Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize

2024

Connor Jennings (Undergraduate) (Astronomy & Physics)
Rav Kaur (Undergraduate) (Astronomy & Music)

2023

Fira Fatmasiefa (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2022

Kush Maheshwari (Undergraduate) (Astronomy & Applied Mathematics)

2021

Michael Jennings (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2020

Zoie Telkamp (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2019

Melissa S. Carlson (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

Costas Q. Soler (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2018

Ben Jeffers (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)
Timothy “Willie” Ross (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2017

Imad Pasha (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2016

Kevin Hayakawa (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)

2015

Brianna Michelle Grado-White

2014

Caleb Levy (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)
Caleb will be graduating in Fall 2014 and will apply to graduate school for Mathematics–functional analysis. Caleb is a double major in Astrophysics and Applied Math. He’s currently engaged in research with Phillip Marcus, a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Last summer he worked on a project to figure out how energy flows in protoplanetary disks using ray tracing.

Rea Kolbl (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)
Rea will be attending Stanford University in the fall for Applied Physics, researching condensed matter. Rea is a double major in Astrophysics and Physics, and is engaged in research with Geoff Marcy. Rea has created a sophisticated spectroscopic technique that detects unseen neighboring stars near a much brighter primary star. She discovered over 60 binary stars in the Kepler database.

2013

Andrew Vanderburg (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)
Andrew was recipient of the 2013 Dorothea Klumpke Roberts prize. As an astronomy student at Berkeley, Vanderburg’s research ranged from improving the precision of radial velocity measurements taken at Keck to using externally dispersed interferometry to measure high resolution infrared spectra. Andrew is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.

2012

Pierre Christian (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)
Pierre Christian was the 2012 recipient of the Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize for outstanding scholarly achievement by an upper-level undergraduate student. As an astronomy student at Berkeley, Christian studied the early-time infrared afterglow of GRBs using PAIRITEL, a robotic telescope located at Mt. Hopkins, AZ, and also conducted research on the cosmic microwave background. Christian is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.

2011

Marin Anderson (Undergraduate) (Astronomy)
In May 2011, Marin Anderson was chosen to receive the Dorothea Klumpke Award for outstanding scholarly achievement by an upper-level undergraduate student. She received this honor to recognize her research in the electrostatic discharge on Mars. Marin explains, “The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at the Hat Creek Observatory in California was used to monitor Mars over a period of approximately 3 months for radio emissions indicative of lightning discharge caused by Martian dust storms.” The results of this research were published in The Astrophysical Journal (“The Allen Telescope Array Search for Electrostatic Discharges on Mars”, ApJ, 744, 15,). Anderson worked on this project under the supervision of Astronomy professor Geoff Bower and Department Chair Imke de Pater, and alongside SETI Chief Scientist Dan Werthimer, and Graduate student Andrew Siemion. According to Bower, “Marin performed a very thorough analysis of a complex data set using a sophisticated array of analytical tools and then wrote a clear and engaging article presenting the results. This is one of the most impressive undergraduate research projects I have seen.”

More recently, Marin teamed up again with Bower to search for slow transients with archival ‘Very Large Array’ (VLA) data. Marin graduated in December 2011 with a double major in Astrophysics and Physics. She is continuing her research at Berkeley through the spring and summer of 2012 and hopes to attend graduate school in the fall.

2010

Erik Petigura (Graduate) (Astronomy)

2009

Katherine Michele Deck (Undergraduate)

2008

Megan Reiter (Undergraduate)
Andrew Siemion (Undergraduate)

2007

Sarah Ballard (Undergraduate)

2006

Matthew Alan Ferry (Undergraduate)

2005

Charlie Conroy (Undergraduate)
Mohan Ganeshalingam (Undergraduate)

2004

Dana Weinstein (Undergraduate)

2003

Amy Jordan (Undergraduate)
Eric Nielson (Undergraduate)
Lindsey Pollack (Undergraduate)

2002

Shinae Park (Undergraduate)

2001

Lindley Winslow (Undergraduate)

2000

Kevin Bundy (Undergraduate)
Megan Eckart (Undergraduate)
Maryam Modjaz (Undergraduate)

1999

Grigoriy Ushomirsky (Graduate)

1998

Tim Robishaw (Undergraduate)
Eli Sokolov (Undergraduate)

1997

Nathan Eric Lundblad (Undergraduate)

1996

Aaron Barth (Graduate)

1995

Robyn Millan (Undergraduate)
Amber Miller (Undergraduate)
Chien Peng (Undergraduate)

1994

Keivan Stassun (Undergraduate)

1993

Margaret Meixner (Graduate)

1992

Sean Bohaty
Peter Louch

1991

Eve Ostriker (Graduate)
David Wilner (Graduate)

1990

Teresa Rae Ho (Undergraduate)

1989

Julian Cummings (Undergraduate)

1988

David Edelsohn (Undergraduate)

1987

John Carlstrom (Graduate)
Patrick McCarthy (Graduate)

1986

Gary Fuller (Graduate)

1985

Richard Rand (Undergraduate)

1984

Joshua Roth (Undergraduate)

1983

Michael Strauss (Undergraduate)

1981

John Stauffer

1980

Alexander Markevich

1979

Nuria Calvet-Cuni
Gustavo Ramon Bruzual-Alfonzo

1978

Leslie Hunt