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2023 Awards

Each spring, the Department of Chemistry hosts an award ceremony to recognize the achievements of students, faculty and staff. Many of the awards would not be possible without the generous support and philanthropy of our alumni and friends.

Undergraduate Awards

ACS Analytical Chemistry Award

  • Taylor Yates

ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award

  • Meijing Zhang

ACS Organic Chemistry Award

  • Sarah Seay

ACS Physical Chemistry Award

  • Taylor Yates

ACS-Hach Land Grant Undergraduate Scholarship

  • Faith Forman
    Anna Seyrlehner

ACS-Virginia Blue Ridge Section James Lewis Howe Award

  • Piper MacNicol

Academic Excellence Award

  • Nicolas Bowers
  • Ruiqing Cai
  • Tina Choi    
  • Lander Comhaire
  • Piper MacNicol
  • Nadia Shalhoub
  • Taylor Yates
  • Meijing Zhang

General Chemistry Viers Achievement Award

  • Luke Anderson
  • Faith Colfer
  • Khyati Goyal
  • Jaela Jernigan
  • Drake Somervell

Karen J. Brewer Memorial Award

  • Amelia Kurowska

Undergraduate Poster Session Winners

  • Alexander Davis
  • Michael Lucas
  • Piper MacNicol
  • Nicolas Nici

Graduate Awards

William H. Starnes, Jr. and Sofia M. Starnes Endowed Chemistry Fellowship

  • Yuxin Zhang

Graduate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award

  • Jackie Zhu

Graduate Research Award

  • Ariel Burgio
  • Yuxin Zhang
  • Jackie Zhu

Graduate Teaching Award

  • Rachel Bianculli
  • Deeya
  • Ronnie Mondal
  • Ayoyinka Okedigba

Graduate Service Award

  • Xiaozhou Yang

Graduate Student Doctoral Assistantship Recipients

  • Logan Breiner
  • Ariel Burgio
  • Zacary Croft
  • Connor Gallagher
  • Harper Grimsley
  • Swetha Jos
  • Stella Petrova
  • Tiffany Thompson

College of Science Making a Difference Scholarship

  • Nuwayo Eric Munyaneza

Faculty & Staff Awards

Harold M. McNair Staff Service Award

  • Amy Kokkinakos

Alan F. Clifford Faculty Service Award

  • Alan Esker

John C. Schug Research Award

  • Nick Mayhall

Jimmy W. Viers Teaching Award

  • Aaron Geller

Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award

  • Michael Schulz

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award

  • Diego Troya

College of Science Advisor of the Month Award (June 2023)

  • Amy Kokkinakos

Undergraduate Academic Scholarships

Dr. Roy H. Bible ‘48 Memorial Scholarship

  • Piper MacNicol
  • Meijing Zhang

Julius P. Bilisoly Endowed Scholarship

  • Lander Comhaire
  • Nadia Shalhoub

John B. and Sarah Hopper Harvie Endowed Scholarship

  • Tina Choi

Dallas A. Kinser & Robert T. Johnson Scholarship

  • Piper MacNicol

John William May ‘42 Scholarship

  • Nadia Shalhoub

Ogliaruso Family Scholarship

  • Nick Bowers

Charles B. Walker Scholarship

  • Alexander Siek

R.S. Whiton Scholarship

  • Daniel Martell
  • Abigail Resner
  • Taylor Yates
  • Jaden Yon

James E. McGrath Undergraduate Research Award

  • Naomei Lidman
  • Meijing Zhang

Summer Research Scholarships

  • Owen Beck
  • Long Nguyen