The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is pleased and honored to announce the 2022 awards for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in teaching, mentorship, DEIJ, academics, and research. We congratulate and thank these individuals who have contributed exceptionally to the academic and intellectual life of our department.

Faculty Awards 

• BCS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising: Nancy Kanwisher
• BCS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: Fan Wang
• BCS Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching: Rebecca Saxe
• BCS Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring: Fan Wang
• BCS Postdoc Award to an Outstanding Postdoctoral Mentor: Ev Fedorenko

BCS DEIJ Impact Awards

New this year, the BCS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Impact Awards are given to individuals exhibiting exemplary leadership in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in Building 46. The inaugural recipients of this award are:

• Cecilia Pelligrini
• Francisco Garcia
• Cathy Wong
• Junyi Chu
• Annie Cardinaux
• Danielle Cosio
• Michael Happ
• Lupe Cruz
• Hector De Jesus-Cortes
• Anna Ivanova
• Omar Rutledge 

Teaching Assistant Awards

Angus MacDonald Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching:

• Leyla Akay
• Victoria Beja-Glasser
• Gabi Drummond
• Max Heinrich
• Kristine Hocker
• Di Kang
• Maddie Leet
• Raul Mojica-Alburs
• Yizhi Wang
• Nick Watters

Walle Nauta Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching:

• Jarrod Hicks
• Aida Piccato
• Juan Santoyo
• Charlie Shvartsman
• Sadie Zacharek

Walle Nauta Award for Continuing Dedication to Teaching by a Graduate Student:

• Mika Braginsky 

Undergraduate Academic Awards (4.9 GPA or higher)

Juniors:

• Reese Alley
• Ronald Alvarez
• Elizabeth Carbonell
• Curtis Chen
• Alexis Cho
• Edmund Corcoran
• Nicole Dundas
• Sean Elliot
• Kathleen Esfahany
• Marie Diane Fadel
• Jiahai Feng
• Teresa Gao
• Jessica Han
• Nelson Hidalgo Julia
• Stephanie Howe
• Raphi Kang
• Sean Knight
• Eli Kramer
• Shelby Laitipaya
• Elizabeth Lee
• Darren Lim
• Gabrielle Liu
• Katie Lu
• Annika Magaro
• Catherine Mei
• Ilan Mitnikov
• Thomas Ngo
• Anita Podrug
• McKinley Polen
• Shreyaa Raghavan
• Shruti Ravikumar
• Shaunticlair Ruiz
• Bezawit Suhile
• Alessandre Santos Sagustume
• Akila Saravanan
• Eren Shin
• Miles Silva
• David Ulloa
• Alyssa Unell
• Nico van Wijk
• Kayla Villa
• Brigette Wang
• Mingye Wang
• Liane Xu

Seniors:

• Sylvia Cho
• Theodor Cucu
• Sophia Diggs-Galligan
• Benjamin Dwyer
• Michelle He
• Kristine Hocker
• Emily Huang
• Bhav Jain
• Dana McCormack
• Keith Murray
• Eileen Pan
• Hayley Popiel
• Luyao Tian
• Olivia Valle

Undergraduate Research Awards

• Alex Abate
• Caroline Bao 
• Cesar Duran
• Crista Falk
• Michelle Hung
• Dana McCormack
• Shreya Pandit
• Simon Radhakrishnan
• Somaia Saba
• Keith Skaggs
• Grace Song
• Yizhi Wang

 
Invited to Xi Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa

• Maggie Chen
• Michelle He
• Rucha Kelkar

 
Congratulations once again to all award recipients!