Congratulations to the AAS 242 Chambliss Student Award Winners

The latest Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards poster competition was a success, and we at the AAS are excited to announce the winners of the competition! The following winners presented their posters at the 242nd AAS meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in June 2023. The competition is only possible because of the hard work of our many judges, so if you haven't signed up to judge student posters in the past (or in a while), I encourage you to do so in the future. Your next opportunity will be at the 243rd AAS meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, in January 2024.

Here are the Chambliss award winners from Albuquerque:

Graduate Student Chambliss Award Winners

• Shaniya Jarrett (Vanderbilt University)
• Emily Ramey (University of California, Berkeley)

Undergraduate Student Chambliss Award Winners

• Biviana Oseguera (University of California, Merced)
• Sophie Clark (University of Florida)

The following graduate and undergraduate students received an Honorable Mention in the Chambliss competition.

Honorable Mentions – Graduate

• Mark Suffak (University of Western Ontario)
• Tyler Cohen (New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology)
• Abigail Holmes (University of Notre Dame)
• Vrutant Mehta (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
• Jessica Schonhut-Stasik (Vanderbilt University)

Honorable Mentions – Undergraduate

• Aisling Acuna (California State Polytechnic University - Pomona)
• Joseph Ozgar (United States Naval Academy)
• Naomi Fissehaye (Columbia University)
• Sally Jiang (Yale University)
• Sophie Robbins (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Thomas Li (University of California, Irvine)

Congratulations, all!

On behalf of our Society and all of the students who entered the AAS 242 Chambliss competition, I would like to thank the AAS Executive Office staff and all of the many, many member volunteer judges. It is all of you who help to make this very important competition such a big success! Especial thanks to Dennis Just, Tania Anderson, Kayla Stephens, and Andrew Zeidell for supporting the on-the-ground logistics of the poster competition.

Here are our AAS 242 Chambliss Judges* — thank them when you see them next:

Karen Masters, William Waller, Jack Gabel, David Stark, Gene Milone, Kavitha Arur, Brad Barlow, Rodolfo Barniol Duran, Jennifer Bartlett, Andrea Bellini, Edmund Bertschinger, Justice Bruursema, Susana Deustua, Alexander Dittmann, Jayce Dowell, Courtney Dressing, Roman Gerasimov, Norman Grogin, Kevin Hainline, Zachary Hartman, Nimish Hathi, Paul Hertz, Eric Hintz, Wei-Chun Jao, Patrick Kamieneski, Lancelot Kao, Randolf Klein, Patricia Knezek, James Lowenthal, Lucas Macri, Herman Marshall, Katherine Merrell, Edward Montiel, Sarah Morrison, Ryan Norris, Phill Reed, Emily Rickman, Ben Rose, Martha Irene Saladino, Ronald Samec, Savin Shynu Varghese, Jennifer Sobeck, Angela Speck, James Taylor, Malinda Suzanne Taylor, Anjali Tripathi, Ethan Vishniac, William Waalkes, Katarina Yocum, Ka Ho Yuen, and Michael Zemcov.

*If you identify any omissions or errors, please email me any corrections.