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Walter Dill Scott Award

Walter Dill Scott Award

The Walter Dill Scott Award honors the 10th president of Northwestern University, a psychologist and pioneer in advertising and marketing communications education. He wrote several books on advertising psychology. As president of Northwestern from 1919 to 1939, Scott stabilized the university’s finances, expanded the Evanston campus and developed the Chicago campus. He established several of Northwestern’s schools, including Medill in 1921.

Recipients of the Walter Dill Scott Award are selected by the IMC faculty and honored at the graduation convocation.

Winners

2022

  • Yahan Chen
  • Paula Jaramillo Lobo-Guerrero
  • Linghua Liu 
2021
  • Nancy Choi Bonges
  • Maia-Claire Chong Boussy
  • Elizabeth Anne Gabel
  • Yuchen Liu
  • Rhiannon Miller
  • Kristina Rozentsvayg
  • Sean Wallace
2020
  • Alexander Bierman Gruhin
  • Jingzhe Huang
  • Megan Suzanne LaForge
  • Alan Wang 

2019

  • Emma Easterlin
  • Yunxuan Wang
  • Zeyu Xu
  • Tianhua Zhu

2018

  • Daniela Aste
  • Alex Chudler
  • Christian Lundy
  • Gayatri Sakhuja

2017

  • Yanisa Thanyodom
  • Ridzky Novasandro
  • Tasmina Deepak Chhugani
  • Hsueh Hsuan Chen

2016

  • Anna Klutho
  • Liang Liu
  • Yuchen Luo
  • Natasha Smith

2015

  • Jaeyeon Choi
  • Burcak Semerci
  • Nandita Vaidyanathan
  • Agnes Wasilewski

2014

  • Benedict Guerra
  • Rui Tang

2013

  • Daniel Eric Jennis
  • Lamia Pardo Figueroa

2012

  • Alex Greenwald
  • Qingqing Li
  • Obehi Oyedolapo Omokwale

2011

  • Kevin Patrick Byrne
  • Shan Fang

2010

  • Jeffrey Gordon Mulcock
  • Alexandra Walford

2009

  • Rachelle Goh
  • Carly Alayne Kouba

2008

  • Micheline-Marie Sabatté
  • Haejin Suh

2007

  • Jenna Massey
  • Jennifer Reigh Robitaille

2006

  • Emily G. Albright
  • Alana Diane Moretti

2005

  • Josephine Curran
  • Lucinda Marie Hill

2004

  • Natalie Kristen Herring
  • Matthew Ryan Larson

2003

  • Kristen Suzanne Angle
  • Nicole Daphne Tricoukes

2001

  • Ilina Ewen
  • Nancy Ho

2000

  • Ayesha Kumar
  • Adrianna Schneider

1999

  • Sandra Eynon
  • Katie Kennedy
  • Babu Monie
  • Sheena Steiner