Prizes and Awards
Each year, students in the Division of Science who have excelled in academics and research are selected to receive numerous prizes and awards in recognition of their effort. Undergraduates are typically nominated by a faculty member or members who provide a letter detailing why the student deserves the honor. Additionally, each year graduate students receive awards such as the Pulin Sampat Graduate Teaching Award in Biology.
The following is a list of Brandeis students and alumni who have received these awards.
Division of Science
Division of Science Prize for Outstanding Research Accomplishment
For a junior or senior for an outstanding research accomplishment.
- Joanna Xiong, Anthony Cai, Rachel Busby (2022)
- Xiao Zhong, Alex Cao, Aaron Kalpakian, Iria Wang (2021)
- Joel Aron Herman (2020)
- Orly Goldberg (2019)
- Heather S. Schiller (2018)
- Jordan Saadon (2018)
- Margaret Morris (2017)
- Richard Haburcak (2017)
- Samuel Bhutto (2016)
Doris Brewer Cohen Award in Chemical and Biological Sciences
More information about the Doris Brewer Cohen Award is available.
- Laura Grunenkovaite (2022)
- Sadie Antine (2021)
- Noah Somberg (2020)
- Adam Lamper (2019)
- Richard Haburcak (2018)
- Thomas Rosetti (2017)
- Samantha Chin (2016)
- Noam Saper (2015)
- Tom Zhang (2014)
- Abigail Zadina (2013)
Dr. Joseph Garrison Parker Award
- Mark Murdy (2021)
Dr. Ralph Berenberg ’65 Prize
Given to a senior intending to pursue a career in dentistry or a related specialty.
- Kyra Fischer (2022)
- Jennifer Okewunmi (2021)
- Jordan Asnes (2020)
- Samantha Schnal (2019)
- Brandon F. Tran (2018)
- Jing Yang (2017)
Elihu A. Silver Prize
Give to one outstanding junior who will do research in a scientific field in his/her senior year
- Adrian Koretsky (2022)
- Chloe Shiff (2021)
- Xiao Zhong (2020)
- Noah Somberg (2019)
- Julia Tartaglia (2018)
- Senmiao Sun (2017)
- Helen Yang (2016)
Molly W. and Charles K. Schiff Memorial Award in Science
Award is given to one or more students showing creativity and originality in science, fine arts or archeology- Iria Wang, Alysa Rogers, Isaac Paddy (2022)
- Danni Cao, Yuran Shi, Federico Berlfein (2021)
- Klarissa Hollander (2020)
- Katherine Dorfman, Nicole Porter, Kevin Xueping Wang (2019)
- Meisui Liu, Kathryn R. Shangraw (2018)
- Zoe Brown, Yujie Jiang (2017)
- Daniel Jackson Kutner (2016)
Rishon M. Bialer ’64 Memorial Prize
Award given to one senior pre-med student:- Shinji Rho (2021)
- Shira Levie (2020)
- Sasha Sunday (2019)
- Abraham Cheloff (2018)
- Julia Schiantarelli (2017)
- Ashley Klein (2016)
- Shayna Rose Rubenstein (2016)
Steinberg Prize in Physical Science with Interest in History
- Erin Wong (2022)
- Joshua Heller (2020)
- Carley Klein Stern (2019)
- Mihir Khanna (2018)
- Henry Snow (2017)
- Andrew Kouides (2016)
Class of 1955 Prize for Creative Ability
- Ziyi Guo (2021)
Biochemistry
Nathan O. Kaplan Prize in Biochemistry
- Felicia Deng (2022)
- Stephanie Brody, Chase Chen (2021)
- Zhenyu Li (2020)
- Mark Gregory (2019)
- Jessie Belle Moore (2018)
- Jeremy Gordon Koob (2017)
- Minh Pham (2016)
Professor Dagmar Ringe Biochemistry Award
- Mengyang Zou (2022)
- Lillian Xue, Miranda Gavitt (2021)
- Hannah Catherine Lloyd (2020)
- Julia Amber Tartaglia (2019)
- Miriam Rose Hood (2018)
- Ciyue Shen (2016)
- Ruoxi Wang (2016)
William P. Jencks Award in Biochemistry
- Thu Le (2022)
- Paul Jiang (2021)
- My Anh Nguyen (2020)
- Alison Caroline Ma (2019)
- Senmiao Sun (2018)
- Ayantu Mesfin Temesgen (2017)
- Yuejiao Zheng (2016)
Biology
Biology Department Excellence in Research Award
- Luochen Liu (2022)
- Corrie Ratner (2021)
- Eliana Mendelson (2020)
- Abigail Zeamer (2019)
- Lisa Yuan (2019)
- Jason Xin (2018)
- Irene Gar-Ling Wong (2017)
- Urann Chan (2016)
Professor Chandler Fulton Prize for Undergraduate Research
- Alex Reading (2022)
- Sofia Rodriguez (2021)
- Luochen Liu (2020)
- Rachel Sussman (2019)
- Theresa Weis (2018)
- Katherine E. Dorfman (2017)
- Amanda Shilton (2016)
Pulin Sampat Graduate Teaching Award in Biology
- Jiahua Chen (2022)
- Vikko Suarez (2021)
- Meghan Harris (2020)
- Rabia Anjum (2019)
- Chie Ueda (2018)
- Munzareen Khan (2017)
- Cara Pina (2016)
Chemistry
American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research
- Elishua Litle (2018)
- Rachel Voss (2016)
American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Outstanding Senior Organic Chemistry Student
- Yannik Esser (2022)
- Stephanie Laporte, Yuanjie Yang (2021)
- Maurice Windley (2019)
- Elishua Litle (2018)
- Natsuko Yamagata (2017)
- Stanislav Popov (2016)
Anatol Zhabotinsky Memorial Prize
- Ziyao Li (2021)
- Daniel Farb (2020)
- Bernard Samper Brown (2019)
- Sumner J. Alperin-Lea (2018)
- Yujie Jiang (2017)
Chemistry Department Excellence Award
- Yimeng Huang (2021)
- Samantha O. Shepherd (2018)
- Leah Oliemuller, Rachel Voss (2017)
- Ian Batson, Rebecca Sternberg, Ziyin Kong (2016)
Emily Dudek Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award
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Brett Kahmann, Melissa Fornagiel, Lainey Solomon, Hannah Davies (2022)
- Anushka Ghosh, Vishni Arulanandam, Sarah Rosa, Sungwon Cho (2021)
- Megan Catalano, Tracy Yang (2020)
- Maurice Windley, Nicole Porter, Noa HaLevi (2019)
- Miriam Hood, Steven Wilhelm (2018)
- Daniel Hakakian, Shannon Wong (2017)
- Ashley Klein, Brianna Mussman (2016)
Melvin M. Snider Prize in Chemistry
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Isaac Paddy, Yannik Esser (2022)
- Helen Xu, Yuran Shi (2021)
- Matt Appell (2019)
- Jamie Soohoo (2018)
- Natsuko Yamagata (2017)
- Susan Gunther (2016)
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
- Steven Luo (2021)
Computer Science
Otto Jespersen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Linguistics
- Erin Magill (2022)
- Keren Ruditsky, Jordan Scheiner (2021)
- Hannah Aurora Recknor (2020)
- Katherine Maria Stenhouse (2019)
- Malika Jane Briggs (2018)
- Piera Elizabeth Weber Licht (2018)
- Madison Nicole Hunter (2017)
- Adrianne Rose Schwarzentruber (2016)
- Tamar Hanna Forman-Gejrot (2016)
Aravind K. Joshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computational Linguistic
- Aparna Dutta (2022)
- Ben Rozonoyer (2021)
- Hayley Eloise Ross (2020)
- Jamie Lynn Brandon (2019)
- Chester B. Palen-Michel (2018)
- José Andrés Molina (2017)
- Eric Benzschawel (2016)
Max Chretien Award in Computer Science
- Chami Lamelas, Sarah Kosowsky (2022)
- Andre Evard (2021)
Michtom Prize for Academic Excellence in Computer Science
- Danny Phan (2022)
- Rebecca Turner (2021)
- Benjamin Segal (2020)
- Ellis Miranda (2019)
- Guillermo Narvaez Paliza (2018)
- Xinyue Wang (2018)
- Brandon Shapiro (2017)
- Michael Partridge (2016)
- Daniel Kutner (2016)
Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in the Master’s Program in Computer Science
- Joseph Antaki (2022)
- Wenxuan Jiang (2021)
- Wenxiao Xiao (2020)
- Yifu Chen (2019)
- Fan Di (2018)
- Thomas Willkens (2018)
- Han Du (2017)
- Siting Ren (2017)
- Huilin Gang (2016)
- Allan Chesarone (2016)
- Bryan Turcotte (2016)
- Xi Qian (2016)
Graduate Research Award in Computer Science
- Sibo Zhu (2020)
- William Edgecomb (2017)
- Yalin Liu (2016)
Jacques Cohen Award in Computer Science
- Ruth Rosenblum, August Soderberg (2022)
- Feng Chen, Hangyu Du (2021)
Karen Spärck Jones Award for Outstanding Achievement in Natural Language Processing
- Xiya Guan (2022)
- Yonglin Wang (2021)
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research and Teaching by a Computational Linguistics MS Student
- Angus L'Herrou (2021)
- Eben Holderness (2020)
Mathematics
Arnold Shapiro Prize in Mathematics
- E Huffman (2022)
- Hange Zhu (2021)
- Brian Andrew Mintz (2020)
- Thomas Aloysius O’Hare (2019)
- Richard Haburcak (2018)
- Brandon Tyler Shapiro (2017)
- Yunxiang Wan (2016)
Jerome Levine Prize in Mathematics
- Changxin Ding (2022)
- Eric Hanson (2021)
- Langte Ma (2020)
- Ying Zhou (2019)
- Yan Zhuang (2018)
Harold I Levine Endowed Fellowship Prize
- Yu Xin, Ray Maresca (2022)
- Changxin Ding (2021)
- Tianjun Cai, Ashley Kamal, Ben Kamen, Jiayi Wang, Chloe Shiff (2022)
Graduate Teaching Prize
- Charles Stine (2022)
- Shizhe Liang & Ray Maresca (2021)
Neuroscience
John Lisman ’66 Memorial Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Research
- Lilit Drak (2022)
- Wanchen Zhao (2021)
- Daniel Garcia Murillo (2020)
- Noah Cristian Guzmán (2019)
- Casey Edward Lamar (2018)
- Megan Rose Leubner (2018)
Reis and Sowul Family Prize in Neuroscience at Brandeis University
- Matthew Bernstein (2022)
- Samantha March (2021)
- Tracy Yang (2020)
- Lily S. He (2019)
- Amanda Krystal Shilton (2018)
- Sofia Anton Lavrentyeva (2017)
- Arielle Stephanie Keller (2016)
Physics
David L. Falkoff Graduate School Prize in Physics
- Bennett Sessa (2022)
- Sagar Addepalli, Gurbir Singh Arora, Francesca Capocasa, Zachary Curtis, Aptorshi Ghosh, Robert Keane, Olivia Leland, Jeremy Laprade, Yingyou Ma, Kanaya Malakar, Jonah Paasche-Orlow, Steven Planitzer, Rupam Saha, Bennett Sessa, Saaransh Singhal, Benjamin Strain, Annemarie Winters, Douglas Zenger (2021)
- Michael D’Eon, Salam Alam, Prajita Bhattarai, Narges Iraji, Jonah Paasche-Orlow, Sarvesh Uplap (2020)
- Kevin J. Skowronski (2019)
- Daichi Hayakawa (2018)
- Linnea Pierse Metcalf (2017)
- Alexander Hensley, Farzaneh Mohajerani, Kelsey Shea O'Connor (2016)
Physics Faculty Prize
- Ernest Park, Alysa M. Rogers (2022)
- Federico Berlfein, Mark J. Murdy (2021)
- Evan Jeffrey Solomon, Rabeya Hussaini (2020)
- Jesse Held (2019)
- Liana Rae Simpson, Guillermo Narvaez Paliza (2018)
- Brendon Auréle Bullard, Helen Yang (2017)
- Benjamin Hechtman, Daniel Jackson Kutner (2016)
Stephan Berko Memorial Prize
- Francesca Capocasa, Kanaya Malakar (2022)
- Arnab Datta, Daichi Hayakawa (2021)
- Ian Malcolm Hunter, Zach Michael Schillaci (2020)
- Alexander Hensley, Luke Kwaku Ampofo Korley (2019)
- Seyedmohammadali Aghvami, Carl Brady Merrigan, Zachary David Sustiel (2018)
- Caleb Wagner, Farzaneh Mohajerani, Micah Hillel Margolis (2017)
- Elan Arielle Shatoff, Elias Flint Putzig, Mahsa Siavashpouri (2016)
Psychology
Elliot Aronson ’54 Prize for Excellence in Psychological Research in Memory of Ellen Mason ’78
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Jenna P. Sandler (2022)
- Wanchen Zhao (2021)
- Maya Hong-Thuy Barton-Zuckerman (2020)
- Selen Amado (2018)
- Idelle Isa Vaynberg (2017)
- Sophie Rebecca Brickman (2016)
Ricardo Morant Undergraduate Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Breadth in Psychological Inquiry
- Lin Zhang (2022)
- Nicole Alicia Porter (2019)
- Eleanor Joyce McKnight (2018)
- Gwenyth Claire Fraser (2017)
- Arielle Stephanie Keller (2016)
National Awards
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
- Shinji Rho (2020)
- Even Dankowicz (2019)
- Nicholas Hornstein (2009)
- Jason Goldsmith (2005)
- Sol Schulman (2003)
- Margaret Pawlowski (2002)
- Arwen Long (2000)
- Gregory Sivakoff (1999)
- Joshua Weinger (1999)
- Kimberly Patricio (1999)
- Michael Robinson (1994)
- Jennifer Pell (1991)
- Laura Lewis (1991)
- Louis Kalikow (1989)
- Aryn Gittis
- Daniel Needleman
- Michelle Liblanc
- Stacy Trushin
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program
- David Ritzwoller (2020)
- Noah Somberg (2020)
- Eben Holderness (2019)
- Emily Greenwald (2019)
- Katy Lehmann (2019)
- Alyssa Garcia (2018)
- Emma Chad-Friedman (2018)
- Jung Park (2018)
- Adam Wang (2017)
- Danielle Gallagher (2017)
- Jessica Haley (2017)
- Alexandra Sun (2016)
- Joseph Jacobowitz (2016)
- Jasenia Hartman (2015)
- Abby Finkelstein (2014)
- Alexandra Dainis (2014)
- Ariel Hyre (2014)
- Michael Kosowsky (2014)
- Toly Rinberg (2014)
- Asher Preska Steinberg (2013)
- Benjamin Cooper (2013)
- Jessica Emory (2013)
- Briana Abrahms (2012)
- Elizabeth Setren (2012)
- Samuel McCandlish (2012)
- Sarah Robinson (2012)
- Si Hui (Athena) Pan (2012)
- Aaron Gell (2011)
- Daniel Graham (2011)
- Delora Gaskins (2011)
- Jeffrey Dobereiner(2011)
- Nathaniel Miska (2011)
- Orly Wapinski (2011)
- Stefan Isaac (2011)
- Noah Wolfson (2010)
- Oriana Fisher (2010)
- Sarah Laredo (2010)
- Billie Gould (2009)
- Dena Leeman (2009)
- Kara Hawthorne (2008)
- Selena Gell (2008)
- Steven Breazzano (2008)
- Kristofer Bouchard (2007)
- Peretz Partensky (2006)
- Anton Geraschenko (2005)
- Julie Golomb (2005)
- Daniel Abadi (2004)
- Hillary Selle (2004)
- Iris WY Tam (2003)
- Joshua Weinger (2002)
- Rachel Poretsky (2001)
- Traci Latlippe (2001)
- Michael Robinson (1999)
- Bradley Wyble (1997)