19 October 2022

Congratulations to the AAS 240 Chambliss Student Award Winners

Tom Rice

Tom Rice American Astronomical Society (AAS)

Chambliss Poster Presenters during - Monday morning Poster Session
Chambliss poster presenters at AAS 240 (Pasadena, California, June 2022).
Photo by © CorporateEventImages/Todd Buchanan 2022


The latest Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards poster competition was a success, and we at AAS are excited to announce the winners of the competition! The following winners presented their posters at our 240th AAS meeting in Pasadena, California, in June 2022. The competition is only possible because of the hard work of our many judges, so if you haven't signed up to judge student posters in the past (or in a while), I encourage you to do so in the future. Your next opportunity will be at the 241st AAS meeting in Seattle, Washington, in January 2023.

Here are the results from Pasadena:

Undergraduate Student Medal Winners

  • Julio Morales (U. Massachusetts)
  • Hillary Diane Andales (MIT)
  • Lori Porter (U. Louisville)
  • Alexandra Masegian (U. Chicago)
  • William Ostling (Collegiate School, New York City)

Undergraduate Student Honorable Mentions

  • Luisa Fernanda Zamudio Ruvalcaba (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California)
  • Lillian Jiang (Smith College)
  • Trevor Weiss, Evangelina Shread, and Cameron Law (Orange Coast College) – awarded jointly to all 3
  • Rachel Nere (U. Mass - Boston)
  • Ashley Lieber (U. Arkansas)
  • Kendra Nguyen (Pomona College)
  • Sierra Gomez (U. Massachusetts)
  • Zachary Werber (U. Arizona)
  • Vighnesh Nagpal (UC Berkeley)
  • Whittney Easterwood (Texas State U.)
  • James Garland (Haverford College)
  • Joshua Millman (Franklin and Marshall College)
  • Benjamin Hanson (Colorado School of Mines)
  • Sarah Lange (UC Santa Cruz)
  • Ivan Altunin (UC Berkeley)
  • Bennett Skinner (U. Arizona)
  • Dylan Gayer (Coe College)

Graduate Student Medal Winners

  • Megan Newsome (UC Santa Barbara)
  • Erica Bufanda (U. Hawaii)
  • Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James (Georgia State U.)
  • Melissa Morris (U. Wisconsin)
  • Rosalia O'Brien (Arizona State U.)

Graduate Student Honorable Mentions

  • Rex Lam (San Diego State U.)
  • Nayantara Mudur (Harvard U.)
  • Margaret Johnston (U. Nevada Las Vegas)
  • Yuanze Luo (Johns Hopkins U.)
  • Evan Cook (U. Wyoming)
  • Kyle Kabasares (UC Irvine)
  • William Smith (Vanderbilt U.)
  • Osase Omoruyi (Harvard U.)
  • Anna Baum (Lehigh U.)
  • Alec Martin (U. Missouri)
  • Eliot Vrijmoet (Georgia State U.)
  • Julia Falcone (Georgia State U.)
  • Christian Aganze (UC San Diego)
  • Nathan Galliher (U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Gabriella Agazie (U. Wisconsin)
  • Kiana Henny (U. Wyoming)
  • Emma Page (Lehigh U.)
  • Mugdha Polimera (U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  • Samuel Federman (U. Toledo)

Congratulations, all!

On behalf of our Society and all of the students who entered the AAS 240 Chambliss competition, I would like to thank the AAS Executive Office staff and all of the many, many member volunteer judges. It is all of you who help to make this very important competition such a big success!

Here are our AAS 240 Chambliss Judges* — thank them when you see them next:

Arthur Adams, Rachel Akeson, Reza Alizadeh Dahdahli, Nicole Arulanantham, Trisha Ashley, Tri Astraatmadja, Joshua Bartkoske, Jennifer Bartlett, Aaron Bello-Arufe, Chad Bender, Angela Berti, Paul Bonney, James Buchanan, Emory Bunn, Bobby Butler, Ruby Byrne, Yssavo Camacho-Neves, Vivian Carvajal, Yasmin Catricheo, Chi-kwan Chan, Zhuo Chen, Yuguang Chen, Yu-Ching (Tony) Chen, Cody Cly, Nathaniel Cooper, Michael Corcoran, Thankful Cromartie, Roohi Dalal, Ashkbiz Danehkar, Jonathan Davis, Aleks Diamond-Stanic, Van Dixon, Dillon Dong, Kelly Douglass, Martin Elvis, Sergio Fajardo-Acosta, Ebraheem Farag, Ryan Felton, Tara Fetherolf, Kyel Finner, Ronald Gamble, Joseph Glaser, Deborah Good, Tyler Gordon, Melissa Graham, Nicole Granucci, Norman Grogin, Jordan Guerra, Kathleen Hamilton-Campos, Farhanul Hasan, Nimish Hathi, Kerry Hensley, Meredith Hughes, Brian Jackson, Marziye Jafariyazani, Reinier Janssen, Patrick Kamieneski, Subhajeet Karmakar, Nicole Karnath, Amir Kazemi-Moridani, Somayeh Khakpash, David Kieda, Junhan Kim, Hans Krimm, Max Kurzner, Paul La Plante, Casey Law, Charles Law, Bomee Lee, Abigail Lee, Briley Lewis, Siyang Li, Dana Louie, Anan Lu, Cicero Lu, Meredith MacGregor, Juan Madrid, Labani Mallick, Chris Martin, Philip Massey, Karen Masters, Curtis McCully, Jed McKinney, Beena Meena, Guillem Megias Homar, Alice Monet, Rodolfo Montez, Ahmad Nemer, Kristina Nyland, Elena Orlando, Terry Oswalt, Pallavi Patil, Jean Perkins, Daniel Perley, Geraldine Peters, Megan Pickett, Kathryn Plant, Fiorella Polles, Meredith Powell, Vikram Ravi, Malena Rice, Jeff Rich, Evan Rich, Benjamin Roulston, Jean-Baptiste Ruffio, Michael Rutkowski, Maissa Salama, Ronald Samec, Andrew Saydjari, Jennifer Scott, Peter Senchyna, Ethan Siegel, Emily Silich, Aaron Smith, Ahmad Sohani, Yiqing Song, Angela Speck, Navin Sridhar, Michael Strauss, Lou Strolger, Kung-Yi Su, Guochao Sun, Jim Sweitzer, Grace Telford, Erik Tollerud, Gelys Trancho, Neal Turner, Oana Vesa, Ethan Vishniac, Ashley Walker, William Waller, Greg Walsh, Alycia Weinberger, Olivia Wilkins, Tony Wong, Jason Wright, Daniel Wysocki, Wei Yan, Weixiang Yu, Heechan Yuk, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Xinghai Zhao, Zhuyun Zhuang, and Frank Timmes.

*If you identify any omissions or errors, please email me any corrections.