2018
Jonah Donnenfield: "Photometric Follow-up of Transiting Planet Candidates: Optimization, Automation, and Data Reduction"
Bethlee Lindor: "Model-Based Light Curve Analysis"
Annie Yang: "Creation from Clay"
2017
Dora Chen: "Methane on Mars"
Daniel Echeverri: "Design of a Closed-Loop Feedback System for Testing and Prototyping New Deformable Mirror Technologies"
Alexander Singleton: "A Search for Exo-Moons in the Kepler Data via the Orbital Sampling Effect"
2016
Garrett Gosse: "Engineering Increased Tolerance in S. cerevisiae through Efflux Pump Addition"
Collin Edwards: "Mining Metagenomic Data to Understand the Lifestyle of Atmospheric Methane Oxidizing Bacteria in Antarctic Surface Soil"
Ysa Esquilin: "Artificial chromosomes in the ciliate Oxytricha"
Alexander Gow: "Resilience of Life on Earth: An example from a Tropical Dry Forest"
Maggie Thompson: "A Model for Astrometric Detection and Characterization of Multi-Exoplanet Systems"
2015
Nicole Loncke: "Are These Really Exoplanets? A Variability Survey of HAT Objects Near Kepler Objects of Interest"
Alexandra Pleus: "The Effects of Spectral Resolution in Detecting Oxygen in Earth-like Exoplanets"
Preston Kemeny: "Dual Nitrate Isotopic Results from the 2014 CLIVAR P16S Cruise with Applications to Planetary Habitability"
Cody O'Neil: "Lebensart: A Nietzschean Reading of Otherworldly Life"
2014
Tess Bernhard: "Functional Diversity and Environmental Sensitivity in an RNA World"
Max Rubin: "Discovering and Modeling New Planetary and Stellar Orbits"
Caitlin Kossman: "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Analogy and Habitability"
Greta Shum: "The Alien Mind: Aufhebung in the Search for Life and Utopia"
2013
Ololade Saliu: "Luca and membrane-associated energy production."
Gabe Eggers: "A regionalized maximum likelihood estimation of the spatial structure of Venus' topography"
Greta Shum: "Let's Pretend: Astrobiology in Pre-Newtonian Literature"
Jianxiao "Jimmy" Lu: "Image Extraction Software for the Coronographic High-Angular Resolution Imaging Spectrograph"
Wesley Verne: "A Command-Line Program for Modeling Solid Exoplanets"
2012
Rachael Alexandroff: "Discovery of High Redshift Obscured Quasars in SDSS-III and Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Follow-Up"
Margaret Shaw: "A Novel Thrust Measurement Method For Plasma Rockets With Magnetic Nozzles"
2011
Jared Crooks: "Reassessments of the Late Heavy Bombardment"
Heather Stiles: "Genes in Pieces: Vestiges of the Past"
Henry Chu: "Non-Redundant Aperture Masking"
Melissa Ilardo: "The Origin and Evolution of the Genetic Code"