Our graduate community is composed of really outstanding people! Here are some things they have been doing lately:

Recent Fellowship & Award Recipients  

• Taylor McGee - NSF GRFP 2026 honorable mention
• Eliza O’Donnell - NSF GRFP 2026
• Sam Sanderson - NSF GRFP 2026 honorable mention
• Anna McKane -2026 NIH F30
• Abigail Loucks -  2025 NIH F31 

(2024-2025) 

• Herbert Fountain -  2024 Longevity Biotech Fellows by the Foresight Institute
• Alivia Ishee - NSF GRFP 2025 honorable mention
• Emma Kosmeder - NSF GRFP 2025 honorable mention

Recent Graduates

August 2026

• Russell Barkley PhD
• Eleanor Best PhD
• Rhasaan Bovell PhD
• Anthony Chen PhD
• Melia Matthews PhD
• Elizabeth Williams Louie PhD
• Julia Zhu PhD
• Tiago Zilch PhD

May 2026

• Maya Craig PhD
• Alexandria Hommer PhD
• Sydney Womack PhD

December 2025

• Leanne Donahue PhD
• Sharada Gopal PhD
• Chia-Hsin Hsu PhD
• Alexander McGurk PhD
• Anna Schumann PhD
• Erica Secor PhD
• Jackson Seminara PhD
• Eric Teplitz PhD

August 2025

• Richard Adeleke PhD
• Alex Brady PhD
• Maithili Deshpande PhD
• Eric Gelsleichter PhD
• Anna Kolarzyk PhD
• Leah Simon PhD

May 2025

• Noor Bala PhD
• Megan Fahey PhD
• James Cockey PhD
• Sarah Saddoris PhD
• Viraj Upadhye PhD
• Oluwafemi Adu PhD
• Paula Banuelos PhD
• Hsin-Yun (Rachel) Chang PhD
• Bailey Lubinski PhD