Celebrating Students, Faculty, and Staff 2024 Chemistry Awards Ceremony
On April 17, 2024 we held the annual Awards Ceremony to celebrate our students, faculty and staff. It was a celebration of hard work and outstanding contributions of the Department of Chemistry.
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Amy M. Barrios
Professor in the Department of Medicinal, Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy, University of Utah
Undergraduate Awards
American Institute of Chemists Award :Nancy Sohlberg
Walter D. & Grace G. Bonner Memorial Awards: Leo Bloxham, Andrew Larkin, Rebecca McMurray, Adam Montgomery, Jessica Pike
Phillips Senior Scholars: Ty Demosthenes, Aric Potter, Jonah Simmons
Honors in Chemistry Awards: Austin Bender, Arnel Besic, Anneke Enquist, Julia Clista Galecki, Marina Gerton, Jack Hindley,
Travis Martinez, Victoria Medvedeva, Eva Quintus-Bosz, CJ Craig Reid, Nancy Sohlberg
ACS Division Awards
Analytical – Austin Bender
Biological – Ty Demosthenes
Inorganic – Jamie Covington
Organic – Vincent Ngo
Physical – Victoria Chiou
The Ronald & Eileen Ragsdale
Undergraduate Endowment Scholarships: Emily Dalley (Reese Award), Wilder Dalton (Eyring Award), Derek Mansfield (Ragsdale Award), Vincent Ngo (Burdett Award)
Reuben Kronstadt Tuition Waiver: Taylor Hatch
Laya F. Kesner Awards: Uziel Gonzalez, Hakan Kariparduc, Ethan Klobutcher, Annie Thompson
Leon Watters Memorial Awards: Georgia Brach, Victoria Chiou, AJ Andrew Giles, Kevin Liebetrau, Abigail Mason, Mary Alice Parker, Maddox Riewald, Farah Sadat
Armantrout Memorial Award: Brekke Pattison
Ferdinand A. & Ruth Anderson Peterson Scholarships: Kesaia Akau & Jessica Dickinson
Melvin C. Cannon Scholarships: Katherine Osterstock & Sofia Perez
Gill Scholarship: Nyrvanah Crockett
Sugihara Scholarship: Alana Field
Undergraduate Research Scholarships: Audrey Burrows, Tilly Dillon, Gabriella Eyring, Kierra Forthman, Christopher Frederick, Alison Nopper
UROP Stem Spring Symposium Best Poster Award: Julia Clista Galecki, Alexandra Glatz, Jennifer Kim, CJ Craig Reid
Eastern Analytical Symposium Undergraduate Research Award: Aric Potter
Mack Thomas Rozelle Scholarships: Clarissa Goh, Derek Mansfield, Anna Page, Anika Tindall
Lloyd E. Malm Memorial Awards: Lademi Adepoju, Lexi Bohman, Harold Chen, Caleb Mason, Kalina Manova,
Taylor Melchior, Emily Norton, Katarina Prill, Annika Thorstensen, Anneke Van Regenmorter
W. H. Breckenridge Honors Scholarships: Hayden Spurgeon & Orion Xiao
Chem Unity Mentor Awards: Maddison Bailey & Frances Laurent
Resiliency Award: Clayton Brookfield
SACNAS Awards: Georgia Brach & Silvia Leon-Moreno
Kodak Educational Service Awards: Daylen Anzures, Kierra Forthman, Zera Gonzalez, Sakthivel Jayakumar, Logan Klar, Delaney Miller
Kodak TA of the Semester Awards: Daniel Barerra, Cole Clark, Rachel Hurrell
Kodak TA’S of the Year: Emma Hale & Johan Simmons
Graduate Awards
Cheves T. Walling Graduate Research Awards: Dakota Merriles
The Ronald & Eileen Ragsdale
Curie Club Graduate Research Award: Brittany Haas
William E. Jack Life Science Graduate Research Award: Karsten Eastman
Harris Graduate Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry: Anh Nguyen
Keck Graduate Fellowship in Organic Chemistry: Marcus Mifflin
2024 Curie Club Outreach Award: Aria Ballance
Anthony W. Czarnik Curie Club Graduate Teaching Award: Kendahl Darschewski
Craig & Linda Lee Curie Club Graduate Teaching Award: Joshua Novak
Dow Chemical First-Year Awards: Ben Bloom, George Jijieshvili, Perry Martin
Faculty Awards
Robert W. Parry Teaching Award
Endowed by the Brady Foundation: Andrew Roberts
W.W. Epstein Outstanding Educator Award: Ryan DeLuca
National Science Foundation Early Career Award: Aaron Puri & Jessica Swanson
Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award: Jessica Swanson
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship: Rodrigo Noriega
Simons Foundation Life Sciences Div. Early Career Investigator in
Aquatic Microbial Ecology & Evolution: Aaron Puri
American Society for Mass Spectroscopy Research Award: Gabe Nagy
U Graduate School (ORAU) Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement
Award: Connor Bischak
ACS Utah Award for Outstanding Chemist: Matthew Sigman
American Chemical Society Election to Fellow: Vahe Bandarian
U Environmental Health & Safety EHS Merit Award: Peter Armentrout
National Academy of Science Kalvi Frontiers of Science Fellow: Ming Hammond
Israel Jewish National Faculty Fellowship: Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Staff Service Recognition
Campbell Staff Award: Joshua Nutter
Staff Service Recognitions
15 Years
Jiliane Brandol, Joshua Nutter, Holly Sebahar









