Congratulations to the AAS 247 Chambliss Student Award Winners

  Student researchers from across the astronomy community presented their work in the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award poster competition at AAS 247 in Phoenix, Arizona, in January 2025. We are pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s awards! These students participated in the two-stage Chambliss Student Poster Competition, which includes both an online competition round and an in-person finalist round.

Here are the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award winners from AAS 247:

Graduate Award Winners

• April Barton (New Mexico State University)
• Bruce Ritter (Yerkes Observatory)
• Carly Brown (City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center)
• Eliza Frankel (University of Wyoming)
• Emily McPike (City University of New York (CUNY)  Graduate Center)
• Rafael Bertolotto (University of Arizona)
• Rohit Raj (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

Undergraduate Award Winners

• A. (AJ) Juarez (University of California, Berkeley)
• Aarna Garg (UCSC)
• Aster Winkler (Brown University)
• Avery Abramson (The University of Texas at Austin)
• Bailey Thompson (Rutgers University)
• Caitlin Begbie (University of California, Berkeley)
• Cathrine Sakin (Rochester Institute of Technology)
• Gurmeher Kathuria (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Isabelle Winnick (Pomona College)
• Jack Ray (United States Naval Academy)
• Mark Martinez (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Meshkat Alam (Bucknell University)
• Niha Das (Union College)
• Savannah Ruginski (Wheaton College MA)
• Sude Baltaci (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• Tooba Ansar (Amherst College)
• Yu-Ting Chang (Yale University)
• Zoe Hoiland (Vassar College)

Graduate Honorable Mentions

• Grace Sweetak (NASA GSFC/Lehigh)
• Katherine Gold (University of Arizona)
• Man-Yin Leo Lee (University of California, San Diego)
• Maya Seagraves (California Polytechnic State University)
• Ryan Brady (Stony Brook University)
• Sophia Ridolfo (Harvard University)

Undergraduate Honorable Mentions

• Blayne Griffin (University of Central Arkansas)
• David Fulcher (University of Florida Department of Astronomy)
• Henry Gray (American University)
• Holden Nix (UC Santa Cruz)
• Isabelle Connor (University of California Santa Cruz)
• Julia Rubalcava (Mount San Antonio College)
• Justin Mascari (University of California, San Diego)
• Liam Murphy (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Malena Bloom (UCLA)
• Maylin Chen (California Institute of Technology)
• Olivia Culbert (The University of Arizona)
• Simone Lilavois (Amherst College)
• Sureena Lakhanpal (University of California, Berkeley)
• Teddy Smith (University of Connecticut)
• Tristan King (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

Congratulations, all!

On behalf of the AAS, I would like to thank all of the many, many member volunteer judges who gave their time and care during the online and in-person judging. A special thank-you goes out to volunteers Mallory Conlon, Jameeka Marshall, Waylon Troyer, and Briley Lewis from the AAS Education Committee, who were of critical help in coordinating the poster competition. All of your help was needed to ensure a successful poster competition.

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