Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research - previous recipients

2023

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Dean Keith Simonton Prize:      

  • Ibrahim Dagher, Philosophy
  • Alyse Lodigiani, Cognitive Science

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Honorable Mention: 

  • Samuel Carter, Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
  • Quincy Kumfert, Political Science & Genetics and Genomics
  • Alex Neupauer, Genetics and Genomics

Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research 
Graduate Student Category

  • Zoe Pestana, Psychology
  • Shuxiao Zhang, Plant Sciences/Plant Biology Graduate Group

Post-doc/Scientist Category

  • April Ferre, Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Faculty Category

  • Joanna Chiu, Entomology and Nematology

2022

 Graduate student category:

  • Jesse Kolber, Sociology
  • Iris Holzer, Soils and Biogeochemistry

 Postdoc/project scientist category:

  • Marina LaForgia, Ph.D., Evolution and Ecology

   Postdoc/project scientist category honorable mention:

  • Ryan Toedebusch, Ph.D., Surgical & Radiological: VM

   Faculty category:

  • Nitzan Shabek, Ph.D., Plant Biology

   Faculty honorable mention:

  • Jacob Hibel, Ph.D., Sociology

2021

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2020

Faculty:

  • Gina Bloom, English
  • Kristina Horback, Animal Science
  • Soichiro Yamada, Biomedical Engineering

Postdoc/graduate student:

  • Sarah Adcock, Animal Science
  • Didem Sarikaya, Evolution & Ecology

2019

Faculty:

  • Aldrin Gomes, Neurobiology, Physiology, & Behavior
  • Georgia Zellou, Linguistics

Postdoc/graduate student:

  • Jie "Jackson" Zhu - Chemistry

2018

Faculty:

  • Gwen Arnold, Environmental Science and Policy
  • Neil Hunter, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Postdoc/graduate students:

  • Julie Luu, Center for Neuroscience
  • Chris Nosala, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

2017

Faculty:

  • Susan Kauzlarich, Chemistry

Postdoc/graduate students:

  • Lauren Berger, Psychology
  • Kaisa Kajala, Plant Biology

2016

Faculty:

  • Alexander Au, Statistics
  • Nicolas Zwyns, Anthropology

Postdoc/graduate students:

  • Emily Kappenman, Psychology/ Center for Mind & Brain

2015

Faculty:

  • Robin Hill, Art Studio
  • Tonya Kuhl, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
  • Eric Stanford, Evolution & Ecology
  • Nolan Zane, Psychology and Asian American Studies

Postdoc/graduate students:

  • Gloria Wong, Psychology

2014

Faculty:

  • Susan Avila, Design
  • JoAnne Engebrecht, Molecular & Cellular Biology