Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards
The Astronomy Achievement Student Awards are given to recognize exemplary research by undergraduate and graduate students who present at one of the poster sessions at the meetings of the AAS. Awardees are honored with a Chambliss medal or, in the case of honorable mention, a certificate.
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240th Meeting: 12-16 June 2022, Pasadena, California
Graduate
| RECIPIENTS | HONORABLE MENTIONS |
|---|---|
| Erica Bufanda | Christian Aganze |
| Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James | Gabriella Agazie |
| Melissa Morris | Anna Baum |
| Megan Newsome | Evan Cook |
| Rosalia O'Brien | Julia Falcone |
| Samuel Federman | |
| Nathan Galliher | |
| Kiana Henny | |
| Margaret Johnston | |
| Kyle Kabasares | |
| Rex Lam | |
| Yuanze Luo | |
| Alec Martin | |
| Nayantara Mudur | |
| Osase Omoruyi | |
| Emma Page | |
| Mugdha Polimera | |
| William Smith | |
| Eliot Vrijmoet |
Undergraduate
| RECIPIENTS | HONORABLE MENTIONS |
|---|---|
| Hillary Diane Andales | Ivan Altunin |
| Alexandra Masegian | Whittney Easterwood |
| Julio Morales | James Garland |
| William Ostling | Dylan Gayer |
| Lori Porter | Sierra Gomez |
| Benjamin Hanson | |
| Lillian Jiang | |
| Sarah Lange | |
| Ashley Lieber | |
| Joshua Millman | |
| Vighnesh Nagpal | |
| Rachel Nere | |
| Kendra Nguyen | |
| Bennett Skinner | |
| Trevor Weiss, Evangela Shread, and Cameron Law (jointly) | |
| Zachary Werber | |
| Luisa Fernanda Zamudio Ruvalcaba |
238th Meeting: 7-9 June 2021 (virtual)
Graduate
| RECIPIENTS | HONORABLE MENTIONS |
|---|---|
| Cail Daley | Paul Chichura |
| Charlotte Olsen | Nicholas DePorzio |
| Allen Foster | |
| Yuzhe Robert Song | |
| Johnathan Stauffer |
Undergraduate
| RECIPIENTS | HONORABLE MENTIONS |
|---|---|
| Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach | Serena Cronin |
| Connor Jennings | Kate Gold |
| Avery Kiihne | |
| Jacob Nibauer |
237th Meeting: 10-15 January 2021 (virtual)
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Rachel Bowyer | Morgan Chidester |
| Becky Flores | Lindsay DeMarchi |
| Emily Gilbert | Brendan Drachler |
| Abigail Lee | Ebraheem Farag |
| Anna Payne | Ragadeepika Pucha |
| Yu-Hsuan Teng | Serena Tramm |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Daniel Brethauer | Hollis Akins |
| Kiana Burton | William Balmer |
| William Cerny | Delondrae Carter |
| Vedant Chandra | Camille Cartwright |
| Adrian Crawford | Leonardo Clarke |
| Zoe de Beurs | Serena Cronin |
| Anna Estes | Samuel Gunther |
| Ruby Fulford | Jacqueline Hernandez |
| Kassidy Kollmann | Imaan I. Rahim |
| Mariarosa Marinelli | Mary Jimenez |
| Michael Messere | Alexander Johnson |
| Nabeel Rehemtulla | Alexandra Kwon |
| Aniket Sanghi | Kyubin Kwon |
| Ezra Sukay | Alexa Morales |
| Elizabeth Yunerman | Elias Oakes |
| Debosmita Pathak | |
| Rafid Quayum | |
| Emily Silich | |
| Meredith Stone | |
| Andrew Thomas | |
| Máire Volz | |
| Tobin Wainer | |
| Amanda Wasserman | |
| Mikayla Wilson | |
| Anna Zuckerman |
236th Meeting: 1-3 June 2020 (virtual)
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Anthony J. Taylor | Amy L. Glazier |
| Melinda Townsend | Sean Christian Lewis |
| Levi G. Walls | Cicero Xinyu Lu |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Tyler Thomas Hagen | Andrew M. Hoffman |
| Francisco Mendez | Yukei S. Murakami |
| Jared Siegel |
235th Meeting: 4-8 January 2020, Honolulu, Hawai‘i
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Santosh Harish | Jacqueline Antwi-Danso |
| Rashmeet Kaur Nayyar | Derrick Carr |
| Mansi Padave | Gabrielle Engelmann-Suissa |
| Leonardo Paredes | Charles Law |
| Lisa Shepard |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Andrew Bowen | Jéa Adams |
| Alicia Eglin | Amanda Ash |
| Nicole Marie Ford | Jackie Blaum |
| Hannah Gulick | Lilly Bralts-Kelly |
| Allison McCarthy | Adolfo Sjoberg de Carvalho Carvalho |
| Abby Mintz | Hector Afonso Garcia Cruz |
| Elena Litvinova Mitra | Isabella Dulá |
| Sunny Rhoades | Sam Gunther |
| Arjun Savel | Odelia Hartl |
| Jordan Shroyer | Dylan Hilligoss |
| David Vizgan | Mma Ikwut-Ukwa |
| Iver Sadie Warburton | Zoe Kearney |
| Caden Zaccardi | Emma Louden |
| Serena Moseley | |
| Suchitra Narayanan | |
| José Ángel Pérez Chávez | |
| Rohan Rahatgaonkar | |
| Nicole Rodriguez Cavero | |
| Morgan Saidel | |
| Aldo Sepulveda | |
| Scott Dobbs Mishima Shannon | |
| Darren S. Stroupe | |
| Eleanor Stuart | |
| Keduse Worku |
234th Meeting: 9-13 June 2019, St. Louis, Missouri
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Dallar Babaian | Jacob Fausett |
| Jessie Duncan |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Brian Hybben | Eleanor Stuart |
| Adolfo Carvalho |
233rd Meeting: 6-10 January 2019, Seattle, Washington
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions | |
|---|---|---|
| Prasiddha Arunachalam | Islam Khan | Evan Anders |
| Adam Broussard | Jessica Klusmeyer | Tara Fetherolf |
| Jonathan Cookmeyer | Rebecca Larson | Andrew Fullard |
| William Cramer | Meiji Nguyen | Mengya Hu |
| H. Thankful Cromartie | Locke Patton | Jacob Shapiro |
| Julie Davis | Juan Remolina | Gabriel Soto |
| Mithi Alexa de los Reyes | Kathryn Weil | Isaiah Tristan |
| Adina Feinstein | Luisa Zambrano Marin | Alia Wofford |
| Molly Finn | ||
| Tharindu Jayasinghe | ||
| Intae Jung |
Undergraduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Jaclyn Bradli | Alex Deich |
| Stacy Hicks | Wilfred Gee |
| Kristen Luchsinger | Jonathan Jackson |
| Allison McGraw | Emily Johnson |
| Joseph Putko | Rostom Mbarek |
| James Murray | |
| Adam Pierce |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions | |
|---|---|---|
| Caroline Bamberger | Megan Masterson | Justin Bracks |
| Tyler Cox | Morgan McCarthy | Clare Burhenne |
| Alexandra Dobbs | Riley McGlasson | Olivia Cooper |
| William Fuelberth | Caeley Pittman | John Della Costa |
| Sebastian Gameros | Jaimee-Ian Rodriguez | Katherine Elder |
| Tenley Hutchinson-Smith | Danielle Rowland | Sinead Humphrey |
| Wynn Jacobson-Galán | Christopher Rura | Hannah McCall |
| Mackenzie Joy | Zafar Rustamkulov | Nicel Mohamed-Hinds |
| Carlos Llorente | Mark Siebert | Supavit Pokawanvit |
| Brian Lorenz | Rochelle Steele | Eric Rohr |
| Catherine Manea | Vidya Venkatesan | Sheila Sagear |
| Joseph Manuel | Emily Walla | Aimee Schechter |
| Luis Martinez Patino | Priscilla Holguin West | Laney Wicker |
232nd Meeting: 3-7 June 2018, Denver, Colorado
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Ryan Cole | Jennie Paine |
| Hayley Roberts | Tristan Wolfe |
| Aaron Stemo | |
| Girish Duvvuri | |
| Matthew Hankins |
Undergraduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mention |
|---|---|
| Rachel O'Connor | Alex Scrabeck |
| Sam Jenkins | |
| Christian Hannah | |
| Anthony Curtis |
231st Meeting: 8-12 January 2018, Washington, DC
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Kyle Boone | Evan Bray |
| Yashashree Jadhav | Samantha Dixon |
| Bokyoung Kim | Eileen Gonzales |
| Kameswara Mantha | Bang Nhan |
| Chi Nguyen | Brianna Smart |
| Trey Wenger | Gabriel Soto |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Hayley Beltz | Leah Fulmer |
| Claire Lamman | Kathleen Hamilton |
| Brianna Mills | Briley Lewis |
| Evan Nunez | Imad Pasha |
| Josephine Spiegelberg | Natalie Wells |
| Alia Wofford |
230th Meeting: 4-8 June 2017, Austin, Texas
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Keaton Bell | Jonathan Ward |
| Samantha Brunker | |
| Jacqueline Monkiewicz |
Undergraduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Amy Glazier | Logan Pearce |
229th Meeting: 3-7 January 2017, Grapevine, Texas
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Kimberly Cartier | Katelyn Breivik |
| Zachary Hartman | Samuel Factor |
| Dhanesh Krishnarao | Tsz Kuk Daisy Leung |
| V. Ashley Villar | David Sliski |
| Schuyler Wolff | |
| Zhoujian Zhang |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Jacqueline Antwi-Danso | Erin Flowers |
| Lauren Chambers | Imad Pasha |
| Miles Cranmer | Shreyas Vissapragada |
| Victoria DiTomasso | |
| Michael Foley | |
| Juliana Garcia-Mejia | |
| Elizabeth Johnson | |
| Rohan Naidu | |
| Rosa Wallace |
228th Meeting: 12-16 June 2016, San Diego, California
Recipients
| Graduate | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Wanda Feng | Melanie Olaes |
| Jeffrey Gerber | Debby Tran |
227th Meeting: 4-8 January 2016, Kissimmee, Florida
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Tahlia DeMaio | Alyssa Barlis |
| Andrew Riddle | Owen Boberg |
| Michele Silverstein | Erica Gonzales |
| Jason Wang | Meridith Joyce |
| Rosalie McGurk | |
| Natalie Sanchez | |
| Amy Steele |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Eryn Cangi | Gillian Beltz-Mohrmann |
| Patrick Drew | Carl Fields |
| Cameron Lemley | Platon Karpov |
| Franklin Marsh | Jamila Pegues |
| Moiya McTier | William Waalkes |
| Ellianna Schwab | |
| Brent Shapiro-Albert | |
| Brianna Thomas |
225th Meeting: 4-8 January 2015, Seattle, Washington
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Florez | Tansu Daylan |
| Brandon Harrison | Brett Morris |
| Masen Lamb | Valerie Rapson |
| Claire E. Murray | Meredith Rawls |
| Maxime Rizzo | Benjamin Tofflemire |
224th Meeting: 1-5 June 2014, Boston, Massachusetts
Graduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Nicole Arulanantham | Lauren Cashman |
| Samantha Becker | Paul Dalba |
| Jason Curtis | Sadia Hoq |
| Kelly Douglass | Ragnhild Lunnan |
| Brandon Hensley | Andria Schwortz |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Sebastian Gomez | Michael Kosowsky |
| Kathleen Oram | Kathryn Weil |
223rd Meeting: 5-9 January 2014, Washington, DC
Graduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Eduardo Banados | William Best |
| Kevin Cooke | Marta Bryan |
| Laura Mayorga | Seth Cohen |
| Dylan Morgan | Gregory Green |
| Christina Peters | Christopher Griffith |
| Greg Salvesen | Alex Hagen |
| Brandon Patel | |
| Dominic Pesce | |
| Valerie Rapson |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions | |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Cook | Juliette Becker | Allison McGraw |
| Ying Feng | Kelly Blumenthal | Rachel Salmon |
| Cole Johnston | Eda Gjergo | Rachel Smullen |
| Emil Khabiboulline | Kirsten Hall | Josh Speagle |
| Diana Powell | Anna Ho | |
| Emily Sandford | Laura Kulowski |
222nd Meeting: 2-6 June 2013, Indianapolis, Indiana
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Katelyn Milliman | Zachary Catlin |
| Emily Richards | Nathalie Haurberg |
| Angela Van Sistine | Brett Morris |
| Jessica Windschitl | Katherine Rueff |
Undergraduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Eda Gjergo | Lauren Biddle |
| Christian Hayes | Gregory Neeser |
| Lisa Simpson | Amanda Walker-LaFollette |
| Daniel Wavle |
221st Meeting: 6-10 January 2013, Long Beach, California
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Natalie Gosnell | Dario Colombo |
| Sadia Hoq | Megan Comins |
| Benjamin Montet | Katherine Hamren |
| Andrew Schechtman-Rook | Kim Phifer |
| Christopher Trinh | Diana Windemuth |
| Kimberly Ward-Duong |
Undergraduate
| Recipient | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| James Diekmann | Alexandre Fernandes |
| Melissa Marshall | Keith Hawkins |
| Stephen Pardy | Joseph Putko |
| Andrew Vanderburg | Rachel Salmon |
| Kolby Weisenburger | Kathryn Steakley |
| Steffi Yen |
220th Meeting: 10-14 June 2012, Anchorage, Alaska
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Scott Engle | James Davenport |
| Carl Ferkinhoff | Jithin George |
| Susanna Kohler | Alex Hagen |
| Laura Vican | |
| Spencer Wolfe | |
| Katherine Wyman |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Caitlin Heath | Amelia Christensen |
| Zachary Kaplan | Jordan Robertson |
| Steven Lentine | |
| Andrew Sturner |
219th Meeting: 8-12 January 2012, Austin, Texas
Graduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Brian Baptista | Ehab Elhoussieny |
| Rachael Beaton | Christina Haig |
| James Michael Burgess | Yiming Li |
| Paul Wilson Cauley | Matt Mechtley |
| Alexa Hart | |
| Susanna Kohler | |
| Gregory Mosby | |
| Alice Olmstead | |
| Adele Plunkett |
Undergraduate
| Recipients | Honorable Mentions |
|---|---|
| Aaron Bell | Stephen Clouse |
| Kristi Bradford | Emily Cunningham |
| Dan Filler | Ali Ahmad Khostovan |
| Andrew Gott | Joseph Lyons |
| James Drew Hogg | Christopher Salvo |
| Thomas Rice | |
| Josh Speagle |
219th Meeting: 8-12 January 2012, Austin, Texas
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| High School Honorable Mentions | |
|---|---|
| Lucy Cheng | Abrar Choudhury | Anirudh Suvarna |
218th Meeting: 22-26 May 2011, Boston, Massachusetts
| Graduate | Undergraduate | High School Honorable Mentions |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heather Bloemhard | Amanda Cordes | Kyla Borders | ||
| James Davenport | Kevin Hardegree-Ullman | Stella Kim | ||
| William Dirienzo | James Hogg | Adam Maxwell | ||
| Daniel Majaess | Robert Marchwinski | |||
| Kushal Mehta | Sajjan Mehta | |||
| Nicholas Stone | Melissa Nickerson | |||
| Alfred Whitehead | Thomas Rice |
217th Meeting: 9-13 January 2011, Seattle, Washington
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Jana Bilikova | Marshall Johnson | |
| Lia Corrales | Luke Leisman | |
| Christopher Crockett | Jennifer Nielsen | |
| Curtis McCully | Grant Remmen | |
| Amanda Moffett | Justin Spilker | |
| Farisa Morales | Alexa Villaume | |
| Erik Tollerud | Stephanie Zajac |
216th Meeting: 23-27 May 2010, Miami, Florida
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Kyle Augustson | Mary Burkey | |
| Rebekah Dawson | Aaron Meisner | |
| Cyrus Nejat | Blake Sharrits |
215th Meeting: 3-7 January 2010, Washington, DC
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Sean M. Couch | Kyle Cook | |
| Ian Crossfield | Ian Czekala | |
| Scott Engle | Breann Sitarski | |
| Ryan Johnson |
214th Meeting: 7-11 June 2009, Pasadena, California
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Caputo | Sandra Behncke | |
| Ian Crossfield | ||
| Rachel L. Smith |
213th Meeting: 4-8 January 2009, Long Beach, California
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Tabitha C. Bush | Erin Macdonald | |
| Calen B. Henderson | Timothy Minella | |
| Therese Jones | Lauren M. Weiss | |
| Hwihyun Kim | ||
| Chun Ly | ||
| Erin L. Ryan | ||
| Shanil N. Virani |
212th Meeting: 1-5 June 2008, St. Louis, Missouri
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Francesca D'Arcangelo | Jessica Kellar | |
| Aaron Price | ||
| Seamus Riley | ||
| Alaina Shelden |
211th Meeting: 7-11 Janaury 2008, Austin, Texas
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Comerford | Tyler Desjardins | |
| Genevieve de Messieres | Robert Zellem | |
| Lea Zernow |
210th Meeting: 27-31 May 2007, Honolulu, Hawai'i
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| TalaWanda Monroe | Shimonee Kadakia | |
| Joseph Neilson |
209th Meeting: 5-10 January 2007, Seattle, Washington
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Arti Garg | Betsey Adams | |
| Amber Straughn | Amandeep Gill | |
| Ferah Munshi |
208th Meeting: 4-8 June 2006, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
| Graduate | Undergraduate | |
|---|---|---|
| Meghan McGil | Anna Quider | |