The Outstanding Third-Year Graduate Student Award is given by the Chemistry Faculty to a third-year student who is making outstanding progress in the Ph.D. Program in Chemistry as judged by satisfactory academic performance in the program and outstanding progress and effort on his/her dissertation research project.
- 2023: Logan Smith
- 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