Student Awards

Awards and Grants

(^indicates the student has defended)

Eleanor Clark (Petersen) and Ely Contreras (Schmidt) received Outstanding Dissertation Awards (2024).

David Bushhouse (Lucks) and Frank Tucci (Rosenzweig) received Rappaport Awards for Research Excellence (2023).

Katherine Lo (Petersen), Erica Rosario (Lackner), and Juhi Narula (Wignall) were announced as the recipients of the IBiS Excellence in Leadership & Engagement Award (2023).

Brett Palmero (Tullman-Ercek) won the Neil Welker IBiS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for outstanding teaching in a lab class (2023).

Erica Rosario (Lackner) won the Neena Schwartz IBiS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award for outstanding teaching in a lecture class (2023).

Xavier Anderson (Petersen) and Matthew Capek (Gallio) received Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral NRSAs from the National Institutes of Health (2023).

Reese Richardson (Amaral) was awarded a Moderna Global Fellowship (2023).

Erica Rosario (Lackner) was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (2023).

Nolan Kennedy^ (Tullman-Ercek) received an Outstanding Dissertation Award (2023).

Laura Hertz (Lucks) was awarded a Ryan Fellowship (2022).

Frank Tucci (Rosenzweig) received a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral NRSA from the National Institutes of Health (2022).

Gabriel Cavin-Meza^ (Wignall) received the Rappaport Award for Research Excellence (2022).

Gloria Alvarado (Lane) won the Neil Welker IBiS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (2022).

Emily Czajkowski (Wignall) was selected as the recipient of the IBiS Excellence in Leadership & Engagement Award (2022).

Michael Schamber^ (Vafabakhsh) received an Outstanding Dissertation Award (2022).

Anika Marand (Lane) and Erica Rosario (Lackner) received Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (2022).

Reese Richardson (Amaral) was awarded a Dr. John N. Nicholson Fellowship (2022).

Stephenie Droll (Bao) and Ariel Thames^ (Jewett) received Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral NRSAs from the National Institutes of Health (2021).

Siyu Chen^ (He) received the Rappaport Award for Research Excellence (2021).

Madison Spratt (Lane) won the Neil Welker IBiS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (2021).

Natalie Gilbert Gonzaga-Saavedra (Blythe) was selected as the recipient of the IBiS Excellence in Leadership & Engagement Award (2021).

Eleanor Degen (Blythe) and Elijah Taylor (Mondragón) received Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.  Eleanor Clark (Petersen) and Laura Hertz (Lucks) earned Honorable Mentions (2021).

Jonathan Boucher (Leonard) won the Neil Welker IBiS Teaching Assistant Excellence Award (2020).

Jonathan Boucher (Leonard) and Michael Ray (Lackner) received Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.  Karlin Compton (LaBonne) earned an Honorable Mention (2020).

Clare Harper^ (Lackner), Katherine Lo (Petersen), Rebecca Rasmussen (O'Halloran/Lucks), and Jake VanBelzen (Brickner) received Predoctoral Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (2019).

Emily Pujadas Liwag^(Backman) was named a GEM Associate Fellow by The National GEM Consortium (2018).

Nolan Kennedy^ (Tullman-Ercek) was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (2018).