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

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