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2026 Graduate Awardees

Department and Rackham Awards

ACS Huron Valley Section - Outstanding Student Leadership Award
Antigone Wilson (Keane)  Safron Milne (Shultz)

Alumni Fund Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award
Julia Donovan (Matzger)

Chemistry Department Exceptional Service in DEI Award
Ila Castro de la Torre (Sanford)

Florence Fenwick Outstanding Research Award
Daisy Haas (Shultz)   Alice Atkins (Szymczak)    Cara Waters (Ault)

Florence Fenwick Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award
Kate Berges (Wolfe)

Graham Mien Chen Research Award
Sean Burns  (Schindler)

Laurie MacDonald Safety Award
Jorge Perez-Vazquez (McCrory)

Milton Tamres Outstanding Teaching Award
Randi Libin-Straub (Ault)

Robert & Carolyn Buzzard Graduate Chemistry Student Leadership Award
Abbygail Ayala (Ault)

Robert C. Taylor Award for Research
Katherine Kolosvari (Ault)

Vedejs Memorial Award for Research
Ammar Ibrahim (Montgomery)

 

Fellowships

Carpenter, D. C. Memorial Fellowship (Physical) 
Cade Harkner (Keane)

Chemistry President's Challenge Fellowship
Rebecca Dawley (Bol)

Department One Term Fellowship (Riggs)
Abigail Kelly (Koutmos) ,Allison Gatz (McNeil) , Sean Calvert (Montgomery), Bobby Wolesensky (Sanford)

Edward C. and Joan M. Olson Scholarship
Ali Alotbi (Ault ), Christian Andre (Szymczak)

George Ashworth Analytical Chemistry Fellowship
Archer Harrold (Shultz)

Hillig Family Chemistry Graduate Student (Analytical or Physical)
Ali Alotbi (Ault)

Phillips 66 Fellowship
Rebecca Dawley (Bol)

PPG Summer Fellowship
Samuel Berry (Sension)

PPG Spring/ Summer Research Fellowship
Yulia Rakova (Matzger), Chandana Sunil (Montgomery/ Szymczak), Julia Viana Bento (Sanford), Yuriko Fujisato (Montgomery/Zimmerman), Claire Patterson (Buss), Yin-Jia Jhang (Nagorny)

Robert W. Parry Fellowship for Research by an Inorganic Chemistry Student
Benjamin Farris (Szymczak)

Sokol, Margaret and Herman, Fellowship in the Chemical Sciences
Cade Harkner (Keane), Rachel Giles (Koutmou), Zoey Surma (Nagorny), Logan Forshee (Pratt)

Sokol Summer Fellowship
Zoe Wachtel (Sanford ), Maddy Zamecnik (Koutmou)

Timothy F. Merkel PhD Organic Graduate Student Fellowship
Maddie Arbuckle (Narayan)

Warner Linfield International Fellowship
Zeyuan Zhu (Kobayashi)

Wayne & Carol Pletcher Graduate Leadership Fellow
Faridat Agboola (McCrory), Ayush Chitrakar (Bailey), Tung Nguyen (Maldonado), Marek Vavrovič (Szymczak)

Wirt & Mary Cornwell Prize
Jayani Mawela (Chen)

 

Rackham One-Term Dissertation Awards
Austin Bruchs (Bridwell-Rabb), Kaley Simcox (Koutmou/Kennedy)

Rackham International Research Award
Jay Yu (McCrory), Vaibhav Khanna (Zimmerman)

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Awards
Fernando Gomez (Chen),  Gladwin Labrague (Chen ), Julia Donovan (Matzger), Sabrina Reich (Sanford)

 

Non-Departmental Awards

National Science Foundation Fellowship
Leila Filien (McCrory), Sheikh Nahiyan (Sanford), Ally Tonsberg (Maldonado), Leonardo Birriel-Rodríguez 

 

NSF Awards and Honorable Mentions

Sophie Barthel (Bridwell-Rabb) Chemistry - Chemistry of Life Processes

Krishangee Bez (1st Year )Chemistry - Chemical Measurement and Imaging

Marielle Frooman (1st Year) Chemistry - Chemical Synthesis

Shyleigh Good (Pratt) Geosciences - Atmospheric Chemistry

CC Pilon (Deal) Geosciences - Atmospheric Chemistry

Rachel Schmidt (Goodson) Chemistry - Quantum Information Science

Melissa Yu (Sanford) Chemistry - Chemical Catalysis

Sophie Bazydola (Ault ) Chemistry - Chemical Measurement and Imaging

Ella Chu (1st Year) Chemistry - Chemical Synthesis

Aidan Cosgrove (Narayan/Brooks) Chemistry - Chemical Catalysis

Jazmin Garcia (Buss) Chemistry - Chemical Catalysis

Amari Howard (Sanford) Chemistry - Chemical Synthesis

Caroline Lee (Ault)Chemistry - Environmental Chemical Systems

Joshua Pandian (Pending) Chemistry - Chemistry of Life Processes

Lyn Wang (Biteen) Chemistry - Chemical Measurement and Imaging