Graduate Student Awards Program
Each spring, the faculty of the Chemistry department select outstanding graduate students to receive awards based on performance. The Department is pleased to announce the recipients of the following awards for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Zappert Award
American Chemical Society, Binghamton Section
$100.00 scholarship to an outstanding graduating Ph.D. student. Awarded at the annual
Section "Student Awards" dinner in May.
2023 Recipient: Ezer Castillo
2024 Recipient: Krystal Lee
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities. Picture
taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, director of TA鈥檚, student鈥檚 advisor,
and Department Chair.
2023 Recipient: Faith Wachira
2024 Recipient: Lynn Terry
Outstanding Research Assistant Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities. Picture
taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, director of TA鈥檚, student鈥檚 advisor,
and Department Chair.
2023 Recipient: Christopher Ryan
2024 Recipient: Chetan Joshi and Zihan Xu.
Outstanding Service and Outreach Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding research accomplishments.
Picture taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, student鈥檚 advisor and Department
Chair.
2023 Recipient: Ezer Castillo
2024 Recipient: Kelli Moseman
Lois D. Mackey Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 check to a graduate student.
2023 Recipient: Colin Clark
2024 Recipient:
K. Keith Innes Summer Research Grant
Chemistry and Physics Departments, Administered through the 黑料视频
Foundation
$5,000 to an exceptional graduate student who is not fully funded for summer research
using spectroscopy in physical chemistry, chemical physics, or other fields of chemistry
in this order of preference.
2023 Recipient: Lynn Terry
2024 Recipient: Nora Burnett
Clifford E. Myers Summer Research Grant
Chemistry Department, Administered through the 黑料视频 Foundation
$5,000 to an exceptional graduate student who is not fully funded for summer research
in materials chemistry.
2023 Recipient: Michael Njuki and Ben Pei
2024 Recipient: Zhen Lei
eisch summer research grant
Chemistry Department, Administered through the 黑料视频 Foundation
$5,000 ... given to students who pursue bold and unexpected leads in high risk, high
reward research.
2023 Recipient: Chetan Joshi
2024 Recipient: Victor Nyagilo
SHIMADZU SUMMER RESEARCH GRANT
Chemistry Department, Administered through the 黑料视频 Foundation
$5,000 ... graduate student in the Chemistry Department of exceptional quality who
is not fully-funded for summer research.
2023 Recipient: Yang Dong
2024 Recipient: Ilze Kumpina
Jeffrey Beck Graduate Summer Research Grant
Chemistry Department, Administered through the 黑料视频 Foundation
$5,000 to an exceptional Chemistry graduate or PhD student who is not fully funded
for summer research.
2023 Recipient: June Kenyaga and Victor Nyagilo
2024 Recipient: Kelli Moseman