[bioundgrd] 2023 Biology Undergraduate Award Winners

[Joshua Stone]

Hi Everyone,

On behalf of the Biology Undergraduate Committee and Biology Education Office, congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 Biology Undergraduate Awards!


  *   Janice and Josh



John L. Asinari Award — For outstanding research in the field of life sciences

Sahithi Madireddy

Gene Brown Prize – For outstanding academic scholarship, and demonstrated excellence as a teaching assistant.

Yu Meng Zhang

Susan Hockfield Prize in Life Sciences - For a third-year MIT undergraduate student in any area of the life sciences who has demonstrated both exceptional performance and promise for graduate study and research.

Lynette Chan

Ned Holt Prize – For demonstrated excellence in scholarship as well as service to the Biology Department and the MIT community.

Jessica Mann

Benicio Tapia


Salvador E. Luria Prize – For outstanding scholarship and research of publication quality

Pedro Colon

Sky Kim

Merck prize – For outstanding research and academic performance in biophysical or bioinformatics sciences.

Eren Shin

Raina Thomas



Whitehead Prize – For demonstrating outstanding promise for a career in biological research through academic scholarship as well as contributions to research and the MIT community.

Sophia Mirda


Course 5 Undergraduate Awards

Gabriella Aponte, Academic Achivement Award

Vinicius Armelin, Alpha Chi Sigma Award and Frederick D. Greene Teaching Award

Pedro Colon, Research Award

Dhyey Gandhi, Academic Achivement Award

Mudita Goyal, Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence

RuiYang Guo, Research Award

Chae Rin Kim, Alpha Chi Sigma Award

Chanseo Lee, Academic Achivement Award and Service Award

Josh Lian, Sophomore Achivement Award

Albert Liu, Academic Achivement Award

Sophia Mirda, Research Award

Anton Morgunov, Academic Achivement Award

Jeffrey Shi, Alpha Chi Sigma Award

Cholapat Turbo Varongchayakul, Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence

Westley Wu, Academic Achivement Award and Frederick D. Greene Teaching Award

Yu Meng Zhang, Research Award


American Association for Cancer Research Undergraduate Scholar Award
Hanjun Lee


Biology students nominated for Phi Beta Kappa 2023

Negin Amouei, Course 7
Gabriella Aponte, Course 5-7
Vinicius Armelin, Course 5-7
Caroline Bao, Course 6-7
Gabriel Caamano, Course 5-7
Elizabeth Carbonell, Course 7
Yu-Chi Cheng, Course 7
Pedro Colon, Course 5-7
RuiYang Guo, Course 5-7
Uzuki Horo, Course 6-7
Shelby Laitipaya, Course 7
Chanseo Lee, Course 5-7
Sahithi Madireddy, Course 7
Sophia Mirda, Course 5-7
Antov Morgunov, Course 5-7
Thao Nguyen, Course 7
Shirin Shahsavari, Course 7
Jacob Shapiro, Course 6-7
Eren Shin, Course 6-7
Julia Situ, Course 6-7
Westley Wu, Course 5-7

Undergraduate Symposium Speakers 2023 –  These students were nominated by faculty and selected to speak at the Undergraduate Symposium in February 2023

Balyn Brotheridge
Anjali Chadha
Sundeep Chakladar
Lynette Chan
Yu-Chi Cheng
Seoyeon Chloe Choi
Katherine Duan
Haley Evile
Mudita Goyal
Uzuki Horo
Katherine Kitzinger
Arbri Kopliku
Hanjun Lee
Delight Nweneka
Anusha Puri
Brindha Rathinasabapathi
Charvi Sharma
Victoria Yang
Melody Yu







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Joshua Stone
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