STAR Award Winners

The following are past winners of the Student Travel Achievement Recognition Awards.

2026 STAR Award Winners

Chipo Chapusha

Zixi Chen

Sheetal Chowdhury

Kwaghtaver S. Desongu

Victoria Garza

James Gentry

Swathi Kalidindi

Harshita Kondeti

Artemis  Margaronis

Arianna McCarty

Sean McDowell

Jasmine McTyer

Cameron Moore

Jinyoung Park

Myddelton C. Parker

Kerry M. Rogy

Avinava Roy

S M Shatil Shahriar

Ian Sicher

Amberlyn Simmons

Clinton Smith

Alejandra Suarez-Arnedo

Angelica Torres

Seung Min Yang

Alan Zhao

2025 STAR Award Winners

Johnson Agyapong

Gillian Audia

Jane Baude

Eleanor Caston

Pablo Cordero Alvarado

Abhishek Dhand

Michelle Dion

Madeline Fuchs

Hannah Geisler

Andrew Hanna

Asma Khursheed

Katherine Knowles

Rachel Kulchar

Taylor Lansberry

Yu-Chung (Joshua) Liu

Arkodip Mandal

Sunhong Min

Grace Nguyen

Yunxin Ouyang

Amisha Parekh

Natalie Petryk

Kayle Riley

Shubhangi Sathyakumar

Jerry Yan

Yining Zhu

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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