Chemistry Department Awards
The 2006-2007 Chemistry Graduate and Faculty awards were held on Wednesday, April 18 in Gilman Hall. Professor Jake Petrich, department chair, was the master of ceremonies and assistant chair, Professor Keith Woo, presented the awards.
- Photo Gallery of the 2006-2007 Chemistry Graduate and Faculty awards
Congratulations to our faculty members for their achievements in 2006-2007:
Robert Angelici
- ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
Andreja Bakac
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Joseph Burnett
- Promotion to Senior Lecturer
- LAS Undergraduate Introductory Teaching Award
- LAS Faculty of the Year Award
Mark Gordon
- Named the Francis M. Craig Chair by the Iowa State University Foundation
Mei Hong
- Appointed to the first John D. Corbett Professorship
- Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award from Iowa Sigma Pi
- Iowa State University Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research
Robert Houk
- Margaret Ellen White Graduate Faculty Award
Malika Jeffries-EL
- Emerald Honor—Most Promising Scientist Science Spectrum Magazine
Richard Larock
- Appointed Distinguished Professor
Victor Lin
- Promoted to Professor
Gordon Miller
- LAS Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research/Artistic Creativity
Jacob Petrich
- Iowa State University CELT (Center for Learning and Excellence in Teaching) Miller Faculty Fellowship for 2006-2006
Nicola Pohl
- Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure
- Appointed the Caldwell Professor in Chemistry
Martha Russell
- Adjunct Associate Professor Emeriti
Aaron Sadow
- The Department of Chemistry Wilkinson Teaching Award
Kathleen Trahanovsky
- Adjunct Associate Professor Emeriti
Edward Yeung
- Haberman Lecturer, Marquette University
- J.J. E. Golay Award in Capillary Separations
- Merit Award from the Chicago Chromatography Discussion Group
2005-2006 Graduate Student Awards
Sarah Cady
- Student Travel Award to the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC) this year, to be held in Daytona Beach, Florida
- Isotec Student Sponsorship for the same conference, to the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC).
Tim Doherty
- Carver Fellowship in a BBMB/Chem/Phys joint Carver training grant
Tae-Soo You
- Received a fellowship from the Max-Plank Society (Germany) that allowed him to spend two months at the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Condensed Matter in Dresden, Germany.
Deborah Zorn
- Best Poster Award at the "Practicing Chemistry with Theoretical Tools" Conference, January 15-18, 2007 in Maui
The ISU Teaching Excellence Awards. Recipients of this award receive an award of $150, a letter of commendation from the President of ISU and a certificate of achievement from the Graduate Dean/Vice Provost for Research and Advanced Studies. Recipients will be recognized at the time of graduation-each will be given an honor cord, cited in the ISU Commencement Program and recognized during the ceremony. Documentation will be made on the student's transcript. A formal photograph will also be taken each semester of recipients with the President, Provost and/or Vice Provost. This photograph will appear in Research and Graduate Education along with an accompanying article.
Sayantan Bose, Gisun Park, Matthew SOyk, Alex Blom, Travis Witte, Gulden Camci Unal, Chorthip Peeraphadit, Chun Lu
The ISU Research Excellence Awards. Recipients of this award receive $150, a letter of commendation from the President of ISU and a certificate of achievement from the Dean and Vice Provost for Research and Advanced Studies. Recipients will be recognized in the ISU Commencement Program and on their transcripts. A formal photograph will be taken with the President, Provost and/or Vice Provost.
Erin Ratcliff, Stacey Stoffregen, Deborah Zorn
The Alpha Chi Sigma Awards. This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in each discipline. The award is $400.
Reed Oshel, Erin Ratcliff, Stacey Stoffregen, Deborah Zorn
The Cotton-Uphaus Award. This award is given to a student who has not yet completed their third year of graduate study. Finalists are chosen from a poster competition and those chosen give a presentation to a panel of judges. The winner receives a trophy and $500.
Winner: Reed Oshel
Finalists: Mingmen Shen, Chorthip Peeraphadit, Sarah Cady
The Frank J. Moore and Thoreen Beth Moore Fellowship. This fellowship was awarded this year for the first time. The award is named for Dr. Moore, who received his Ph.D. in plant chemistry in 1940 and worked for Texaco in Port Arthur, Texas and Glenham, New York. He went on to become the Director of the Gent Research Laboratory in Gent, Belgium. The award is $1600.
Sarah Cady, Sarom Sok
The Esther C. and George E. Daniel Fellowship. This award is named for Dr. Esther Daniel who received her BS degree in chemistry in 1923 and then enrolled in the graduate program at Johns Hopkins University where she met Dr. George Daniel. Both Esther and George went to work for the Food and Drug Administration after graduation as biochemists, where they remained until their retirement in their 50's. The award is $1600.
Vinayak Gupta, Daniel Kemp, Steven Neal, Bosiljka Njegic, Luke Roskop, Tomi Smith, KaKing Yan
The Arthur P. Hellwig Memorial. Endowment established by Edna Hellwig Graham in 1987 for Arthur Hellwig, Ph.D. 1933. The endowment recognizes the best of the present incoming class just completing their second semester in residence in either academics and or research. The award is $1000
Aaron West
The Women in Chemistry Award. The award is $1000.
Wenbin Luo, Gisun Park
The Proctor & Gamble Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry. Established in 1983, 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. The award is $3000
Prasun Mukherjee
The Mary K. and Velmer A. Fassel Fellowship. This fellowship celebrates the memory of Velmer A. Fassel, a graduate and distinguished professor of chemistry at Iowa State and provides financial assistance to deserving graduate students in the Ph.D. track majoring in analytical chemistry. The award is $5000 and tuition and fees for 12 months.
Suzanne Sander
The Joseph F. Nelson Fellowship. This fellowship is open to all graduate students and is based on research performance. 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 did 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. The award is $5000 and tuition and fees for 12 months.
Benjamin Prince
The Henry Gilman Fellowship. This fellowship is open to all graduate students and is based in research performance. The award is $5000 and tuition and fees for 12 months.
Erin Rockafellow
