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The latest Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award 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 245th AAS meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, in January 2025. These students participated in a Chambliss Student Poster Competition, which has been significantly revised in the past year to include a two-stage process.

Here are the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award winners from AAS 245:

Graduate Award Winners

• Alec Martin (University of Missouri)
• Karina Kimani-Stewart (Georgia State University)
• Krystal Ruiz-Rocha (Vanderbilt University)
• Nissia Indradjaja (San Diego State University)
• Sarah Taft (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Undergraduate Award Winners

• Abigail Bohl (Cornell University)
• Anissa Pokorny-Yadav (University of California, Berkeley)
• Camille Chiu (Yale University)
• Evan Carrasco (University of California Santa Cruz)
• Giovanni Gollotti (University of Washington)
• Jessica Cotturone (Augustana College)
• Juliana Karp (Yale University)
• Kunal Mehta (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Leonid Sajkov (Tufts University)
• Madalyn Chapleski (University of Virginia)
• Marylin Loritsch (University of California, San Diego)
• Meghan Sedberry (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
• Meir Schochet (University of Florida)
• Nathan Shaw (Truman State University)
• Nhi Doan (Pomona College)
• Nora Salem (Haverford College)
• Paige Keating (University of Texas, Austin)
• Rosalie Williams (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona)
• Savaria Parrish (Virginia Tech)
• Tianxing Zhou (University of California, San Diego)

Graduate Honorable Mentions

• Anna-Sophia Mehta (University of Georgia)
• Hadrien Paugnat (UCLA)
• Jerome Seebeck (University of Maryland, College Park)
• Melodie Sloneker (Georgia State University)
• Phoebe Sandhaus (Pennsylvania State University)
• Zachary Andalman (Princeton University)

Undergraduate Honorable Mentions

• Camila Martinez (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Fiona Redmen (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
• Isabella Olin (University of Arizona)
• Kaitlyn Chen (Harvey Mudd College)
• Luis Otero (Lycoming College)
• Melanie Santiago (Haverford College)
• Noah Stiegler (Tufts University)
• Tessa Pearlstein (Haverford College)

Congratulations, all!

On behalf of our Society and all of the students who entered the AAS 245 Chambliss Student Poster Competition, I would like to thank the AAS Executive Office staff and all of the many, many member volunteer judges. A special thank-you goes out to volunteers Justine Schaen, Mallory Conlon, Charles Law, and Meredith MacGregor from the AAS Education Committee, who were of critical help in coordinating the poster competition. It is all of you who helped to make this very important competition such a big success!

Photographs from the Chambliss poster presentations at the meeting may be viewed in this photo gallery.