Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am delighted to introduce the Chemistry Graduate Student Awards Showcase for 2020 to acknowledge and celebrate the major fellowships and awards received by our graduate students over the past few semesters. Please click on the link to review the extraordinary achievements of our graduate students. Congratulations to all of you for your well deserved honors.
Because this is the first time we have done this, we have attempted to acknowledge all awards received by our current graduate students since 2018. Going forward, we plan to make this an annual occurrence showcasing all awards received over the past year. We are so proud of our students, both for their individual successes and their contribution to our department. Congratulations!
Lauren Webb
Associate Professor | Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Chemistry | The University of Texas at Austin
Chemistry Graduate Student Fellowship Showcase 2020
Kanchan Aggarwal (Que Group)
- Ethel Gene Kahmer Endowed Presidential Fellowship, 2020
- Alan Cowley Endowed Graduate Fellowship, 2020
- Safety-First Leadership Fellowship, 2019
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2018
Mehroz Ahmed (Sessler Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
Reena Al-Mualem (Baiz Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Fatima Al-Quaiti (Demkov/Henkelman Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
- Matsen Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Theoretical Chemistry, 2020
Collin Andrews (Baiz Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Kevin Baar (Humphrey/Crooks Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Jon Bender (Roberts Group)
- Paul Barbara Endowed Fellowship, 2019
Alena Bensussan (Eberlin Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2016
Michelle Blemker (Roberts Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2015
Molly Blevins (Brodbelt Group)
- NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2019
- ASMS Graduate Student Travel Award, 2019
- Charles Morton Share Graduate Fellowship, 2019
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2020
Jamie Butalewicz (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Henry Cater (Page Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Brenna Cashman (Rose Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Zhang Chen (Liu Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
Kun-You Chung (Page Group)
- Pfizer Fellowship, 2020
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Caitlyn Cobb (Rose Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Dan Cooke (Que Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
Danny Cotton (Roberts Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
Sam Dahlhauser (Anslyn Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
- Sessler Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry, 2020
Collin Davies (Crooks Group)
- Gilbert H. Ayres Fellowship in Chemistry, 2019
Rachel DeHoog (Eberlin Group)
- Continuing Graduate Fellowship, 2020
- Merck Rising Stars Travel Grant, 2019
- UT CNS Visualizing Science, Honorable Mention, 2019
- MSACL Young Investigator Educational Travel Award, 2019
- Dell Medical School's Livestrong Cancer Institute, Best Translational Potential Poster, 2017
Rosalie Doerksen (Krische Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2017
Orhi Esarte (Jones Group)
- Beca "la Caixa", 2017
Edwin Escobar (Brodbelt Group)
- Jeff Byers Memorial Graduate Award in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2020
Clara Feider (Eberlin Group)
- Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, 2019
Audrey Fikes (Que Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2016 & 2019
- Gilbert H. Ayres Fellowship in Chemistry, 2019
Jenny Flanagan (Baiz Group)
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Abby Gatmaitan (Eberlin Group)
- American Society of Mass Spectrometry Workshop Travel Award, 2019
Aleida Gonzalez (Webb Group)
- UT Graduate School South Texas Fellowship, 2019
Joe Guerrera (Mullins Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Chenxing Guo (Sessler Group)
- Hahn Endowed Presidential Fellowship, 2020
Joey Gurrentz (Rose Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Lu Han (Humphrey Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Paul Handali (Webb Group)
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Micah Heinz (Humphrey Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Amanda Helms (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Melissa Hirsch (Keatinge-Clay Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
An Ho (Hull Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
James Howard (Anslyn Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
Kyana Huerta-Ruiz-Garza (Eberlin Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
- DeGregory Memorial Fellowship, 2019
- UT College of Natural Sciences Dean's Strategic Fellowship, 2016
Nancy Huynh (Krische Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2017
Ginny James (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Chris Joseph (Rose Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
Rahul Kadakia (Que Group)
- 3MT People's Choice Award, 2018
- P&G Poster Competition Third Place, 2018
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2020
Naman Katyal (Henkelman Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Kenta Kawashima (Mullins Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2020
Mike Keating (Eberlin Group)
- Well-Being Awareness Fellowship, 2020
Molly Kogan (Webb Group)
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2020
Anna Krieger (Eberlin Group)
- Provost's Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2017
Jordan Labrecque (Rose Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Michael Lanzillotti (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
Aliya Lapp (Crooks Group)
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2018
Samantha Lauro (Mullins Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
SangHyun Lee (Hull Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Hao Li (Henkelman Group)
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2019
Monica Lin (Eberlin Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
Luis Macias (Brodbelt Group)
- UT College of Natural Sciences Dean's Strategic Fellowship, 2017
Daniel Mangel (Sessler Group)
- LANL Seaborg Fellowship, 2020
- Charles Morton Share Endowed Fellowship, 2019
Calla McCulley (Dodabalapur Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2016
Rachel Mehaffey (Brodbelt Group)
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2017
Radhika Mehta (Que Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
- Charles Morton Share Endowed Fellowship, 2018
- Henze Teaching Award, 2017
Cole Meyer (Krische Group)
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2020
- Well-Being Awareness Fellowship, 2020
- BASF Catalysis Research Laboratory Winter School Invited Presenter, 2020
- Organic Lab Teaching Assistant of the Semester, 2018
Melissa Meyerson (Mullins Group)
- L. Lochte Endowment summer tuition fellowship, 2018
- National Science Foundation-Graduate Research Fellowship-Honorable mention, 2016
- Vizualizing Science Contest-Honorable mention, 2015
Sarah Moor (Anslyn Group)
- Hahn Endowed Presidential Fellowship, 2020
Aja Nicely (Hull Group)
- UT College of Natural Sciences Dean's Strategic Fellowship, 2019
Josh Pender (Mullins Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2015
Dana Pfaffinger (Krische Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Nicole Pollok (Crooks Group)
- Banks Fellowship in Chemistry, 2020
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Sydney Povilaitis (Eberlin Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
- Well Being Awareness Fellowship, 2020
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Emily Raulerson (Roberts Group)
- Charles Morton Share Endowed Fellowship, 2019
Harrison Root (Sessler Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2016
Marta Sans (Eberlin Group)
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2018
James "Skippy" Sanders (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2015
Hiroki Sato (Krische Group)
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2018
Patrick Shupp (Rose Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Leyah Schwartz (Krische Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2016
Sarah Sipe (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2016
- Agilent Technologies Student Travel Award, 2019
- UT Chemistry Department Service Award, 2018
Brian Spinello (Krische Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2020
Katie Springthorpe (Keitz Group)
- Provost's Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2016
Alex Stafford (Page Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Axel Steinbrueck (Sessler Group)
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Juliette Strasser (Crooks Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2017
Jon Thompson (Crooks Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2017
Mason Valentine (Baiz Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
- Pfizer Fellowship, 2020
Stephanie Valenzuela (Anslyn Group)
- McNair Scholars Fellowship, 2017
- NSF Best Mentor Award (RET Program), 2018
- NSF Best Mentor Award (REU Program), 2019
- NSF GFRP, 2019
- Jeff Byers Memorial Graduate Award in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 2020
Jada Walker (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2019
Zhipeng Wang (Martin Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
- Henze Teaching Award, 2020
Jason Weeks (Mullins Group)
- Provost Graduate Excellence Fellowship, 2018
Stephanie White (Humphrey Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Bryan Wygant (Mullins Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
Ming Xiang (Krische Group)
- BASF Endowed Scholarship & Fellowship, 2019
- UT Chemistry Department Service Award, 2020
Qifan Xiao (Iverson Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2019
Da Xie (Que Group)
- Dorothy B. Banks Fellowship, 2015
- UT Graduate School Fellowship, 2016
- Faraday Teaching Award, 2018 & 2019