Student Awards

Each year, several current and graduating Biology students receive departmental awards of recognition at the Commencement Ceremony. Following are the current and past award recipients.

Stephen Fox Award

This is awarded to the most outstanding undergraduate in Biology. The Stephen Fox Memorial Fund was established as a memorial to Stephen Fox, a Stanford student studying biology and music and includes a financial award for personal use and for books.

2012 recipient: Michael Hsiu Liu
2011 recipient: Ariel Emily Marcy
2010 recipients: Anthony Tuan Nguyen and Lauren Catherine Ponisio
2009 recipient: Dan Yi Gui
2008 recipient: Jessica Whei Tsai
2007 recipient: Robert Lerrigo
2006 recipient: John Patrick Adams
2005 recipient: Marie Alice Hollenhorst
2004 recipient: Richard Irving Sherwood

Norman K. Wessells Award

This is awarded to an outstanding undergraduate or graduate course assistant and includes a financial award.

2012 recipients: Emily Abrash and Irene Onyeneho
2011 recipients: Matthew Leo Knope and Nina Ly
2010 recipient: Carolyn Kolbe Tepolt
2009 recipient: Ryan Gutierrez
2008 recipient: Bryan Yu-Ann Chen
2007 recipient: Qinzi Ji
2006 recipient: Christina von der Ohe
2005 recipient: Michael James Wiser
2004 recipient: Christine Jessup

Lauren D. Weinstein Award

This is awarded to an outstanding undergraduate researcher or instructor who exhibits the dedication to life and science education exemplified by Lauren Weinstein, Class of ’88 and includes a financial award.

2012 recipient: Jessica Chang
2009 recipient: Alexander Christiaan Schultink
2008 recipient: Benjamin Matteson Vincent
2007 recipient: José Darío Maciel
2006 recipient: Gene Kew Ma
2005 recipient: Lydia Daboussi
2004 recipient: Arietta Fleming-Davies

Frances Lou Kallman Award

This is awarded to a female graduate student in recognition of special excellence in coursework, teaching and/or research and includes a financial award.

2012 recipient: Kristy Jean Kroeker
2011 recipient: Elizabeth Greene Pringle
2010 recipient: Hillary Suzanne Young
2009 recipients: Cora Ann MacAlister and Sarah Kelly McMenamin
2008 recipient: Susan Elizabeth Alter
2007 recipient: Yvonne Ling-Hsiang Chan
2006 recipient: Megan Elizabeth Frederickson
2005 recipient: Anne Sara Meyer
2004 recipient: Marie Claire Horner-Devine

Samuel Karlin Price in Mathematical Biology

This goes to the graduate student whose dissertation thesis reaches the highest standard of mathematical biology and includes a financial award. It honors Professor Samuel Karlin of Stanford’s Mathematics Department. On the occasion of his 70th birthday his students produced a book on mathematical biology in his honor and the royalties from that book accumulate to provide this prize.

2010 recipient: Jeremy Van Cleve
2009 recipient: Priya Lakshmi Iyer
2008 recipients: Erol Akçay & Sohini Ramachandran
2006 recipient: Maciej Filip Boni

Angela Lee Reipel Undergraduate Research Award

This award recognizes the most outstanding poster presented at the annual Achauer Undergraduate Honors Symposium. It honors Dr. Angela Lee Reipel's dedication to undergraduates pursuing research and honors in Biology.

2012 recipient: Erica Nicole Silva

Excellence in Teaching Awards

These are awarded to superb undergraduate and graduate student course assistants.

2012 recipients
Cecil Benitez
Michael Bramson
David Constant
Jeremy Hsu
Lisa Kurtz
Diana LaScala-Gruenewald
Heather Machado
Trevor Martin
Rajiv McCoy
Michael McLaren
William Stork
Brandon Weissbourd
William White

2011 recipients
Gabrielle Russo Barsh
Lisa Danielle Boxer
Jessica Chang
Karen Colbert
Robert Emilio Furrow
Matthew Leo Knope
Mark Denison Longo
Thomas Steven Lopez
Chase Douglas Mendenhall
Andrew Vernon Merrell
Holly Villacorta Moeller
Alison Ravenscraft
Por Sae-Seaw
Saumya Sankaran
Pauline Joy Felix Santos
Taryn Malia Sumabat
Lillian Khowong To
Rachel Laura Wolfson
Melissa Gale Works

2010 recipients
Emily Abrash
Laura Lynn Bronsart
Posy E. Busby
David William Creighton
Kelli Anne Davies
Mark Gordon Evans
Julie Marie Granka
Ryan Gutierrez
Caroline Kailing Hu
Jennifer Jing Huang
Monica Jeong
Daniel S. Karp
Gabrielf Maltais-Landry
Graeme McLean
Alexander McLean Nees
Lindsey Marie Negrete
Steven Thomas Swinford
Hoameng Ung
William T. Yewdell
Alan Xiaolun You
Xuchen Zhang

2009 recipients
Jessica Lynn Blois
Erika Liliana Bustamante
Amos Samuel Chen
David Chiang
Jason Scott Dunkel
Evan Lloyd Guiney
Elizabeth Ann Hambleton
Amanda Phi Khanh Hua
Jillian Kay Kallenbach
Ling Li
Jose Rafael Morillo Prado
Betty Ngoc Pham
Andrew James Rominger
Matthew Harrison Rowe
Aaron Samuel Rudin
Jonathan David Scrafford
Nadia Aftab Shaikh
Amy Li-Hwa Sun
Carolyn Kolbe Tepolt
Chelsea Lynne Wood

2008 recipients
Erol Akçay
William Churk-Nam Auyeung
Sara Elaine Brownell
Jesse Otto Chao
Peggie Cheung
Kyla Marie Dahlin
Tien Sy Dong
Nyasha Kianne George
Aaron Robert Goldman
Joanna Lee
Alisa Pilar Lehman
Katherine Jean Mertes
Carrie Anne Metzinger
Mary Qiu

2007 recipients
Karim Al-Khafaji
Anisha Anilraj
Eben North Broadbent
Steffi Duttler
John Sebastian Jaeger
Jason Thomas Ladner
Jennifer Lee
Nathaniel James Myall
Mahnoosh Nik-Ahd
Malin La Farge Pinsky
Elizabeth Greene Pringle
Rosemary Elinor Reidy
Deborah S. Rogers
John Shen
Sevan Siranoush Suni
Alissa Meyer Winzeler
Albert Shanbuo Ye
Hillary Suzanne Young
Anne Ran Zhuang

2006 recipients
Amritha Appaswami
Timothy Bonebrake
Andrew Carroll
Lin-Chiang Chou
Ryan Gutierrez
Chad Ishmael
Erin Kurten
Raymond Liu
Brent Lockwood
Katharine Mach
Agnieszka Monika Milczarek
Praveen Panguluri
Joseph Michael Pirolo
Katie Turner
Jeremy Van Cleve
Dirk Jacob VandePol
Dina Wallin
Lisa Yoshimi
José-Rafael Pantoja Zuzuárregui

2005 recipients
Dionesia Demetra Adraktas
Kathryn Lynn Amatangelo
Daniel Chao
Ramona Amy Hoh
Ioulia Kachirskaia
Maneesh Gupta Kumar
Meagan Frances Lansdale
Cheryl Annette Logan
Christopher Michael Lucas
Nathan Charles Manley
Robert Mitchell Pringle
Sohini Ramachandran
Sanam Saaber
Danielle Joy Shulman
Shawn Fletcher Sorrells
Nirali Vora
George J. Wang
Rafer Paul Willenberg

2004 recipients
Liz Alter
Jesse Boyett Anderson
Berry Brosi
Elena Chang
Carmen Dolores Cordova
Katie Cunningham
Michael Thomas Durheim
Eric Hoopfer
Christine Jessup
Nathan Kraft
Wilson Kwong
Jeffrey Lee
Tiffany Car-Ning Li
Jerry Ping-Maw Lu
J. Michael Macpherson
Melissa Marks
Tanya McKitrick
Allison Mo
Tom Oliver
Cedric Puleston
Lisa Beth Singer
Kerri Skurka
Jenny Wilson
Ginger Xu
Lisa Yoshimi
Xuesong Zhao