alumni, individual donors, and organizations to honor student achievements and passions. We are grateful to all of our donors for their support.

More info about each of the awards can be found here.

The 2025 Student Award Winners are:

Design Merit Awards

First Year
Bach Ha Lan Vu
Yutong Zhen

Sophomores
Jackie Ryu (Communications)
Kenneth Yu (Products)
Emily Lau (Environments)

Juniors
Joanna Ni (Communications)
Sophie Heap (Products)
Sarah Chen (Environments)

Seniors
Caleb Sun (Communications)
Stanley Ip (Products)
Sojung Pak (Environments)

MA
Eindra Lin

MDes I/MPS
Jean Chu

MDes II
Eugina Chun

PhD
Kyla Fullenwider

Design Service Awards

Undergrad
Rubie Shay

Masters
Vanya Rawat

PhD
Luis Garcia

Lee Goldman Scholarship Award

Saum Suseenthiran (Communications)
Parrish Andre (Products)
Helen Zhang (Environments)

Marilyn Meltzer Award

Melissa Qin

Ed Szylinski Design Award for Blue Sky Thinking

Kai Okorodudu

Award for Excellence in Product and Environments Design

Katie Lee (Products)
Ally Wen (Environments)

Mark Mentzer Award for Drawing

Parrish André

Kier Service Design & Social Innovation Award

Anna Chuenrudeemol
Lia Purnamasari

Congratulations to all of our winners!