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2017 Graduate Awardees

Department Awards

American Chemical Society Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research and Teaching
Kyle McDonald - Matzger Group 

Robert & Carolyn Buzzard Graduate Chemistry Student Leadership Award 
Kortney Kersten - Matzger Group 

Florence Fenwick Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 
Rachel Merzel - Banaszak Holl Group ● Stephen McNamara - Pratt Group

Milton Tamres Outstanding Teaching Award 
Daniel Nasrallah - Schindler Group 

Alumni Fund Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award 
Nathaniel May - Pratt Group  

One-Term Dissertation Awards 

Henry Earle Riggs One-Term Dissertation Fellowship 
Amy Bondy - Ault Group ● Zachary Garlets - Wolfe Group Kyle Korshavn - Ramamoorthy Group ● Ashley McQuarters - Lehnert Group Derick White - Wolfe Group 

Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship 
Sudurat Lee - Maldonado Group ● Charles Lhermitte - Bartlett Group 

 

Karle Symposium Awards 

Dow Chemical Oral Presentation Award 
Charles Lhermitte - Bartlett Group (1st) Benjamin Isaacoff - Biteen Group (2nd) Kyle Korshavn - Ramamoorthy Group (3rd) 

Dow Chemical Poster Session Travel Awards 

Sugyan Dixit - Ruotolo Group ● Sarah Haynes - Martin Group Daniel Polasky - Ruotolo Group ● Paige Malec - Kennedy Group Junjie Chen - Banaszak Holl Group ● Jeffrey Lopez - Fierke Group Rachel Merzel- Banaszak Holl Group ● Nancy Wu - Fierke Group Molly MacInnes - Lehnert & Maldonado Groups ● Amanda Leone - McNeil Group Adam Crowe- Bartlett Group ● James Shanahan - Szymczak Group Ian Pendleton - Sanford Group ● Sofiya Hlynchuk - Maldonado Group Bing Fu- Biteen Group ● Jon Bennion - Matzger Group Rosalyn Kent - Matzger Group ● James Annand - Schindler Group Amanda Dewyer- Zimmerman Group ● Hilary Kerchner - Montgomery Group Timothy Monos - Stephenson Group ● Alexander Rand - Montgomery Group Katarina Makaravage - Sanford Group ● Elizabeth Meucci - Sanford Group Tiancheng Zuo - Biteen Group ● Alan Chien - Zimmerman Group Mina Jafari- Zimmerman Group ● Jessica Stachowski - Montgomery Group 

 

PPG Poster Session Travel Awards 

Luyao Ma - Maldonado Group ● Jacob Geri - Szymczak Group 

 

Departmental Fellowships

George Ashworth Analytical Chemistry Fellowship
Nathaniel May - Pratt Group ● Thitaphat Ngernsutivorakul - Kennedy Group

Robert W. Parry Award
Amanda Leone - McNeil Group 

Wayne & Carol Pletcher Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
Lilian Hale - Szymczak Group

Pfizer Summer Fellowship
Alonso Arguelles - Nagorny & Zimmerman Groups ● James Bour - Sanford Group Bijay Bhattarai - Nagorny Group 

Margaret & Herman Sokol Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
Amanda Dewyer - Zimmerman Group ● Stephen Lee - Biteen Group  

 

Non-Departmental Awards 

ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Fellowship 
Claire Ouimet - Kennedy Group 

National Science Foundation Fellowship 
Ellen Aguilera - Sanford Group ● Tyler Doyon - Narayan Group Jeremy Kallick - McCrory Group ● Molly MacInnes - Lehnert & Maldonado Groups Christopher McAtee - Schindler Group ● Rory McAtee - Stephenson Group Elizabeth Meucci - Sanford Group ● Colleen Riordan - Bailey Group Kevin Romero - Stephenson Group ● Robert Vasquez - Maldonado Group Shannon Wetzler - Bailey Group 

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship 
Matthew Hannigan - McNeil & Zimmerman Groups 

Eastman Chemical Summer Research Award 
Adam Crowe - Bartlett Group 

Training Grants 
CBI - Chemistry Biology Interface Training Program 
Summer Baker Dockrey - Narayan Group ●  Ayesha Patel - Marsh Group 

MBSTP– Microfluidics in Biomedical Sciences Training Program 
Daniel Holland-Moritz - Kennedy Group 

 

Rackham Graduate School Awards 

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 
Ahlam Armaly - Schindler Group ● Jay Jiahui Rosenthal - Nagorny Group 

Barbour Scholarship 
Mina Jafari - Zimmerman Group 

Susan Lipschutz Award 
Rebecca Craig - Ault Group 

Rackham International Student Fellowship 
Melanie Cheung See Kit - Martin Group  ● Anuska Shrestha - Sanford Group 

Rackham Science Awards 
Frances Acevedo Mariani - Koutmou Group  ● Ellen Aguilera - Sanford Group  ● Matthew Hannigan - McNeil & Zimmerman Groups  ● Kori McDonald - Bartlett Group  ● Wesley Pein - Montgomery Group  ● Kevin Skinner - Narayan & Zimmerman Groups  ● Robert Vasquez - Maldonado Group 

 

Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant 

Annabel Ansel - Montgomery Group ● Summer Baker Dockrey - Narayan Group Isabel Colon Bernal Banaszak Holl Group ● Stephanie Chun - Narayan Group Ryan Cook - Pratt Group ● Sarah Cox - Ramamoorthy Group Shiba Dandpat - Walters Group ● Rong Duan - Kopelman Group Peter Eckert - Kubarych Group ● Amie Frank - Montgomery Group Jacob Geri - Szymczak Group ● Matthew Gunsch - Pratt Group Jeremy Kallick - McCrory Group ● Rachel Kirpes - Pratt Group Janelle Kirsch - Montgomery Group ● Mitchell Lancaster - Maldonado Group Kwan Leung - McCrory Group ● Yingshuo Liu - McCrory Group Rory McAtee - Stephenson Group ● Alan McLean - Kopelman Group Rachel Merzel - Banaszak Holl Group ● Lindsay Michocki - Kubarych Group Weixuan Nie - McCrory Group ● Nicole Olson - Ault Group Kevin Romero - Stephenson Group ● Taylor Sodano - Stephenson Group Stephanie Chun - Narayan Group ● Corey White - Lehnert Group