Award Competitions

Chair: Cora Best, PhD, MHS, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

Finalist: Yasmine Y. Bouzid, BS (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis

Finalist: Carlota Castro-Espin, MSc, PhD student – Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL)

Finalist: Samantha N. Fessler, MS – Arizona State University

Finalist: Xuan-Mai T. Nguyen, MS4 (she/her/hers) – Carle Illinois College of Medicine

Finalist: Laura M. Rosok, BS, BM (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Andrea Charvet, PhD, RD, LDN – Nova Southeastern University

Chair: Lauren E. O'Connor, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Finalist: Mihaela A. Ciulei, PhD, MS (she/her/hers) – The Pennsylvania State University

Finalist: Min-Hyun Kim, PhD (he/him/his) – Arizona State University

Finalist: Derek C. Miketinas, PhD, RDN – Texas Woman's University

Finalist: Chrissa Petersen, PhD., RDN – Idaho State University

Finalist: Erica L. Phillips, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair: Julie M. Hess, PhD (she/her/hers) – ARS, USDA

Finalist: Catherine C. Cohen, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Denver

Finalist: Emily B. Hill, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Finalist: Jules A. Larke, PhD – USDA-ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center

Finalist: Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Peko Tsuji, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Towson University

Finalist: Shanvanth Rayal Arnipalli, Bachelors of Science (he/him/his) – The Ohio State University

Finalist: Alessandra D. Sommer, BS (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

Finalist: Gabrielle Magdalena E. Tan, BS (she/her/hers) – Benedictine University

Finalist: Luz Selena Villa Robles, Student – University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Finalist: Carmen Annevelink, BA – The Pennsylvania State University

Finalist: Linh P. Bui, MPH (she/her/hers) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Finalist: Yifei Kang, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Finalist: Marjorie Anne A. Layosa, MS – Purdue University

Finalist: Fernanda Morales Berstein, MSc – University of Bristol

Finalist: Shya Navazesh (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis

Finalist: Anna Ogilvie, RDN (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University

Finalist: Devendra Paudel, MS – The Pennsylvania State University

Finalist: Dorothy K. Superdock, BA – Cornell University

Chair: Peko Tsuji, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Towson University

Finalist: Olugbenga T. Balogun, Master's Degree – North Carolina A&T State University

Finalist: Alexa Barad, MS, RD – Cornell University

Finalist: Janine Comrie, BA (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Finalist: Karen A. Corleto, MS – Nutrition Department, Texas A&M University

Finalist: Jose Antonio Haro Reyes (he/him/his) – Purdue University

Finalist: Edward Moncada – Purdue University

Chair: Andrea Charvet, PhD, RD, LDN – Nova Southeastern University

Chair: Lauren E. O'Connor, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Finalist: Sulagna Bandyopadhyay, PhD (she/her/hers) – Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Finalist: Daniel B. Ibsen, PhD – Department of Public Health, Aarhus University

Finalist: Manoel Lixandrao, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Finalist: Caleigh Sawicki, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Finalist: Christina M. Sciarrillo, PhD, RD – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease

Finalist: Anne-Julie Tessier, RD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Chair: Lynn E. Ferro, BS – University of Delaware

Chair: Heather Schier, MS – The Ohio State University

Finalist: Zhe Fang, MBBS, MS (she/her/hers) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Finalist: Mariana Fagundes Grilo, MPH – George Washington University

Finalist: Katelyn E. Senkus, MS – The University of Alabama

Finalist: Chin May Teoh, MS (she/her/hers) – Texas State University

Finalist: Longgang Zhao, MBBS, MSc – University of South Carolina