The University, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry recognize exceptional work by graduate students via annual awards. Chemistry students are well represented among the winners of University- and College-level awards.
Lists of recent award recipients from the chemistry graduate programs follow; for more information about awards given at the College or University level, visit the College’s graduate student awards page.
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University of Alabama
Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 2007: Elizabeth C. Western
- 2001: Trent Selby
Excellence in Research by a Doctoral Student
- 2020: Louis Reisman
- 2010: Daniel Grant
- 2008: Marcin Smiglak
- 2007: Keith E. Gutowski
- 2003: Ann Visser
Outstanding Thesis Award
- 2004: Julius Nathan Henderson
- 2003: Yunlong Chu
- 2002: Brent Boudreaux
Excellence in Research by a Master’s Student
- 2008: Christopher C. Hines
College of Arts and Sciences
Outstanding Dissertation Award
- 2020: Molly Lockart
- 2019: Juliette Commodore Botoklo
- 2014: Mier An
- 2013: Samantha Bokatzian-Johnson
- 2012: Yu-Hsiang Wang
- 2008: Andrei Honciuc
- 2007: Elizabeth C. Western
- 2006: Luyi Sun
- 2001: Trent Selby
Excellence in Research by a Doctoral Student
- 2020: Louis Reisman
- 2017: Archana Panikar
- 2014: Mingyang Chen
- 2010: Daniel Grant
- 2008: Marcin Smiglak
- 2007: Keith E. Gutowski
- 2003: Ann Visser
Outstanding Thesis Award
- 2005: Elizabeth C. Western
- 2004: Julius Nathan Henderson
- 2003: Yunlong Chu
- 2002: Brent Boudreaux
Excellence in Research by a Master’s Student
- 2008: Christopher C. Hines
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
First-Year Graduate Teaching Award
- 2022: Megan M. Wysocki
- 2021: Logan Smith
- 2020: Megan Ensley, Vanessa Wiltsie
- 2019: Paula Kahn, Flor I. Lozada Santiago
- 2018: Zachary Simmons, Jacob Wilson
- 2017: Zachary Lee, Rudradatt (Randy) Persaud
- 2016: S. Ariel Kelley
- 2015: Molly Lockart
- 2014: Rachael Albury
- 2013: Ian Adams
- 2012: Archana Panikar
- 2011: CJ Pruitt
- 2010: Daniel A. Clayton
- 2009: C. Nigel Welch
- 2008: Aymara Albury
- 2007: Amanda Mueller
- 2006: Vincent Franco
- 2005: Jeremy Carr, Bradley Bullock
- 2004: Dwayne F. Reed
- 2003: Enrylin R. Thronson, Shelby F. Shuler
Outstanding Second-Year Graduate Student
- 2022: Brooke Holcombe, Cory H. Rogers
- 2021: Weerachai Silprakob
- 2020: Amala Phadkule
- 2019: Mahendra Acharya, Courtney Petersen
- 2018: Sanjit Das and Ashley McNeill
- 2017: Michael Ihde
- 2016: Tabitha Sutch and Xiaoli Liang
- 2015: Kerry Barnett
- 2014: Ian Adams
- 2013: Chelsea Plummer
- 2012: Michele Stover
- 2011: Edward Ellingsworth
- 2010: Todd S. Sayler
- 2009: Mingyang Chen, Nicholas Rhodes
- 2008: Whitney Hough-Troutman, Amanda J. Meuller
- 2007: Jesse Carrick, Virgil Jackson
- 2006: Raluca Craciun
- 2005: Julia Shamshina
- 2004: Dominic Qualley
Outstanding Third-Year Graduate Student
- 2022: Taoguang Qu, Vanessa Wiltsie
- 2021: Yiqin Hu
- 2020: Skye Travis
- 2019: Sanjit Das
- 2018: Xinyao Jing
- 2017: Dalton Burks, Louis Reisman
- 2016: Hongda Cao
- 2015: Shengjie Zhang
- 2014: Archana Panikar
- 2013: CJ Pruitt
- 2012: Zongtang Fang
- 2011: Edward Garner
- 2010: Franchessa D. Maddox
- 2009: Dionicio Martinez-Solorio
- 2008: Virgil Jackson
- 2007: Litao Bai, Luigi Iconaru
- 2006: Marcin Smiglak
- 2005: Kieth Gutowski
- 2004: Roger Campbell
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- 2022: Sanjit Das
- 2021: Michael Ihde
- 2020: Kyle Edwards/Ashley McNeill
- 2019: Molly Lockart, Louis Reisman
- 2017: Sopheavy Siek
- 2016: Garima Kumar
- 2015: Michele Stover
- 2014: Caleb Hill, Parker McCrary
- 2013: Mingyang Chen
- 2012: Yu-Hsiang Wang
- 2011: Daniel Grant
- 2010: Luigi Iconaru
- 2009: Weihao Xu
- 2008: Marcin Smiglak
- 2007: Keith Gutowski, Andrei Honciuc
- 2006: Qiaoli Liang, Daniela Tapu
- 2005: Michael Curry, Richard Swatloski
- 2004: Buffie Clodfelder, Kye-Young Kim
- 2003: Yunlong Gao
Outstanding Dissertation
- 2020: Molly Lockart
- 2019: Juliette Commodore Botoklo
- 2018: Kerry Barnett
- 2017: C. J. Pruitt
- 2016: Ashley Jolly
- 2015: Parker McCrary
- 2014: Mier An
- 2013: Samantha Bokatzian-Johnson
- 2012: Yu-Hsiang Wang
- 2011: Whitney Hough
- 2009: Ligia Focsan
- 2008: Andrei Honciuc
- 2007: Elizabeth Western
- 2006: Luyi Sun
- 2001: Trent Selby
Outstanding Dissertation Research
- 2021: Ashley McNeill
- 2020: Louis Reisman
- 2019: Nelly Kaneza
- 2018: Shengjie Zhang
- 2017: Archana Panikar
- 2016: Zhichao Shen
- 2015: Caleb Hill
- 2014: Mingyang Chen
- 2013: Preethi Vennam
- 2012: Virgil Jackson
- 2011: Jason Runyon
- 2010: Daniel Grant
- 2008: Marcin Smiglak
- 2007: Keith Gutowski
- 2003: Ann Visser
Outstanding Master’s Thesis
- 2017: Ben McCormick
- 2005: Elizabeth C. Western
- 2004: Juius N. Henderson
- 2003: Yunlong Chu
- 2002: Brent Boudreaux
National & International
Awards
- 2003: Rick Swatloski — Hancock Memorial Award in Green Chemistry
- 2002: Ann Visser — AIChE Graduate Student Research in Separations Award
Fellowships
- 2022: Ashley Miller, NAA Graduate Fellowship
- 2022: Phoebe Willis, Graduate Council Fellowship
- 2019: Courtney Petersen, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2013: Jordyn Johnson, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2012: Parker McCrary, National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- 2010: Steven Kelley, DOE Nuclear Energy University Program Fellowship
- 2010: Melody Kelley, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2010: Melody Kelley, Merck-UNCF Graduate Fellowship
Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting
- 2013: Michele Stover, Steven Kelley
- 2005: Keith Gutowski
- 2003: Rick Swatloski