The Department of Chemistry has worked very hard with individual and corporate sponsors to provide opportunities to recognize and award graduate students for their achievements in both academics and research. Below you will find a listing of the current fellowships and awards available to in-stream graduate students:
The donor is Mary Helen Merriam Stewart, a 1941 Iowa State University chemistry graduate who worked in industry and eventually earned her master's degree in biochemistry from Indiana University. This scholarship is for female graduate students majoring in chemistry at Iowa State University.
Applications are available by email at:
Deadlines: April 1 (annually)
Contact: Angela G. McColley
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Purpose of Program: The purpose of these awards is to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement by graduate students in teaching. The intent is to recognize up to 10% of the graduate students involved in teaching each year. The program is administered by the Graduate College with additional support from the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
Description of Awards: Each Teaching Excellence Award consists of a letter of commendation from the ISU President and a certificate of achievement signed by the ISU President and the Graduate Dean. Probably many teaching excellence winners will not be graduating at the time these awards are given, but recipients will also be recognized at the time of their graduation - each will be given an honor cord, cited in the ISU Commencement Program and recognized during the ceremony; the award is also be noted on the student's transcript. At the end of each term a formal photograph is taken of recipients with the ISU President, the Provost and/or the Graduate Dean.
Eligibility: Any graduate student with teaching responsibilities, and who has been on a teaching appointment for at least two terms (including summer sessions), is eligible for an award. Recipients of these awards must be enrolled at ISU at the time the awards are given; students who have already graduated are not eligible. A student is eligible for only one Teaching Excellence Award; however, it is possible to grant a student both a Teaching and a Research Excellence Award during his/her academic career.
Selection Process: The process of selection is the responsibility of each department or interdepartmental program.
Award Method: Awards will be mailed to the nominating departments at the end of each semester. Departments will be responsible for presenting the awards and will have the opportunity to supplement the award with a cash prize at that time. Each nominee will be given an award provided the student meets the eligibility requirements.
Purpose of Program: The purpose of these awards is to recognize graduate students at the time of their graduation for outstanding research accomplishments as documented in their theses and dissertations. These students are also expected to be academically superior and able to not only do research, but develop a well-written product. The intent of this program is to recognize up to 10% of graduating students who have submitted theses and dissertations. The Research Excellence Program is administered by the Graduate College with additional support from the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
Description of Awards: Each Research Excellence Award consists of a letter of commendation from the ISU President and a certificate of achievement signed by the Graduate Dean and the ISU President. Recipients are recognized at Commencement - each is given an honor cord, cited in the ISU Commencement Program and recognized during the ceremony; the award is also noted on the student's transcript. Each term a formal photograph is taken of recipients with the ISU President, the Provost, and/or the Graduate Dean.
Award Method: Awards will be mailed to departments at the end of each semester, at the beginning of Dead Week. Departments will be responsible for presenting the awards to the students and will have the opportunity to supplement the award with a cash prize at that time. Each nominee will be given an award provided the student has been cleared for graduation.
This award was established in 1980 to benefit both the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering through an endowment sponsored by Alpha Chi of Alpha Chi Sigma, Inc. and then president Prof. Harry Svec and treasurer Prof. Harvey Diehl.
Criteria: To support research fellowships in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. This annual award is given to graduate students to recognize outstanding research.
This award was established through the estate of Prof. Therese Cotton, a member of the Department of Chemistry faculty. Her research was in analytical chemistry. Dr. Uphaus was a scientist with Ames Lab, and the husband of Prof. Cotton. He preceded her in death.
Criteria: A student is eligible if she or he has not yet completed the third year of graduate study. The student may be an MS or PhD student, and may or may not have passed the preliminary exams. Students enter/nominate themselves by presenting a poster during the first Open House Poster Session. Three to five finalists will be chosen from the poster competition by a judging committee made up of the previous year's finalists and an equal number of faculty members. The finalists will present 15 minute talks during a seminar, and the winner will be chosen by the judging committee based on the talks given.
Criteria: The fellowship shall be made to graduate students entering or attending ISU and studying in the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Moore finished his Ph.D. in plant chemistry in 1940 with Prof. Johns and began work with Texaco in Port Arthur, Texas in the refining fuels laboratory. In 1945, he went to Texaco's Beacon Research Lab in Glenham, NY. In 1960, he became Director of the Fuel Group in Beacon, he was later appointed Director of the Gent Research Laboratory in Gent, Belgium. In 1972 he returned to Houston where he eventually retired from the Corporate Office. Dr. Moore's passion outside of science was golf of which upon retirement he played every day.
Criteria: Edna Hellwig Graham established The Arthur P. Hellwig Memorial Endowment Fund for Chemistry in 1987 to honor Dr. Hellwig, Ph.D. 1933. The endowment has been used to recognize the best of the present incoming class just completing their second semester in residence in either academics and/or research.
Criteria: Established in 2004. Chevron Phillips makes available each year funds to sponsor fellowships and professional development to help promote study in chemistry at the doctoral level.
Dr. Marguerite Fling earned her PhD in 1946 in bio and organic chemistry with Prof. Fox. One of her more notable classmates who graduated at the same time was Prof. Samuel Massie (Gilman). Dr. Fling was a senior research fellow in the biology Division at Caltech in the lab of Dr. Norman Horowitz until she retired in 1986.
Criteria: Women who are or will enroll as full-time graduate students. The original award was made through a bequest of Dr. Marguerite O. Fling through the Graduate College and was first awarded in 1988.
Criteria: Established in 1983, this fellowship has undergone a metamorphous as needs for doctoral chemists have increased in the industrial field. P&G makes available each year funds to sponsor one fellowship and a travel grant award program to help promote study in chemistry at the doctoral level.
Velmer Fassel enrolled in graduate school at ISC in 1941 and was recruited for Project 1050, which was the production of uranium metal for the Manhattan Project. In 1943 he married Mary. After WWII he graduated with a PhD in physical chemistry. He joined the faculty of ISC in 1949 in analytical chemistry and was named a group leader in the continuation of the scientific effort of the Manhattan Project which evolved in to the Ames Laboratory (DOE). He was named Distinguished Professor in 1976. He is well known for his pioneering work on inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy. Mary still resides in their Rancho Bernardo home and will always consider ISU her home.
Criteria: This fellowship is to provide financial assistance to deserving graduate students in the Ph.D. track majoring in analytical chemistry. Selection will be made by the graduate committee based upon the recommendation of the analytical chemistry faculty. The fund recognizes the accomplishments and celebrates the memory of Velmer A. Fassel, a graduate and distinguished professor of chemistry at ISU.
Criteria: All graduate students in chemistry are eligible for this fellowship. Students need not have passed the preliminary exams; therefore, first- and second-year students are eligible. Research performance is to be the sole criterion for selection of the awardee. Dr. Nelson received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1937 under Dr. Gilman. He was employed with Esso Research and Engineering Co. (Exxon), where he conducted research making synthetic rubber, detergents and other chemicals from petroleum. He was the inventor and co-inventor of 81 U.S. patents on chemicals, rubber and detergents made from petroleum.
Prof. Gilman's contributions to research are numerous and outstanding, including 1,000 separate articles and books. The principal themes have been organometallic and heterocyclic chemistry. Starting from a few scattered observations in the literature and inspired by the preparation of the Grignard reagents, Gilman developed that branch of science now known as organometallic chemistry.
Criteria: All graduate students in chemistry are eligible for this fellowship. Students need not have passed the preliminary exams; therefore, first- and second-year students are eligible. Research performance is to be the sole criterion for selection of the awardee.
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