Graduate Student Awards Archive
Below is list of students who have won division awards and honors previous to the current award year. Current year awards are recognized on the Graduate Student Awards page along with awards won at the university and national level. Follow links for the corresponding award year to read details in the news announcement.
Alstroemeria Endowed Prize in Plant Biology
- 2019
- Joshua Chevez, Jose Pruneda-Paz Lab
Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence
- 2022-23 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Sarah Ardell, Sergey Kryazhimskiy Lab
- 2021-22 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Josh Borin, Justin Meyer Lab
Hangqing Liu, Joseph Ecker Lab - 2020 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Danielle Garshott, Eric Bennett Lab
Sachin Sethi, Jing Wang Lab - 2019 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Hannah Grunwald, Kimberly Cooper Lab
- 2018 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Homa Rahnamoun, Shannon Lauberth Lab
Ipshita Zutshi, Stefan Leutgeb Lab - 2017 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Bingfei Yu, Ananda Goldrath Lab
- 2016 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Albert Lim, Andrew Huberman Lab
Ben Rubin, Susan Golden Lab - 2015 Biology Founding Faculty Award for Graduate Excellence Article
- Valentino Gantz, Ethan Bier Lab
Chris Wills Endowed Graduate Student Research Award
- 2020
- Alena Martsul, Sergey Kryazhimskiy Lab
- 2019
- Joshua Borin, Justin Meyer Lab
- 2018
- Hannah Strobel, Justin Meyer Lab
- 2016
- Audrey Proenca, Lin Chao Lab
David V. Goeddel Chancellor's Award
- 2021
- Tina Chia-Tien Chang, Alan Saghatelian Lab
- 2020
- Erica Birkholz, Joe Pogliano Lab
Danielle Garshott, Bennett Lab
Youtong Huang, Lemke Lab
Brian Tsu, Daugherty Lab - 2019
- Jacey Jijun Liu, Gen-Sheng Feng Lab
Hannah Tsunemoto, Joseph Pogliano Lab - 2018
- Kanika Khanna, Joe Pogliano Lab
Audrey Proenca, Lin Chao Lab - 2017 David V. Goeddel Chancellor's Fellowship Article
- Amanda Davis, Dong-Er Zhang Lab
Katrina Nguyen, Joe Pogliano Lab - 2016 David V. Goeddel Chancellor's Fellowship Article
- Ben Rubin, Susan Golden Lab
Danielle Hagstrom, Eva-Maria Schoetz-Collins Lab
Mai Khuong, Jim Kadonaga Lab
David V. Goeddel Endowed Graduate Award
- 2021
- Henry Baker, Jonathan Shurin Lab
Laura Chipman, Amy Pasquinelli Lab
Michelle Bui, Omar Akbari Lab
Wendy Chen, Gen-Sheng Feng Lab
Ziyan (Zoe) Xu, Susan Kaech Lab
Asama Lekbua, Alistair Russell Lab
Stephanie Curtis, Reuben Shaw Lab
Daniela Samaniego-Castruita, Anjana Rao Lab
Nathan Palmer, Prashant Mali Lab - 2020
- Chris Beierschmitt, Daugherty Lab
Hanquing Liu, Ecker Lab
Beverly Naiglesm, Hao Lab
Cody Ocheltree, Lykke-Andersen Lab
Zachary Warburg, Murre Lab
Jinhao (Albert) Xu, Sun Lab - 2019
- Jenny He, Matthew Banghart Lab
Alexander Neu, Kaustuv Roy Lab
Seungyoon Blenda Yu, Gulcin Pekkurnaz Lab - 2018
- Paulo De Oliveira Ceciliato, Julian Schroeder Lab
Yan Liang, Gen-Sheng Feng Lab
Ye Zhang, Chih-Ying Su Lab - 2017 David V. Goeddel Endowed Graduate Fellowship Article
- Daniel Johnson, Dong-Er Zhang Lab
Christopher Piggott, Yishi Jin Lab
Chi Ren, Takaki Komiyama Lab
José Waterton, Elsa Cleland Lab - 2016 David V. Goeddel Endowed Graduate Fellowship Article
- Elizabeth Hetherington, Carolyn Kurle
Tin Ki (Angela) Tsang, Chih-Ying Su
Donald Helinski Award
- 2016
- Lara Labarta Bajo, Elina Zuniga Lab
Matthew Nord, Douglass Forbes Lab
Jeanne M. Messier Memorial Award
- 2024
- Julia Bebout
- Ellie Fausett
- Abhimaya Pathak
- Sateesh Venkatesh
- 2023
- Cody Spiegal
- Frank Loduca
- Scott Morton
- 2022
- Megan Demmel
- Jessica Mullins
- Joshua Dominguez
- 2021
- Karagan Smith
- 2020
- Ashley Kim, James Nieh Lab
- 2019
- Henry Baker, Jonathan Shurin Lab
- Kelly Flanders, Carolyn Kurle Lab
- Amy Geffre, James Nieh Lab
- 2018
- Dillon Travis, Joshua Kohn Lab
- 2017
- Stephanie Nehasil, Carolyn Kurle Lab
Alexander Neu, Kaustuv Roy Lab
Elizabeth Ryan, Elsa Cleland Lab
Elizabeth Bullard, Kaustuv Roy Lab - 2016
- Daniela Zarate, Joshua Kohn Lab
Marguerite Vogt Award
- 2021
- Jiayi Dong, Li-Fan Lu Lab
Bianca Barriga, Sam Pfaff Lab - 2020
- Analine Aguayo, Neal Lab
Sunyoung Lee, Sun Lab - 2019
- Antonia Darragh, Scott Rifkin Lab
Gokhan Senturk, Samuel Pfaff Lab - 2018
- Tim Shaw, Jens Lykke-Andersen Lab
- 2017
- Youtong Huang, Greg Lamke Lab
- 2016
- Bingfei Yu, Ananda Goldrath
McElroy Award
- 2021
- Gabriel Mullin-Manzanarez, Terry Hwa Lab
Alexis Bantle, Emma Farley Lab
Brent Chick, Diana Hargreaves Lab
Nathan Stutzman, Jazz Dickinson Lab
Alison Vicary, Alistair Russell Lab
Ugbad Farah, Jonathan Shurin Lab - 2020
- Elizabeth Bullard, Kaustuv Roy Lab
Lara Labarto Bajo, Elina Zuniga Lab
Anusorn Mudla, Nan Hao Lab
Emily Pierce, Rachel Dutton Lab
Chin San (Eric) Loo, Ye Zheng Lab - 2019
- Eray Enustun, Joseph Pogliano Lab
- 2018
- Ida Naughton, David Holway Lab
- 2017
- Vinson Lam, Susan Golden Lab
- 2016
- Celia Symons, Jonathan Shurin Lab
Ray Thomas Edwards Award
- 2021
- Andrew Ryan, Matt Daugherty Lab
Sara Quon, Ananda Goldrath Lab
D. Alexander (Alex) Stevens, Samara Reck-Peterson Lab
Tara Spencer, Rachel Dutton Lab - 2020
- Deepam Gupta, Yelon Lab
Rachel Kandel, Neal Lab
Gidsela Luna, Sun Lab
Andres Nevarez, Hao Lab
Saransh Umale, Jun Lab - 2019
- Delaney Pagliuso, Amy Pasquinelli Lab
- 2018
- Donghyung Lee, Cory Root Lab
- 2017
- Danielle Garshott, Eric Bennett Lab
- 2016
- Sachin Sethi, Jing Wang Lab
Ruth Stern Award
- 2021
- Sarah Ardell, Sergey Kryazhimskiy Lab
- 2020
- Livia Songster, Samara Reck-Peterson Lab
- 2019
- Sumedha Ravishankar, Cressida Madigan Lab
- 2018
- Beverly Naigles, Nan Hao Lab
- 2017
- John Gillies, Samara Reck-Peterson Lab
- 2016
- Emily Pierce, Rachel Dutton Lab
Roland Liu, Kit Pogliano Lab
Kavli-Helinski Endowed Graduate Award
- 2021
- Daniel Heinz, Brenda Bloodgood Lab
Yusi Chen, Terry Sejnowski Lab
Gina Powers, Shelley Halpain Lab
Qiyu Chen, Takaki Komiyama Lab - 2020
- Alana Gibson, Ackerman Lab
Shijia Liu, Han Lab
Nicholas Nelson, Nimmerjahn Lab
Natasha Slepak, Patrick Lab
Yue Sun, Jin Lab
Shiuan-Tze Wu, Su Lab