STAR Award Winners
The following are past winners of the Student Travel Achievement Recognition Awards.
2023 STAR Award Winners
Samira Aghlara-Fotovat
Matthew Aronson
Alexa Anderson
Manish Ayushman
Ines Cadena
Kelsey DeFrates
Abhishek Dhand
Alexandra Dumas
Meghan Fallon
Jingxuan Guo
Jiaxin Guo
Rebecca Haley
Alex Hamilton
Jeon Il Kang
Robert Kent
Peter Kurtz
Thinh Le
Kevin Ling
Elizabeth McNeela
Han Nguyen
Grant Scull
Samantha Stewart
Abhirami Thumsi
Jacquelyn Trujillo
Xuemei Wang
Yining Zhu
2022 STAR Award Winners
Derek Avery
Michael Berger
Anne Brooks
Carlisle DeJulius
Abhishek Dhand
Hannah Durr
Subhadeep Dutta
Madeline Fuchs
Vipuil Kishore
Mohmmadjafar Hashemi
Sahil Inamdar
Atip Lawanprasert
Karen Martin
Joshua McCune
Victoria Muir
Lucas Olson
Maryam Ramezani
Alexandra Rindone
Ana Sheridan
Sauradeep Sinha
Daniel Song
Kelsey Swingle
Nhu Truong
Karen Xu
Samantha Zambuto
2021 STAR Award Winners
Abdulrahman Balhaddad
Novella Bates
Michael Berger
Margaret Billingsley
Ava Brozovich
Sridevi Conjeevaram
Ridhdhi Dave
Mohammadjavad Eslamian
Ishita Jain
Binata Joddar
Julia King
Liana Kramer
Maksym Krutko
Songyun Liu
Sabrina Macias
Shruti Motiwale
Meghana Hosahalli Shivananda Murthy
Anh Nguyen
Meghan J. O’Melia
Roberta Sabino
Sarah Shepherd
Sydney Song
Daniel Tavakol
Timothy Vu
Zi Wang
Samantha Zambuto
2019 STAR Award Winners
Riley Allen
Rukhsana Awais
Vimala Bharadwaj
Eunice Chee
Xiaoyu Chen
Yu Dang
Yuxi Dong
Shaheen Farhadi
Nicole Friend
Jonathan Galarraga
Michael Gower
Iman Hassani
Pengfei Jiang
Andrea Jones
Heng-wen Liu
Yan Luo
Prarthana Patil
Michaela Pfau
Matthew Remy
Jared Shadish
Kenneth Sims
Stephanie Smith
Eri Takematsu
Rachel Wilmoth
2018 STAR Award Winners
Christopher Arakawa
Ryan Borem
David Chimene
Jessica Hsu
Jorge Jimenez
Kameron Kilchrist
Nicholas Kohrs
Mi Kwon
Hetal Maharaja
Joshua Mealy
Christopher Mosher
Hong Niu
Ngoc Pham
Alex Schudel
Alyssa Schwartz
Shivem Shah
Kenneth Sims
Priyadarshini Singha
Joshua Stewart
James Tang
Mubin Tarannum
Rei Ukita
Leo Wang
Le Zhen
2017 STAR Award Winners
Puneeth Shridhar, University of Pittsburgh
Radhika Vaid, North Carolina State University
Andrew Curry, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Samuel LoPresti , University of Pittsburgh
Seol-Ha Jeong, Seoul National University
Kosuke Yanagisawa, Osaka University
Bogdan Conrad, Stanford University
Minna Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Joshua Mealy, University of Pennsylvania
Jorge Jimenez, University of Pittsburgh
Stephanie Delgado, University of California, Los Angeles
Claire Witherel, Drexel University
Melissa Hernandez, University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth Aisenbrey, University of Colorado
Kevin Ortiz-Rivera, University of Minnesota
Joshua Hammer, Duke University
Pamela Graney, Drexel University
Margaret Schneider, University of Colorado, Boulder
Yuchen Wang, University of Rochester
Zheng Xiong, Syracuse University
Ayesha Aijaz, Rutgers University
Christopher Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karli Gold, Texas A&M University
Frances Lasowski, McMaster University
Do Hee Keum, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Shoumyo Majumdar, Johns Hopkins University
Letícia Bins-Ely, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Mohammadhasan Hedayati, Colorado State University
2015 STAR Award Winners
Jeremy J. Glynn, Oregon Health & Science University
Berit Linnehan Foss, University of South Dakota
Andre Stevenson, Virginia Tech
Amy Y. Clark, Georgia Tech
Amanda X. Chen, University of Cambridge
Christopher Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Andrew J. Harmata, Vanderbilt University
Michael P. Baranello, University of Rochester
Lisa H. Tostanoski, University of Maryland - College Park
Ayesha Aijaz, Rutgers University
Frances Lasowski, McMaster University
Alex Cuong-Phu Dang, Columbia University
Claire E Witherel, Drexel University
Alexandra L. Rutz, Northwestern University
María Díaz Ortiz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Margaret K. Boushell, Columbia University
Suzana Vallejo-Heligon, Duke University
Norman Truong, UCLA
Quentin Jallerat, Carnegie Mellon University
Mousa Younesi, Case Western Reserve University
Marvin Mecwan, University of Washington
Sue Hyun Lee, Vanderbilt University
Timothy Boire, Vanderbilt University
Pritam Patil, University of Akron
Suzanne Tabbaa, Clemson University
2014 STAR Award Winners
Elizabeth J. Brisbois
Kelan A. Hlavaty
Wenqian Tao
Iris L. Kim
Christopher E. Nelson
Victor Pan
Shauna M. Dorsey
Efrain A. Cermeño
Anne D. Talley
Robert van Lith
Pedro Babo
Christopher B. Rodell
Laila Roudsari
Stephanie N. Tzouanas
Emily A. Morin
Lisa E. Cole
Christopher Hernandez
Nicholas Andersen
Tiffany N. Vo
Nelson Monteiro
John K. Hermann
Da-Tren Chou
Daniel McKinnon
Katherine Lewis
Dovina Qu
2013 STAR Award Winners
Rachit Agarwal, University of Texas at Austin
Olukem Akintewe, University Of South Florida
Robert Allen, University of Pittsburgh
David Baker, University of Texas at Arlington
Jennifer Bastijanic, Case Western Reserve University
Amy Cheng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Paninee Chetprayoon, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Philip Chuang, Columbia University
Lynn Dudash, Case Western Reserve University
Pouria Fattahi, Pennsylvania State University
Li Shan Eliza Fong, Rice University
Annemarie Gallo, The University of South Dakota
Benjamin Geilich, Northeastern University
Jaime Giraldo, University of Miami
Emily Jacobs, University of Connecticut Health Center
Sujan Lamichhane, The University of South Dakota
Qingsheng Liu, University of Akron
Ashley Parker, The University of Memphis
Edna Margarita Prieto, Vanderbilt University
Laila Roudsari, Duke University
Julia Samorezov, Case Western Reserve University
Sonya Sonnenberg, University of California, San Diego
Akhil Srinivasan, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joel Sunshine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Emi Tokuda, The BioFrontiers Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Colorado
Chong Wang, The University of Hong Kong
2012 STAR Award Winners
Silvia Becerra-Bayona, Texas A&M University
Peter DelNero, Cornell University
Apoorva Kalasuramath, Georgia Institute of Technology
Myung Hee Kim, University of Texas at Austin
James Kirk, University of Washington
Jamal Lewis, University of Florida
Jessica Nguyen, Case Western Reserve University
Asha Shekaran, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kejin Zhou, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Suwei Zhu, University of California Los Angeles
2011 STAR Award Winners
Abhinav Acharya, University of Florida
Silvia Becerra-Bayona, Texas A&M University
Liming Bian, University of Pennsylvania
Ashley Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology
Steven Caliari, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jane Cheung, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Christy Franco, Rice Univeristy
Bartley Gill, Rice University
Keith Hearon, Texas A&M University
Christopher Jewell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Siddharth Jhunjhunwala, University of Pittsburgh
Sudhir Khetan, University of Pennsylvania
Brandon Kwong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ted Lee, Georgia Instistute of Technology
Yi-Dong Lin, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University & Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
Widya Mulyasasmita, Stanford University
Pei-Gen Ren, Stanford University
Celeste Riley, Arizona State University
Justine Roberts, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jennifer Saik, Rice University
Balakrishnan Sivaraman, Clemson University
Weibing Teng, University of Arizona
Mark Tibbitt, University of Colorado
Jessica Weaver, University of Miami
Cassandra Wright-Walker, Clemson University
Jun Zhou, University of Texas at Arlington
2010 STAR Award Winners
Mark Butler, University of Toronto
Sashka Dimitrievska, National Research Council Canada
Steven Pageau, Tufts University
Ki Su Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Christy Franco, Rice University
Marika Bergenstock, Rutgers University
Ji Suk Choi, Kangwon National University
Kwan Hyi Lee, Johns Hopkins University
Erik Taylor, Brown University
Peter Norowski, University of Memphis
Patrick Hume, University of Colorado
Rebecca Robinson, Yale University
Meng Deng, University of Virginia
Lei Yang, Brown University
Yupeng Chen, Brown University
Balakrishnan Sivaraman, Clemson University
Emily Chandler, Cornell University
Joe Baio, University of Washington
Natalie Artzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lonnissa Nguyen, University of Texas at Austin
Nathaniel Huebsch, Harvard University
Andres Bratt-Leal, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dylan McCreedy, Washington University
Charles Drinnan, University of Texas at Austin
Er Liu, Rutgers University
2009 STAR Award Winners
Kazuro L. Fujimoto, University of Pittsburgh
Kwan Hyi Lee, Johns Hopkins University
Paschalia M. Mountziaris, Rice University
Nitin S. Satarkar, University of Kentucky
Abhinav P. Acharya, University of Florida
Cole A. DeForest, University of Colorado
Kayla L Calvert, Purdue University
Koji Kadowaki, Osaka University
James Su, UC Berkeley
David Jaekel, Drexel University
Kristen L Moffat, Columbia University
Bing Li, Vanderbilt University
Lijie Zhang, Brown University
Heidi Koschwanez, Duke University
Xiaofeng Cui, Clemson University
Toral Zaveri, University of Florida
Bryan N. Brown, University of Pittsburgh
Philip J. Johnson, Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel Gallego, The Ohio State University
Edward A Phelps, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sreevidhya Banda, University of Texas at Arlington
Cindy Chung, University of Pennsylvania