Honors and Prizes


Students who maintain a 3.2 average in major and major-related subjects receive their BA with honors in this major. Four prizes, the Chairman's Award, the John C. Makris Award, the Helix Prize, and the Founder's Prize, are awarded each year for outstanding academic and research performance to graduating seniors. The actual award for the Founder's Prize is a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Penn's founder, printed by the US Treasury.

The distinction of Dean's Scholar is the highest awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences.


BIOCHEMISTRY AWARDS & ACADEMIC HONORS
1986-present

Biochemistry Program
  Chairman's Helix
 Makris Flagbearer Founder's Prize
2007 Jessica Dweck Maxwell Elia
Tara Kaufmann		 Jue J. Liu Kavita Vakharia Jason Reminick
2006
 Lauren Zeitels
 Elizabeth Gurney
 Lauren V. Tang
 Jonathan Ghergurovich
 Jason Beiger
2005
 Peera Jaru-Ampornpan
 Alice G. Cheng
Sun H. Chung
 Michael J. Farias
 Sahand Jamal Rahi
 Peera Jaru-Ampornpan
2004 Beth Bennet
Jordana Goren
 Shana Gilbert-Gregory
Lena Winestone
 Lauren Barr
Vikram Pattanayak
 Keunyoung Julie You
 Beth Bennett
2003 Laura Chang Beth Bennet
Lauren Barr		 Anup Sharma Stephen Khov Michelle Robbins

2002

 Nausheen Jamal Kathy Vernovsky
Angela Hsu
Beth Bennett		 Vijay G. Sankaran Amanda Jagolino Vijay G. Sankaran
2001 David A. Wilson
Anastasia Wyce		 Kathy Vernovsky Caroline L. Sokol Krysia Szymczyk Ruth Foreman
2000

Eric Klein
Biana Litrovnik

Kristina Herbert
Kalpesh Vakharia

 Andrew Venteicher Michael Park Kristina Herbert
1999 Thomas Pologruto Kristina Herbert
Samia Siddiqui		 Deepak Sampathu Lois Ahn Amanda Lukens
1998 Brian Stanga Joseph Markowitz
Thomas Pologruto		 Monica Stein Jiyeon Shin  
1997 Michael Zeltkevic Mital Sheth
Samantha Zeitlin		 Jacob Jaffe Eleni Akritidis  
1996 Jeffrey Han Dora M. Liu
Michael Zeltkevic		 Anne Chapas Un Ah Cho  
1995 Masako Matsumoto Andrej Luptak Stefan Siwko Barry Lubarsky  
1994 Kenneth Levin Yi-Chen Lai Deon Wolpowitz    
1993 Howard Hong Yi-Chen Lai Henry Wu    
1992 Iris Zamir Jennifer Gesell      
1991 David I. Kuttler Diana M. Pancu      
1990 Joseph A. Ippolito Amy Pickar      
1989 S.E. Zgleszewski Daniel L. Minor      
1988 Steven M. Pustinik Elizabeth A. Tarka      
1987 David S. Greenstein Gary M. Phillips      
1986 Jeffrey I. Goldstein Curtis R. Altmann      


Biochemistry Program Dean's Scholars

 Current Affiliation

2007
Jessica Dweck
Benjamin Stinson

2006
Elizabeth Gurney, '06
Steven Hershman, '08
Tara Kaufmann, '07

2005
Jason Beiger, '06
Laura Cappelli, '06

2004
Lauren Barr, '04
Jonathan Bronson, '05
Lauren Zeitels, '06

2003
Laura Chang, '03
Peera Jaru-Ampornpan, '03

2002
Rodrigo Guerra, '03
Vijay Sankaran, '02

2001
Michelle Robbins, '03
Kathy Vernovsky, '02

2000
Joshua Gruber '02
Kristina Herbert, '00


PhD Program, Caltech, Chemistry
Penn Junior


MD Program, NYU
Penn Junior
MD/PhD Program, UCSF


PhD Program, Harvard, Chem/Chemical Biology
MD Program, Johns Hopkins


MD/PhD Program, Harvard/MIT
PhD Program, Columbia, Chemistry
Gates Scholar, Cambridge, UK


MD Program, Penn
PhD Program, Caltech, Biochemistry/Biophysics


PhD Program, Harvard, Physics
MD/PhD Program, Harvard/MIT


PhD Program, Caltech, Chemistry
PhD Program, Harvard, Cell/Molecular Biology


MD/PhD Program, Penn
PhD Program (HHMI predoc), Stanford, Biophysics


biochemistry@sas.upenn.edu
College Biochemistry Program