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Past Graduate Awardees
The Graduate Awards celebrates the remarkable achievements of our graduate students, faculty, and staff who have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to their academic departments. Each year, we honor individuals who have demonstrated excellence in areas such as leadership, teaching, research and service to graduate education.
- 2024
- Julia Brown
EnglishAlumni Association's Dean's Choice Award for Leadership - Erin Chavez
HistoryAlumni Association Doctoral Summer Fellowship - Benjamin Tausig
MusicDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member - Kevin Holt
MusicDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member - Joshua Rest
Ecology and EvolutionDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director - Chantalle McKim
Electrical and Computer EngineeringDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Coordinator - Diana Salomon
ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award - Xiaohui Wang
Studio ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award (Honorable Mention) - Clare Flynn
Ecology and EvolutionFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship - Waltraut Knop
Physics and AstronomyJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Rosa Bermejo
Social and Health PsychologyJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship - Rebecca Mirhashem
Psychology/ClinicalMadeline Fusco Fellowship - Anastasia Iorga
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological ScienceMildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - Gino Elia
PhilosophyPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Giselle Ferguson
Social and Health PsychologyPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Felix Fonseca Quesada
LinguisticsPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Lauren Raguette
ChemistryPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Beatriz Solla Vilas
Hispanic Languages and LiteraturePresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Lizbeth Zúñiga
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Ashley Barry
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Yichul Choi
Physics and AstronomyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Marina Fandaros
Biomedical EngineeringPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Alexandra F. Ortmann
Psychology/Cognitive SciencePresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Amanda Rowe
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological SciencesPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Alexander Beyl
Anatomical SciencesStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Alejandro Gil Gomez
Ecology and EvolutionStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Michelle Mayro
LinguisticsStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Maggie McDonnell
Political ScienceStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Emily Rehbein
Psychology/Social and Health PsychologyStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship
- Julia Brown
- 2023
- Daphne HudsonInterdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences Alumni Association’s Dean’s Choice Award for Leadership
- Robert WuagneuxMusicAlumni Association Doctoral Summer Fellowship
- Daniel O’LearyPsychologyDean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member
- Brenda AndersonChair of the Graduate Council Special Recognition
- Jackie Collier
Marine, Atmospheric and Sustainability SciencesDean’s Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Director - Lisa-Beth Platania
PhilosophyDean’s Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Coordinator - Urmi PoddarEcology and EvolutionThe Madeline Fusco Fellowship
- Annu Daftuar
Women’s Gender and Sexuality StudiesThe Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - Donal Thomas
HistoryThe Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award - Emma Fiona Jones
ArtDorothy G. Pieper Memorial Purchase Prize - Sehee KimArtHonorable Mention as part of the Dorothy G. Pieper Memorial Purchase Prize
- Veena KrishComputer Science The John Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics
- Chelsie Burchett
Psychology/Social HealthJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award - Brianna Gonzalez
Psychology/Integrative NeurosciencePresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Danielle Lucksted
SociologyPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Scott Nelson
LinguisticsPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Anna Thonis
Ecology and EvolutionPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Hannah Waterman
MusicPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Zhihengyu Chen
ChemistryPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Marcy Ekanayke-Weber
Anthropological SciencesPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Michael Martinez
Molecular and Cellular PharmacologyPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Tori Peña
Psychology/Cognitive SciencePresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Yiming Wan
Biomedical EngineeringPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Jose Moscoso Nunez
Ecology and EvolutionStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Lindsey Pelucacci
EnglishStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Jamilah SilverClinical Psychology Stony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship
- Carlos Vicéns
Hispanic Languages and LiteratureStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Nicolás Wiggenhauser
Anthropological SciencesStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship
- Daphne Hudson
- 2022
- Yiyang Jia
Physics and AstronomyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Calvin Quilty
ChemistryPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Josue Nassar
Electrical and Computer Engineering President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Dakotah Lambert
LinguisticsPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Taylor (Medwig) Kinney
GeneticsPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Logan Graham
Applied Mathematics and StatisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Stephanie Struble
PhilosophyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Jason Loprete
Mechanical EngineeringPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Andrija Petrovic
LinguisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Ida Nikou
SociologyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Anna MelnikovaLinguisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
- Alyssa Stansfield
School of Marine and Atmospheric SciencesAlumni Association's Dean's Choice Award for Leadership - Gabriella Shypula
Art/Art HistoryAlumni Association Doctoral Summer Fellowship - Amanda Rowe
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological SciencesFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship - Marina Fandaros
Biomedical EngineeringJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Willie Mack
HistoryJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship - Allison Rugila
Ecology & EvolutionMadeline Fusco Fellowship - Jessica Kim
SociologyMildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - Lauren FultonArtStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship
- Brianna Gonzalez
Psychology: Integrative NeuroscienceStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Aishani Gupta
HistoryStony Brook Foundation Board of Trustees Dissertation Completion Endowed Fellowship - Thomas GrafLinguisticsDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate MENTORING by a Faculty Member
- Yanna Krupnikov
Political ScienceDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate MENTORING by a Faculty Member - August Sheehy
MusicDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate TEACHING by a Faculty Member - Monica Winchell
MusicDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC) - Christine RotaApplied Mathematics and StatisticsDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC)
- Aurelie Vialette
Hispanic Languages and LiteratureDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Dilge Dilsiz
ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award - Katie X. (Xiaohui Wang)
ArtHonorable Mention, Dorothy G. Pieper Award
- Yiyang Jia
- 2021
- Meghan Buckley
EnglishPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Xujia Chen
MathPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Sebastian Dick
PhysicsPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Sindhuja Tirumalai Govindarajan
Biomedical EngineeringPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Jonathan Rawski
LinguisticsPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Marybeth Apriceno
PsychologyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Jack Burkart
MathPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Moisés Hassan
Hispanic Languages and LiteraturePresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Delicia Kamins
PhilosophyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Bernard Krumm
EnglishPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Emma Talis
Applied Math & StatisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Jessica Kim
SociologyStony Brook Foundation Trustees Dissertation Completion Fellowship - Katharine Thompson
Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological SciencesStony Brook Foundation Trustees Dissertation Completion Fellowship - Stephanie Bonvissuto
Women's, Gender and Sexuality StudiesMadeline Fusco Fellowship Award - Annu Daftuar
Women's, Gender and Sexuality StudiesFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award - Adelle Molina
Marine and Atmospheric SciencesJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Kenneth Davidson
Ecology & EvolutionJohn Dunn Excellence Award in Life Sciences - Dedi Yang
Ecology & EvolutionJohn Dunn Excellence Award in Life Sciences - Zared Shawver
PsychologyDean's Alumni Association Leadership Award - Kathleen Vernon
Hispanic Languages and LiteratureDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member - John Bailyn
LinguisticsDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member - Mary Rawlinson
PhilosophyDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Theresa Spadola
EnglishDean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC) - Heather Weston
ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award
- Meghan Buckley
- 2020
- Xinzhong Chen
PhysicsPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Michael Tyler Guinn
Biomedical EngineeringPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Adrian Howansky
Biomedical EngineeringPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Erin Kang
PsychologyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Avi Srivastava
Computer SciencePresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Alena Aksenova
LinguisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Caitlin Duffy
EnglishPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Christopher Fremaux
PhilosophyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Sara Martinez Navarro
Hispanic LanguagesPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - James Sares
PhilosophyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Hong-Lun YeungLinguisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
- Meghan Buckley
EnglishMildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - Ji Yea Kim
LinguisticsMadeline Fusco Fellowship Award - Rachael Herman
Ecology and EvolutionFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award - Sindhuja Tirumalai Govindarajan
Biomedical EngineeringJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Ximena Lopez-Carrillo
HistoryJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award - Spencer Austin
HistoryDean's Alumni Association Leadership Award - Stephen Pallas
English Alumni Association Doctoral Summer Fellowship - Richard Gerrig
PsychologyDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member - David Rubenstein
Biomedical EngineeringDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Jackie Donnelly
Women's, Gender, Sexuality StudiesDean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC) - Daniel Donato
ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award
- Xinzhong Chen
- 2019
- Aleksander Doan
MathematicsPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Brain Hartwig
EnglishPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Caleb Ward
PhilosophyJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award - Carrie Mongle
AnthropologyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Connor Behan
Physics and AstronomyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Craig Rodriguez-Seijas
PsychologyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Donald Sheehan III
PhysicsDean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Coordinator - Hyunah Baek
LinguisticsMildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - Jennifer McCauley
IACSDean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Coordinator - Ju Hyeon Han
MusicPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Kaitlyn Koenig Thompson
Pharmacological SciencesPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Kate CorbinAnatomical SciencesPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
- Katharine Thompson
AnthropologyMadeline Fusco Fellowship Award - Kathleen Fallon
SociologyDean's Award for Excellence in Service as a Graduate Program Director - Liz MontegaryWomen's, Gender, and Sexuality StudiesDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a faculty member
- Matt BrounleyMusic History and TheoryPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
- Michael Kryluk
PhilosophyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Russell Tanenbaum
LinguisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Shruti Mukherjee
Women's, Gender and Sexuality StudiesFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award - Thomas GrafLinguisticsDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty
- Xujia Chen
MathematicsJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Yalile Suriel
HistoryDean's Alumni Association Leadership Award - Yifei Cheng
Department of ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award
- Aleksander Doan
- 2018
- Helana Darwin
SociologyJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award - Jamie M. Sommer
SociologyMildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - Chang Kee Jung
Physics and AstronomyDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a faculty member - Scott Zukowski
EnglishPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Chikako Takahashi
LinguisticsFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award - John Frederick Bailyn
LinguisticsDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Cynthia Santa Cruz-Scalzo
Computer ScienceDean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program Coordinator (GPC) - Joseph SantarpiaDepartment of ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award
- Jianping Huang
ChemistryPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Michael Schrimpf
Ecology and EvolutionPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Ingrid Solano
PsychologyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Xiaofei Li
Biomedical EngineeringMadeline Fusco Fellowship Award - Hans Niederhausen
Physics and AstronomyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Camilo Rubbini
EconomicsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Vihitaben Patel
Biomedical EngineeringJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Joelle Mann
EnglishPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Clinton Rubin
Biomedical EngineeringDean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a faculty member - Jianqiu Guo
Materials Science and Chemical EngineeringPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Wali Karzai
MCB Graduate ProgramDean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director (GPD) - Molly Graffam
School of Marine and Atmospheric SciencesDean's Alumni Association Leadership Award - Jamie Macdonald
PsychologyPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Jennifer Carter
PhilosophyPresident's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Paola Cepeda
LinguisticsPresident's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
- Helana Darwin
- 2017
- Taylor D. Ackley
Department of MusicPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Audrey Lane Ellis
Department of PhilosophyPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Laura James
Department of EnglishPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Chatham Lovette
Department of Philosophy, Women's, Gender and Sexuality StudiesPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Jennifer Nicoloro-SantaBarbara
Department of PsychologyPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Lisa Robison
Department of PsychologyPresident’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student - Francisco Delgado
Department of EnglishPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Han Fang
Department of Applied Mathematics and StatisticsPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Daphne Meza
Department of Biomedical EngineeringPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Saul S. Siller
Department of Pharmacological SciencesPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Laurel Yohe
Department of Ecology & EvolutionPresident’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students - Jasna Boudard
Department of ArtDorothy G. Pieper Award - Paola Cépeda
Department of LinguisticsMadeline Fusco Fellowship - Vahideh Rasekhi
Department of LinguisticsDean’s Alumni Association Leadership Award - Vanessa LynnDepartment of SociologyJoyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award
- Shikha Singh
Department of Computer ScienceJohn Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics - Suzan M. Walters
Department of SociologyMildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship - David Yee
Department of HistoryFaculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award - Melissa Cohen
Department of Ecology & EvolutionDean’s Award for Excellence in Service as a Graduate Program Coordinator - Adrienne Munich
Department of English; Cultural Analysis and Theory; ArtDean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member - David Talmage
Department of Molecular and Cellular PharmacologyDean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member
- Taylor D. Ackley