PGSS alumni are ranked among the most prestigious and exclusive set of any organization. Their passions have led them everywhere from Antarctica to Singapore. The majority have attended top universities such as UPenn, Penn State Shreyers, Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and CMU, and the average alumni has earned multiple degrees, such as an MD, an MBA, a PhD, a Masters, or a JD in addition to a Bachelors. At a PGSS reunion, you will find multiple CEOs, professors, engineers, teachers, managing directors, scientists, doctors, chip designers, cancer researchers, traders, game developers, composers, technologists, brain surgeons, quants, consultants, TV writers, attorneys- a diverse and inspiring group who all met and studied science together at an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind summer program as teenagers.
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And it was all absolutely free, creating an incredibly rare opportunity for students to make lasting friends from diverse backgrounds. This program has demonstrated that drive, curiosity, and a love of science transcend socioeconomic barriers, bringing together young scientists from all across Pennsylvania who have gone on to continue pursuing excellence. As evidenced by their PGSS team projects, PGSS alumni dreamed of engaging in challenging, meaningful work with elite teams ever since high school, and their subsequent successes prove they continue to exhibit their talents throughout their entire lives.
The PGSS organization is proud and happy to recognize such successful individuals as their alumni and supporters -- your stories and accomplishments illustrate how Pennsylvania high school students go on to change the world. Thank you for supporting this inspiring program.
Outstanding Donors
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1982
Rebecca Blei Sahlman, M.D.
Elizabeth Schwerer Duffie
Karen Van Dusen
1984
Andrew Drew Denker, M.D., Ph.D.
Parag Patil, M.D., Ph.D.
Kristy Richards, M.D.
Lisa Valentovish, JD
1985
Marguerite Eisenstein-Taylor
1986
Amy Clouse
Brian Hart
Prabhat Mehta
Pavan Reddy
David Reiley, Ph.D. **
Thad Starner
1987
William Sikorski, Ph.D.
1988
Michael W. Bauer, Ph.D.
Sonya Chmielnicki Dore, J.D.
David Halstead
1989
Melisa Lai Becker, M.D.
Gabriel Ledger, M.D.
Stephanie Page, M.D.
Paul Racunas
Craig Risinger
1990
Colin Stewart
Jeffrey Temple, Ph.D.
1992
Eric Bennett
David Hutz Shannon Wowak 1993
George Matcuk, Jr., M.D.
Joanna Zarach
1994
Alfred Schnabel (in honor of David Reiley's marriage) |
1996 Nethra Ankam Eric Lee, Jr. 1997
Keith Bonawitz, Ph.D.
Benjamin Campbell, Ph.D.
Kimberly Herrmann, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Krichten Lopez
Beverly Loux Jogan, V.M.D.
Keith Mathers, M.D.
2000
Patricia Foo, M.D., Ph.D.
Matti Klock
2001
Zhan Jack Shi, M.S.E
2002
Nancy Hua
Toby Liss Zachary Pozun, Ph.D. 2003 Jeremy Hurwitz 2005
Edward Anderson, Jr.
Benjamin Arnold
Elyse Burzynski, M.S.E.
Linda Chao
David Darmon
Laura DeLorenzo
Gary Doran
Brian Kroener
Jason Ma, M.S.
Julia Meisel
Adam Steinbrenner
Rachel Urban
Angela Yen 2006 Alex Laun Friends and Family
Anonymous Parent
The Burzynski Family
Dr. Eric Cooper
Dilip Das
Donald & Margaret DeLorenzo
Raj Fernando
Janet Hurwitz and Ken Weiss |
All Donors
An exclamation point (!) indicates a Caretto Circle donation.
Triple asterisks (***), double asterisks (**), and single asterisks (*) indicate significant donations.
1982
Rebecca Blei Sahlman, M.D.**
Anil Duggal, Ph.D.
Stephen Engel, Ph.D.
Eric Fuchs Foxlin, M.S.
Michael Hostetler, Ph.D., J.D. *
Robert Osborne, M.S.
David M. Schultz, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Schwerer Duffie***
Alexander Szewczak, M.Ph.
Paul Tripodi III, M.S.
Karen Van Dusen**
Bart Vashaw, Ph.D.
1983
Jay Dawson
Christopher Fraley
Shawn Hernan
Nicholas Jackiw
Anthony John
Frances Eun Hyung Lee
Todd Mowrey *
Maria Oyaski Jensen, M.S.
Tomas Pavel, Ph.D.
Robert Victor, J.D.
Carolyn Wales *
Benjamin Weiner
Karen Yesho Hernan
1984
William Bies, Ph.D.
Timothy Chinowsky, Ph.D. *
Roger L. Claypoole, Jr.
Andrew Drew Denker, M.D., Ph.D. **
Aarti Gurnani, J.D.
Parag Patil, M.D., Ph.D. **
Scott Purnell, Ph.D.
Marianne Shaw
Lisa Valentovish, JD **
Heidi Wald, M.D., M.S.
1985
Eric Ackerman, M.S.
Keith Braho
Marguerite Eisenstein-Taylor, Ph.D.*
David Florek, M.S.
Timothy Friel, M.D.
Victoria Gercher
Eric Hansotte, M.S.
Catherine Hirshfeld Crouch, Ph.D.
Mattan Kamon, Ph.D. *
Mark Murphy
Yvonne Ng, M.S.
Renay Oshop
Lisa Park
Kristy Richards, Ph.D., M.D. **
Paul Ricker, Ph.D.
Ann Schwentker-Colizza, M.D.
Michael Silver, Ph.D.
Linda Tsai, M.D. *
Karen Vossen Smirnakis*
Sabrina Yeh Tigner
Alycia Weinberger*
1986
Shane Albright
Eric Britton *
Michelle Bush, M.D. *
Christine Chang, M.D.
Amy Clouse **
Guy DiDonato, Ph.D.
Emanuel Manny Farber, M.S. *
Greg Feero *
Matthew Fisher, M.S.
Brian Hart **
Suzanne Hughes, M.S.
Yumi Ijiri, Ph.D.
Colin Knight, M.D.
Lisa Kreger Hetrick
Scott Lenet *
Muriel Liberto, Ph.D., J.D. *
Marcus Lien *
Timothy McHugh
William McSwain, J.D.
Prabhat Mehta **
George Moellenbrock III *
Christiana Muntzel, M.D.*
William Ober
Michael Pirrello *
Pavan Reddy **
David Reiley, Ph.D. !
Sarah Seckinger Charron, M.S.
Richard Sommers
Thad Starner ***
Kimberly Sweigart Grotewold, M.S.
Michelle Szpara, Ph.D.
Noah Waldman
Matthew Wengraitis
Stephen Wengraitis
Wayne Wu, M.D.
Michelle Zacchei Toth
1987
Richard Blob, Ph.D.
Jenifer Fabian, M.Ph.
Thomas Farquhar, Ph.D., M.D.
Wu-chang Feng, Ph.D.
Michael Fitch
Karen Ho, Ph.D.
Hun Sok Kang
Jennifer Karmonick, J.D. *
Richard Nahouraii
Stephen Root, M.S.
Gary Searer, M.S.
Anita Sell Thompson, M.S.
William Sikorski, Ph.D. **
Ravi Soundararajan, Ph.D. *
Philip Stroffolino
Rachel Wilson Smith
Roderick Swift*
Alexander Yu
1988
Matthew Albright *
Michael W. Bauer, Ph.D. **
George Richard Benzinger, Ph.D., M.D.
Sonya Chmielnicki Dore, J.D.**
David Halstead **
Erika Conn Iyengar, Ph.D.
Sean Davis, M.D., Ph.D.
Joanna Downer, M.A., Ph.D. *
Peter Garbes
Susan Goldstine, Ph.D.
David Halstead, Ph.D. *
Andrew Kresch *
Jennifer Lehoczky Elliott *
Linda Matarazzo Cherkassky
Chien Oh, M.D.
1989
Dennis Chao, Ph.D.
Anthony DeRoss
Suzanne Granados Spadafora
Deanna Fabian Herman
Konrad Hernblad
Ramiro Jervis, Jr.
Melisa Lai Becker, M.D.**
Gabriel Ledger, M.D. **
David Lubensky
Cynthia Mentzer
Stephanie Page, M.D.**
Paul Racunas **
Craig Risinger **
Amir Roth *
Joseph Suyama, M.D. *
Nelson Tang, Ph.D. *
Patricia Tsao, Ph.D., J.D. *
1990
Bert Bieler
Aaron Brundage, Ph.D.
John Cosnek
Suzanne Suzy Granados Spadafora
Jee-Young Nina Ham *
Marshall Hampton, Ph.D.
Marie Hauck Wilson
Tim Kirby
Thomas Lawrence
Jonathan Pfautz, Ph.D. *
Brian Schneider, M.S.
Colin Stewart ***
Jeffrey Temple, Ph.D. **
Brian Vu, M.D.
1991
Matthew Blain
Anton Chen, M.D.
Tina Chiu, M.D.
Sharon Einloth Desilets
Justin Frantz, Ph.D.
Patrick Friel
Robert Hartley, Ph.D.
Tejaswi Kasturi
Janice Lee, Ph.D.
Margaret VanDoren, Ph.D.
Jennifer Zarutskie Sieczkiewicz, Ph.D., J.D.*
1992
Rahmah Abdulaleem
Eric Bennett **
Samantha Cohen
Joanna Bohl Horn, M.A.
Tanya Bryja *
Leigh Buckley, M.S.
Samantha Cohen Wodotinsky
David Hutz ***
Vaughn Mankey
Marie McGrath
William Penn, J.D.
Nathan Scales *
Amy Slutak
Matthew Solitro
Felice Su
Charles Tuchinda
Shannon Wowak **
1993
Melissa Binde
Erin Childs, M.S.
Pouneh Fazeli, M.D.
Laura Guogas, Ph.D.
Shannon Jefferson Polan
Zoe Leinhardt, Ph.D.
John Lieb II, M.D.
Namita Mani *
George Matcuk, Jr., M.D. **
Phillip Michalak, Ph.D.
Stephanie Min Harman
Andrew Neitzke
William Danny Perez
Derek Sarley
Toral Surti
Hollis Waite
Joanna Zarach, Ph.D. **
1994
Ellen Beckjord, PhD
Enakshi Bose
Sa DeSa
Saumil Doshi, M.D.
Michelle Girvan
Stephanie Harman
Casey Harris, J.D.
Mark Jacobsen, Ph.D.
Staci Kallish, D.O.
David Kuo
Robert Liebscher, Ph.D.
Adria Liszka Reutzel, M.S.
Megan MacBride, Ph.D.
Giridhar Mallya, M.D. *
Henry McCauley, Jr.
Mark Meier, M.A.
Joshua Merok, M.D.
Swati Modi
Rebecca Murcek Greenblatt, Ph.D.
Louis Nervegna, M.S.E. *
Pikai Oh, M.D.
Donovan Quinn
Jason Rennie, Ph.D.
Alfred Schnabel **
Raghu Tadikamalla, M.D. *
Barrett Trask
Claire Tseng
Elliot Waingold
1995
Danah Beard Boyd, Ph. D.*
Tejwant Tej Datta, M.D.
Michelle Farra Guzie
Roxanne Grebey Podlipsky
Nathan Grube, Ph.D.
Avni Gupta Kagan
Deborah Heimel
Amanda Johnsen
Albert Ju
Karen Knierman, M.S.
Daniel Kraut, Ph.D.
Matthew Leerberg, J.D.
Sanjay Linganna, M.D.
Tim O'Hara *
Brandon Paluzzi, M.A.T
Joseph Van Sciver IV
Ari Wassner, M.D.
Emily Weiss
Robert Whitmore, M.D.
Weicon Conan Yuan, M.S. *
John Yuda *
1996
Megan Aaron
Nethra Ankam, M.D. **
Stephen Caldwell, M.Sc.
David Denkenberger, Ph.D.
Todd Ellis, Ph.D.
Garry Hallman
Xin Hu Rasmussen, Ph.D., J.D.
Matthew Huenerfauth
Mark John
Gillian Julius
Eric Lee, Jr. **
Jocelyn Lin, M.S.
John Marston, Ph.D.
David Naeger, M.D.
Divya Rao Heffley, Ph.D.
Meredith Merrie Ringel Morris, Ph.D.
Jayaram Srinivasan, M.D.
Ameesh Vakharia
Bradley Weinberger, M.D.
Jennifer Whiteside Gandy *
| 1997
Dorina Amendola, M.A. (In Memory Of Zac Miller)
Keith Bonawitz, Ph.D. **
Eliza Bradley
Benjamin Campbell, Ph.D. * (In Memory of Zac Miller) (in honor of David Reiley's marriage) *
Debajyoti Datta, Ph.D., M.D.
Zachary Gates
Kimberly Herrmann, Ph.D. *
Christopher Hoess
Benjamin Ingram
Justin Kinney, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Krichten Lopez**
Beverly Loux Jogan, V.M.D. (In Memory of Zac Miller)(in honor of David Reiley's marriage) **
Keith Mathers, M.D. (In Memory of Zac Miller) *
Benjamin J. Miller
Kimberly Palladino, Ph.D.
Stephen Rickard, J.D.
Michael Sha, M.S.
Daniel Stick, Ph.D.
Tamara Stolz Solitro, M.D.
Sara Troyani, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Vinocur, M.D.
Lauren Weinberger Conlon, M.D.
Jessica Yohe
Douglas Yung
Rebecca Zordan, Ph.D.
1998
Marisa Adelman, M.D.
Jason Armstrong, M.A.
Kimberly D. Braun, M.S.
Vali Chandrasekaran *
Robert Klein
Ann Lewis
Erin McLaughlin *
Ankur Mehta, M.S.
Erica Musser, Ph.D.
Garett Nell
Ben Newcomer
Theresa Nguyen, M.D.
Amy Ogan
Lisa Podgurski
Audra Pompeani, M.A., Ph.D., V.M.D.
William Sacks, Ph.D.
Ajay Sudan
George Sunny, Ph.D.
Anthony Sutton
Ami Vora
Valerie Work, M.F.A.
Danielle Zurovcik, M.S.
1999
Shawn Badlani
Soumendra Shoe Banerjee *
Beth Bennett
Carrie Brown, M.S., Ph.D.
Scott Cohen, M.S.E.
Thomas Denkenberger, M.S.
Richard Dore
Erika Faires
Zachary Firth, M.S.
Erin Halferty, M.S. *
Chwan-Hai Hsiung
Jerry Jacob
P. Matt Jennings
Nathan Keim
Michelle Kinder, Ph.D.
Neal Mankad, Ph.D.
Sara K. Metzger, M.S.
Catherine S. Simonsen, J.D.
Pius Uzamere II
Anne H. Warner Atwood
Alexandra Ali Yurkovic, M.D.
2000
Alexis Book, M.A.T.
Jeffrey Bullian
Shilpa Desai, M.D.
Elizabeth Engelhardt
Patricia Foo, M.D., Ph.D. *
Daniel Kleinbaum, Ph.D.
Matti Klock ***
Sarah Lantz, D.O.
Katie Lu
Robert Nickl
Katherine Petrie
Elizabeth Thrall, Ph.D.
Aaron Yahr
Chi-Fu Yang
David Yu, M.S.
2001
Joshua Albert, Ph.D.
Abdul Basier Aziz, M.S.
Amy Blank, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Brackbill, M.S.
Michael Brown
Kimberly Clemens Payne, Ph.D.
Joel Micah Donovan
Jennifer Feder Bobb, Ph.D.
Evan Hepler-Smith, Ph.D.
Nina Hsu, M.A., Ph.D.
Megan Keen, M.S.
James Kerchenfaut, M.S.
Jin Suk Kim, M.D.
Matthew Klitus
Monica Lewis
Sarah McNair Lane, M.D.
Justin M. Mercer
Pamela Montanye, M.S.
Eric Nguyen, J.D.
Adam Roben
Talia Rosenberg, M.D.
Zhan Jack Shi, M.S.E **
Nathan Stock, Ph.D.
Renee Szumski Frank, M.D.
Rachel Tundel, Ph.D.
Anita Vin-Parikh, M.D.
Xin (Cynthia) Wu, M.D.
2002
Travis Albright
Jeffrey Creamer
Quang Dang
Tony Falk
Samuel Goodman
Daniel Halpern-Leistner
Victoria Harris, M.S.
Nancy Hua ***
Nathan Kilbert, J.D.
Leon Kotlyar
Aleksandr Kushleyev, M.S.
Joshua Levinson, M.D.
Toby Liss **
Christopher Liu
Sara Mustin Mauskopf
Matthew Meisel
John Paul
Dimitri Pavlichin
David Pickett
Zachary Pozun, Ph.D. ** Joseph Roberts
Laura Sheard
Marian Smith, M.S.
Sera Thornton
Nick Vidnovic *
Hanhan Wang
Ying-Ying Yvonne Wang
2003
Laura Anzaldi
Linda Ann Bartosch, J.D.
Timothy Brackbill
Yiwen Chu
Daniel Denis
Elizabeth Liz DiCocco, M.S.
Moira Molly Dillon
Maria Emerson
Danielle Gerlach
Elena Glassman
Jeremy Hurwitz, M.S.E., M.S. (in honor of David Reiley's marriage) *
Kate Knorr
Rebecca Kovel Kauffman
Katie Yasha Liu
Cong Carl Ma, M.S.
William Mansky
Christopher Mohl
Dan Pall
Mike Robbins
Brian Rudo-Hutt
Lisa Shank, M.S.
Zhipeng Zachary Sun
Hui Ying Wen, M.S.
Kimberly Weston, Ph.D. 2014
Jean Yang
Ricky Yuen
2004
Shiyang Cao
Michael Chernicoff
David Chi
Maria Duaime
Carlin Eng
Emily Evans
Peter Piotr Fidkowski, M.S.*
Oriana Fisher
Melissa Fritz
Jeffrey Garber
Claire Hoptay
Michael Huynh
Kyle Leiby
Michael Lin
Leah Liu
Kelly Luckasevic
Jennifer Lynch
Nathan Menendez, M.S.
Meg Pusateri
David Renshaw
Axel Schmidt
Mollie Schwartz
Albert Sheu*
Elizabeth Skubak
Sarah Slotznick, Ph.D. 2015
Gregory Tress
Sofia Vershovski
Louis Wang
Yiying Xu
Hannah Yin
2005
Edward Anderson, Jr.
Ryan Andrews
Benjamin Arnold
Kevin Bancroft
Elyse Burzynski, M.S.E.**
Linda Chao
Nam-Phuong Cong-Huyen
David Darmon
Laura DeLorenzo
Gary Doran
Brian Kroener
Jason Ma, M.S.
Julia Meisel
Alexandra Paharik
Nathan Schwalm III
Adam Steinbrenner
Aly Tobiasz
Rachel Urban
Angela Yen
2006
Peter Brice
Alex Brothers
Michelle Burroughs
Josh Elser
William Gao
Kimberly Gerlach
Simon Fox Krauss
Amy Laio
Alexander Laun**
Benjamin Matthews
Nate Pallo *
Hallie Rozansky
Sheri Senge
Adam Shore
Christopher Tralie
Andy Watkins
Mary Jue Xu
Ted (Teoman) Yavuzkurt
2007
Ashok Bhaskar
Colin Comerci
Diya Das
Andrew Helbers
Milton Herrold, III
Caroline Hsu
Isaac Johnson
Matthew Kapelewski
William McDowell
Nhu (Susan) Phan
Naveen Biddanda Ponnappa
Ashley Reichardt
Nicholas Rhinehart
Varun Sampath
Stanley Zheng
2008
Amarpreet Ahluwalia
Carlie Arbaugh
Shawn Foley
Christin Folker
Angela Hsieh
Steven Pecht
Sofia Quinodoz
Victoria Solomon
Praveen Tummalapalli
TA's and Faculty
Yusheng Chang
Paul Delano
Doug Ensley
Lindsey Ferris Haley Finley
Talia Fukuroe
Sarah Gaffen *
Emily Leathers
Bill Maddox
Richard Romero
Russ Walker, Ph.D.
Friends and Family
Scott Aaronson
Gary Adelman Blanche Adelman Richard & Gerry Adelman
David & Laurie Albert Kathleen Appleton
Donna Atkinson Barbara Barcousky
Jeffrey Blank
Christina Burroughs
The Burzynski Family **
Kevin Byron Virginia Campbell John Carey
Vicky Carlsson
Justin Christian
Paul Clemens
Lyn Cohen
Sa Cool
Dr. Eric Cooper ***
Rick Creamer
David Croson
Robert Crow Andrew Crouch
V. Darmon
Bruce & Mary Dawson
Donald & Margaret DeLorenzo **
Charles & Martha Denkenberger Robert & Denise DiCocco Stephen & Denise Duaime
Elaine Edlind
Martha Erlebacher Richard Feder Rosella Fedor
Raj Fernando !
Edward Gerlach Barbara Glassman Alka Goyal
Philip T. Grier
Karen Haas Rebecca Hartley
Barbara & John Hirshfeld
Nicklos L Holik
Amy Hoptay
Shengjun Huang
Debra Hurwitz
Janet Hurwitz and Ken Weiss (in honor of David Reiley's marriage) *
Jason & Victoria Hurwitz
Mary Jennings
Julia Joens * Mary Ellen Kirby
Hanumantha Kodavalla
Robert Kraut and Aya Betensky (In Honor of Dan Kraut)
Eileen Krichten (In Memory of Zachariah Miller)
Carla Jo Lagattuta
JoAnn Lamphere Katie Leach
Clara Lewis
Grace Li James LoGiudice
Kay Long-Martin (In Honor of Reiley and Sazama) Florence Lu Family
Traci Mann Grace Mateos Elaine Mauchline
Michael McCann Carol McDowell (In Honor of William McDowell (PGSS 2007)) Keith Miller (In Memory of Zachariah Miller)
The Miller Family
Anna Mindel Linda Mui
Jolene and Randy Newcomer
Jesse Nice
Alex Ognev
Elyssa Okkelberg
Boris Ovetsky
Leo Pall Thomas Peeler
Mary Lou Pepe *
Karl Pietrzak
Gloria Post
Kymberlee Price
Stephanie Reichardt
Vernice Reyes
Rose Rieger Joan & Richard Roth
Luke Schmidt Kate Schroeck
Lorenz Schweitzer Linda Secouler (In Honor of Moira Dillon)
Ansel Sentosa
Diana Solomon Al & Nancy Stock
Peter Su
Nelson and Stephanie Tang *
Kathy Temple
Justin Thaler Charles Thrall & Sally Simmons
Raquel Toledo
Richard Tucci
Julia Tung
Ryan Volz
Jeffrey Wall Charles Weinberger
Ken Weiss * (In Honor of Janet Hurwitz)
Eirik Westcoat
Sam and Marie Wilson
Janice Wittmershaus Duane Wong (In Honor of David Reiley's wedding)
Leejay Wu
Mary Jue Xu & Family
Conan Yuan *
Sandra Yurkovic
Joan & Frank Zarutskie
Joshua Zelinsky
Bethany Zmitrovich
Barbara and Thomas Zordan
(In Honor of Rebecca Zordan) |