Students and graduates at St John’s College have won prestigious annual prizes from the University of Cambridge.
Marcell Hunyadi, Joey Katz, Jyotika Kumar, Arjun Ram, Shreeja Sharma, Seyane Sivarakulan, Madalaine Wilson and Tingshuo Yang have been recognised for their excellent academic results and work in their fields.
Medical student Marcell Hunyadi has been awarded a Dean’s Prize for Excellent Community Contribution by the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.
The award is a part of the Deepak Jadon Community Impact Prize, which includes a main prize and community contribution awards.
The Dean’s Prize honours Marcell for his ‘excellent work’ during a placement at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. He was praised for being ‘active, helpful and very competent’, proactive, and supportive of fellow placement students.
Professor Paul Wilkinson, Clinical Dean, told Marcell: “Thank you for your great work to support our community. And please keep this up in your life as a doctor.”
New graduate Joey Katz is awarded The Hebrew Prize by the Faculty of Divinity for the second year in a row for the best undergraduate performance in Hebrew equipped with distinction in the Hebrew language Tripos papers (Part IIB) in his Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion final exams.
Biochemist Jyotika Kumar, who graduated this summer after doing an undergraduate and Master’s degree in Natural Sciences (Biological), is awarded two academic prizes.
She receives the Alkis Seraphim Prize from the Department of Biochemistry for the most distinguished research project and dissertation in Part III Tripos, and the Richard Perham First Prize for the best overall grade in the Natural Sciences Tripos (Part III, Biochemistry).
Fourth-year medical student and Natural Sciences graduate Arjun Ram has won the Gordon Wigan Prize for Biological and Biomedical Sciences for being top of the class list for Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos and for achieving a first-class mark.
Shreeja Sharma graduated this summer with a first-class honours in Law and wins the Faculty Prize for her outstanding performance in Competition Law.
Seyane Sivarakulan, another 2026 alumnus, is a co-winner of the Adam Smith Prize for best overall performance in the final year of the Economics Tripos (Part IIB). He is returning to St John’s to study for an MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence.
Fellow 2026 graduate Madalaine Wilson, who studied for her undergraduate degree in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion at St John’s, wins the Faculty of Divinity’s Lightfoot Prize for the best performance in the history of the Christian Church.
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Former Herbert Howells Organ Scholar Tingshuo Yang is recognised by the Faculty of Music with the Donald Wort Prize in Music for achieving the highest mark in his final-year cohort (Tripos Part II).
Since graduating this summer, Tingshuo has also won two competitions: the Royal College of Organists IAO-RCO Organ Competition and the senior category of the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.
In addition, Dr Athan Fox, who graduated this summer with an Executive MBA from the Judge Business School and St John’s, has been recognised as one of the 2026 Best & Brightest Executive MBAs by Poets & Quants – the digital media platform for business education.
