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2023 Graduate Awardees

Department and Rackham Awards

George Ashworth Analytical Chemistry Fellowship
Steven DeFiglia (Hakansson)

Margaret & Herman Sokol Graduate Summer Research Fellows
Jonathan Hall  (Sanford)  ●  Lirong Shi   (McCrory)  ●  Katie Jane Torma  (Narayan)  ●  Ina Zaimi  (Shultz) 

Peter A. S. Smith Endowment Award for Research
Scott Kim  (Schindler)

PPG Summer Research Fellowship
Yekaterina Fyodoro  (Biteen)  ●  Maiko Askari (McCrory)  ●  Alma Perez  (Wolfe)  ●  Chang-Hwa Chiang  (Brooks/Narayan)

Robert W. Parry Award for Research by an Inorganic Chemist
Jessica Tami  (McNeil)  ●  Michael Lengel  (Lehnert)

Wayne & Carol Pletcher Graduate Spring-Summer Fellowship
Trenton Vogel  (Schindler)  ●  Natasha Perry  (Nagorny)

Florence Fenwick Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor
Catherine Wilhelm (Koutmos)  ●  Steven DeFiglia   (Hakansson(

Milton Tamres Outstanding Teaching Award               
Emily Norwine  (Szymczak)  ●  Kason Glover   (Wolfe)

Robert & Carolyn Buzzard Graduate Chemistry Student Leadership
Kevin Rivera Cruz   ●  (McCrory/Zimmerman)

ACS Huron Valley Section - Outstanding Student Leader
ShiIna Zaimi  (Shultz)

Alumni Fund Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Kayla Kroning  (Wang)

Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research and Teaching
Danielle Maxwell  (Shultz)

Chemistry Department Exceptional Service Award         
Danielle Maxwell  (Shultz )  ●  Katie Jane Torma  (Narayan)  ●  Emily Wearing  (Schindler)

Edgardo Laborde Graduate Student Award                  N/A

Rackham One-Term Dissertation Awards
Virginia Larson (Lehnert)  ●  David Boggs (Bridwell-Rabb)   ●   Jiaqi Shen (Wang)  ●  Jinpeng Gao (Chen)  ●  John Robinson (Matzger)  ●  Vivian Crum (Kubarych)

Rackham Margaret Ayers Host Award
N/A

Rackham Outstanding GSI
Kason Glover (Wolfe)

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
Matthew Lasky (Sanford)  ●  Danielle Maxwell (Shultz)  ●  Eunjae Shim (Zimmerman/Cernak)  ●  Oleksii Zhelavskyi (Nagorny/Zimmerman)  ●  Emily Wearing (Schindler)

Rackham Research Grant Awardees
Jessica Hatt (Wolfe)  ●  Yao Xiao (Ault)  ●  Luis Garica-Herrera (McCrory)  ●  Ian Hall (Keane)  ●  Rahul Jha (McNeil)  ●  Logan Forshee (Pratt)  ●  Srijoni Majhi (Marsh)  ●  Judy Wu (Pratt)  ●  Andrew Holen (Pratt)  ●  Gonzalo Villegas Rodriguez (Narayan)

 

Non-Departmental Awards

National Science Foundation Fellowship
Bracken, Abigail (Lehnert) - UG - Awardee  ●  Gatazka, Michael (Schindler) - Awardee  ●  Glasser, Carolyn (Sherman) - UG - Awardee  ●  Hammerstad, Travis (Stephenson) - Awardee  ●  Kelly, Abigail (Koutmos) - Awardee  ●  Kolozsvari, Katherine (Ault) - Awardee  ●  Ng, Cody (Schindler) - Awardee  ●  Palomino, Hannah (Lehnert) - Awardee  ●  Parham, Rebecca (Ault) - Awardee  ●  Rich, Lauren (1st yr) - Awardee  ●  Sescil, Jennifer (Wang) - Awardee  ●  Traficante, Emily (Schindler) - Awardee  ●  Waters, Cara (Ault) - Awardee  ●  Cemalovic, Nicholas (Narayan) - UG - Honorable Mention  ●  Chamness, Stephen (Schindler) - Honorable Mention  ●  Cochran, Amelia (Koutmos/Koutmou) - Honorable Mention  ●  Harrold, Archer (1st year) - Honorable Mention  ●  Kim, Alexander (Narayan) - Honorable Mention  ●  Torma, Katherine (Narayan) - Honorable Mention

F31 Awards
Champagne, Sarah (Narayan)  ●  Kroning, Kayla (Wang)  ●  Miller, Ruby (Wang)

Ford Fellowship
Carneiro, Sabrina Nobrega (Sanford)

DOD SMART Fellowship
Nicolau, Shelby (Matzger)

GEM Fellowship
Valladares, Brian (1st year)  ●  Okiye, Maribel (Sherman)

NASA Fellowship
Bennett, Andrew (Matzger)

Summer 2020 Karle Symposium Student Oral Presentation Award
Winners Sponsored by PPG:  First Place:Second Place:Third Place:  will have multiple winners per cluster

Student Poster Presentation Award Winners Sponsored by Dow:
Analytical Chemistry
Chemical Biology
Chemical Education
Inorganic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry