On April 17, 2024 we held the annual Awards Ceremony to celebrate our students, faculty and staff. It was a celebration of hard work and outstanding contributions of the Department of Chemistry. 

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Amy M. Barrios

Professor in the Department of Medicinal, Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, University of Utah

Undergraduate Awards

American Institute of Chemists Award

Nancy Sohlberg

Walter D. & Grace G. Bonner Memorial Awards

Leo Bloxham, Andrew Larkin, Rebecca McMurray, Adam Montgomery, Jessica Pike

Phillips Senior Scholars

Ty Demosthenes, Aric Potter, Jonah Simmons

Honors in Chemistry Awards

Austin Bender, Arnel Besic, Anneke Enquist, Julia Clista Galecki, Marina Gerton, Jack Hindley,

Travis Martinez,  Victoria Medvedeva, Eva Quintus-Bosz, CJ Craig Reid, Nancy Sohlberg

ACS Division Awards

Analytical – Austin Bender

Biological – Ty Demosthenes

Inorganic – Jamie Covington

Organic – Vincent Ngo

Physical – Victoria Chiou

The Ronald & Eileen Ragsdale

Undergraduate Endowment Scholarships

Emily Dalley (Reese Award), Wilder Dalton (Eyring Award), Derek Mansfield (Ragsdale Award), Vincent Ngo (Burdett Award)

Reuben Kronstadt Tuition Waiver

Taylor Hatch

Laya F. Kesner Awards

Uziel Gonzalez, Hakan Kariparduc, Ethan Klobutcher, Annie Thompson

Leon Watters Memorial Awards

Georgia Brach, Victoria Chiou, AJ Andrew Giles, Kevin Liebetrau, Abigail Mason, Mary Alice Parker, Maddox Riewald, Farah Sadat

Armantrout Memorial Award

Brekke Pattison

Ferdinand A. & Ruth Anderson Peterson Scholarships

Kesaia Akau & Jessica Dickinson

Melvin C. Cannon Scholarships

Katherine Osterstock & Sofia Perez

Gill Scholarship

Nyrvanah Crockett

Sugihara Scholarship

Alana Field

Undergraduate Research Scholarships

Audrey Burrows, Tilly Dillon, Gabriella Eyring, Kierra Forthman, Christopher Frederick, Alison Nopper

UROP Stem Spring Symposium Best Poster Award

Julia Clista Galecki, Alexandra Glatz, Jennifer Kim, CJ Craig Reid

Eastern Analytical Symposium Undergraduate Research Award

Aric Potter

Mack Thomas Rozelle Scholarships

Clarissa Goh, Derek Mansfield, Anna Page, Anika Tindall

Lloyd E. Malm Memorial Awards

Lademi Adepoju, Lexi Bohman, Harold Chen, Caleb Mason, Kalina Manova,

Taylor Melchior, Emily Norton, Katarina Prill, Annika Thorstensen, Anneke Van Regenmorter

W. H. Breckenridge Honors Scholarships

Hayden Spurgeon & Orion Xiao

Chem Unity Mentor Awards

Maddison Bailey & Frances Laurent

Resiliency Award

Clayton Brookfield

SACNAS Awards

Georgia Brach & Silvia Leon-Moreno

Kodak Educational Service Awards

Daylen Anzures, Kierra Forthman, Zera Gonzalez, Sakthivel Jayakumar, Logan Klar, Delaney Miller

Kodak TA of the Semester Awards

Daniel Barerra, Cole Clark, Rachel Hurrell

Kodak TA’S of the Year

Emma Hale & Johan Simmons

Graduate Awards

Cheves T. Walling Graduate Research Awards

Dakota Merriles

The Ronald & Eileen Ragsdale

Curie Club Graduate Research Award

Brittany Haas

William E. Jack Life Science Graduate Research Award

Karsten Eastman

Harris Graduate Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry

Anh Nguyen

Keck Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry

Marcus Mifflin

2024 Curie Club Outreach Award

Aria Ballance

Anthony W. Czarnik Curie Club Graduate Teaching Award

Kendahl Darschewski

Craig & Linda Lee Curie Club Graduate Teaching Award

Joshua Novak

Dow Chemical First-Year Awards

Ben Bloom, George Jijieshvili, Perry Martin

Faculty Awards

Robert W. Parry Teaching Award

Endowed by the Brady Foundation

Andrew Roberts

W.W. Epstein Outstanding Educator Award

Ryan DeLuca

National Science Foundation Early Career Award

Aaron Puri & Jessica Swanson

Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award

Jessica Swanson

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship

Rodrigo Noriega

Simons Foundation Life Sciences Div. Early Career Investigator in

Aquatic Microbial Ecology & Evolution

Aaron Puri

American Society for Mass Spectroscopy Research Award

Gabe Nagy

U Graduate School (ORAU) Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement

Award

Connor Bischak

ACS Utah Award for Outstanding Chemist

Matthew Sigman

American Chemical Society Election to Fellow

Vahe Bandarian

U Environmental Health & Safety EHS Merit Award

Peter Armentrout

National Academy of Science Kalvi Frontiers of Science Fellow

Ming Hammond

Israel Jewish National Faculty Fellowship

Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

Staff Awards

Campbell Staff Award

Joshua Nutter

Staff Service Recognitions

15 Years

Jiliane Brandol, Joshua Nutter, Holly Sebahar