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Student Awards and Honors

Congratulations Class of 2025 and this year's award recipients!

2025 Graduating Senior and University Awards

University Medal 

Genetics and Genomics 

Avantika Gokulnatha 


CBS College Medal 

Individual Major in the Biological Sciences 

Kush Narang 


Undergraduate Student of the Year 

Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 

Rhea Bains 


Ronald and Lydia Baskin Research Award 

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 

Sydney Becker 

Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity 

Shih-Na Liu 


Rost Family Trust Biology K-12 Education Scholarship  

Biological Sciences 

Nicole Burye 

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 Supplemented by the Dean's Circle Fund Cell Biology

Zhiyuan Jia 


Dean’s Circle Fund

Biological Sciences

Hanxu Sha


J. Cuppoletti and D. 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 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 Fund

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

  • Taha Al Tekreeti
  • Taeyeon Cha
  • Ezra Chan
  • Ross Charboneau
  • Carolyn Chiu
  • Amelia Chu
  • Ellianna Damozonio
  • Tracy Dao
  • Justin Dinh
  • John Abram Flores
  • Evan Gehres
  • Ayesha Ghazali
  • Rianna Gonzales
  • Noman Hashimi
  • Erik Hay
  • Oksana Hura
  • Isabelle Jacobsen
  • Angela Jiang
  • Sumi Kimura
  • Allison Kwon
  • Dylan Kwong
  • Gemma Le
  • Sebastian Liu
  • Michelle Lopez Ramos
  • Kayla Louie
  • Wayson Luo
  • Marwa Mayar
  • George Mo
  • Elissa Nakano
  • Brian Nguyen
  • Kimberly Nguyen
  • Katelyn Nielsen
  • Chi Phan
  • Ezequiel Ponce
  • Noel Riely
  • Evan Roybal
  • Aishini Singh
  • Aman Singla
  • Colin Snell
  • Akshanth Srivatsa
  • Audrey Telkamp
  • Kathy Ton
  • Ethan Tran
  • Trish Tran
  • Jenevieve Weissman
  • Melinda Wong
  • Simon Wu
  • Michael Yasuda
  • Isaac Yu
  • Xinran Yu
  • Jiakun Zhai
  • Yilin Zheng

Biological Sciences

  • Jonah Abu-Ghazaleh
  • Zakee Ahmed
  • Fahad Alhworani
  • Madison An
  • Amrit Bains
  • Ashley Betchart
  • Deepika Bhardwaj
  • Sania Bhella
  • Emily Bogetich
  • Lucas Bubica
  • Sophia Buckley
  • Ryan Burke
  • Adam Bynder
  • Erin Cashin
  • Tianrong Chen
  • Grace Cheng
  • Sally Chenh
  • Carmen Chow
  • Lily Crook
  • Julissa De La Torre
  • Ali Dehghani
  • Rance Del Mar
  • Anna Dethlefson
  • Maria Do
  • Francisco Fabregas
  • Anika Freimuth
  • Lisa Gu
  • Dillon Hallman-Cook
  • Yuzhou Hong
  • Grant Huez
  • Ahmad Ikram
  • Bilan Ismail
  • Jasmine Jackson
  • Elika Javaheri
  • Ashmeet Kaur
  • Simran Kaur
  • Kaitlyn Keshishian
  • Amir Khorsand
  • Morgan Krueger
  • Donnawhitte Le
  • Mao Li
  • Weini Lin
  • Jingqi Liu
  • Tongtong Liu
  • Leah Ma
  • Atticus Mackey
  • Zach Mccauley
  • Aeddon Mckaba
  • Yu-Ping Meng
  • Manu Moganti
  • Ryan Moran
  • Sara Mukai
  • Karthik Nandakumar
  • Salsala Nasim
  • Han Nguyen
  • Caitlin Nix
  • Yingzhou Pan
  • Arshpal Parmar
  • Veronica Patton
  • Claire Pearson
  • Khloe Rosemund Rodriguez
  • Renee Rosiles
  • Khalid Saif
  • Aisha Saiyed
  • Ronak Sancheti
  • Jonathan Schurr
  • Ye Shu
  • Garja Singh
  • Kristin Tam
  • Benay Taylor
  • Andrew Tran
  • Evelyn Vega
  • Rebecca Wang
  • Michelle Weiby
  • Jalena Wouters
  • David Yang
  • Zhiyuan Yu

Cell Biology

  • Rutab Anjum
  • Madhulika Appajodu
  • Jordan Burrise
  • Jackson Crane
  • Brian Huang
  • Meera Mallya
  • Julia Michels
  • Lorin See
  • Yibo Shi
  • Nicole Tng
  • Sabrina Truong
  • Sohaib Usman
  • Brian Wong

Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity

  • Sindhu Bala
  • Kyle Elshoff
  • Miranda Lowe-Webb
  • Maya Michels

Genetics and Genomics

  • Sophia Chen
  • Anthony David
  • Jaskaran Halait
  • Claire Hsieh
  • Junda Huang
  • Ana Jauregui
  • Shiyu Ji
  • Nicholas Kaiser
  • Xingchen Liu
  • Amina Muhic
  • Nathan Ng
  • Clarissa Otto
  • Melody Shiau
  • Alexandria Skinner
  • Urmi Vaidya

Human Biology

  • Erica Chiu
  • Gloria Devitt
  • Marissa Durst
  • Scarlette Ernst
  • Simranpreet Gakhal
  • Alec Gerges
  • Jeanne Huynh
  • Puneet Kaler
  • Jasprit Kaur
  • Peter Mazzotta
  • Alan Nava
  • Gurshan Rai
  • Nathan Shimamoto
  • Gabriella Tenret
  • Thae Su Thu
  • Angelina Tran
  • Georgia Tucker

Marine and Coastal Science – Marine Ecology and Organismal Biology

  • Zoe Brumbaugh
  • Sammuel Huang

Molecular and Medical Microbiology

  • Tala Abboushi
  • Aiperi Aruueva
  • Gregory Bui
  • Juhi Desai
  • Ariana Enriquez
  • Ethan Hintz
  • Anhha Ho
  • Cassie Huang
  • Kavya Khandelwal
  • Evan Maher
  • Macey Mcadams
  • Daisy Montoya
  • Alyssa Nguyen
  • Akanksha Pabari
  • Micah Suan
  • Kayla Valdez
  • Anthony Weidner

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior

  • Takhmina Abdul
  • Darren Adela
  • Sasha Afroz
  • Marco Alarcon
  • Carmina Alves
  • Laila Ardalan
  • Luxi Arnold
  • Vishalakshi Arun
  • Caroline Au
  • Rohin Ayuby
  • Beatrice Begley
  • Kandace Bui
  • Vinh Bui
  • Jalen Chang
  • Divya Chimmi
  • Liebe Cho
  • Olivia Cho
  • Soham Choudhary
  • Jenna Dohner
  • Michael Donoghue
  • Ella Fenstermaker
  • Diana Freed
  • Massie Gardizi
  • Brandon Gatanaga
  • Neha Gondra
  • Emily Guo
  • Vinayak Harikumar
  • Julienne Harmon
  • Cameron Hawk
  • Brandon Hong
  • Katie Huang
  • Sophie Huang
  • Athena Huntalas
  • David Hunter
  • Zara Imran
  • Kriti Iyer
  • Ansh Jain
  • Oriana Jalal
  • Soren Johnson
  • Bhavdeep Kahlon
  • Gabriella Kaiser
  • Yoonah Kang
  • Jonathan Kaslow
  • Navdeep Kaur
  • Michelle Khuong
  • Katherine Kim
  • Paul Kim
  • Ehlen Kokka
  • Matthew Lee
  • Jessie Lei
  • Haocheng Li
  • Kendra Liu
  • Jessica Lu
  • Ashraf Mansur
  • Ksenia Medvedeva
  • Anika Mehndiratta
  • Natalie Mejia
  • Anastasia Mifsud
  • Lourd Xedric Miguel
  • Wen Min
  • Anika Minoji
  • Alay Adeen Moustafa
  • Rosalyn Muniz
  • Aubrey Nguyen
  • Karen Nguyen
  • Mauricio Ojeda
  • Dev Patel
  • Dhruti Patel
  • Ya Phoo
  • Ritvik Punati
  • Shreyas Raj
  • Yuxin Ren
  • Gloria Rodriguez
  • Ella Rogers
  • Daltrey Schmidt
  • Siddhi Shenoy
  • Jordan Shore
  • Anna Si
  • Andrea Smith
  • Ahya Snyder
  • Christian Stan
  • Lia Stocking
  • Jeetu Sujith
  • Andrew Tran
  • Dathan Tran
  • Emily Tran
  • Theodore Tran
  • Thuy Tran
  • Sweta Tummala
  • Tanishq Vaidya
  • Srinidhi Viswanathan
  • Jacquelyn Vo
  • Matthew Vu
  • Rhea Zachariah
  • Karen Zhai
  • Jay Zhang

Plant Biology

  • Noah Kulchin
  • Xiaoyan Liu
  • Sadie Peters

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  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