Undergraduate Awards 2020

Each spring the Department of Chemistry recognizes outstanding students for their exceptional performance in the classroom, the lab and leadership positions. Professor John Wolfe, the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education, usually presides over the award luncheon. “It is one of my favorite events of the year,” he says. This year we have had to forgo ceremony but we are still able to recognize our students for their accomplishments. The awards winners are based on the recommendations of instructors, graduate student instructors and undergraduate advisors.

First Year Awards

ALPHA CHI SIGMA (ΑΧΣ) OUTSTANDING FIRST YEAR STUDENT AWARD: Megan Lynne Coden

ALUMNI FIRST YEAR ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS are made to students who have demonstrated exceptional performance in their laboratory and lecture work

Akhil Kondepudi, Timon Lwo, Ethan Nelson, Daniel Pert, Finsam Samson, John Yang, Seth Woodbury

1st YEAR ChEMISTRY LEADERSHIP AWARD

Isabella Rondon Begazo, Amira Rabbah, Kagiso Sebetela

CRC OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Jasen Chen

Other Undergraduate Recognitions

ALUMNI OUTSTANDING AWARDS recognize academic excellence and leadership potential.

  • 2nd Year: Alexandre Levashkevich
  • 3rd Year: Madeline Yaw
  • Senior Year: Zoe Zimmerman

ISABELLA KARLE MEMORIAL AWARD: The Department of Chemistry presents this award to a top graduating senior. It is named in honor of Dr. Isabella Karle, who earned her BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry at the U-M Chemistry. Among her contributions to science is her work on the Manhattan Project, where she developed techniques used for the extraction of plutonium chloride. She was also a pioneer in the field of X-ray crystallography. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received the National Medal of Science among numerous honors. Awardee: Jeremy Tervo

WALTER YATES AWARD is one of the top honors given to recognize excellence and scholarly achievement by a senior undergraduate chemistry or biochemistry major. Winner: Jenna Manske

HURON VALLEY SECTION ACS OUTSTANDING STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD: Austin Wang

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AWARDS

  • Analytical Chemistry Award: Michaela Barber
  • Inorganic Chemistry Award: Myles Lovasz
  • Organic Chemistry Award: Anna Kang
  • Physical Chemistry Award: Amos Nissley

SEYHAN N. EGE—WISE AWARD: Seyhan N. Ege was one of the founders of the University of Michigan’s Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Program. Each year, the Program recognizes outstanding achievement by an undergraduate student from a group that is traditionally underrepresented in the chemical sciences. Madison Kent

MERCK INDEX AWARD TO OUTSTANDING SENIORS: Ryan Mcginnis

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTS AWARD: The American Institute of Chemists Awards are one of the top recognitions for our graduating seniors. The awards recognize student excellence in ability, character, and academic achievement. Biochemistry: Matthew Ward and Chemistry: Jin Yi Tan

VANKO AWARD: Two Chemistry students are recipients of the Vanko Award from the U-M Honors College: Sari Grossman and Matthew See

SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

We are pleased to offer these students an opportunity for research this summer despite restrictions on in-lab work, supported by these endowment funds listed below:

James E. Harris Scholarship

John Cousineau, Max Hrigora, Yung-Pei Ko, Chris Swendris, Morgan Young

Albert Hinsdale Memorial Endowment

Michaela Barber, Benjamin Herrera, Drew Tarnopol

William Smeaton Memorial Award

Alex Levashkevich

Margaret & Herman Sokol Award

Daniel Liu, Kyle Palka, Michael Petterson, Uthman Shukairy

May-Walt Summer Research Scholarship

Kyrillos Abdallah, Hannah Bartels, Briana Bowen, Taewon Chung, Shuri Francis, Carolyn Glasser, Hannah Palomino, Estefany Rocio, Avi Weigarten

Walter Yates Award

Paige Carpenter, Jonah Eisenberg, Kate Zablock

Graduate Student Awards 2020

ACS OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Alexander Rand (Montgomery)

ALUMNI FUND OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARD

Nicole Olson (Ault)

ROBERT & CAROLYN BUZZARD GRADUATE CHEMISTRY STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD

Daniel Vallejo (Ruotolo)

FLORENCE FENWICK OUTSTANDING GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTOR AWARD

Prathemesh Datar (Marsh) and Julie Garlick (Mapp)

MILTON TAMRES OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD

Evan Romero (Narayan)

Summer Research Support

GEORGE ASHWORTH ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY FELLOWSHIP

Daniel Vallejo (Ruotolo)

ROBERT W. PARRY AWARD FOR RESEARCH BY AN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY STUDENT

Sibin Wang (Narayan) and Corey White (Lehnert)

WAYNE & CAROL PLETCHER GRADUATE SUMMER FELLOWSHIP

Megan Connor (Shultz) and Josh Pyser (Narayan)

PETER A. S. SMITH ENDOWMENT AWARD FOR RESEARCH

Alistair Richardson (Schindler)

MARGARET & HERMAN SOKOL GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Shiba Dandpat (Walter), Joshua Martin (Montgomery), Alan Rask (Zimmerman), Yujin Wu (Brooks)

PPG SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

John Andre (Chen), Michael Bellas (Matzger), Federica Ricci (Goodson),
Michael Wade Wolfe (Szymczak), Yichao Yan (Sanford)

Rackham Graduate School Awards

ONE TERM DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP

Ryan Dodson (Matzger), Alan McLean (Kopelman), Weixuan Nie (McCrory), Nicole Olson (Ault)