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05/16/2014

Graduating chemistry majors honored at annual reception

Chemistry majors from the College of Science & Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts are being honored at the annual award recognition reception, Friday, May 16. The Department of Chemistry's reception included scholarship and fellowship recipients, and the honoring of about 184 graduating chemistry majors.

Download a PDF of the scholarship, fellowship and award recipients, and the traditional group photo taken on the steps of Smith Hall. You can also view and download photos on Flickr. Photos from the 2014 graduation ceremony are available on the College of Science & Engineering Flickr page.

Scholarships & Awards

Senior Award Recipients
David A. and Merece H. Johnson Scholarship awarded to chemistry majors who have shown outstanding academic achievement—Moriana Haj, Curtis Peterson, Matthew Styles, and Katherine Ziebarth.

George T. Walker Scholarship awarded to chemistry majors who have shown outstanding academic achievement—Xiang Ao, Nicholas Johnson, and Zhenshu Wang.

Wayland E. Noland Award for Academic Excellence in Chemistry is given to a rising senior who has shown outstanding academic achievement—Quang Luu Nguyen.

Junior Award Recipients
Robert C. Brasted Memorial Fellowship, a fellowship as well as a part time apprenticeship in the department’s General Chemistry Program awarded to an outstanding chemistry major who has expressed an interest in a teaching career in chemistry—Nathan Klein.

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

Auzins Scholarship awarded to a chemistry major who has shown outstanding academic achievement and who has financial need—Clay Batton.

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

Sophomore Awards
Thomas DuBruil Memorial Award awarded to sophomores who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in undergraduate research in chemistry—Jacob Kautzky and Thang Phan.

Betty A. Lewis Scholarship is given for outstanding scholastic achievement and who has financial need—Tenley Brown and Megan Magee.

J. Lewis Maynard Memorial Prize in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Award given for outstanding scholastic achievement in advanced inorganic chemistry—Sammy Shaker.

Sally Herz Memorial Scholarship awarded to the top student in honors general chemistry—Emily Walsh.

Jane B. Spence Scholarship awarded to the top student in the honors organic chemistry—Eric Kalkman and Vignesh Palani.

Hach Chemistry Teacher Scholarship is given to a chemistry major interested in being a chemistry teacher—Daniel Ries

Summer Research Fellows
The 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 member—Katharine Anton, Xiang Ao, Stephanie Breunig, Maya Cutkosky, Erin Duffy, Moriana Haj, Matthew Henley, Kadir Hussein, Jacob Kautzky, Mitchell Lancaster, Joseph Manulik, Samantha Meyer, Abbie Mozzetti, Molly Newbold, Vignesh Palani, Matthew Styles, Anthony Tabet, Matthew Turcotte, Elena Werst, Tedd Wiessner, Ming Yu, Haini Zhang and Katherine Ziebarth.

Graduating Class of 2013-2014 (184 chemistry majors from the College of Science & Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts)

A
Josette L. Adams
Michael James Agerbeck
Daniel M. Ahlm
Sung Jun Ahn
Stephanie M. Aich
Arielle Ann Anderson
Mark A. Anderson
Mitchell Robert Armstrong

B
Lu Bai
Matthew James Beehler
William A. Behrens
Jordan E. Benner
Harrison E. Berg
Nathan Bodette
Blake D. Boeing
Vincent Alexander Brinker
Charles Ferenc Buehler
Hoa Ngoc Bui
Rianna Butler

C
Michelle Breanne Campeau
Jacob Allen Capek
Mengxi Chen
Meijie Cheng
Jia Hwei Cheong
Curtis Y Chiang
Seula Cho
Jua Choi
Mike Cibuzar
Jared I. Cohen

D
Ian Daluga
Jocelyn Rose Danielson
Anthony Diaz
Sarah Dix
Alexander Robert Dunleavy

E
Jacob T. Edwards
Alexander Eldredge
Matthew Epplin
Cassell Essell

F
Temilola Elizabeth Famakinwa
Chen Fang
Leng Fang
Wenjie Fei
Huikang Fu
Linli W. Fung

G
Siming Gao
Yuan Gao
Sir Mark Anthony Gentry
Tapos K. Ghosh
Peter Lawrence Griswold
Alexander Jacob Gronemeyer
Samantha Guertin

H
Go Eun Han
Gohyun Han
Ying Hang
Brian J. Hanson
Brandon P. Haschke
Matthew Ryan Hauwiller
Lindsay A. Hegner
Matthew Heise
Casey Kmet Heurung
Casey E. Hinds
Andrew Hoffman
Jocelyn M. Hokkanen
Michael R. Holtey
Chris J. Hong
Alexander Jeffrey Hron
Eric F. Hsu
Zhongqi Hu
Derek Huang
Kadir Hussein
Ingrid Hwang

I
Michael Layne Ihrke
Carson Ingle
Shyam Rajan Iyer

J
Mira K. Jalosuo
Osman Adil Jamshed
Michelle Johnson
Travis Fremon Johnson
Inyong Jung

K
Kevyn Mae Kalland
Alyssa Patricia Kessel
Han Yoon Kim
Lingxun Kong
Nicholas R. Kosewski
Jesse J. Krizan
Neil Kroll
Mei Yi Kuo
Eri Kwon

L
David Douglas Lauer
Katelyn R. Leukuma
Xueman Liang
Kaixian Liaw
Kase Carl Ligman
Kyle John Limpert
Elizabeth A. Lindemann
Jeanne Lombardi
Alex J. Lundstrum
Olga Aleksandrovna Lyashenko

M
Jun Ma
Ruosi R. Ma
Chi Mai
Abir Majumdar
Stephanie Martinez
Adam J. Matula
Kelsey McCoy
Molly Ann McGuire
Miquel Medina-Bielski
Nirmal D. Mekala
Adam Michael Meyer
Fernando Mirafuentes-Martinez
Frances D. Morris
Sk Rafat Alimul Morshed

N
Mindy Nguyen
Alec Nicol
Ashley Ann Novey
Nicholas Nun

O
Charles O'Hare
William A. Ogden
Hyojae Oh
Nicholas Osborn

P
Courntey Paal
Asher Parr-Besemer
Justin Andrew Peterson
Nathan David Pinotti
Kyle Pribyl

R
Patrick Radziwil
Srijay Sean Rajan
Matthew Tyler Ramirez
Eshaan R. Rao
Kyle Rasmussen
Alexander Reath
Leanne Renner
Daniel Ries
Abriel D. Romero
Kevin Michael Rust

S
Elisabeth Sarah Saja
Jordi Salim
Matthew Sandhoefner
Adam Scheidecker
Jennifer Lee Schmitt
Andrew Schneerer
Derek Schultz
Kraig L. Schumm
Kyle J. Senger
Alexandra Sevenich
Hannah Marie Skopec
Brad Slowinski
Jason Smith
Michael J. Solberg
Emily I. Steinbrueck
Anthony Quillan Stvartak
Mohamednur Omar Sufyan
Jinju Sun
Geoffrey Michael Swisher

T
Jeannette Leigh-ann Tensfeldt
Sheng Thao
Cory Michael Thomas
Lyndi Ann Thompson
Khoi Phan-minh Tra
Aimee Tripp

V
Samuel Vadis
Reba Van Beusekom
Mai Yer Vang
Teng Vang
James Daniel Vargo
Willemijn Veldhuijzen
Katherine Marie Venne

W
Kevin David Wagner
Dylan Walsh
Douglas Wang
Maio Wang
Yiwen Wang
Jaime L. Woolstencroft
Xuchen Wu

X
Kou Xiong
Shuangning Xu

Y
Amy Xee Yang
Eve Yang

Z
Andrew Jacob Zautcke
Dancen Zhang
Haini Zhang
Yiyue Zhang
Emir Zukic
Shawn J. Zwonar