International Relations Awards

 Class of 2007

2007 Winners: Sarah Ryman, Erin McFarland and ErinVannella

International Relations Scholar of the Year

Melissa Emm

This year’s recipient is Melissa Emm. Melissa combined her major in International Relations with a major in Italian Language, Literature, and Culture; she has also studied Spanish and Portuguese and is truly an international linguist, and she studied in our SU Abroad Center in Florence, Italy.  She has interned at the International Center of Syracuse and worked as a tutor for English and science students during the summer months.  She is a recipient of both a Syracuse University Founder’s scholarship and a Syracuse University Dean’s scholarship.  Melissa has a cumulative grade point average of 3.982 and a GPA for courses in the International Relations major of 4.000, and she has been accepted for fall admission to Cornell University Law School.

2007 Scholar of the Year, Melissa Emm, and family

Goodwin Cooke Award for Leadership

in International Relations

Erin M. McFarland

This year’s recipient is Erin McFarland, a Chancellor’s Scholar and a Merit Scholar and has combined her major in International Relations with a major in Economics and a minor in Spanish Language, Literature, & Linguistics. 

She participated in our Maxwell-in-Washington International Relations Semester where she interned at the Washington Office on Latin America and she also studied abroad in Madrid, Spain and has completed the Renee Crown Honors Program. 

She was a member of our 2005 delegation to the National Model United Nations conference portraying Nicaragua, and she served as Head Delegate for our 2007 delegation to the National Model United Nations conference portraying the Republic of Guinea.  She has a cumulative GPA of 3.811 and has been named to both Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Iota Rho honor societies.

The Harlan Cleveland Award for

Excellence in International Policy Issues

Erin Kathleen Vannella

This year’s recipient, Erin Vannella,  has combined her major in International Relations with a major in Broadcast Journalism in the Newhouse School of Communications.  Her geographic concentration is Asia and her topic concentration is International Security & Diplomacy, and she has a cumulative GPA of 3.870 and a GPA for courses in her IR major of 3.881.  She studied abroad in London and in our Maxwell-in-Washington International Relations semester. Our DC center director, Dr. Michael Schneider, writes that her contribution to the Global Policy Seminar was original and outstanding. 

Julian R. Friedman Award

Sarah Anne Ryman

This year’s recipient is Sarah Anne Ryman. Sarah has a triple major in International Relations, Geography, and Spanish Language, Literature, & Linguistics.  She volunteered with the Refugee Resettlement Program in Central New York and continued her work with immigrants during her semester abroad in Ecuador while interning at Movilidad Humana.  She has been named a Remembrance Scholar and has completed the Renee Crown University Honors Program and received the Honors Program Crown Award.  She also interned at the US State Department in our Maxwell-in-Washington International Relations Semester.  She has been named to both the Phi Beta Kappa and the Sigma Iota Rho honor societies and has a cumulative GPA of 3.968 and a GPA for courses in her IR major of 4.000.  She will be pursuing a Master’s Degree in Geography at the University of Toronto.