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ANNUAL CHEMISTRY AWARDS
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Elizabeth R. Norton Prize for Excellence in Research in Chemistry
  2008 Jianwei Sun
  2007 Matthew Boxer, Peng Chen, Cory Gerdts
  2006 Elena Lucchetta, Rene Nome
  2005 Guohui Wu
  2004 Jibin Sun, Richard Baxter
  2003 Norie Momiyama
  2002 Yong Huang, Michael Lindsay, Bianxiao Cui
  2001 Christian Hodneland
  2000 Moonsub Shim
 
Albert J. Cross Prize for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Departmental Citizenship
  2008 Dave Capretto, Josh Payette
  2007 Shelli Frey
  2006 Mingzhao Liu
  2005 Matthew Boxer
  2004 Justin Jureller
  2003 Maria Krisch
  2002 Ajaykumar Gopal
  2001 Wendy Ryan
  2000 Andy Goshe
 
Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award in General Chemistry
  2008 Lynna Avila-Bront, Kelly Fransted, Pavlo Zolotavin
  2007 Bridget Alligood, Britni Ratliff
  2006 Changle Chen, Nicole Harrold, Rebecca Pompano
  2005 Praket Jha, Eugene Kamarchik
  2004 Glenna Smith, Arthur Reber
  2003 Miriam Freedman & Erik Epp
  2002 Daniel Jordan & Laura McCunn
  2001 Maria Krisch & Mustafa Demirplak
  2000 Derek Frydel
 
Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry
  2008 Dmitry Usanov, Elizabeth Wiltrout
  2007 Ye Zhu
  2006 Ralph Petty
  2005 Laura Ellis
  2004 John Jewett
  2003 Elena Lucchetta
  2002 Jeff McGilvra
  2001 Jelena Janjic
  2000 David Bolar
 
Sugarman / Closs Teaching Award for Advanced Chemistry Courses
  2003 Shannon Stewman
  2002 Robert Walicki
  2001 Tahllee Baynard
 
Helen Sellei-Beretvas Female Graduate Student Award in Chemistry
  2008 Britni Ratliff
  2007 Seraphine Wegner
  2006 Sarah Shaner
  2005 Margaret Hershberger
  2004 Mariam Freedman
  2003 Helen Song
  2002 Jennifer Gottfried
  2001 Trilisa Perrine
  2000 Wendy Ryan Gordon
 
Joan Shiu Award for Student Service
  2008 Jacqueline DeFoe, Cameron Iverson
  2007 Zackary Gurard-Levin
  2006 Miriam Freedman, Jeffrey Hammond
  2005 Shelli Frey, Jason Montgomery
  2004 James Crowley, Marya Jones
  2003 Andrew Goshe & Aaron Rosenbaum
  2002 Christopher Burns & Catherine Southern
  2001 Rory Melenkivitz & Ajaykumar Gopal
  2000 Richard Baxter & Robert Walicki
 
Everett E. Gilbert Memorial Prize for the Best Third Year Experimentalist in Organic Chemistry
  2008 Pingfan Li
  2007 Gerri Hutson
  2006 Delai Chen
  2005 Matt Runyon
  2004 Jeff McGilvra
  2002 Dong Liu
  2001 Andrei Vorogushin
 
The Yang Cao-Lan-Xian Best Thesis Award in the Department of Chemistry
  2008 Miriam Freedman and Mingzhao Liu in Physical Chemistry
  2008 Christian Kastrup and Shuji Luo in Organic/Inorganic Chemistry
  2007 Gergely Gidofalvi in Physical Chemistry
  2007 Jelena Janjic in Organic/Inorganic Chemistry
  2006 Justin Jureller and Laura McCunn in Physical Chemistry
  2006 Alexandre Statsiouk and Jibin Sun in Organic/Inorganic Chemistry
  2005 Congjun Wang in Physical Chemistry
  2005 Matt LaCoco in Organic/Inorganic Chemistry
  2004 Roy Waterman in Organic/Inorganic Chemistry
  2003 Julie Gruetzmacher in Physical Chemistry
  2001 Jong-in Hahm in Physical Chemistry
  2001 Ben Houseman in Organic Chemistry
 
Freud Departmental Citizenship Award
  2005 The Brochure Team: Maria Krisch, Shelli Frey, Jeff Hammond, Yuji Ishitsuka, Justin Jureller, Tony Marino, Trilisa Perrine & Michael Schramm
  2001 The Web Team: Wendy Ryan, Han Shen, Carey Schehr, Ajaykumar Gopal, Hamid Zaman, Robert Walicki & Mike Lindsay
 
Edith Barnard Memorial Award in Chemistry for service to others
  2008 Amy Kim, Rebecca Pompano
  2007 David Capretto, Miriam Freedman, John Jewett
  2006 Jason Montgomery & Cameron Iverson
  2005 Michael Schramm & Justin Jureller
  2004 Jelena Janjic & Chris Burns
  2003 Ana Stankovic & Laura McCunn
  2002 Han Shen
 
ARCS Foundation Scholarship in the Sciences
  2006 Gerri Hutson
  2004 Maria Krisch
  2001 Andy Goshe
 
William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship
  2004 Julie Gruetzmacher
  2003 Edward Stoebenau
 
Physical Sciences Division Teaching Award
  2008 Jonathan Foley
  2007 Laura Hawk
  2005 Justin Modica
  2004 Greg Gidofalvi & Lieve Teugels
  2003 Jennifer Miller & Allan Wilson
  2002 Robert Walicki
  2000 Christopher Galliford
 
The Booth Prize for Excellence in Teaching
  2006 Zachary Gurard-Levin
  2004 Margaret Hershberger
 
The Abbott Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  2006 Jianwei Sun
  2004 Norie Momiyama
  2001 Yong Huang
 
Undergraduate Student Awards
Norman H. Nachtrieb Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Studies of Chemistry
  2008 John Anderson
  2007 Justine Bell, Zachary Gates
  2006 David Adamson, Brandon-Luke Seagle
  2005 John Parkhill
  2004 Kana Takematsu
  2002 Andrew Tennyson
  2001 Jesse Bloom
  2000 Mate Adamkovics
 
F. & I. Scherer Memorial Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemical Research
  2003 Joshua Tice
  2002 Stacey Maskarinec
  2001 Chris Clough
  2000 Philip Leonard
 
C.W. Chang Book Prize for Undergraduate Studies of Chemistry
  2001 Andrew Tennyson
  2000 Chris Clough
 
Francis E. Knock Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Chemistry
  2008 Greg Kaufman
  2007 Valeriy Shubinets
  2006 Matthew Merguerian, Linda Siow, Nawaporn Vinayavekhin, Sandra Williams
  2005 David Strubbe
  2004 Janaki Nathan, Sara Jones, Matthew Reid, & Kana Takematsu
  2003 Katherine Edmonds
  2002 John Gallagher
  2001 Claire Jacobs & Gigi Liu
  2000 Oliver Richards
 
Francis E. Knock Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Biological Chemistry
  2008 Matt Biancalana
  2007 Amy Winans
  2006 Pericles Abassi, Katarina Ruscic
  2005 Bethany Johnson-Kerner
  2004 Marc Benayoun
  2003 Jonathan Chen
  2002 Kathryn Lemberg
  2001 Jesse Bloom
  2000 Sarah Bagby, Leonard Go, Gaorav Gupta & Daniel Kao
 
Jean Dreyfus Boissvain Undergraduate Scholarship for Summer Research
  2005 Marie Justine Bell
 
National Graduate Student Awards
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  2007 Catherine Poor, Britni Ratliff
 
National Undergraduate Student Awards
Beckman Scholars
  2007 Donald Bungum, Emily Glassman
 
Barry M. Goldwater Scholars
  2008 Donnie Bungum, Erin Mowers
  2007 Matthew Biancalana, Zachary Rodgers
 
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  2008 John Anderson, Aaron Puri, Stephen Heller, Matthew Reid
  2007 David Adamson, Doran Bennett, Zachary Gates, Jeffrey Mugridge, Robin Scheffler
 
The Pfizer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  2007 Danielle Sedbrook
  2005 Yihui Wu
  2004 John Parkhill
 
 
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