The Simeon Brinberg Outstanding Student Award for Fall 2017 was granted to Nathan Moretto, current MA student at the Frankel Center. He will be graduating following the Winter 2018 term and is currently applying to PhD programs. In his nomination of Moretto, Professor Brian Schmidt cited, among other things, Moretto's skills in classical Hebrew and excellent seminar paper.

The Simeon Brinberg Outstanding Student Award is awarded bi-annually to an outstanding MA student. Students must be nominated by a faculty member and have a GPA of 3.5 or higher.