2026 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes for excellence in undergraduate work

 
Clockwise from top left: Larom Segev, Christopher Prainito, 
Mary Imparato Cipperman, Miller MacDonald, and Ashini Modi

Congratulations to students who won 2026 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes for excellence in undergraduate work and in the art of teaching:

Mary Imparato Cipperman for her submission entitled “Gender Bias in LLMs: Experiments on GPT4o/5.3 Role-Playing and Advice-Giving to Adolescents”—supervised and nominated by Professor Mahzarin Banaji

Miller MacDonald for his submission entitled "ν Sources and New Physics in the Milky Way”— supervised and nominated by Professor Carlos Argüelles-Delgado

Ashini Modi for her submission entitled “Finding the Right Match Fast: Factors Influencing the SpeedStringency-Stability Tradeoff in RecA-Mediated Homology Recognition During Double Strand Break Repair”—supervised and nominated by Professor Mara Prentiss

Christopher D. Prainito for his submission entitled “Design of a Cosmic-Ray Muon-Tagged WaterCherenkov Calibration Facility for IceCube Optical Modules”—supervised and nominated by Professor Carlos Argüelles-Delgado

Larom Segev for her submission entitled “Cloudy with a Chance of Data: A Dynamic Scheduler for AllSky Surveys with Real-Time Optimization”—supervised and nominated by Professor Christopher Stubbs

Hoopes prizes are awarded for the purpose of “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under [f]aculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the [f]aculty.”