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Student Awards and Honors

Congratulations Class of 2024 and this year's award recipients!

2025 Graduating Senior and University Awards

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence In Undergraduate Research—Dean Keith Simonton Prize

Alexandra Serna Godoy


V. Glenn Winslow Jr. Award

Andrew Tran


Rost Family Biology K-12 Education Scholarship

Akanksha Pabari


Ronald and Lydia Baskin Research Award

Anna Kolesov
Anthony Weidner


College of Biological Sciences Undergraduate of the Year

Kyle Elshoff
Neha Gondra


College of Biological Sciences Medal

Carmina Alves

2025 Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards

Alden S. Crafts Scholarship

Abigail Broderick
Daniel Rathert
Annie Willett
Eli Zemsky 


Alys Hay Travel Award 

Karla Gonzalez
Kush Narang 


Barbara Horwitz and John Horowitz Undergraduate Scholarship in Physiology

Kane Zanon 


Edward Dussich Memorial Scholarship

Chloe Cota 


George and Ann Lin Honors Scholarship 

Kami Osher 


John and Jeanne Pryor Educational Support Award 

Ivonne Aguirre
Zena Al-Saidali
Jorge Birruete
Braden Cason
Kat Drumright
Alexsa Esquivel
Yojhary Flores
Camila Garcia Perez
Mariana Gaytan-Salgado
Karen Hernandez
Luis Herrera
Zachary Lee
Sarah Mansour
Naima Marquez
Rejoice Mata
Simran Mohar
Jannet Noriega
Ivan Pantoja
Daisy Preciado Escobedo
Kenia Ramos-Gomez
Hanna Richmond
Isleen Rivas
Diego Ruvalcaba 
Giovanne Sanabria
Shawn Sandberg 


Kathleen C. Green Scholarship in Biology 

Hala Al Saidali
Annie Chung
Chloe Cota
Victoria Derebenskiy
Daniella Ingargiola
Jessica Lyon
Lila Magbilang
Samantha Medina
Kaman Poon
May Saefong
Rachel Slu
Vivian Tseng
Catherine Zhang 


Kathryn S. Hinchee-Rodriguez, Ph.D. Award

Miranda Jaramillo
Shreeya Mehta 


Katrina K. Hoyer and Shane G. Smith Family Scholarship

Nicole Purba 


Liliane D. Wells Scholarship

Ruby Aguilar
Sorickya Beverly
Zackary Garcia
Diego Lemus
Emily Mendoza
Julissa Nunez
Joelle Park
Matthew Part
Ghost Zetino
Sorickya Beverly
Diego Lemus
Emily Mendoza
Rex Nepstad
Julissa Nunez
Joelle Park
Matthew Part
Ghost Zetino 


Lois and John Crowe Scholarship

Nathaniel Liu 


Louise and Eric Conn Undergraduate Scholarship in Biochemistry

Patrick Liao
Ashley Scott 


Mark Presky and Marsha Saltman Biological Sciences Scholarship

Zephyr Calabio-Harris
Daniel Curin Cruz
Dharyl Licudine
Lauren Yee 


Milauskas Family Scholarship 

Adeena Rahman 


 

Oliver Leonard Memorial Scholarship

Rex Nepstad
Matthew Part 


Robyn L. Smith Family Scholarship 

Niel Ongkingco


Steve and Tammy Conston Scholarship 

Siiri Hamberg
Mandy Situ 


Verne and Katinka Mendel Scholarship

Jennifer Dang
Kane Zanon 


Wilfred William Robbins Award

Abigail Broderick
Emily Mckay
Nickolas Trane 


Debbie and Rick Yaver Scholarship in Molecular and Medical Microbiology

Jason Lai 

2025 Undergraduate Research Awards

Alumni to Aggie Student Research Award Supplemented by the Ruth K. Pryer and Nancy K. Pryer Undergraduate Opportunity Fund

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior

Sinead Archdeacon 


Charles and Nanci Cooper Undergraduate Research Award 

Cell Biology

Zhiyuan Jia 


Dean’s Circle Fund

Biological Sciences

Hanxu Sha


John Cuppoletti and Danuta H. Malinowska Award Supplemented by the Dean's Circle Fund 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Tiffany Lam 


John Roth Undergraduate Research Award Supplemented by the Dean's Circle Fund 

Molecular and Medical Microbiology 

Stephanie Toy 


Maud Wrightson Hinchee, Ph.D. Undergraduate Research Award 

Plant Biology 

Viktoria Dubinin 


Raymond L. Rodriguez Undergraduate Research Award 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 

Zijing Zhang  


Robert S. Blumberg Research Award 

Molecular and Medical Microbiology 

Han Wang 


Roy H. Doi Undergraduate Research Award Supplemented by the Dean's Circle Fund 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Brandon Fong  


Ruth K. Pryer and Nancy K. Pryer Undergraduate Opportunity FundBiochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Abigail Gailmard 


Stacey Roberts and Michael Lassner Award 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 

Jennifer Lee 

2025 Outstanding Senior and Distinguished Scholar Awards

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Omnia Ali
  • Sydney Becker
  • Nicolas Bonagura
  • Jocelyn Livezey
  • Natalie Markman
  • Jedidiah Peek
  • Peter Reifenstein
  • Ethan Wendell
  • Cheryl Yee
  • Caroline Yeow
  • Dimitrios Zannis

Biological Sciences

  • Pat Fang 

  • Y Vy Nguyen 

  • Helen Noroian 

  • Eric Pham 

  • Sophia Wright 

  • Jaime Young 


Cell Biology

  • Zhe Liu
  • Neha Ramesh

Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity

  • Matteo Kyser
  • Shih-Na Liu
  • Parker Milligan
  • Clara Szego 

Genetics and Genomics

  • Fatimah Al-Musawi
  • Fenna Candy
  • Avantika Gokulnatha
  • Nabiya Haider
  • Sowmya Mambakkam
  • Rokhshid Rafiei
  • Nishika Raghavan
  • Aditi Thambala
  • Bernice Yin 

Human Biology

  • Purva Bhatia
  • Kyle Cheng
  • Aparanjitha Connur
  • Christine Mao
  • Becca Truong 

Individual Major in Biological Sciences 

Kush Narang 


Marine and Coastal Science

Lainie Mikeska 


Molecular and Medical Microbiology

  • Shawna Katz
  • Craig Marquis
  • Aruna Nannapaneni
  • Kathleen Petcu
  • Elijah Valerjev
  • Emily Xu 

Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior

  • Satvik Arani
  • Rhea Bains
  • Subhokrity Banerjee
  • Aidan Baraban
  • Julia Borger
  • Sadia Chowdhury
  • Nariaki Fujita
  • Jordan Garay
  • Shamika Gavaskar
  • Sophia Harimoto
  • Payal Hegde
  • Grace Heringer
  • Allyson Ikeda
  • Ishaan Iyer
  • Saanvi Jain
  • Kiruba Jeyaseelan
  • Manpreet Kaur
  • Yashneet Kaur
  • Kavya Kaushal
  • Gabrielle Lewis
  • Kammi Liu
  • Nicole Lonsway
  • Lydia Luan
  • Sanjana Neeli
  • Ethan Pang
  • Sriansh Pasumarthi
  • Tanvi Pendurthi
  • Annie Rhee
  • Rohini Sambyal
  • Mohammadhossein Siadat
  • Vinh Tran
  • Izzy Triana
  • Amandine Velten 

Plant Biology

  • Matthew Part (outstanding senior)
  • Rex Nepstad 

2025 Department Citations

Department citations are given to graduating seniors with a UC GPA of 3.7 or higher, and who graduate between summer of the year prior through spring of the current year. Students are listed below by major. 


Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Joshua Agustin
  • Jack Allen
  • Michelle Azuma
  • Sydney Becker
  • Brady Bennigson
  • Alan Buxton
  • Brian Chen
  • Julia Choi
  • Kazuki Chu
  • Kiley Cleland
  • Justin Condevillamar
  • Christian Davalos-Gutierrez
  • Rebecca Do
  • William Do
  • Jackson Englade
  • Zimo Gu
  • Christopher Hin
  • Michelle Honggo
  • Silvia Huynh
  • Seth Kim
  • Cory Kirk
  • Donovan Lam
  • Emma Laurence
  • Brian Le
  • Danny Le
  • Soojin Lee
  • Trina Lim
  • Chang Liu
  • Fuhang Liu
  • Jocelyn Livezey
  • Timothy Mah
  • Nathan Mann
  • Natalie Markman
  • Jaclyn Nguyen
  • Karen Nguyen
  • Kiet Nguyen
  • Raeva Pandey
  • Jedidiah Peek
  • Jason Pham
  • Peter Reifenstein
  • Alex Sanchez
  • Sarah Seifrick
  • Simran Sran
  • Rebecca Sugarman
  • Tyler Tong
  • Luc-Tanton Tran
  • Dave Elizer Valenzuela
  • Catherine Wang
  • Ethan Wendell
  • Joey Wu
  • Joy Yang
  • Caroline Yeow
  • Dimitrios Zannis
  • Sophie Zhang
  • Kathy Zhong 

Biological Sciences 

  • Hala Al Saidali
  • Jillian Barton
  • Ashley Betchart
  • Amber Chang
  • Keerthi Chitta
  • Alyssa Crabbe
  • Christian Dergazarian
  • Amanda Esterson
  • Pat Fang
  • Grace Frost
  • Lynnea Garlick
  • Megan Gong
  • Livleen Grewal
  • Ayden Harirsaz
  • Daniella Ingargiola
  • Lillian Ji
  • Mason Johnstone
  • Caitlyn Kan
  • Shayan Kazemi
  • Sophie Krauss
  • Isabella Krzesniak
  • Ben Kunimoto
  • William Le
  • Madeleine Lee
  • Elaine Li
  • Hanh Luu
  • Suhani Malik
  • Eileen Mitri
  • Allyson Monsada
  • Bao Nguyen
  • Y Vy Nguyen
  • Eric Pham
  • Victor Pham
  • Ferdous Rahimi
  • Edrees Samadi
  • Shelby Schafer
  • Aaron Schumacher
  • Jonathan Schurr
  • Megan Sechler
  • Prabhjot Singh
  • Patricia Sun
  • Sehar Syed
  • Justin Vue
  • Yee Ting Edith Wong
  • Julia Yang
  • Jaime Young
  • Xingyao Yu
  • Whitney Zhang 

Cell Biology 

  • Brianna Dinh
  • Darya Einollahi
  • Alexis Kwock
  • Samantha Medina
  • Neha Ramesh 

Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity

  • Esther Chen
  • Kylie Dickinson
  • Lianne Huber
  • Shih-Na Liu
  • Jessica Lyon
  • Parker Milligan
  • Alyna Outhyse
  • Herron Renegado
  • Rees Sitchon
  • Nadia Sparenberg
  • Clara Szego
  • Sonia Wu 

Genetics and Genomics

  • Fatimah Al-Musawi
  • Catrinel Berevoescu
  • Fenna Candy
  • Fiona Davoudi
  • Avantika Gokulnatha
  • Khushleen Kaur
  • Sowmya Mambakkam
  • Sanath Pai
  • Rokhshid Rafiei
  • Nishika Raghavan
  • Annika Sybersma
  • Zixin Wei
  • Bernice Yin
  • XinYu Zhang 

Human Biology 

  • Hamza Abdelrahman
  • Sophia Aclan
  • Mustafa Alesmail
  • Aniketh Awatiger
  • Purva Bhatia
  • Leila Bierbaum
  • Sammy Brown
  • Julianna Campos
  • Laila Mae Canosa
  • Alyana Noelle Castillo
  • Tamarah Childs
  • Erin Chin
  • Aparanjitha Connur
  • Taven Cunningham
  • Vanessa Dang
  • Victoria Derebenskiy
  • Parth Gharti
  • Nico Gilardoni
  • Tara Ko Ko Gyi
  • Benjamin Hoang
  • Annie Hsieh
  • Shou Kitahara
  • Claire Kwak
  • Alan Lei
  • Jessica Lowry
  • Kacie Lui
  • Shannon Ly
  • Ashika Maniam
  • Christine Mao
  • Elizabeth Moss
  • Rohini Murali
  • Yousuf Mustafa
  • Bryce Nguyen
  • Gabrielle Osorio
  • Catherine Pham
  • Nicole Purba
  • Hailey Rosales
  • Arnav Shah
  • Chiran Akkshay Shunmugam
  • Tarandeep Sidhu
  • Jacob Stambaugh
  • Kaylee Sweetman
  • Conrad Tang
  • Arianna Weiss
  • Evelyn Wong
  • Wendy Wong
  • Katherine Young
  • Veronica Zanzot
  • Nancy Zhang 

Individual Major in the Biological Sciences

  • Kush Narang
  • Katie Ricketts

Marine and Coastal Science

  • Lawrence Chen
  • Nathan Cole
  • Lainie Mikeska
  • Liliana West 

Molecular and Medical Microbiology

  • Christopher Abe
  • Peter Alexon
  • Aiden Cheung
  • Jack Dragoli
  • Aaron Dukes
  • Minh Duong
  • Omkar Ekbote
  • Anika Iyengar
  • Aria Jacinto
  • Derek Jermanis
  • Shawna Katz
  • Dylon Keller
  • Nhatnam Le
  • Christine Liau
  • Rebecca Limary
  • Henry Lin
  • Craig Marquis
  • Noelle Mcculloh
  • Natalie Miller
  • Aruna Nannapaneni
  • Richard Ngo
  • Oliver Pang
  • Kathleen Petcu
  • Tony Tao
  • Laura Westphal
  • Kaitlin White
  • Emily Xu 

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 

  • Ali Abdelnaby
  • Noshin Akhtar
  • Satvik Arani
  • Melia Atienza
  • Rhea Bains
  • Sophia Bareiss
  • Victoria Bettencourt
  • Anamitra Bhaumik
  • Julia Borger
  • Marisa Carelli
  • Diego Chavez
  • Luke Chen
  • Chloe Costell
  • Aniket Desarkar
  • Christine Du
  • Grace Eastlick
  • Joshua Ekstrom
  • Nariaki Fujita
  • Nithya Ganti
  • Jordan Garay
  • Eoin Garcia
  • Shamika Gavaskar
  • Sophia Gorona
  • Ishaan Gupta
  • Sophia Harimoto
  • Rohan Hassen
  • Cameron Hawk
  • Payal Hegde
  • Jayme Hendrickson
  • Grace Heringer
  • Chris Hoang
  • Muheema Husain
  • Allyson Ikeda
  • Zara Imran
  • Ishaan Iyer
  • Saanvi Jain
  • Marco Jimenez
  • Anshul Kamatala
  • Kavya Kaushal
  • Asher Khattak
  • Callahan Kincaid
  • Doriana Le
  • Sharon Li
  • Kendra Liu
  • Sixuan Liu
  • Katherine Luong
  • Ashley Luu
  • Mariam Mahmodi
  • Austin Matel
  • Abigail Mcmahon
  • Hiral Mehta
  • Aabrar Mollah
  • Efrain Munoz Flores
  • Srutik Nagamalla
  • Shraddha Nair
  • Safah Nassimi
  • Sanah Nassimi
  • Sanjana Neeli
  • Robert Nelson
  • Adele Newcomb
  • Hao Ngo
  • Truc Tung Linh Nguyen
  • Sriansh Pasumarthi
  • Tatiana Pechnikova
  • Tanvi Pendurthi
  • Theresa Phi
  • Kaman Poon
  • Annie Rhee
  • Aidan Rice
  • Sami Rihani
  • Rohini Sambyal
  • Joel Sanchez
  • Sophia Sandhu
  • Rhea Sarmah
  • Leah Schloss
  • Taylor Schwarz
  • Divya Shah
  • Khushi Shah
  • Zulqarnain Shahid
  • Kyle Shang
  • Diya Shetty
  • Divisha Singh
  • Heidi Spence
  • Shanlea Tabofunda
  • Kenna Takamiya
  • Finn Talmon
  • Annlin Titus
  • Ryan Torres
  • Brittney Tran
  • Vinh Tran
  • Izzy Triana
  • Kyle Tseng
  • Sruti Vadde
  • Mckenzie Velando
  • Pranjal Verma
  • Lia Williams
  • Jenna Wong
  • Cynthia Yu
  • Levia Zhu 

Plant Biology

  • Abigail Broderick
  • Matthew Part 

  • Systems and Synthetic Biology 

Jacob Youtsey 

2025 Graduate Fellowships and Awards

Loren D. Carlson Prize in Physiology

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Cyrrus Espino


Eric and Louise Conn Graduate Student Award in Plant Biochemistry

Plant Biology

Yujie Meng


Irving I. Hertzendorf Memorial Award in Physiology

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Gabriela Del Toro Rivera


Barbara Horwitz & John Horowitz Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Award

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Natalie Gilmore
Sherif Bahriz


Monsanto Endowed Student Fund in Agricultural Biotechnology Award  Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology

Plant Biology

Yujie Meng


Dean's Mentorship Graduate Award

Population Biology

Claire Murphy


Sharon Gray Memorial Award

Population Biology

Sanaa Qahere Khan - Mentor

Biological Sciences

Ethan Negus - Mentee

Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Iris Yoshiko Juanico - Mentor

Biological Sciences

Zucy K Virgen - Mentee