2021-2022 CCS Student Awards

June 9, 2022

Congratulations to our students for their many awards and achievements throughout the year

CCS students receive many prestigious awards, ranging from college-specific and departmental awards to university-wide and national awards. The following is a partial list of awards received by CCS students in the 2021-2022 academic year.

CCS Awards

Jo Little Memorial Scholarship

Tessa Chou ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Emily Hascall ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Emily Lopez ‘22 (CCS Mathematics)

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Recipients

Owen Jenkins ‘24 (CCS Art)

Leah Moment ‘23 (CCS Art)

Kento Logan ‘23 (CCS Biology)

Juan Medina ‘23 (CCS Biology)

Marina Stoilova ‘23 (CCS Biology)

Solenn Matuska ‘23 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Wendy Wang ‘23 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Thea Zalunardo ’23 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Manu Kondapaneni ‘23 (CCS Computing)

Zachary Miller ‘24 (CCS Computing)

Michael Kuhn ‘23 (CCS Mathematics)

Tianyi Wang ‘24 (CCS Mathematics)

Qing Yao ‘24 (CCS Mathematics)

Martina Chen ‘24 (CCS Music Composition)

Xinyuan Lin ‘23 (CCS Physics)

Simon Mitchell ‘23 (CCS Physics)

Lanxuan Wang ‘24 (CCS Physics)

Min Choi ‘23 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Ixchel Hernandez ‘23 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Maya Salem ‘24 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Traveling Undergraduate Research Fund (TURF) Recipients

Samuel Gebretsadkan ‘23 (CCS Physics)

Ixchel Hernandez ‘23 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Connor Lawson ‘23 (CCS Music Composition)

Luc Le ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Ryan Lopez ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Celine Pun ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Luca Scharrer ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Gahl Shemy ‘23 (CCS Mathematics)

Kat Yuen ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature)

 

UCSB Awards

Alyce Maria Whitted Memorial Award

Hugh Cook ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Artist in UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Platform Gallery 2021-2022 Regeneration

Isabella Catanzaro ‘23 (CCS Physics)

Beckman Scholar

Nick Godzik ‘23 (CCS Biology)

Bernard Kirtman Scholarship

Sophie Lipkin ‘23 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Central Coast Data Science Fellowship at UCSB

Jorge Murillo ‘22 (CCS Mathematics)

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Via Bleidner ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature)

Junyi Cheng ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Department of French and Italian Certificate of Excellence in Lower Division French

Hongjie (David) Zeng ‘23 (CCS Mathematics)

Department of Physics Outstanding Senior Award

Junyi Cheng ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Department of Physics Research Honors

Yiluo Li ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Department of Physics Research Excellence Award

Ryan Lopez ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Luca Scharrer ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Patrick Tran ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies Max Kade Travel Grant

Aurora de Tagyos ‘24 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Department of Music Corwin Award for Best Large Ensemble Work

Jaze Matteo Wharton ‘22 (CCS Music Composition and L&S Philosophy)

Department of Music Corwin Award for Best Work for Chamber Ensemble

Jaze Matteo Wharton ‘22 (CCS Music Composition and L&S Philosophy)

Dorothy and Sherrill C. Corwin Award - Best Short Film

Marcello Frisina ‘22 (CCS Art and L&S Film and Media Studies)

EEMB Undergraduate Research Symposium Best Talk Award

Sriram Ramamurthy ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Environmental Studies Outstanding Community Service Award

Celine Pun ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature and L&S Environmental Studies)

Environmental Studies Distinction in the Major Award

Celine Pun ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature and L&S Environmental Studies)

Environmental Studies Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

Celine Pun ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature and L&S Environmental Studies)

Future Leaders in Advanced Materials (FLAM) Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Sophia Wolczko ‘23 (CCS Physics)

Joseph H. Connell Award for Excellence in Ecological or Evolutionary Research

Sriram Ramamurthy ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Raab Writing Fellowship

Luc Le ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature)

RISE Award

Dylan Choi ‘22 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

SEAL Individual Co-curricular Award

Sophie Lipkin ‘23 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Thomas More Storke Award for Excellence

Emily Lopez ‘22 (CCS Mathematics)

UC LEADS Campus Leadership Award

Tessa Chou ‘22 (CCS Biology)

URCA Grant

Dylan Choi ‘22 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Sophie Lipkin ‘23 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

URCA Research Slam - 1st place winner

Sriram Ramamurthy ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Worster Summer Research Fellowship - Department of Physics

Chaoshen Zhang ‘23 (CCS Physics)

Worster Summer Research Fellowship - Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology

Emily Hascall ‘22 (CCS Biology)

 

National and International Awards

ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students) Microbiology Poster Presentation Award

Tessa Chou ‘22 (CCS Biology)

ASM Future Leaders Mentoring Fellow

Tessa Chou ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Colman Fellowship

Emily Lopez ‘22 (CCS Mathematics)

Cornell Dean's Scholar

Emily Lopez ‘22 (CCS Mathematics)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Jadon Bienz ‘22 (CCS Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Emily Lopez ‘22 (CCS Mathematics)

Patrick Tran ‘22 (CCS Physics)

Phi Beta Kappa

Valentina Chavez ‘23 (CCS Art & L&S History of Art and Architecture)

Emma deZarn ‘22 (CCS Writing & Literature and L&S Film and Media Studies)

Raymond B. Huey Award for Best Student Poster

Sriram Ramamurthy ‘22 (CCS Biology)

Schmidt Family Foundation Award

Dylan Choi ‘22 (CCS Chemistry & Biochemistry)

ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship

Ashley Yeh ‘24 (CCS Biology)

UC Irvine Summer Program Research Participant Fellow

Tessa Chou ‘22 (CCS Biology)