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Graduate Awards

Hammett Award

Awarded to the most outstanding PhD student in his or her final year in our graduate program in recognition of his or her excellent fundamental studies in chemical research.

2023-2024 Recipient:

  • Liang Li (Venkataraman)

2022-2023: Korak Ray (Gonzalez)
2021-2022: Sean Treacy (Rovis)
2020-2021: Suman Gunasekaran (Venkataraman)

Pegram Award

Awarded for meritorious achievements by graduate students in their final year in our graduate program.

  • Victoria Posey (Roy)
  • David Cabanero (Rovis)
  • Julia Dorsheimer (Rovis)
  • Petra Shih (Berkelbach)
  • Baiyu Qui (Stockwell)
  • Wendy He (Nuckolls)
  • Christie Koay (Roy)
  • Yizhuo Yang (McDermott)

2022-2023 Recipients:

  • Steve Jang (Gonzalez)

  • Allyson Li (Shah)

  • Arden Lee (Cornish)

  • Paul Robinson (Reichman)

  • Jack Weber (Reichman)

  • Xinwen Liu (Min)
     

2021-2022 Recipients:

  • Tea Crnkovic (Cornish)

  • Samuel Greene (Berkelbach)

  • Nicole Mandel (Kaufman)

  • Kaia Parenti (Campos)

  • Daniel Shlian (Parkin)

  • Benjamin Bechand (Sames)

  • Amirhossein Jafariyan (Cornish)
     

2020-2021 Recipients: 

  • Carla Bezjian (Stockwell)

  • Matthew Carbone (Reichman)

  • Isra Hassan (Rovis)

  • Benedikt Kloss (Reichman)

  • Sumin Lee (Rovis)

  • Jake Russel (Roy)

  • Yeongsu Cho (Berkelbach)

  • Alexander Devanny (Kaufman)

  • Matthew Hammond (Parkin)

  • Brandon McMurray (Owen)

  • Ilana Stone (Roy)

Dr. Katherine Lee Chen Graduate Chemistry Fellowship

Awarded to a rising 5th year graduate student in the Chemistry Department in any sub-field. This fellowship recognizes that student's distinguished achievements and potential.

2023-2024 Recipient:

  • Joseph Hammer (Kaufman)

2022-2023: Ding Xu (Delor)
2021-2022: David Vacarro (Parkin)
2020-2021: Rachel Avard (Kaufman)

Arun Guthikonda Fellowship

Awarded to a dissertation-level student in organic chemistry or biologically related science in recognition of that student's distinguished achievements and potential.

2023-2024 Recipient:

  • Minhee Lee (Shah)

2022-2023: David Cabanero (Rovis)
2021-2022: Allyson Li (Shah)
2020-2021: Sean Treacy (Rovis)

Jack Miller Teaching Award

Recognize excellence in teaching by graduate students. Only graduate students with second-year or higher standing are generally considered for the awards.

  • Jimmy Kyaw (Tekle-Smith)
  • Pavan Ravindra (Reichman)
  • Sean Bryant (Tekle-Smith)
  • Johnson Dalmieda (Venkataraman)
  • Haoyu Jiang (Nuckolls)
  • Erick Morgan (McDermott)

2022-2023:

  • Bereket Zekarias (Owen)

  • Keaon Brown (Sames)

  • Kelsey Harrison (Nuckolls)

  • Mariah Ramos (Rovis)

  • Muinat Aliyu (Norton)

  • Paul Brown (Delor)

  • Saya Okuno (Nuckolls)

  • Shayan Louie (Nuckolls)

  • Shu Fay Ung (Reichman)

  • Tasneem Khan (Rovis)
     

2021-2022: 

  • David Cabanero (Rovis)

  • Julia Dorsheimer (Rovis)

  • Jesse Gray (Nuckolls)

  • Daniel Malinowski (Campos)

  • Angela Paoletta (Venkataraman)

  • Claudia Prindle (Nuckolls / Venkataraman)

  • Davida Rios (Cornish)

  • Daniel Shlian (Parkin)

  • Jack Weber (Reichman)