Spring Research Symposium Awards 2025

William Emerson Best Poster Award ($500 each)
Jiangpeiyun “Joy” Jin (Garg Group)
Yibo Fu (Reddi Group)
Andrew Hill (Soper Group)

First Place Presentation ($1000)
Niels Logtenberg (Soper Group)

Second Place Presentation ($750)
Monica Monge Loria (Garg Group)

Third Place Presentation ($500)
Christina Buffo (Orlando Group)

Runner-ups ($250 each)
Gwendell Thomas (Lieberman Group)
Yanzi Yang (Xia Group)

Other Awards 2025

Moody Family Fellowship ($500 each)
Alexis Johnston (Oyelere Group) 
Josie Hickman (Dickson Group)
Alec Pabarue (Gutekunst Group) 
James Zhong Manis (Dickson Group)

Hurley, Rene & Jeffrey Family Fellowship ($1000)
Juliana Bem (Gutekunst Group) 

The William Starnes Graduate Research Travel Award Fellowship (1st - $1000; 2nd - $500)
Vidya (Agarwal Group) – 1st Place
Monica Monge Loria (Garg Group) – 2nd Place

William Emerson Outstanding Research Award (1st - $1000; 2nd - $500)
Yi-Chien (Tiffany) Tang (Das Group) – 1st Place
Jiangpeiyun “Joy” Jin (Garg Group) – 2nd Place

William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award ($250 each)
Jacques Gay  (Kamerlin Group) 
John Pederson  (McDaniel Group) 

William Emerson Best Second Year Seminar Awards ($200 each)
Isabel Berry (Sherrill Group) 
Ryan Langevin (Peralta-Yahya Group) 
Uri Miles (Finn Group) 
Yifan (Grace) Tang (Agarwal Group) 

William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards ($250 each)
Alexander Deans-Rowe  (Williams)
Prakash Khanal (Dickson)
Caleb Jun (Finn)
Cheyenne Phillips (Reddi)
Abigail Hagwood (Fahrni)
Mikhayla Clothier  (Kretchmer)
Joshua Wilhelm  (Wilkinson)
Rahul Somni  (Hu)
Nathan Blackburn (Fahrni)

Fall Retreat Awards 2024

Oral Presentation Awards ($300 each)
Ruoqing Jia (McShan Group)
Joe Corstvet (Fernandez Group)
Alfie Brownless (Kamerlin Group)
Tiffany Tang (Das Group)

Poster Presentation Awards ($250 each)
Devashish Sood (Finn Group)
Monica Monge Loria (Garg Group)

Spring Research Symposium Awards 2024

William Emerson Best Poster Award ($500 each)
Mikhayla Clothier (Kretchmer group)
Chloe Renfro (McDaniel group) 

First Place Presentation ($1000)
Jiangpeiyun Jin (Garg group)

Second Place Presentation ($750)
Atharva Kulkarni (Garg group)

Third Place Presentation ($500)
Yibo Fu (Reddi group)

Runner-ups ($250 each)
Andrew Hill (Soper group)
Wenting Shi (Finn group)
Esteban Rojas Gatjens (Silva group)
Xing Xu (Wu group) 
Kaitlyn Otte (La Pierre group)

Other Awards 2024

William Emerson Outstanding Research Award (1st - $1500; 2nd - $500 each)
Xing Xu (Wu group) – 1st Place
Vidya. (Agarwal group) – 2nd Place tie
Wenyu Tang (Cicerone group) 2nd Place tie

William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award ($250 each)
Cheyenne Phillips  (Reddi group) 
Dariia Yehorova  (Kamerlin group)

William Emerson Best Second Year Seminar Awards ($200 each)
Mikhayla Clothier (Kretchmer group) 
Atharva Kulkarni (Garg group) 
Chloe LeCates (Stockton group) 
Kei Kwan (Jerry) Li (Xia group)

Teaching Awards 2024

William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards ($250 each)
Isabel Berry (1310)
Elisabeth Schwiebert (1212)
Mayowa Anifowose (2311)
Sayan Palui (4581)
Chengyuan Shao (3481L – Lead TA)

Prestigious Fellowships 2024

NSF Graduate Fellowship
Luke Kurfman (Sherrill group)

Moody Family Fellowship ($500 each)
Hailey Areheart (France Group)
Chris Whittington (Lieberman Group)

Hurley, Rene & Jeffrey Family Fellowship ($1000)
Kellie Stellmach (Gutekunst Group) 

William Starnes Graduate Research Fellowship ($1000 each)
Haruko Tateyama (La Pierre Group)
Wenting Shi (Finn group)

Spring Research Symposium Awards 2023

William Emerson Best Poster Award ($500 each)
Caria Evans (France group)
Chloe LeCates (Stockton group)
Hailee Scelsi (Lieberman group)
Wenting Shi (Finn group)
Kejun Yin (Wu group)

First Place Presentation ($1000)
Suehyun Park (McDaniel Group)

Second Place Presentation ($750)
Alec Pabarue (Gutekunst Group)

Third Place Presentation ($500)
Monica Monge Loria (Garg Group)

Runners-up ($250 each)
Andrew Boggiano (La Pierre Group)
Alexis Johnston (Oyelere Group)
Esteban Rojas Gatjens (Silva Group)

Prestigious Fellowships 2023

Moody Family Fellowship ($1000)
Jessica Deutsch (Garg Group) 

Hurley, Rene & Jeffrey Family Fellowship ($1000)
Esteban Rojas Gatjens (Silva Group)

William Starnes Graduate Research Travel Award Fellowship ($1000)
Quynh Nguyen (Xia Group)

Teaching Awards 2023

William Emerson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards ($250) 
First-year Chemistry
Mikhayla Clothier
Daniel Bodine 

Organic Chemistry
Abigail Hagwood (CHEM 2312)
Chloe LeCates (CHEM 2380)

Biochemistry
Gwendell Thomas (CHEM 4581)

Analytical Chemistry
Tyler Bills (CHEM 3216L)

Physical Chemistry
Chengyuan Shao (CHEM 3481L)