Student Honors and Awards
We proudly recognize undergraduate and graduate students in UMD’s biological sciences community who recently garnered major honors and awards.
Graduate Students
- Aisha Abdulkarimu, CBMG Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Recognition Award
- Adena Collens, Teaching Innovation Grant
- Wesley Demontigny, CBMG Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
- Meaghan Hart, Andrew J. Moyer Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- Catherine Harvey, Philip J. Provost Graduate Fellowship Award
- Nour El Husseini, Michael J. Pelczar Graduate Award
- Christina Ippoliti, CBMG Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and Carroll E. Cox Award
- Maria Rife, Wallace Prescott Rowe Award
- Cierra Wilson, Isabel R. McDonald Service Award
Undergraduate Students
- Meenakshi Adiyodi, neuroscience, Senior Marshal
- Akshaya Balaji, biological sciences & environmental science and technology, Senior Marshal
- Emily Bliss, biological sciences, Sigma Alpha Omicron Microbiology Honor Society
- Nora Bui, neuroscience, Senior Marshal
- Yoshi Chettri, biological sciences, CMNS Alumni Network Endowed Undergraduate Award
- Jayda Fomengia (B.S. '23, neuroscience), University Medal Finalist
- Megan Gilbart, biological sciences, Sigma Alpha Omicron Microbiology Honor Society
- Cecilia Hu, biological sciences, CBMG Departmental Honors
- Yasmine Kotb, biological sciences and dance, Senior Marshal
- HaeSung Lee, biological sciences, CMNS Alumni Network Endowed Undergraduate Award
- Ying-Rong (Megan) Liu, neuroscience and animal science double major, CMNS Alumni Network Endowed Undergraduate Award
- Paul Magin, biological sciences, Anthony D. Brown (BS ’93) Memorial Scholarship
- David McVeigh, biological sciences, Appleman-Norton Award for Plant Biology
- Nicole Miko, biological sciences, Senior Marshal
- Tyler J. Nasuta, neuroscience, Senior Marshal
- Angel Obiorah, biological sciences, CBMG Departmental Honors
- Sachi Pawar, biological sciences, CBMG Departmental Honors
- Jerry Shen, biological sciences and mathematics, Goldwater Scholar
- Emily Sherman, biological sciences, CBMG Outstanding Student Award and CBMG Departmental Honors
- Divya Swaminathan, biological sciences, Professor Heven Sze Student Support Fund and CBMG Departmental Honors
- Ashley Weiss (B.S. ’22, biological sciences), National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships
- Lauren Wong, public health science, CBMG Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Recognition Award
- Jason Yu, biological sciences, CBMG Outstanding Student Award