Congratulations to the AAS 246 Chambliss Student Award Winners

The latest Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award poster competition was a success, and we at the AAS are excited to announce the winners of the competition! The following winners presented their posters at our 246th AAS meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, in June 2025. If you haven't had a chance to review posters for the Chambliss student poster competition yet, please consider volunteering in the future! Your next opportunity will be at the 247th AAS meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2026.

Here are the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award winners from AAS 246:

Graduate Award Winners

• Annika Deutsch (University of Virginia)
• David Gracia (University of Oklahoma)
• John Schneider (University of Texas at San Antonio)
• Lucy Steffes (University of Arizona)

Undergraduate Award Winners

• Alexis Spence (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University)
• Andy Nilipour (Yale University)
• Arielle Frommer (Harvard University)
• Sufia Birmingham (Princeton University)

Graduate Honorable Mentions

• Fatima Yousuf (UC Berkeley)
• Gourab Nandi (University of Missouri, Columbia)
• Collette Sarver (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Sangeeta Kumar (NASA GSFC)
• Ananya Mohapatra (University of Rochester)
• Joselyn Espinoza Lopez (San Francisco State University)

Undergraduate Honorable Mentions

• Xander Rouk (Oklahoma State University)
• Christopher Entzel (Montana State University)
• Rishika Porandla (Princeton University)
• Fernanda Sophia Morais Laroca (Amherst College)
• Jacob Yuzovitskiy (College of Staten Island)
• Oliver Hancock (Brigham Young University)
• Sean Lewis (Yale University) 

Congratulations, all!

On behalf of our Society and all the students who entered the AAS 246 Chambliss student poster competition, I would like to thank the AAS Executive Office staff and all the many member volunteer judges. It is all of you who helped to make this very important competition such a big success!

Photographs from the poster presentations at the meeting may be viewed in this photo gallery.