KCUS Recipients

Meet the 2025 Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars.

2025 knight campus undergraduate scholars

Pearstin Confenti

Mentor: Monique Demuth

Lab: Teresa Rapp

Sarah Culver

Mentor: Baila Shakaib

Lab: Bala Ambati

Isabela Espino-Marquez

Mentor: Corey Wadlsey

Lab: Ian Greenhouse

Ella Fliesler

Mentor: Patrick Orve

Lab: Karen Guillemin

Caroline Foskett

Mentor: Malvika Singhal

Lab: Marian Hettiaratchi

Lily Francis

Mentor: Nicole Kurhanewicz

Lab: Diana Libuda

Lia Godino

Mentor: Helia Megowan

Lab: Hans Dreyer

Armaan Hajarizadeh

Mentor: Justin Svendsen

Lab: Marian Hettiaratchi

Ester Kim

Mentor: Michael Silverstein

Lab: Ellen Peters

Daela Montgomery

Mentor: Hannah Wilson

Lab: Diana Libuda

Lucy Rose

Mentor: Lia Strait

Lab: Bob Guldberg

Mahathi Sridhar

Mentor: Helia Megowan

Lab: Hans Dreyer

Oyinkansola Tunji-Ogunsanya

Mentor: Felix Deku

Lab: Felix Deku

Garrow Whitefield

Mentor: Cameron Moore

Lab: Danielle Benoit

Kasey Ziegler

Mentor: Violet Baird

Lab: Ramesh Jasti

Vaani Bindal

Mentor: Hiro Uehara

Lab: Bala Ambati

John Abraham

Mentor: Dominique Granville

Lab: Nick Willett

Favour Foday

Mentor: Sanique South

Lab: Nick Willett

Jeana Moyer

Mentor: Diana Ostojich

Lab: Tim Gardner

Charlotte Olds

Mentor: Gabriella Lindberg

Lab: Lindberg

 

 

previous Scholars

Year

name

Mentor (Lab)

2019

Russell Nickels

Hazel Fargher (Johnson/Haley)

2019

Dan Tudorica

Arden Perkins (Guillemin)

2019

Emily Niebergall

Emily Beck (Cresko)

2019

Ian Torrence

Sean Fontenot (Darren Johnson)

2019

Michelle Hernandez

Kelly Hyland (Guldberg)

2019

Robin Black

Michelle Massaquoi (Guillemin)

2020

Nathan Stovall

Raina Krivina (Boettcher)

2020

Alina Salagean

Erik Toraason (Libuda)

2020

Haley Rice

Christine McDevitt (DeRose)

2020

David McNeely

Kelsey Schultz (Swann)

2020

Emily Ma

Catherine Robinson (Guillemin)

2020

Nora Kearns

Calin Plesa (Plesa)

2020

Jade Kast

Deepika Sundarraman (Parthasarathy)

2020

Cailan Feingold

Cori Cahoon (Libuda)

2020

Karly Fear

Salil Karipoot (Ong)

2021

Alonso Cruz

Parisa Hosseinzadeh

2021

Anna Garrison

Julia Fehr (Jasti)

2021

Colin Kuhns

Elizabeth Bearce (Grimes)

2021

Faith Longnight

Thaís de Faria (Darren Johnson)

2021

Holden Howard

Jeremy Bard (Haley)

2021

Ireland Johnson

Marian Hettiaratchi

2021

Isaiah Mills

Mitchell Fisher (Greenhouse)

2021

Mayurika Bhaskar

Bala Ambati

2021

Mikala Capage

David Garcia

2021

Philip Nosler

Nicole Kurhanewicz (Libuda)

2021

Sam Craig

Zoe Irons (Grimes)

2021

Yukiko Gaudreault

Osamu Iwasaki (Noma)

2022

Sanjana Basak

Hiro Uehara (Ambati)

2022

Benjamin Burress-Irving

Parisa Hosseinzadeh

2022

Amelia Dayton

Cori Cahoon (Libuda)

2022

Ethan Dinh

Genevieve Romanowicz (Guldberg)

2022

Sadie Holt

Christopher Chapman (Minson)

2022

William Jackson

Ethan Shaw (Garcia)

2022

Amanda Kurtz

Kelly O'Neill (Dalton)

2022

Jacob Lorenz

James May (Jasti)

2022

Lily Mozipo

Veronica Spaulding (Hettiaratchi)

2022

Serena Orsinger

Isaac Gomez (Greenhouse)

2022

Tulsi Patel

Salil Karipott (Ong)

2022

Carmen Resnick

Calin Plesa 

2022

Maisey Schering

Katie Fisher (Grimes)

2022

Trinity Straayer

Emily Sweeney (Guillemin)

2022

Micah Woods

Hope Healey (Cresko)

2022

Mindy Tran

Natanya Villegas (Plesa)

2023

Morrhyssey Benz

Jonathan Dorogin (Hettiaratchi)

2023

Peter Bouchard

Raghuveer Parthasarathy 

2023

Ale Caceres

Michelle Marneweck

2023

Keane Deas

Calin Plesa

2023

Bradley Dibble

Kelsey Schultz, Alex Rockhill (Swann)

2023

Walker Meyer

Shannon Snyder (Cresko)

2023

Zachary Pennel

Michael McGeehan (Ong)

2023

Spencer Siegel

DeShea Chasko (Lindberg)

2023

Max Tenenbaum

Felix Deku

2023

Waverly Wilson

Cass Gonzalez (Hosseinzadeh)

2023

Julia Woolf

Abigail Loftus (Garcia)

2023

Jadelyn Yep

Chris Chapman (Minson)

2023

Jenna Khachatourian

Alycia Galindo (Hettiaratchi)

2023

Marcus Mullen

Tayler Hebner (Benoit)

2023

Megan Adamec

Salil Karipott (Ong)

2023

Payton Jefferis

Chandler Asnes (Hettiaratchi)

2023

Margaret Trail

Genny Romanowicz (Guldberg)

2023

Alexandra Aeschliman

Guilherme Rocha (Benoit)

2023

Dora Ho

Malley Gautreaux (Lindberg)

2024

Lucas Bambaren

Salil Karipott (Ong)

2024

Camilla Der

Kaylee Meyers (Ong)

2024

Madeleine Ford

Justin Svendsen (Hettiaratchi)

2024

Oliver Loreto

Calin Plesa (Plesa)

2024

Esmee Fuller

Nataliia Shchotkina (Lindberg)

2024

Auveen Hajarizadeh

Kylie Williams (Guldberg)

2024

Luca Lippert

Calin Plesa (Plesa)

2024

Jack Woolf

Scott Stewart (Stankunas)

2024

Nikhar Ramlakhan

Kaitlyn Werner (Berkman)

2024

Georgia Van der Linden

Kelly O'Neill (Dalton)

2024

Sarah Young

Matt Hofmann (Lindberg)

2024

Cinthia Muñiz Sanchez

Apoorva Karekal (Swann)

2024

Sophie Biegel 

Phillip Hernandez (Benoit)

2024

Brock Cottle

Tim Wheeler (Lindberg)

2024

Zach Elliott

Annie Zemper (Zemper)

2024

Kaitlyn Augienello 

Hans Dreyer (Dreyer)

2024

Alayna Huque

Madeline Martin (Hettiaratchi)

2024

Luke Rethwill

John O'Hara-Smith (Grimes)

2024

Liliana Escobedo

Sangeetha Ravi Kumar (Ambati)

2024

Haley-Mae Lohf

Felix Deku (Deku)

2024

Tanner Rozendal

Kevin Zumwalt (McCormick)