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2021 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

  • Cooper Johnston

ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award

  • Adam Gaghan

ACS Organic Chemistry Award

  • Emily Stacy

ACS Physical Chemistry Award

  • Cooper Johnston

ACS-Hach Land Grant Undergraduate Scholarship

  • Chad Knapik
  • Samantha Scott

ACS-Virginia Blue Ridge Section James Lewis Howe Award

  • Yudian Wu

Academic Excellence Award

  • Joseph Barker
  • Adam Gaghan
  • Pingchuan Liu
  • Linda Lyons
  • Carol Ann Rosenblum
  • Karleigh Schuhlen
  • Emily Stacy
  • Sasha Vaughan
  • John Williams
  • Yudian Wu

General Chemistry Viers Achievement Award

  • Meghana Kamineni
  • Sara Miller
  • Lauren Duma
  • Zane Clark
  • Martha Chen

Karen J. Brewer Memorial Award

  • Abigail Agner
  • Alex Siek

Undergraduate Poster Session Winners

  1. Piper Macnicol
  2. Connor Thompson
  3. Isabella Elliot

Graduate Awards

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

  • Zhengrui Xu

Graduate Research Award

  • Vibin Abraham
  • Ryan Archer
  • Justin Grams
  • Zhengrui Xu

Graduate Teaching Award

  • Kristyna Cagasova
  • Hannah Cornell
  • Cole Gannett
  • Tiffany Thompson
  • Paul Arcoria
  • Rui Zhang

Graduate Service Award

  • Graham Frazier

Faculty & Staff Awards

Harold M. McNair Staff Service Award

  • Negin Nazem

Alan F. Clifford Faculty Service Award

  • Louis Madsen

John C. Schug Research Award

  • Feng Lin

Jimmy W. Viers Teaching Award

  • Shamindri Arachchige

Undergraduate Academic Scholarships

Dr. Roy H. Bible ‘48 Memorial Scholarship

  • Adam Gaghan

Julius P. Bilisoly Endowed Scholarship

  • Emily Stacy

John B. and Sarah Hopper Harvie Endowed Scholarship

  • Linda Lyons

Dallas A. Kinser & Robert T. Johnson Scholarship

  • Christopher Rosser

John William May ‘42 Scholarship

  • Martin Dudek

Ogliaruso Family Scholarship

  • Nick Bowers

Charles B. Walker Scholarship

  • Sasha Vaughan

R.S. Whiton Scholarship

  • Pingchuan Liu
  • Carol Ann Rosenblum

James E. McGrath Undergraduate Research Award

  • Alex Coley