Excellence in Research Award Recipients

The department recognizes graduating students who have excelled in undergraduate research each year. These students have shown a great commitment to and participated for multiple semesters in the laboratory of a Biomedical Sciences faculty research mentor or of a faculty research mentor from the College of Health Sciences.

2024

Sania Aurora
Alexandra Beimborn
Calista Capaul
Matthew Diaz
Autumn Gull
Nicole Hopman
Lara Koutah
Sebastian La Rosa
Joanna Lee
Julia Levahn
Emma Mueller
Jonisia Nash
Shannyn Paguia
Olga Patryarcha
Abbie Ravanelli
Mia Rossi
Blake Sadorf
Raina Yang 

2023

Grace Berentson
Ethan Borelli
Emily Brettingen
Brandon Brewer
Parinita Ezhilarasan
Claire Fellbaum
Ella Geise
Lexie Goke
Naveet Kaur
Rachel Laliberte
Grace Martin
John Mckee
Maddy Morrissey
Meghan Ott
Abbi Ouimet
Evelyn Padilla
Amanda Pastrick
Caela Plantinga
Giselle Riem
Isabel Royz
Joseph Sloan
Dhruvaa Shroff

2022

Manar Al Rubaye
Yazen Almousa
Aiesha Anchan
Patrick Boos
Oscar Burgos
Mackenzie Carty
Elizabeth Chin
Isabell Dobrzycki
Regan Franzen
Olivia Graham
Joseph Hennessey
Sean Hergenrother
Peter Lamberton
Bryce Laurin
Lucas McGuire
Nicholas Murphy
Rachel Nesburg
Rahul Pithadia
Cassandra Raguse
Martina Ramos
Summer Schmitt
Lillian Schober
Kimberlee Suenkens
Omar Syed
Graham Werner

2021

Matthew Brannigan
Katherine Bruckner
Michael Cabahug
Abigail Doohan
Stephen Fuglsang
Derek Gross
Joseph Harris
Taytum Kahl
Saema Khursheed
Robert Lauer
Matthew Laviola
Hannah Levy
Matthew Merwin
Greta Olson
Kevin O'Reilly
Danicamae Padua
Tyler Paul
Adam Romanski
Bradley Roy
Tyler Stein
Hannah Strachan
Adam Telega
David Wrucke
Alissa Wuorinen

2020

Ayeshia Ali
Madeline Arzbecker
Alexander Beckman
Alexander Burbach
Brian Conway
Ashley Dejaco
Prachi Desai
Sophia Dittrich
Sahil Dutta
Ravi Ghayal
Thomas Inda
Ariana Jimenez-Sanchez
Hannah Jones
Rohan Katti
Janet Kawarski
Rachel Knorr
Holly Lankford
Madeline Lenz
Jenree Geert Maglasang
Nadia I. Malik
Nadia Y. Malik
Meghan Malloy
Valeria Martinez-Cabrera
Frank Mazur
Grant Momchilovich
Niav O’Neill
Elissa Porath
Mary Claire Potter
John Richter
Alexander Savaglio
Nader Shammout
Katherine Shannon
Laura Sienkiewicz
Catherine Simpson
Karan Soni
Ian Soto
Tanushi Surana
Nicole Sygieda
Emma Tillison

2019

Teena Antony
Syed Ashraf
Julie Borovicka
Zane Cooper
Grace Cordier
Kelli Cole
Marie Crowe
Julia Floreani
Dante Gonzalez
Ino-Perfecto Gonzales
Allyson Gorman
Moe-Myint Han
Lyndsey Holan
Paige Hunt
Sahar Jiwani
Rohan Katti
Laura Kelble
Chaz Konrath
Dmitriy Kravtsov
Kaitlin Kreuser
Katie Lepak
Megan Matre
Rachel Mazzara
Riley McCoy
Tarini Mitra
Taylor Park
Neerali Patel
Maharshi Rawal
Elise Rice
Yazmin Rustomji
Rebecca Schaps
Claire Skaletski
Rachel Silverman
Mackenzie Szachury
Madeleine Tucker
Mercedes Valacer
Roberto Varela
Bethany Windsor

2018

Esha Afreen
Erin Marie Bardonner
Anson Gage Bautista
Devon James Blob
Britta Lynn Bureau
Mary Frances Daley
Elise Marie Dassow
Deven James Durigan
Aidan Michael Flanagan
Paul J Gottshall IV
Alexandra Malgorzata Guzek
Shabi Haider
Taylor Anne Hallcox
Madison Elizabeth Hanson
Christopher Charles Karow 
David Michael Korpics
Gage Thomas Liddiard
Steven Alan Loke
Aniya Maheen
Mallory Anne Mews
David Robert Modert
Joanna Oluwatomisin Obaoye
Elizabeth Ann Panther
Sahana Ravindran
Amy Catherine Rothwell
Thomas R. Schneider
Malia Erin Schram
Catrina Rose Tegen
Amanda C. Waldera
Paul James Witt 

2017

Calvin Albrecht
Eric Balle
Laura Barron
Austin Bohn
Mary Bozsik
James Christian
Margot DeBaker
Adriano DellaPolla
Rosemary Didominicis
Paul Fletcher
Mogen Frenkel
Haley Gainer
Natalie Geoffroy
Roxan Hakami-Tafreshi
Zoe Heis
Jonathan Hill
Megan Jacobson 
Elizabeth Jilek
Ian Kloehn
Matthew Kosasih
Nicholas Krueger
Charlie Lamberton
Troy Lenz
Jake Mathy
Michelle Maskeri
Victoria McNichols
Robert Messersmith
Cristina Nieves
Savin Pillai
Haley Probst
Luke Schuh
Matthew Stagl
Christopher Szewczyk
Colten Wolf 

2016

Gadeer Ayesh
Melanie Biegler
Catherine Boldig
Kimberly Boldig
Lucille Christensen    
Daniel Cibich
Katelyn Dato-on
Rebecca Fansler
Geoffrey Ganzman
Emily Hebron
Isabella Jasek
Catherine Knier
Courtney Linzmeier
Annemarie Matelski
Matt Munschauer
Brendan Natwora
Kylie Nelsen-Freund
Sarah Nisivaco 
Aatif Nowman
Laurel Officer
Jake Philip
Sarah Poirier
Lindsay Smoljan
Jimin Suh
Luke Urbanik
Jennifer Varallo 
Tommy Volberding

2015

Sarah Amherdt
Mary Asma
Samantha Best
Anna Culhane
Megan DeLano
Olivia Derricks
Matthew Dupont
David Fabris
Robert Heffernan      
Brian Hoeynck
Ashley Hynes
Laura Iglar
Laura Jacobson
Hossein Jazayeri
Tyler Kloehn
Olivia Knier
Lauren McCartan
Nicholas Miskulin
Alison Moody
Zachary Nicholson
Brittany Nino
Danielle Olsen
Isaac Pierre
Alexandria Ponkratz
Julie Prombo
Stephenie Quirke
Michael Reilley
Jacob Schmeiser
Victoria Sekrecki
Dylan Starck
Laura Thiel
Zachary Vandenberg
Erik Van Newenhizen
Emily Wassmann
Kristen Winsor

2014

 Alison Agnes
Terra Ambrosius
Matthew Bernard
Kelleen Boehlke
Patrick Budny
Caitlin Fortuna
Anna Frazier
Clayton Gerndt
Megan Herodes
Katherine Hoffmeister
William Hollabaugh
Andre Jacobsen
Lisa Keller
Katherine Lukshin
Conor Masterson
 Matthieu Mayer
Hanna Meidl
Alexander Morgan
Abigail Nelezen
Christopher Nienhaus
Ellen Olander
Alexandra Onyiego
Justin Peters
Matthew Ralls
Tyler Rehman
Jose Rosas
Kathleen Salt
Emily Schuster
Malia Thao
Wiley Yao

2013

Muhammad Humza Ansari
James Joseph Bauer
Emily Ann Callan
Eric James Cotter
Karen M. Dionesotes
Kaitlin Marie Douglas
Nicholas Arthur Elliot
Adriana Katherine Gerhardt
Margaret Ellen Kreutter
Yi Wei Lim
Ryan McGreal Lowery
Samuel Karl Magnuson
Andrew M. Rieschl
David Joseph Seck
Joseph Francis Urbanik
Jenna Kristin Wolf

2012

Colin Timothy Bohr
Patrick Timothy Clancy
Katia De La Cruz
Peter Noon Dietrich
Amanda Lee Ebben
Colin Christopher Ehlenbach
Cody Matthew Fredrick
Alyssa Lynn Furey
Thomas Glen Gessert
Rezvaneh Ghasemzadeh
Tyler Paul Griebel
Shona C. Hang
Ashley Nicole Krepline
Peter Brandli Kuhn
Margaret Mary LaCourt
Elizabeth Anne LaRose
Dana Ann Ley
James Nathan McKenna
Ryan John Miskulin
Matthew Ronald Mohorek
Michael Christopher Moran
Daniel Robert Ouellette
Katherine Lynn Pauly
Jeffrey Norman Quinn
Laura Elizabeth Rodda
Joseph Serge
Nickolas Jerome Stasic
Matthew David Van Hoof

2011

Eric W. Anderson
Margaret Lynn Baumann
Breanna T. Drewek
Nathan Michael Ferda
Claire Christine Fiandt
Kymberly Fritz
Grace Wedad Goryoka
Anna Lorene Kirchner
Molly Catherine Pitluck
Lauren E. Schneekloth
Gregory Robert Stroh
Abby Lynn Valentine
Anastasia Margaret Woods