Congratulations to the 2024 UW Biology undergraduate and graduate award winners! We would also like to recognize the many wonderful donors who support these awards and make it possible for us to award our talented students year after year. This quarter, we awarded over $66,000 in scholarships and research awards, as well as funded fourteen quarters of graduate fellowship support!
AUTUMN 2024 UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP & AWARD WINNERS
Donald S. Farner Scholarship
- Zijun (Neil) He
Walter & Margaret Sargent Award
- Arian Ariaye (Wood Lab, Pediatric Neonatology UWSOM)
- Vivian Chen (de la Iglesia Lab)
- Lily Nguyen (Kong Lab, UW Biochemistry)
- Sahiti Peddibhotla (Ruohola-Baker Lab, UW Biochemistry)
- Akshara Polavarapu (Ward Lab)
John & Dorothy Franco Award
- Maya Abhyankar (Kerr Lab)
Excellence in Biology Scholarship
- Eric Cho
- Zijun (Neil) He
- Jason Pham
Frye-Hotson-Rigg Award
- Avery Klein (Di Stilio Lab)
- Catalina Lind (Strömberg Lab)
- Euan McCubbin (Steinbrenner Lab)
Porath-Johnson Scholarship
- Amy Young
- Dave Young
Edith Lucena Riehl Scholarship
- Jessica Hart
- Ashanti White
Katharina Casey Leadership Award
- Emma Koves (Akamatsu Lab)
- Ankita Menon (Nghiem Lab, UWSOM)
- Wendy Yuliaana Sanchez Garcia (Durant Lab)
- Danielle Vahdat (Bagheri & Cabernard Labs)
AUTUMN 2024 GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WINNERS
Ingrith Deyrup-Olsen Teaching Award
- William Albers (Imaizumi Lab)
- Julia Smith (Buckley Lab)
Crary/Decker Distinguished Teaching Fellowship
- Amanda Hewes (Rico-Guevara Lab)
- Kindall Murie (Carrington Lab)
Frye-Hotson-Rigg Fellowship
- Hannah McConnell (Di Stilio Lab)
- Christine Nolan (Imaizumi Lab)
- Elena Stiles (Strömberg Lab)
Kathryn C. Hahn Writing Fellowship
- Job Veloso (Ward Lab)
WRF-Hall Fellowship
- Elliott Armour Smith (Sidor Lab)
- David Cuban (Rico-Guevara Lab)
- Edú Guerra (Santana Lab)
- Chenxi Liu (Kerr Lab)
- Brenlee Shipps (Sidor Lab)
- Meg Vandenberg (Summers Lab)
Paine Experimental & Field Ecology Fellowship
- Maria Garcia (Ruesink Lab)
- Marie-Pier Poulin (Abrahms Lab)
- Madeleine Strait (Brosi Lab)