2025 Graduating Senior and University Awards
University Medal
Genetics and Genomics
Avantika Gokulnatha
Social Justice and Inclusion Award
Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Rhea Bains
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.
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
- Victor Pham
- Eric 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
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
- William Do
- Rebecca Do
- Jackson Englade
- Zimo Gu
- Christopher Hin
- Michelle Honggo
- Silvia Huynh
- Seth Kim
- Cory Kirk
- Donovan Lam
- Emma Laurence
- Danny Le
- Brian Le
- Soojin Lee
- Trina Lim
- Fuhang Liu
- Chang Liu
- Jocelyn Livezey
- Timothy Mah
- Nathan Mann
- Natalie Markman
- Karen Nguyen
- Jaclyn 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
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
- Wendy Wong
- Evelyn Wong
- Katherine Young
- Veronica Zanzot
- Nancy Zhang
Individual Majors
- Kush Narang
- Katie Ricketts
Marine & 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
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
