A roll-call of this year’s Excellence in Teaching, EAPS Undergraduate Achievement, Crosby, and Goetze Award recipients, as well as winners of the School of Science Irwin Sizer Award. These awards were presented on May 29, during the EAPS Commencement Celebration Reception.
The Irwin Sizer Award
Presented by the School of Science, the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education is given out annually by the MIT Graduate Student Council. This year’s winners were recognized for their efforts in creating a unique graduate-centered and led program teaching computational programming skills through Carpentries@MIT.
- Angela Serafini
- Jo Hickman
- Juana De La O* (Department of Biology)
The W.O. Crosby Award for Sustained Excellence
In recognition of achievement, both academic and intellectual, as well as general contributions to the Department.
Awarded to: Kaylee Barrera ’26
The Christopher Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research
In recognition of innovative experimental design, care in data collection, and sensitive application of results to research problems.
Awarded to: Vidya Ranjan ’26
The EAPS Undergraduate Achievement Award
In recognition of a junior from across the EAPS disciplines who has distinguished themselves through a combination of high GPA, focused course work, and leadership within EAPS.
Awarded to: Rita Braun ’27
The Award for Excellence in Teaching
In recognition of undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistants in EAPS who have been selected by faculty and students to have met the highest levels of performance.
- Emily Mailhot*
- Eric Roy*
— [G] denotes graduate student
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