The Outstanding Second-Year Graduate Student Award is given by the Chemistry Faculty to a second-year student who is making outstanding progress in the Ph.D.

• 2023: Damian Duda, Divya
• 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