2026 Alumni Award Winners
Distinguished Alumni Award
John Collier ’59
The 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes Collier's pioneering contributions to microbiology, including solving the three-dimensional structures of diphtheria and anthrax toxin proteins to establish a foundational understanding of how bacterial toxins cross host cell membranes.
Recent Alumni Award
Nick Ryder ’14
The 2026 Recent Alumni Award recognizes Ryder's early-career achievements at the interface of mathematics and machine learning, including his role as a co-first author of the landmark GPT-3 paper that demonstrated how massive scaling could unlock emergent, general-purpose capabilities in artificial intelligence.
Read the full announcement of the 2026 Alumni Award Winners
Previous Alumni Award Winners
2025
Distinguished Alumni Awards: Michael Jung ’69 and Wilfred van der Donk ’94
Recent Alumni Award: Aparna Bhaduri ’10
2025 Alumni Award Winners Announcement
2024
Distinguished Alumni Award: Martha Lou Broussard ’57
Recent Alumni Award: Onja Razafindratsima ’15
2024 Inaugural Alumni Award Winners Announcement