The J. E. Wallace Sterling Awardees
The J. E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement recognizes the top 25 graduating seniors in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences and their most influential secondary school teacher as well as most influential Stanford academic adviser, faculty, or staff member. The award is named after J. E. Wallace Sterling who served as Stanford University’s president from 1949 to 1968 and as chancellor until 1985.
2025 Sterling student awardees, secondary school teachers, and Stanford mentors
Christopher Badillo
Tina Cushnie
David Grusky
Thane Brueschke
Chris Smart
John Tennant
Quanlin Chen
Lihua Bao
Richard Taylor
Maria Valentina Chirinos Pena
Emily Chu
William Talbot
Jayson T. Guo
Jennifer Lauren Hamad
Brian McCafferty
Paul Wender
Olivia Louise Jessner
Laura Marion
Michele Elam
Mahina Priya Kaomea
Tayne Kim
Sean Deetlefs
Fan Yang
Gabriela Lipson
Sarah Aguilar
Tanna Drapkin
Jacqueline Liu
Matthew Henry
Camille Utterback
Novia Jichu Liu
Jen Sorenson
Jonathan Gienapp
Yuanlin Liu
Jin Chung
Yuliya Ilchuk
Andrei Mandelshtam
Alessandra Pantano
Brian Conrad
Ryan McJannet
Serene Williams
José Ignacio Cuesta
Declan Murphy Zink
Andrew Murgio
Mark Cappelli
Carson Murtuza-Lanier
Frank Mikan
Yakov Eliashberg
Sarah Reyes
Alicia Fleming
Zephyr Frank
Alison Rogers
Stephen Chu
Amy Freed
Aurora Roghair
Byron Butler
Shashank Joshi
Cary Sasso
Joel Garza
Michael Rau
Daniel Changxiao Sun
Jeff Rierson
Paul Phillips
Ty Toney
William Griffiths
Nick Troccoli
Rebecca Sabrina Trockel
Sarah-Jane Measor
Laura Carstensen
Marguerite Wong Vasy
Jim Chin
Fiona Griffiths
Yue Yang
Lixing Zong
Gregory Valiant
2024 Sterling student awardees, secondary school teachers, and Stanford mentors
George Altshuler
James Funnell
Marsh McCall
Angelina G. Chan
Tameka Carter-Richardson
Gavin Sherlock
Tanner Christensen
Carla Lever
Reza Rezvani
Fiona Clunan
Scott McGraw
Marsh McCall
Emma Cruz
Lee Mirsky
Irene Gardner
Audrey Elizabeth DaDamio
Amanda McDonald
Dominique Bergmann
Leila Bronnert DeSchepper
Dorothy Jones
Michael Richard Howitt
Niles Egan
Christopher Klein
Gabriel Wolfenstein
Cameron Ehsan
Roselyne Pilaar
Ashby Morrison
Meredith Fenyo
Eugenia McCauley
Michael Simon
Jacqueline Lee Fong
Ryan O'Donnell
Bob Sutton
Jake Hofgard
Karen Nieb
Jonathan Luk
Zehan Hu
Bin Yang
Eleny Ionel
Sidhart Krishnan
Julie Montgomery
Brian Conrad
Robert Miles McCain
Claire Morton
Brandon Nydick
Thomas Jundt
Ruth Starkman
Tobey Shim
Dee Mecham
Chris Makler
Sonja R. Stevenson
Diana Bass
Dafna Zur
Alexander Sun
Cara Clark
Patricia Burchat
Tirth Surti
Stephen Miller
Roger Romani
Lucy Kross Wallace
Nora Ming-Min Yang
Diana Sieker
Katherine Preston
Styopa Zharkov
Kathryn Estabrook
Li-Yang Tan
Serena Zhou
James Bradley Faus
Hank Greely
Julia Zhu
J. Megan Paulson
Zhi-Xun Shen
2023 Sterling student awardees, secondary school teachers, and Stanford mentors
EstefanÍa Acuña Lacarieri
Mario Andrés Covarrubias Martínez
R. B. Brenner
Hannah Yasin Ashai
Faizuddin Ahmed
Megan Formato
Caroline Choi
Laffite Lamberto-Egan
Chelsea Finn
Benjamin D. Hu
Ashby Morrison
Arman Kassam
William Gray Rushin
Kären Wigen
Phillip Kim
Praneeth Kolichala
Catherine Francisse
Fredrik Kjolstad
Wenqi Li
Zhenjiang Yuan
Daniel Bump
Brandon Ma
David Clarke
Christopher Makler
Gautam Manohar
Adam Brown
Otis Chodosh
Kaile Maske
Jason H. Swango
Stephen Sano
Claudia Nmai
Kristen Foerster
Matthew Clair
Sofia Analise Portillo
Maria Di Antonio
Vivian Brates
Alicia Purpur
Johanna van der Hulst
Katrin Wheeler
Alexandra Jane Riklin
Thania Troya
Alexander Key
Joey Rivkin
Peter J. J. Anderson
Mutallip Anwar
Kayla Ryan
Elizabeth Twitchell
Hayden Kantor
Riya Sankhe
Sukannya Khan
Mykel J. Kochenderfer
Andrew Ju Young Song
Rey Lejano
Annette Salmeen
Kellen Vu
Elizabeth Margaret Beatty Clark
Sriram Jayabal
David Wendt
Jodie Spinale
Roger Romani
Allie Westley
Ned Pinger
Lianne Kurina
Katherine Yoon
Lynelle Harding
Soh Kim
Allison Zhang
Glenn Mangold
Rahul Sinha
Yifan Zhu
Juhua Song
John Pauly
2022 Sterling student awardees, secondary school teachers, and Stanford mentors
Jonathan Morad Artal
Minna S. Kim
H. Craig Heller
Didier Natalizi Baldi
Elena Saletti
Christopher B. Krebs
Forrest Dollins
Phillip E. Hohensee
Alia Crum
Alexander William Donovan
Alan N. Begrowicz
Kannan Soundararajan
Katerina Fong
Jordan Brown
Marci Kwon
Bryanna Ogochukwu Godfrey
Dema Deslaurier
Paul Fisher
Brian Grenadier
Steven Press
Calvin Ryan Hansen
Yijue Sun
Noan Burns
Jerry Hong
Dr. Suzanne B. Antink
David Kelley
Yutong Hou
Paul Chiarenza
Marci Kwon
William Grayle Howlett
Mark A. Smith
Judith Goldstein
Yuzu Marie-Christine Ido
Susan A. Holtzapple
Fred Weldy
Christopher Sanjeev Iyer
Marei Kane
Anthony Wagner
Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu
Berna Tufekcioglu
Patricia Burchat
Kendall Matsumoto
Chloe Beizer
Jonathan Rosa
Kazuki Mogi
David Finlay Speirs
Brian Conrad
Olivia Morello
Andrew F. Dickson
Gil-li Vardi
Polly Moser
Jessica Pan Landi
Russell Poldrack
Sophia Claire Palocz
Angela A. Lee
David Henderson
Asha Ravi
Peggy O'Leary
John Barton
Julian Rove
Peter Herreshoff
Patrick Hayden
Ethan Schonfeld
Mark Lewis
Dr. Anand Veeravagu
Araya Sornwanee
Zuming Feng
Huazhi Wang
Laura Tobar
Dr. Patrick Beasom
Gabriella Harari
Jinhui Wang
Qian Wang
Steven Chu
Syd Westley
Livingston Miller
Alexander Key
Nadav S. Ziv
Kenneth J. Barrett
Sam Wineburg
2021 Sterling student awardees, secondary school teachers, and Stanford mentors
Kai-Siang Ang
Pauline Pascali
Rafe Mazzeo
Kartik Chandra
Joshua Paley
Gregory Valiant
Emma Clark
Paitra Houts
Kyle Duchynski
Lisa Zavieh
Roz Naylor
Julia Gong
Vic Herrera
Serena Yeung
Sierra Ha
Alexandra Perdew-Bhatt
Anthony Oro
Amy Kanne
Christian Vivo
Mary Wootters
Rishabh Kapoor
Sherri Smith
Jan Skotheim
Michaela Keefe
Lisa Blaydes
Thomas Knowles
Jane Sillery
Li-Yang tan
Eric Liu
Martin Braik
Ashby Morrison
Joseph Noh
Charles Bissell
Patricia Jones
Christian Nunez
Lauren Tompkins
Ayesha Pasha
Kathryn Olivarius
Charlotte Peale
Norman Prokup
Omer Reingold
Lejla Pepic
Michael McCullough
Susan McConnell
Julia Rathmann-Bloch
Anthony Wagner
Jonah Reidel
Mark Hoffman
Megumi Sano
Amal Hirani
Daniel Yamins
Ho Kyung Sung
Mingqian Tan
Eleanor Campbell
Francois Rose
Peter Thomas
John Kessler
David Como
Angeline Truong
Cynthia Nguyen
Kenneth Wang
Emiko Yasumoto
Hanzhi Zheng
George Papanicolaou
2020 Sterling student awardees, secondary school teachers, and Stanford mentors
Amir Abou-Jaoude
Jody Maxmin
Emily Arbuthnott
Gregory Rosston
Michelle Chang
Rebecca Chai
Alia Crum
Abby Chen
Helen Hollis
Peter Kao
Hannah Choi
Jonathan Berger
Sylvia Choo
Deborah Costello
Marsh McCall
Lizzie Frankel
Catarina Alme
Alice Petty
Jiamin Huang
Andrew Kittrell
Jo Wong
Rena Jiang
Jie Li
Maddie Kim
Grace Hamilton
Roanne Kantor
Jae Hee Lee
Hyunuk Chung
András Vasy
Jackie Li
Mark Duggan
Andrew Lokay
Marie-Pierre Ulloa
Keith Nobbs
Harry Shifman
Paulla Ebron
Nicolas Poux
Kathy Ho
Rahul Sinha
Olivia Shields
Lili Malabed
Jennifer Eberhardt
Eliza Van Wye
Kathryn Garrison
Steven Roberts
Ravi Harinder Veriah Jacques
Maciej Rakowski
Kathryn Olivarius
Please note that not all secondary teacher names are included in this list.
