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Cheves T. Walling Graduate Research Awards


Cheves Walling played a key role in the growth and development of chemistry at the University of Utah, retiring as a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry in 1991. Each year, one or two graduate students receive this award for the best dissertation, as decided by a committee of faculty members.

Award Winners from Previous Years

1991 – Merritt B. Andrus, Ellen R. Fisher1992 – Eileen M. Spain, David E. Clemmer

1993 – Jerry A. Murry, Bobby L. Williamson

1994 – Jane M. Behm, Rik R. Tykwinski

1995 – Kevin P . Dockery, David L. Patrick

1996 – Stanton F. McHardy, Mikhail Ovchinnikov

1997 – Michael Jarsfster, Richard Hansen

1998 – Wayne E. Buschmann, Bogdan Olenyuk

1999 – Jamie Manson, Travis Wager

2000 – Bradley D. Bath, Soren Giese

2001 – Michelle Cannon

2002 – Rico Del Sesto

2003 – Coby Carlson, V anessa Oklejas

2004 – Rehan Basta, David Jensen

2005 – Bob Moison, Carina Sanchez

2006 – Alison Livingston, Mitch Shultz

2007 – Lars Heumann, Sterling Paramore

2008 – Hanning Chen, Malathy Krishn Amurthy

2009 – Timothy Anglin, William Shum

2010 – Jeremy Galusha, William Kaden

2011 – Theresa Cooper Watson, Koushik Ghosh, Matthew Kraft

2012 – Wenje Lan, Y uan Zhang

2013 – Na An, Kaid Harper

2014 – David Bell

2015 – Elizabeth Bess, Krystal Sly

2016 – David Baumann, Jay Kitt

2017 – Margaret Hilton

2018 – Maria Demireva

2019 – Y uqing Qui

2020 – Peter Steveson, Cheryl Mathis

2021 – Moumita Bhattacharya, Pavithra Naullage

2022 – Daniel Rodriguez

2023 – Kameron Hansen, Grant Myres

2024 – Dakota Merriles

2025 -Joshua Taylor