2013 Department of ChemistryFellowships and Prizes

Senior Award RecipientsDavid A. and Merece H. Johnson Scholarship awarded to chemistry majors who have shown outstanding academic achieve-ment—Jacob Edwards, Matt Hauwiller, and Dylan Walsh.

George T. Walker Scholarship awarded to chemistry majors who have shown outstanding academic achievement—Shyam Rajan Iyer, Lingxun Kong, Adam Matula, and Kyle Senger.

Pictured are senior award recipients, from left, Shyam Rajan Iyer, Jacob Edwards, Dylan Walsh, Matt Hauwiller, Lingxun Kong, Adam Matula, and Kyle Senger.

Junior Award RecipientsRobert C. Brasted Memorial Fellowship a fellowship as well as a part-time apprenticeship in the department’s General Chem-istry Program awarded to an outstanding chemistry major who has expressed an interest in a teaching career in chemistry—Moriana Haj.

Lloyd W. Goerke Scholarship awarded to a chemistry major who has shown outstanding academic achievement and who has financial need—Quang Luu Nguyen.

Auzins Scholarship awarded to a chemistry major who has shown outstanding academic achievement and who has financial need—Kara Meyers and Matthew Styles.

Andrews Scholarship awarded to a chemistry major who has shown outstanding academic achievement and who has finan-cial need—Erin Hill, Megan Magee, and Maximillian Margherio.

M. Cannon Sneed Scholarship awarded to a chemistry major who has shown outstanding academic achievement—Katherine Ziebarth.

Pictured are junior award recipients, from left, Moriana Haj, Kara Meyers, Matthew Styles, Katherine Ziebarth, Megan Magee, Erin Hill, Maximillian Margherio, and Quang Luu Nguyen.

Sophomore Award RecipientsThomas DuBruil Memorial Award awarded to sophomores who have demonstrated outstanding achieve-ment in undergraduate research in chemistry—Daniel Bakke and Vignesh Palani.

Daniel Bakke, top left, received a Thomas DuBruil Memorial Award and is a participant in the summer Heisig/Gleysteen Chemistry Research Program.

Vignesh Palani, bottom left, received a Thomas DuBruil Memorial Award.

Pictured are individual award winners, from left, Kelsey McCoy, Megan Magee, and Tenley Brown.

Pictured are individual award winners, from left, Sammy Shaker, Jacob Edwards, and Matthew Hunt. Not pictured Yue Wu.

Individual AwardsBetty A. Lewis Scholarship is given for outstanding scho-lastic achievement and who has financial need—Tenley Brown, Kelsey McCoy, and Megan Magee.

J. Lewis Maynard Memorial Prize in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Award given for outstanding scholastic achievement in advanced inorganic chemistry— Jacob Edwards and Yue Wu.

Sally Herz Memorial Schol-arship awarded to the top student in honors general chemistry—Matthew Hunt.

Jane B. Spence Scholarship awarded to the top student in the honors organic chemis-try—Sammy Shaker.

Undergraduate Award in An-alytical Chemistry sponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society—Francis Morris. This award consists of a year’s subscription to the journal, Analytical Chemis-try, and is given for outstand-ing scholastic achievement in analytical chemistry.

Frances “Franki” Morris, left, received an Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemis-try and is a participant in the Heisig/Gleysteen Chemistry Summer Research Program.

Summer Research ProgramThe Heisig/Gleysteen Chemistry Summer Research Program is designed to encourage students in chemistry to learn more about research in chemistry and provide them with the opportunity to work in a lab under the direction of a faculty mem-ber—Daniel Bakke, Vincent Brinker, RiAnna Butler, Meijie Cheng, Michael Cibuzar, Maya Cutkosky, Jacob Edwards, Moriana Haj, Matt Hauwiller, Lindsay Hegner, Shyam Rajan Iyer, Michelle Johnson, Jacob Kautzky, Lingxun Kong, Quang Luu Nguyen, Maximilian Margherio, Adam Matula, Drew Maurine, Kelsey McCoy, Kara Meyers, Matthew Miller, Frances Morris, Michael Neaton, William Ogden, Kyle Pribyl, Srijay Rajan, Advaith Rau, Alexander Reath, Kyle Senger, Hannah Skopec, Dylan Walsh, and Haini Zhang.

Front row, from left: Hannah Skopec, Jacob Kautzky, Kara Meyers, Vincent Brinker, Moriana Haj, Maya Cutkosky, Michelle Johnson, Matthew Miller, Drew Maurine, Adam Matula, Kelsey McCoy, Lindsay Hegner, and Meijie Cheng.

Back row, from left: Michael Neaton, Advaith Rau, Jacob Edwards, Dylan Walsh, Matt Hauwiller, Lingxun Kong, Maximilian Margherio, Quang Luu Nguyen, Kyle Senger, and William Ogden.

Not pictured: Daniel Bakke, RiAnna Butler, Michael Cibuzar, Shyam Rajan Iyer, Frances Morris, Kyle Pribyl, Sryjay Rajan, Alexander Reath, and Haini Zhang.

2012-2013 Graduates