2026 Senior Awards and Prizes
Elden Bennett Hartshorn Medal – Julia Fortier
Haseltine Chemistry Physics Prize – Olivia Koo
Chandler T. White 1916 Research Prize – Audrey Marin and Sumant Sharma
John L. Zabriskie'61 Senior Chemistry Prize – Alyssa Gagen and Mateo Suarez
Stephen W. Wright'81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award – Sohini Mandal and Peyton Kanaly
Paul R. Shafer and Douglas M. Bowen Award – Autumn Clark
American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award – Timothy Bonis
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry – Caroline Reilly
Royal Society of Chemistry Certificate of Excellence – Esme Huh
Chemistry Faculty Book Award – Thomas Hohmann, Samuel Dupuis, J'Voughnn Blake, Brennah Slaney
2026 Senior Honors Presenters
Autumn Clark - "Improving Student Understanding of Thermodynamics Through a Redesigned General Chemistry Calorimetry Laboratory"
Julia Fortier - "Understanding the virulence of transcription factor, AggR, using regulation by fatty acids"
Alyssa Gagen - "Structural and redox properties of pentaheme protein PA4571 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"
Esme Huh - "Characterizing the CcoP Domain of the ccb3 Oxidase in Azotobacter vinelandii"
Olivia Koo - "Quantifying Thermodynamics of Ferric and Ferrous Binding to Mesophilc Rubredoxin via Isothermal Titration Calorimetry"
Sohini Mandal - "Photoredox or Photosensitization: Exploring Mechanistic Pathways in Transition-Metal Catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions"
Audrey Marin - "Inhibiting the NEMO/IKKB Interaction with Engineered Peptides: Cellular and Biophysical Characterization"
Caroline Reilly - "Discovering Small Molecule Inhibitors of the NFKB-IKKB Interaction"
Mateo Suarez - "Solid-State Photolysis of Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites for the Synthesis of Chlorinated Amines and Aziridines"
