The Outstanding Freshman Biology award was established at the time of the Alison Bentley Kephart Award (see above) fund to allow for nondiscriminatory equality in awarding outstanding achievement to students within the Department of Biological Sciences. The award is based on the same merits as the Alison Bentley Kephart award, which is that it is awarded to outstanding freshmen undergraduates within the Biological Sciences. Decision for awarding the prize is based on quality point averages and personal evaluations by laboratory instructors and teaching assistants.
The prize and presentation of award are the same as for the Alison Bentley Kephart award.
Previous winners of the Outstanding Freshman Biology Awards have included:
| 2017 |
| Corynn Appolonia |
| Naina Balepur |
| Benjamin Krouse |
| Deborah Lee |
| Ceara McAtee |
| Jeffrey Onyeador |
| 2016 |
| Noah Gafen |
| Amanda Gamwo |
| Paul Karell |
| Michael McDermott |
| Chisom Obasih |
| Arnab Ray |
| Michaela Schreyer |
| Anna Wildner |
| 2015 |
| Atteh Akoto |
| Sinjon Bartel |
| Justin Kosman |
| Julian Rowe |
| Johnathon Schiebel |
| 2014 |
| Erin Gramm |
| Alyssa Brisbin |
| Rina Matsuda |
| Keith O'Conor |
| Marcus Robinson |
| Gordon Ridgeway |
| 2013 |
| Bradley Lukasak |
| Katherine Boyd |
| In Young Lee |
| Joseph Mort |
| Sophia Zhang |
| Alexandra Emes |
| Rebekah Sayre |
| 2012 |
| Megan Gramm |
| Regina Sencak |
| Nathaniel Hubel |
| Owen Drinkwater |
| 2011 |
| Andrew Nauss |
| Robert Macielak |
| 2010 |
| Sean Bell |
| Brittany Charsar |
| Bethany Corbin |
| Emily Rodgers |
| Zerina Hodzic |
| Devin Livingston |
| 2009 |
| Robert Ferdman |
| Adam Yuhas |
| Ryan Demkowicz |
| 2008 |
| Brittany Pierce |
| Kristen Jeffries |
| Ashley Sterchele |
| Ashley Lennox |
| 2007 |
| Natalie Allen |
| Samantha Bell |
| Nicolas DeStefino |
| Vincent DeStefino |
| Jill Zupetic |
| 2006 |
| Alexandra Ammons |
| Kerry Hahn |
| Ravi Pandit |
| Devin Potts |
| Nathaniel Mahoney |