Faculty

Bonnie Dixon – 2024 Provost’s Excellence Award for Teaching

Lyle Isaacs – 2024 Norma M. Allewell Prize in Entrepreneurship

Peter Nemes – 2024 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award

Efrain Rodriguez – 2024 Rowan Award

Lawrence Sita – 2023 Finalist for UMD's Invention of the Year Award

Lai-Xi Wang – 2023 Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

David Weber – 2024 Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland Baltimore

Hong-Zhou Ye – 2023 ACS Young Investigator Award in Physical Chemistry for Theory

 

Staff

Cathy Fisanich – 2024 CMNS Exempt Staff Award

Carl Womack – 2024 UMD MVP Staff Award

Graduate Students

Christian Akakpo – 2024 UMD Graduate School Outstanding Student Award

Edward Chinn – 2024/25 Millard & Lee Alexander Fellowships in Chemistry

Rita Dill – 2024 Richard C. Capozza Graduate Student Award 

Endre Farago – 2024/25 G. Forrest Woods Fellowship

Osma Gomez – 2024 UMD Graduate School Outstanding Student Award

Margaryta Gomozkova – 2024/25 William Bailey Fellowship

Ayona Goswami – 2024/25 Millard & Lee Alexander Fellowships in Chemistry

Erica Henninger – 2024/25 Wayne and Mary Hockmeyer Fellowship

Thomas Howard – 2024/25 G. Forrest Woods Fellowship

Brendan Kusminski – 2024 Charlotte Kraebel Graduate Award

Benjamin Lanham – 2024/25 UMD Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship

Seungyeop Lee – 2024 Gary & Sue Christian Graduate Award 

Sureshee Liyanaarachchi – 2024/25  G. Forrest Woods Fellowship

Hector Mandujano – 2024/25  William Bailey Fellowship: 

Esther Olonimoyo – 2024 Glen E. Gordon Memorial Award

Hallie Pennington – 2024/25 Jenny T. Sih Endowed Memorial Fellowship

Bowen Shen – 2024/25 UMD Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, 2024 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Travel Award

Nicholas Simms – 2024 UMD Graduate School Outstanding Student Award

Luan Vo – 2024/25 G. Forrest Woods Fellowships

Bryan Wentz – 2024 UMD Graduate School Outstanding Student Award, 2024/25 G. Forrest Woods Fellowship

 

Undergraduate Students

Jamil Yacoubou Adam – 2024 2024 NSF S-STEM Chesapeake Scholar

Daniella Adjo Agbenu – 2024 NSF S-STEM Chesapeake Scholar

Jareth Bonilla – 2024 NSF S-STEM Chesapeake Scholar

Ethan Carpenter – 2024 ACS Hach Award

Athra Goshtasbi-Gowharrizi – 2024 ACS Hach Award

Kevin Li – 2024 NSF S-STEM Chesapeake Scholar

Annie Liu – 2024 Chemical Society of Washington College Chemistry Achievement Award

Akila Manage – 2024 NSF S-STEM Chesapeake Scholar

Richelle Opare – 2024 NSF S-STEM Chesapeake Scholar

Aditya Viswanath Viswanathan Ram – 2024 SPIRE Research Fellowship

Disha Sanwal – 2024 CMNS Alumni Network Endowed Undergraduate Award

Alexander Wolfson – 2024 CMNS Alumni Network Endowed Undergraduate Award
 

Alumni (Awards & New Positions)

Kaitlyn Crawford (Ph.D. ’15, Chemistry) – promoted to Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Central Florida

Kaitlyn Dold (B.S. ’22, Chemistry) – 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Yaniv Kazansky (B.S. ’17, Biochemistry) – 2024 Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, NYC 

Katharina Krstic (B.S. ’22, Chemistry) – 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Alice Kunin (B.S. ’13, Chemistry) – Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University