Chemistry Department Awards
Photo Gallery of the 2008-2009 Chemistry Graduate and Faculty awards
The 2008-2009 Chemistry Faculty and Graduate Student awards ceremony was held on Friday, May 8 in Gilman Hall. Professor Jake Petrich, department chair, was the master of ceremonies and assistant chair, Professor Keith Woo, presented the awards.
Congratulations to our faculty members for their achievements in 2008-2009
Joe Burnett- Outstanding Faculty Member Award for excellence in teaching and student relations from the ISU Greek Community
- LAS Early Achievement in Advising
- Monie Ferst Award of the Georgia Tech Chapter of Sigma Xi
- Named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- ACS Award for Computer in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
- Named 2008 Iowa Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
- 2009 LAS Ruth Swenson Award for Outstanding Advising
- 2009-2010 LAS Master Teacher
- 2009 LAS Merit Excellence Award
- CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
- Lloyd Ferguson Young Scientist Award from NOBCChE
- 2009 LAS Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
- Department of Chemistry Wilkinson Teaching Award
- Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2008-2009 Cassling Family Faculty Award
- 2008 LAS Award for Outstanding Teaching
- 2009 LAS Departmental Leadership Award
- LAS Master Teacher Award
- Promoted to Full Professor
- 2009 LAS P & S Excellence Award
- Named a Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2009 ISU Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research
- ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry
2008-2009 Graduate Student Awards
- Named DOE/Kress CSGF Fellow, full four year support
- ConocoPhillips Fellow 2008-2009
- ACS Best Poster in Physical Chemistry at Salt Lake City American Chemical Society Meeting
- The Journal of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Best Paper of Year 2008 award
- 2009 Lindeau Fellow
- Student Travel Award for the Experimental NMR Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, March 30-April 3, 2009.
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.
Joyce Kang, Bongkeun Kim, Megan Mekoli, John Mengwasser, Donald Rogness, Suzanne Sander, Kuldeep Wadhwa.
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.
Sarah Cady, Daniel Kemp, Qin Zhao
The Alpha Chi Sigma Awards. This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in each discipline. The award if $400.
Gisun Park, Mingmin Shen, Sarom Sok, Juan Luis Vivero-Escoto
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: Yuan Zhang
Finalists: Yanyan Hu, Suzanne Sander, George Schoendorff, Yannan Zhao
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.
Deepak Dibya, James Dunne, Jonathan Mullin, Luke Roskop, Fei Wang.
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
Kurt Brorsen
The Chevron Phillips Fellowship. The Chevron Phillips Chemical Company sponsors Ph.D. fellowships in both chemistry and chemical engineering and a professional development fund for both departments. Students are selected for the fellowship based on their research achievements. The award amount varies.
Po-Wen Chung, Wenbin Luo, Daniel Pfister, KaKing Yan
The Women in Chemistry Award. The award is $1000.
Achala Bhuwalka, Stephanie Smith
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
Wei Sun
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.
Timothy Doherty
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.
Erin Rockafellow
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.
Yanyan Hu
