2019-2020 Awardees
Maureen Kinyua, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Students: Yihan Zhang (Ph.D. student, Civil and Environmental Engineering), Gandhar Pandit (Ph.D. student, Civil and Environmental Engineering)
José Juan Pérez Meléndez, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Marian Schlotterbeck, Associate Professor, Department of History
Students: Renzo Aroni (Ph.D. student, History), Julio Aguilar (Ph.D. student, History), Priscilla Cisternas (Ph.D. student, History), Joel Olea-Calixto (Ph.D. student, History), José Alejandro Rentería (Ph.D. student, History), Viridiana Hernández (Ph.D. student, History), Génesis Lara (Ph.D. student, History), Manoel Rendeiro Neto (Ph.D. student, History), Lucía Luna Victoria Indacochea (Ph.D. student, History), Francisco Ulloa (Ph.D. student, History)
Lorena Oropeza
Students: Sean Gallagher (Ph.D. student, History), Ellie Kaplan (Ph.D. student, History), Vanessa Lauchland (Ph.D. student, History), Charlotte Terry (Ph.D. student, History)
2018-2019 Awardees
Barbara Blanco-Ulate
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences
Students: Jaclyn A. Adaskaveg (Plant Biology), Christian J. Silva (Plant Biology)
Karen Zito
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior and the Center for Neuroscience
Students: Nicole Claiborne (Neuroscience), Juan Carlos Flores (Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology)
Katerina Ziotopoulou
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Students: Maya El Kortbawi (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Francisco Humire (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Sumeet Sinha (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Renmin Pretell (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
2017-2018 Awardees
Gail Bornhorst
Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Students: Yamile Mennah-Govela (Biological Systems Engineering), Clay Swackhamer (Biological Systems Engineering) and Alex Olenskyj (Food Science and Technology)
Sheila David
Professor, Chemistry
Students: Elizabeth Lotsof (Chemistry), Chandrima Majumdar (Chemistry) and Kori Lay (Chemistry)
Ted Grosholz
Professor and Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Environmental Science and Policy
Students: Ben Rubinoff (Ecology)
John Slater
Associate Professor, Spanish
Vice Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Students: Evan Brown (Spanish), Génesis Bui (Spanish), Víctor Cervantes (Spanish), Alicia Gallego Zarzosa (Spanish) and Rebeca Rubio (Spanish)
Michael Ziser
Associate Professor, English
2016 - 2017 Awardees
Sheila David
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Students: Doug Banda, Chandrima Majumdar, Kori Lay (Chemistry)
Annaliese Franz
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Students: Kayla Rude (Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry) and Kelsey Mesa (Chemistry)
Margaret Crofoot
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Students: Katrina Brock (Animal Behavior), Dena Clink, Grace Davis, and Alexander Vining (Anthropology)
Tessa Hill
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Bodega Marine Laboratory
Students: Melissa Ward (Ecology)
Julia Menard-Warwick
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Students: Kaozong Mouavangsou (Education), Lina Reznicek-Parrado (Spanish), Caitlin Tierney (Linguistics)
2015-2016 Awardees
Gail Bornhorst
Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Students: Yamile Mennah and Krista Drechsler (Biological and Agricultural Engineering)
Annaliese Franz
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Students: Brittany Armstrong, Kayla Diemoz, Austin Kelly, Julia Jennings and Kelsey Mesa (Chemistry)
Carol Hess
Professor, Department of Music
Student: Claire Thompson (Music)
Kent Leach
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Student: Debika Mitra (Biomedical Engineering)
Professor Terrence Nathan
Professor, Atmospheric Science
Student: Will Turner IV (Atmospheric Science)