2024 Undergraduate Student Chemistry Award Winners and Honors Announced

Senior Awards

Elden Bennett Hartshorn Medal – Emma Cool  

Haseltine Chemistry Physics Prize – Mary Ma

Chandler T. White 1916 Research Prize – Anjali Dhar and Vaishnavi Katragadda

John L. Zabriskie'61 Senior Chemistry Prize – Arshdeep Dhanoa and Julia Patterson

Stephen W. Wright'81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award – Ericka Asmus

Paul R. Shafer and Douglas M. Bowen Award – Yuliya Subotskaya and Arshdeep Dhanoa

American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award – Daniel Chen and Yuliya Subotskaya

American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry – Julia Binder

Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Excellence – Lynne Li

Chemistry Faculty Book Award – John Zavras, Thomas Policicchio, Kevin Staunton, and Franklin Ruan

 

Honors Presenters

Ericka Asmus

"Investigating the Arsenic Oxo-Ion Capture Capacity of 2-Dimensional Triphenylene-based Metal Organic Frameworks"

 

Daniel Chen

"Expression and Purification of Adaptor Protein Bph1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Progress Towards Structural Analysis"

 

Anjali Dhar

"Ensemble-based molecular docking of small molecule ligands on the disordered protein α-synuclein"

 

Julia Patterson

"In pursuit of understanding the physiological mechanism of the novel tumor suppressor LactB"

 

Emma Cool

"Characterization of evolutionary changes in the redox properties of cytochrome c_4 proteins"

 

Vaishnavi Katragadda

"Probing the Binding Mechanism of a Small Molecule Drug to the Disordered Transactivation Domain of the Androgen Receptor"

 

Yingzi Ma

"Optimizing nanostructured platinum catalysts for polymer upcycling"

 

Lynne Li

"Fabrication and Characterization of 3D Printable Ceramic Resins in Bone Tissue Engineering"

 

Julia Binder

"N-Glycosylation of Adam10a: Its Role in Regulating Endothelial to Hematopoietic Transition and Implications for Stem Cell Research"