Y-Work

Y-Work

Y-Work Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student Employees

Created by the Yale College Dean's Office (YCDO) and Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid (UFA), the Y-Work Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Student Employees celebrates the positive experiences our student workers enjoy and the critical contributions these students make to the offices for which they work. The Y-Work prize is awarded annually to a small group of current undergraduates whose dedication to their on-campus job has had a positive impact on the community.

Y-Work Award Nominations

All current undergraduate students who have worked a term-time job are eligible regardless of pay grade, financial aid eligibility, or federal work study participation.

Supervisors may nominate their student employees from now until Wednesday, March 12 using the Y-Work Student Employment Nomination form. If you have any questions about the nomination or selection process, please email y.work@yale.edu.

Student employment at Yale

Summer and term-time on-campus employment offers students—both those who receive financial aid and those who do not—an opportunity to fund their educations, extend their learning beyond the classroom, and to make essential contributions to the Yale community. Information about student employment may be found on the Student Employment website.

Y-Work Award Administrators

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Past Y-Work Award Winners

Each spring, the Dean of Yale College announces the ten students selected as winners of the Y-Work Award.

2023 Award Winners

Y-Work Award 2023 Winners

Nominated by

Department/Office

Adam Taylor, SY '24

Heather Tapper

Hospitality

Aqua Lake, JE '25

Carissa Violante

Yale Alumni Association

Astri Doub, JE '24

Matthew Gira

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale

Braiya Nolan, TC '25

Chantal Vogels

Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases

Daevan Mangalmurti, TC '24

Kasturi Gupta

South Asian Studies Council

Elizabeth Joslin, GH '24      

Gary Aronsen

Anthropology

Evan Cheng, BF '25               

Susan Butts

Yale Peabody Museum

Grace Miller, TD '24

William Hawkins

Economics

McKenna Picton, MY '24 

Holly Hermes

Office of Veteran and Military Affairs

Nicolas Gertler, SY '27              

 Joanna Carmona

Digital Ethics Center

 

2022 Award Winners

Y-Work Award 2022 Winners

Nominated by

Department/Office

Amay Tewari, TD '24

Matthew Gira

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking

Risha Chakraborty, SY '25

Vidyadhara D J

Neuroscience and Neurology Department

Chelsea Kung, MY '23

 

Jessie Hill

Yale College Deans Office

Timothy Han, MC '23

John Yi

Undergraduate Admissions Office

Grayson Phillips, MY '25

Tom Migdalski

Athletics Department

Gabrielle Niederhoffer, PC '23        

Emily Coates

Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Department

Manas Sharma, BR '24               

Jorge Torres

Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale

Linda Chen, BF '23  

Nicholas Ader

Cell Biology Department

Evelyn Chacon, GH '24   

Brittany Choate

Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Department at the School of Public Health

Ryan Martinez, ES '23               

Amaar Al-Hayder

 

South Asian Studies Council at the MacMillan Center

 

2021 Award Winners

Y-Work Award 2021 Winners

Nominated by

Department/Office

Akweley Lartey, TD '23

Seth Wallace

LGBTQ Resources

Eddy Tzintzun-Tapia, SY '22

Maria Parente

New Haven Affairs

Gabrielle Colangelo, BR '22

 

Emily Horning, Zelda Roland

Yale Library, Dwight Hall

Kendra Libby, SY '22

Xiaolei Su

Cell Biology

Robin Gallagher, ES '22

Heather Calabrese

Office of the Secretary

Lea Cioffi, TC '24        

Kory Marie Evasic

Trumbull College

Anna Albright, GH '23               

Kayla Steinberg

Yale School of Public Health

Ryan Flynn, MC '22  

Adriane Steinacker

Physics

Kunchok Sonam, DC '22   

Julie Swiegard, Therese Barbuto, Clare Schlegel, Silvia Decastro, Lisa Pitoniak, Kathleen Galo

YCDO

Andrew Scott, GH '23               

Sarah Luckart 

ITS

 

2020 Award Winners

Y-Work Award 2020 Winners

Nominated by

Department/Office

John Klich, MC ‘20

Paul Van Tassel

Chemical Engineering

Martin Chandler, ‘ES 21

Kathryn Dunn & Marc Levenson

Ezra Stiles

Muriel Wang, TC ’20

Ashleigh Corvi

Undergraduate Admissions

Luke Dobson, BR ‘20

Michelle Hutchings

Yale Young Global Scholars

Maya Juman, SY ‘20

Susan Butts

Peabody Museum

James Sun, SM ‘21

Melissa Goodall

Yale Sustainability

Sheyenne Tichnell, BR ‘22

Sarah Fritchey

Artspace New Haven

Mbella Beseka, ES ‘20

Kristy Leonard

Yale University Press

Jocelle Marius, BF ‘20

Syndia Amazan

FAS Dean’s Office

José E. García, PC ‘22

Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

2019 Award Winners

Y-Work Award 2019 Winners

Nominated By

Department/Office

Katherine Brumberg, TC '19

Jay Emerson & Winston Lin

Statistics & Data Science

Joe Doran, TC '20

Margaret Clark & Debbie Rueb

Trumbull College

Maria Gargiulo, PC '19

Jay Emerson & Winston Lin

Statistics & Data Science

Paige Hollis-Villareal, JE '19

David Brooks & Kristin Elliott

Yale Hospitality

Lily Mirfakhraie, DC '19

Elisa Rodriguez

Cell Biology

TJ Noel-Sullivan, SY '20

Xinyuan Chen

Information Technology Services

Donovan Sabog, BK '19

John Yi

Undergraduate Admissions

Sarah Siegel, TC '19

Stephanie J. L. Waite

Office of Career Strategy

Odette Wang, BR '20

Jessica Sack

YUAG Education Department

Max Yuhas, TD '20

Tom Migdalski

Athletics