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