Awards and Fellowships

Graduate Awards and Fellowships Offered by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • William Bailey Fellowship Eligibility: 2nd year in Chemistry or Biochemistry
  • Millard & Lee Alexander Fellowship in Chemistry Eligibility: 2nd year students in Physical, Organic, Inorganic, Analytical or Theoretical Chemistry.
  • Dolphus Milligan Graduate Fellowship Eligibility: Fellowship candidates must be accepted into the graduate program in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and be a U.S. citizen.
  • Carl L. Rollinson Teaching Award Eligibility: Graduate students with outstanding teaching performance in lectures discussions or laboratories.
  • First Year Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship Eligibility: First year graduate students that have begun research in labs.
  • GAANN Fellowship Program Eligibility: Students in the Chemistry Graduate Program that are US citizens or Permanent Residents.
  • Research of Excellence Awards Eligibility: Post candidacy graduate students.
  • William F. Bailey Summer Research Award Eligibility: 2nd year or more senior graduate students in Chemistry and Biochemistry to support summer research.

Graduate Awards and Fellowships Offered by the Graduate School at the University of Maryland

 

Graduate Awards and Fellowships Offered by the Federal Agencies, Professional Societies and Private Foundations

  • Achievement Rewards for College Scientist (ARCS) Fellowship Eligibility: Graduate students in natural science, medicine and engineering.
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Eligibility: United States citizens or permanent residents. Individuals are eligible to apply: 1) during the senior year of college, 2) after graduating from college and prior to entering graduate school, 3) during the first year of graduate school, 4) prior to completing the first term of the second year of graduate school.
  • Ruth L. Kirschstein National research Service Awards fro Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to promote diversity in Health-Related Research. Eligibility: United States citizens or permanent residents. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. Eligibility: Graduate students working in research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems.
  • American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Award : Graduate students presenting are presenting posters at the American Chemical Society National meeting in the Division of Biological Chemistry.
  • Washington Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Travel Award. Eligibility: Graduate and undergraduate students presenting a poster at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry National Meeting.

Past Award Winners

All-S.T.A.R. Fellowship

  • Leila Duman, 2017
  • Margaret Marvin, 2018

Alpha Chi Sigma Albertus Magnus Award for Outstanding Teaching in General Chemistry

  • Cassandra Taylor, 2007
  • Romina Heymann, 2010

American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards

  • Bo He, 2006 (Best Poster at 232th National Meeting, San Fransisco)
  • Leonard Demoranville, 2007 (Nuclear Chemistry Division Graduate Student Travel Award)

American Physical Society Awards

  • Linjie Li, 2008 (Division of Laser Science Student Travel Grant Award)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Defense Scholarship for Service Program (SMART), Fellow

  • Dennis Mayo, 2008
  • Amanda Chamber, 2009
  • Edward Sisco, 2011

Amit and Ruchi Mehta Graduate Award

  • Shweta Ganapati and Xiuquan Zhou, 2016

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation, Fellow

  • Wei-Hao Huang, 2007
  • Wei Zhang, 2008
  • Patrick McTamney and Milissa Resto, 2009
  • Jacqueline Smith and Lei Yan, 2010
  • Daniel Gowetski, Sanghee Nah and Jia Wei, 2011
  • Jonathon Duay and Lenea Stocker, 2012
  • Christopher Sims and Ben Zhang, 2013
  • Kai-Ti Chang, Christopher Eginton, Andrew Keane and Yijing Liu, 2014
  • Jasmin Athas, Jason Hustedt and Gretchen Peters, 2015
  • Lucia Geis Asteggiante and Allen Ns, 2016
  • David Watts, Christina Camara, and Xiuquan Zhou, 2017
  • Emily Sahadeo, 2018
  • Andrew Boughton, Betty Chu, Nam Kim and Hannah Ogden, 2019
  • Hakeem Henry and Steven Murkli, 2020
  • Lukasz Oleginski and Madeline Rotella, 2021
  • Robert Martin, Jie Li, Tianyu Li and Wes Pawloski, 2022
  • Dan Birtles, Danyon Fischbach, Emily Hockey, Patrick Keating and Bo Nan, 2023
  • Solomon Attionu, Benjamin Lanham and Bowen Shen, 2024

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS), Fellow

  • Rebecca Vieira, 2007
  • Colin Wynne and Merle Zimmerman, 2008
  • Seth Thomas and Stefanie Sherrill, 2009-2010
  • Kelli Golanoski 2012-2013
  • Eleanor Gillette 2013-2014

Board of Visitors Outstanding Graduate Student Award

  • Kaitlyn Crawford, 2015

Calixarene (Calix)

  • James Creagan, 2007 (Best Poster Award at the College Park Conference)

Carl L. Rollinson Teaching Award

  • Leonard Demoranville and Mara Dougherty, 2008
  • Min Jia and Lenea Rader, 2009
  • Abulfazl Fakhari Mehrjardi, 2010
  • Matthew Hurley and Frederick Nytko III, 2011
  • Avantika Dhabaria, Bradley Gordon and Gretchen Peters, 2012
  • Cathryn Gail Blakely and Haohao Ke, 2013
  • Lucia Geis-Asteggiante and Kim Huynh, 2014
  • Jason Hustedt and Lyndsey Powell, 2015
  • Paul Diss and Nam Kim, 2016
  • Samantha Nowak and Alessandra Zimmermann, 2017
  • Sarah Robinson and Sayantan Sahu, 2018
  • Owen Baron and Yehnara Ettinoffe, 2019
  • Samuel Lasico and Robert Martin, 2020
  • Robert Martin and Samuel Cohen, 2021
  • Kyle Webb and Ian Ferencz, 2022

Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award

  • Nicole Carbonaro, Bryna Clover, Katherine Connor, Kelly Daggett, André Dennis, Mara Dougherty, Aaron Haeusler, Will Harrell, Raffaele Perrotta and Adam Smolinsky, 2008
  • Soheila Bahmanjah, 2010
  • Luigi Alvardo, Bradley Gordon and Gretchen Peters, 2012
  • Meghan Burke, Julia Greenfield, Aaron Geller, Kim Huynh, Charles Mueller, Hyeyeon Nam, Ben Roembke, Tessy Thomas, David Watts, Dong Yang and Xiang Ye, 2013

Charles A. Carmello Distinguished Dissertation Award

  • Clement Opoku-Temeng, 2019

Charlotte Kraebel Ph.D. '59 Graduate Endowed Award in Organic Chemistry 

  • Mingbin Yuan, 2022
  • Suvenika Perera, 2023

College of Chemical and Life Sciences Travel Award

  • Leonard Demoranville, Marvourneen Dolor, Juan Du, Soumyadip Ghosh, Eugene Khaskin, Julia Khusnutdinova, Qingnan Liu, Jing Wu and Qin Zhong, 2008

Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (CMNS)

  • Charlotte Wentz, 2022

Dean’s Summer Fellowship

  • Leila Duman and Emily Sahadeo, 2016
  • Betty Chu, Tsega Solomon and Kuikun Yang, 2017
  • Betty Chu and Xiaoying Lin, 2018
  • Amr Elghondakly, Steven Murkli, Sunauna Prabhu and Madeline Rotella, 2019

Department Summer Graduate Fellowship

  • Diana Zhang and Owen Becette, 2016

The Dolphus E. Milligan Graduate Fellowship Award, Fellow

  • Christopher Sims, 2008
  • Reyniak Richards, 2009
  • Julia Greenfield, 2010
  • Blessing Deeyaa, 2011
  • Stephanie Miller, 2012
  • Christopher Hernandez, 2013
  • Tsega Solomon, 2014
  • Adeolu Mojibola, 2015
  • Hakeem Henry, 2016
  • Patricia Razafindrambinina, 2017
  • Grace Henry, 2018
  • Darnell Harris, 2019
  • Rita Dill, 2020
  • Jeffrey Taylor, 2021
  • Osma Gomez, 2022
  • Brooklyn Harris, 2023

Excellence in Graduate Research Award

  • Linjie Li and Ling Ma, 2008
  • Juan Du, Patrick McTamney and Qin Zhong, 2009
  • Jonathon Duay, Maria Del Mar Ingaramo and Jia Wei, 2011
  • Mark Nakasone, Brendan Yonke, Xiaochen Wang and Davit Potoyan, 2012
  • Nicholas Corsepius and Xichen Xu, 2014
  • Kaitlyn Crawford and Wesley Farrell, 2015
  • Jaehee Song and Regan LeBlanc, 2016
  • Aaron Geller, 2017
  • Samantha Nowak and Xiuguan Zhou, 2018
  • Xin Tong and Luning Wang, 2019
  • Songjun Xiao and Betty Chu, 2020
  • Mark Wallace and Betsegaw Lemma, 2021
  • Bowen Shen and Connor Donahue, 2022

Fellow in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship Program

  • Dave Jenkins, 2010-2012
  • Taylor Hood, 2013-2015

G. Forrest Woods Award for Graduate Study in Chemistry

  • Rennisha Wickham, 2011
  • Maxim Ratnikov and Luigi Alvarado, 2012
  • Lucia Geis, 2015
  • Westly Pawloski and Alexandra Peterson, 2021 (Semester Awards)
  • Emily Luterab, Hakeem Henry, Tianyu Li and Sandra Gutierrez, 2021 (Summer award)
  • Morgan Kramer and Bowen Shen, 2022
  • Mario Lopez, Suvenika Perera, Medha Rath, Erica Henninger and Fathima-Zhulfaa Zhulficar, 2023

Gary and Sue Christian Graduate Award

  • Shweta Ganapati, 2014
  • Not awarded, 2015
  • Marcus Carter, 2016
  • Matthew Thum, 2017
  • Mijin Kim, 2018
  • Scott Holdren, 2019
  • Mark Wallace, 2020
  • Samuel Cohen, 2021
  • Hallie Pennington, 2022
  • Mona Abostate, 2023

Glen E. Gordon Memorial Fellowship

  • John Goodell, Ashley Sexton, Lauren Stevens, 2014
  • Christopher Ferraioli, 2015 - 2017
  • Carmen Cartisano, 2018
  • Danielle LeRoux, 2019
  • Bok (Sam) Choi, 2020
  • Danielle LeRoux, 2021
  • Samuel Lascio IV, 2022
  • Endre Farago, 2023

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), Fellow

  • Domonique Downing, Derick Lucas, Thao Nguyen, Lenea Rader and Jacqueline Smith, 2009
  • Mara Dougherty, Domonique Downing, Raffaele Perrotta, Maxim Ratnikov, James Wittenberg, 2010
  • Lauren Graham, Romina Heymann, Maxim Ratnikov, Christopher Sims, Brendan Yonke, 2011
  • Julie Nicely, Brittany Vinciguerra, Benjamin Roembke, Eleanor Gillette, Christopher Sims, 2012
  • Daniel Baluha, Kaitlyn Crawford, Derek Denning, Gretchen Peters, Lyndsey Powell, Jonathan Senn, 2013
  • Charles Ferraioli, Aaron Geller, Gretchen Peters, Jaehee Song, David Watts, 2014
  • Taylor Plank, Lauren Stevens, Matthew Thum, Kim Huynh, 2015
  • Carmen Cartisano, Christopher Hernandez, Kim Huynh, Austin Virtue, Tessy Thomas, Paul Diss, Leila Duman, Nam Soo Kim, Amanda Souna and Keith Sutyak, 2016
  • Scott Holdren, Chelsey Lamar, Steven Murkli, Samantha Nowak, Emily Sahadeo and Steven Wolf, 2017
  • Kimberly Brady, Hakeem Henry and Laura McBride, 2018


Graduate Dean’s Award

  • Jie Zhou, 2013

Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship

  • Jie Zhou, 2013
  • Xiaoyu Sun, 2014
  • John Bender and Yue Zheng, 2015
  • Shweta Ganapati, 2016

Graduate School All-S.T.A.R Fellow 

  • Eleanor Gillette, 2014

Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award 

  • Lauren Stevens and Tessy Thomas, 2015
  • Kayla Best, Katchen Lachmayr, Erica Portero, and Westley Pawloski, 2020
  • Emily Luteran, Steven Bonn, Jie Li, Sayantan Sahu, and Hakeem Henry, 2021
  • Chong Ou and Emily Hockey, 2022

International Carotenoid Society (ICS) Awards

  • An-Ni Chang, 2008 (Young Investigator Travel Award)

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award

  • An-Ni Chang and Marvourneen Dolor, 2008
  • Kaitlyn Crawford, 2013
  • Wesley Farrell, 2014

James M. Stewart Excellence in Teaching Award

  • Qing Zhu, 2006
  • Arthur Winter, 2007

Jenny T. Sih Fellowship

  • Eleanor Gillette, Andrew Keane, 2012
  • Andrew Longhini, 2014
  • Jingheng Wang, 2015
  • Andrew Boughton 2016
  • Xin Tong, 2017
  • Alessandra Zimmermann, 2018
  • Lukasz Olenginski, 2019
  • Daniel Trettel, 2020
  • Suniana Prabhu, 2021
  • Patrick Keating and Timothy Diethrich, 2022
  • Benjamin Lanham, 2023

Lee Thornton Dissertation Fellowship

  • Leila Duman, 2018

Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates

  • Andrew Keane and John Bender, 2013

Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement

  • Oluyomi Okunola, 2008
  • Sarah Robinson, 2018
  • Grace Henry, 2022

McNesby Graduate Fellowship

  • Jeffery DeLisio and Margo Gebbie, 2015

Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study

  • Kaitlyn Crawford, 2015
  • Matthew Thum, 2018

Millard & Lee Alexander Fellowship in Chemistry

  • Ben Roembke, Amanda Souna, Brittany Vincinguera and Yi Yu, 2014
  • Chris Borg and Yijing Liu, 2015
  • Lyndsey Powell, 2016
  • Mijin Kim and Taylor Plank, 2017
  • Peng Wang, 2018
  • Wes Lee, 2019
  • Madeline Rotella, 2020
  • Charlotte Wentz, 2022
  • Lahari Balisetty and Leena Pade, 2023

National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers

  • Oluyomi Okunola, 2007 Best Oral Presentation, Graduate/Professional Division at SE Regional Meeting

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 

  • John Bender and Maria Perez-Cardenas, 2012-2015

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

  • Patricia Razafindrambinina, 2018


NSF Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship

  • Sandra Zebaze Ndendjio, 2017

Richard C. Capozza Graduate Student Award in Chemistry

  • Lauren Stevens 2016
  • Shaochi Wang and Haoran Qu, 2020
  • Charlotte Wentz, 2021
  • Danyon Fischbach, 2022
  • Shane Collins, 2023

Sampunga-Keeney Travel Award

  • Steven Bonn and Westley Pawloski, 2022

Summer Research Fellowship awarded by the Graduate School, Fellow

  • Maria Del Mar Ingaramo, Karen Lohnes, Emily Trunkely and Jing Wu, 2008
  • Domonique Downing and Huizhi Bai, 2010
  • Christopher Eginton, Eleanor Gillette, Jason Hustedt and Andrew Keane, 2012
  • William Cressman, Hyejin Kwon, Gretchen Peters and Rebecca Rose, 2013
  • Emma Dixon and Ravindra Kempaiah, 2014
  • Taylor Plank and Jingheng Wang, 2015
  • Katchen Lachmayr, Emily Luteran, Lukasz Olenginksi, and Mingbin Yuan, 2020
  • Charlotte Wentz, Haoran Qu, Timothy Diethrich, Donald Hong, Ian Ferencz and Mary Taiwo, 2021
  • Connor Donahue, Daniel Birtles, Mona Abostate, Danyon Fischbach and Lahari Balisetty, 2022 
  • Solomon Attionu, Endre Farago, Ayona Goswami, Lily Nguyen, Hallie Pennington, Bowen Shen and Rose Willis, 2023
  • Shane Collins, Jiayue Sun, Jou-Tsen Ou and Stephanie Hong, 2024


University Fellowship

  • Betty Chu and Matthew Thum, 2016

University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award

  • Nicholas Corsepius, 2015

Washington Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Awards

  • Stephen Swatkoski, 2007 (Travel Award)

Wayne and Mary Hockmeyer Fellowship

  • Christina Camara, 2016
  • Andrew Longhini, 2017
  • Sunaina Prabhu and Hongpeng Wang, 2020
  • Shaochi Wang, 2021
  • Frances Stump, 2022
  • Connor Donahue, 2023

William J. Bailey Fellowship

  • Xiang Ye and Chris Eginton, 2014
  • Wesley Farrell and Jaehee Song, 2015
  • Taylor Plank and Jingheng Wang, 2016
  • Xizheng Wang and Roushu Zhang, 2017
  • Madeline Rotella and Andrea Zeppuhar, 2018
  • Kyle Webb and Yang Wang, 2019
  • Alexander Peterson and Sandra Gutierrez, 2020
  • Patrick Keating and Mark Wallace, 2021
  • Daniel Birtles and Mona Abostate, 2022
  • Brendan Kuzminski, Jou-Tsen Ou and Collin Vincent, 2023

William F. Bailey Summer Research Fellowship

  • Maria Del Mar Ingaramo, Sanghee Nah, Jingxin Wang and Jia Wei, 2010
  • Joseph Cannon and Michael Stocker, 2011
  • Meghan Burke, Christopher Eginton, Chun Geng, and Jason Hustedt, 2012
  • Andrew Keane, Allen Ng, Xiang Ye, and Guoqiang Jian, 2013