“It’s sort of like completing the advising circle,” Lowry said. “I’m completely elated to be considered in the same league as him.”

Asad Asad, a Mather House tutor and third-year graduate student who won a sophomore advising award, said that although it is his first year as an advisor at the College, he loves his advising work.

“I couldn’t be where I am now without the mentorship and advice from people who are senior to me,” Asad said.  “Nobody got to where they are now without help.”

According to Magid, freshmen submitted the majority of nominations this year. One of these first-year students was Amy Zhan ’17, who nominated freshman advising award winner Lynn Fitzgerald. Zhan said she and Fitzgerald worked together in the fall going through the course catalogue and determining what courses Zhan should take.

“She spends a lot of time helping us out,” Zhan said of Fitzgerald. “She always asks to grab lunch with us, so she keeps up to date about how our lives are going.”

Award recipients will be formally recognized in a by-invitation event in the Student Organization Center at Hilles on May 5.

Freshman advising award winners are proctor Brandon Edwards, academic advisor Lynn Fitzgerald, and proctor Mackenzie J. Lowry ’11. Sophomore advising award winners are Mather tutor Asad Asad, Leverett tutor Elena Lisitskaya, and Adams House pre-med advisor Jay Miller ’09.

Concentration advising award winners are Applied Mathematics Assistant Director for Undergraduate Studies Margo Levine, Earth and Planetary Sciences Academic Program Manager Chenoweth Moffat, and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in Chemistry Gregg Tucci.

Faculty advising award winners are English professor Jorie Graham, Women and Gender Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies Caroline Light, and Linguistics Director of Undergraduate Studies Maria Polinsky.

—Staff writer Meg P. Bernhard can be reached at meg.bernhard@thecrimson.com. Follow her on twitter @Meg_Bernhard.