2025-26 Hellman Fellows
| Name | Department | Hellman Fellowship Research Title |
| Runzi Wang | Human Ecology | Investigating How Residential Planting Design and Fertilizer Application Affect Urban Stormwater Nitrogen Pollution from a Socio Ecological Framework |
| Laura Bogar | Plant Biology | Untangling symbiotic networks with CRISPR for a root-associated fungus |
| Matthew Citron | Physics | A FLAME to light the dark universe |
| Daniela Gutierrez-Flores | Spanish and Portuguese | A Century of Cooks: The Birth of Modern Cooking and the Making of the Spanish Empire |
| Hanno Hilbig | Political Science | The Political Consequences of AI-Driven Labor Market Change: A Comparative Study |
| Ava L.J. Kim | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies | Still/Life: Trans Genre and the Politics of Anti-Development |
| Soojong Kim | Communication | Global Flow of Misinformation on Public Health and Environmental Threats |
| Junxian Li | Mathematics | Diophatine Equations in Few Variables |
| Ariel Mosley | Psychology | Diversity Ideologies on Perceptions of Cultural Appropriation in Interracial Interactions |
| Andre Naffis-Sahely | French and Italian | The Refugees of Happiness: How "Gross National Happiness" Feeds Global Statelessness |
| Akshita Sivakumar | Design | Design for Accountability: Responsible AI in Environmental Governance |
2024-25 Hellman Fellows
| Name | Department | Hellman Fellowship Research Title |
|---|---|---|
| Akua Banful | English | Constructing the Tropics: Empire and Discourses of Climate |
| Emorie Beck | Psychology | Social and Cognitive Health Dynamics as Digital Risk Biomarkers of ADRD |
| Anya Brown | Evolution & Ecology | Can Microbial Sharing Enhance Host Survival? |
| Hyoyoung Jeong | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Closed-Loop Wireless System for Autonomous Seizure Monitoring and Mitigation |
| Imtiyaz Khanday | Plant Sciences | Investigating Seed Development in Cereal Crops |
| Veronica Lerma | Sociology | Criminalizing Chicanas: Intersectional Criminalization and Resistance in California’s Prison Alley |
| Maria Maldonado | Plant Biology | Understanding Kelp Photosynthesis To Develop Better Carbon Fixation Strategies |
| Tanuja Mishra | Design | Design Bots ‘N’ Beings: Democratizing Access to Open-Source AI Technologies |
| Alicia Rusoja | Education | The Educational Experiences of Venezuelan Immigrants in Northern California |
| Xiao Hui Tai | Statistics | Armed Conflict and Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa |
| Shingirai Taodzera | African American & African Studies | Resourceful African Kingdoms |
| Kathleen Whiteley | Native American Studies | Justice in Balance: The Indians of California Versus the United States of America |
2023-24 Hellman Fellows
| Name | Department | Hellman Fellowship Research Title |
| Shamin Ahamed | Biological and Ag Engineering | Energy Harvesting from Artificial Lighting in Vertical Farming Systems |
| Payam Vahmani | Animal Science | Trans-vaccenic acid as a natural insulin sensitizer: Towards developing animal source foods with anti-diabetogenic properties |
| Ariana Valle | Sociology | Citizenship in Contexts: How Puerto Ricans are Transforming Race and Politics in Florida |
| Christoph Hanssmann | Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies | Trans Health in Controversial Times |
| Emily Vazquez | Spanish & Portuguese | Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails |
| Ga Young Chung | Asian American Studies | Unexpired: Race, Imperial Futurity, and Undocumented Korean Youth Temporality |
| Grace Delmolino | French & Italian | Medieval Consent: Sex, Law, and Boccaccio's Fictions of Choice |
| John Lopez | Art History | The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change at Tenochtitlan-Mexico City |
| Kathleen Cruz | Classics | Competing Visions: Classical Antiquity and Puerto Rican Identity in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
| Lishan AZ | Cinema and Digital Media | In Search of Solid Ground: Immersive and Interactive Black History Exhibit |
| Sameer Iyer | Mathematics | Formation of Separation and Onset of Reversal for the Stationary Navier-Stokes Equations |
| Zinzi Clemmons | English | Heaven: A Novel of Black Utopia |