2026 winners are bolded.
*People's choice award winner.
Aida Aghaeizadeh Kamakoli, Engineering Sciences (Lee R. Lynd, Evert K. Holwerda), Understanding interspecies interactions in thermophilic lignocellulose-degrading coculture systems
Nakyeong Ahn, Chemistry (Xin Qi), Multiscale Reactive Computational Framework for Mechanistic Understanding Pt-Catalyzed Polyethylene Upcycling
Petra Bachanova, Integrative Neuroscience (Jennifer Hong, Barbara Jobst), Characterizing somatic mosaicism in epilepsy using explanted SEEG electrodes
Zhanibek Bekkhozhin, Chemistry (Michael Ragusa), Structural insights into proteins that bind and bridge membranes for diverse cellular functions
Ramchander Bhaskara, Computer Science, postdoc (Adithya Pediredla), Precision depth sensing: space science to robotics
Bashirul Azam Biswas, Biomedical Data Science, postdoc (Indrani Bhattacharya), Uncertainty- and tracer-aware multi-tracer, pan-cancer lesion segmentation on PET/CT images
Isobel Bowles, Molecular and Systems Biology, postdoc (Esteban Orellana), tRNA Inhibition as a Novel Cancer Treatment Strategy
Zuzana Burdikova, Life Sciences, postdoc (Prof. Bing He), Golgi-localized PI 4-kinases drive microvilli biogenesis and membrane compartmentalization in cellularization
Junior Burks, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila), Edge Effects and Methane Flux Dynamics in a Temperate Forest
Lily Charpentier, Microbiology and Immunology (Bruce Stanton), Host-pathogen interactions in a cystic fibrosis polymicrobial infection model: S. aureus induces trained immunity in CF-pHBEC
Chahna Choksi, Chemistry (Ekaterina V. Pletneva), Lysine as an Axial Ligand to the Heme Iron in Cytochromes
Matthew Company, Integrative Neuroscience (Wilder Doucette), Oscillatory Dynamics Reflect Behavioral Modulation by Brain Stimulation
Kishalay Datta, Engineering Sciences (Jason T. Stauth), A Roadmap To "Cool" Chips For Fridge-to-Toaster AI Datacenter Racks
Amel Docena, Computer Science (Alberto Quattrini Li), A Hierarchical Approach with Crisis Mitigation for Multi-Robot Spatio-Temporal Restoration
Yifei Gao, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (Li Song), CFIRR: An Integrated Platform for Immune Receptor Repertoire Analysis in Cystic Fibrosis
Alexys Gayne, Cancer Biology (Dr. Kelli B Pointer), Factors Associated with Diffuse Midline Glioma Outcomes
Himanshu Goswami, Microbiology and Immunology (Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner), Beyond the Lung: Kidney Injury in Cystic Fibrosis
*Smitakshi Goswami, Physics and Astronomy (Jifeng Liu), Rethinking Solar Energy with Cleaner Materials
Andrea Grillo, Computer Science (Brian Plancher), Hardware-Algorithm Co-Design for Real-Time Linear Model Predictive Control: FPGA Implementation and Deployment on a Resource-Constrained Quadrotor
Aiden Hawkins, Chemistry (Dr. Katherine Mirica), Insights into the Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Redox-Active Center-Metal Phthalocyanine Metal-Organic Frameworks
Margarita Hernandez, Anthropology, postdoc (Zaneta M. Thayer), The Latiné Immigration and Health Study (LIHS): A longitudinal study exploring immigration, embodiment, and health within Latiné refugees/immigrants in the United States
Madeline Hoey, Engineering Sciences (Lee Lynd), Strategies for cellulosic biofuel production: Ex situ milling with fermentation, as modeled for cotreatment, to enhance feedstock deconstruction
Yingze Jing, Chemistry (Ekaterina Pletneva), How Reduction Potential is Tuned in Multi-heme Proteins
Jerry Jose, Chemistry (Ivan Aprahamian), Flipping the Helix: Photocontrolled Chirality with Macrocyclic Hydrazone Dopants
Amrutha Kamalaprasad Vijayakumari, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Prof. Kathy Cottingham), Tropical Monsoons and Their Impact on Freshwater Phytoplankton Communities.
Bavani Kathir, Earth Sciences (Marisa Palucis), Inferring the Mineralogy and Habitability of Martian Analog Salt Flats Using an Orbit-to-Surface Remote Sensing Approach
Ramanpreet Kaur, Chemistry (Ivan Aprahamian), Light-Responsive Smart Systems for Anion Recognition
Mansa Krishna, Earth Sciences (Mathieu Morlighem), Inferring subglacial bed topography using physics-informed machine learning constrained by two conservation laws
Bernice Leung, Microbiology and Immunology (Tyler Curiel), Adipocyte PDL1 suppresses immune checkpoint blockade therapy through promoting MDSC-mediated IFN? suppression
Fiona McEnany, Microbiology and Immunology (Anne Hoen), Neonatal Antibody Transfer: The Effect of Gestational Age at the Time of Maternal Influenza Vaccination
Nisali Mendis, Microbiology and Immunology (Margaret Ackerman, David Leib), Stopping HSV at the Door: A Novel Class of Human Antibodies against Glycoprotein B
Sophia Micale, Biological Sciences (Bing He), PI4-Kinase Fwd Regulates Cell Surface Expansion and Epithelial Morphogenesis in Drosophila Embryos
Yen Nguyen, Chemistry (Ekateria Pletneva), Structural Features Regulating the Electron Transfer Function of Cytochrome c5 in Bacterial Respiratory Chain.
Chelsee Niebergall, M.A.L.S. (Liberal Studies), (Professor Regine Rosenthal, Professor Min Young Godley), Resistance and Innovation: The Cultural Work of Popular Romance Novels
Kathryn O'Nell, Psychological and Brain Sciences (Emily Finn), Pink noise in speakers' semantic similarity dynamics predicts conversation enjoyment
Weijie Pan, Irving Institute for Energy & Society, postdoc (Geoffrey Parker, Katie Lichter), Life Cycle Assessment of Risk-Stratified Breast Cancer Screening: A Pathway-Based Systems Analysis
Vedang Puranik, Chemistry (Ivan Aprahamian), Negative Feedback Loop for the Controlled Synthesis of a Metal-Organic Cage
Dyah Puspitaloka, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Michael Cox), Visualizing long-term vegetation cover changes at different land uses in Jambi, Indonesia
Johnathan Rodgers Gochicoa, Cancer Biology (Kelli B. Pointer), HERG1 Regulates Radiation Resistance in Glioblastoma
Matthew Salinas, Chemistry (Mahima Sneha), An Ultrafast Time-Resolved Spectroscopy Research Group at Dartmouth College
Emanuele Scalone, Department of Chemistry, postdoc (Paul Robustelli), Ensemble-Averaged Pharmacophore Maps for Intrinsically Disordered Drug Targets
Alaa Selim, Thayer School of Engineering, postdoc (Junbo Zhao), Next-Gen Grid Security Platform
Hannah Sexton, Chemistry (David Glueck), Design, Synthesis, and Mechanistic Studies of Chiral Pt(PR2OH) Complexes, Catalysts for Kinetic Resolution of Racemic Nitriles via Hydration
Omar Sharif, Computer Science (Nikhil Singh), Learning to Ask: Improving Clinical Information Extraction with Learned Queries
Jackson Shimkonis, Microbiology and Immunology (Jennifer Bomberger, Benjamin Ross), Inter-species Homology in Bacterial Immunity Proteins Relevant to the Cystic Fibrosis Airway
Ghalia Saad Siddiqui, Molecular and Systems Biology (Yashi Ahmed), Identification of Ubiquitin Ligases that Regulate Wnt Signaling
Nathaniel Spicer, Microbiology and Immunology (Tyler Curiel), UVB and melanocyte PDL1 promote melanoma progression and metastasis through early type-I interferon (IFN-I) signals
Christopher Tanner, Microbiology and Immunology (Tyler Curiel), ?PDL2 treats melanoma in the aged hosts through a novel IL17-induced IFN? generating mechanism, and combines with multiple clinical agents to treat cancer in the young host
Shane Taylor, Microbiology and Immunology (Tyler Curiel), Investigating axitinib with ?PD-L2 to Improve Anti-Tumor Immunity
Rasmus Torp, Computer Science (Adam Breuer), Reducing information dependency does not cause training data privacy. Adversarially non-robust features do.
Evelyn Turnbaugh, Microbiology and Immunology (David Leib), Subclinical neonatal herpes simplex virus infection triggers CNS myelin injury and lasting cognitive impairment in mice.
Chunmeng Wang, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (Jonathan Winter), Climate Change Increases the Reliance of U.S. Corn on Irrigation
Mallory Wooldridge, Comparative Literature (Dr. Aden Evens, Dr. Yulia Komska), A Historical Affair: Intimacy and Memory in Jenny Erpenbeck's "Kairos"
Briana Wyman, Integrative Neuroscience (Chengxiang Qiu), Decoding Neurogenesis: Single-Cell Trajectories and Autism Spectrum Disorder Gene Mapping
Qi Yao, Molecular and Systems Biology, (Esteban Orellana), Investigating the functional role of TRMT1 in oncogenesis
Yuyao Zhang, Computer Science (Yu-Wing Tai), HierEdit : Region-Aware Hierarchical Diffusion for Efficient High-Resolution Editing