Numerous graduate and undergraduate chemistry students were honored at the 2022 Spring Awards Banquet, held at the Leo Seal M-Club at Davis-Wade Stadium on Friday, April 22, 2022.
Congratulations to all award recipients!
Award recipients included:
Undergraduate Awards
- Integrated General Chemistry Award - Autumn Lock
- Integrated Organic Chemistry Award - Ryan Register
- Analytical Chemistry I Award - Nicole Ingram
- Analytical Chemistry II Award - Estefania Armendariz
- Bill Henry Inorganic Chemistry Award - Araceli Figueroa
- Physical Chemistry Award-Thermo - Baylee McIntyre
- Physical Chemistry Award-Quantum - Nicole Ingram
- Horn Awards:
- Blake Katz
- Baylee McIntyre
- Sabrina Solomon
- John David Williams
- Matthew Wright
- Biochemistry I Award - Nicole Ingram
- Biochemistry II Award - Shelly Lindsey
- Outstanding 1st Year Chemistry Major Award - Jenny Greer
- Outstanding 2nd Year Chemistry Major Award - Kari Chamberlain
- Outstanding 3rd Year Chemistry Major Award - Sarah Sarah Labbé
- Outstanding 4th Year Chemistry Major Award - Hayden Davis
- Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award - Alison Duckworth
- Phi Lambda Upsilon:
- Estefania Armendariz–Gonzales
- Anna Ruth Bales
- Alison Duckworth
- Nicole Ingram
- Sarah Labbé
- Shelby Lynn Lindsey
Graduate Awards
- Rookie Researcher Award - Samuel Juarez Scamilla
- Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award - Ernesto Borrego
- Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award - Chathuranga Rathnamalala
- Rookie of the Year Teaching Award - Fernanda Maria Garcia
- Lower Division Teaching Award - Samuel Juarez Escamilla
- Upper Division Teaching Award - Abdullah Abu Anzeh
- Analytical Teaching Award - Femi "Raymond" Awoyemi
- Recitation Teaching Award - Chathuri Haputhanrhige
- Graduate Teaching Service Award - Beatrice Arwenyo
- Safety First Teaching Award - Beatrice Arwenyo & Olalekan Olabode
Other Awards
- Outstanding Staff Award - Sara Stevenson
- CGSA's Outstanding Tenure-Track Faculty Award - Dr. Sid Creutz
- CGSA's Outstanding Non Tenure-Track Faculty Award - Dr. Sean Stokes
- CGSA's Outstanding Staff Award - Sara Stevenson
- MOLE-YMPICS
- 1st Place - Team Dumpster Fire
- 2nd Place - Team Smile
- 3rd Place - Team MassSpec
- CSGA Service Award - Loan Nguyen
- CSGA's Graduate Student Recognition
- Chathuranga Rathnamalala – 2022 Poster Award at CEMOS and Vice President of the GSA
- Ketki Shelar – Awarded Arts and Science– Strategic Research Initiative(SRI) Student Research & Scholarly Activity Funding
- Oluwafemi Awolesi –1st Place Business Concept from Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach at MSU and BankTel’s People’s Choice Award
- Xiaolin Qian – 1st Author Pub in ACS Catalyst
- Mohammed Almtiri – Excellence Graduate Researcher at ACS
2021-2022 Promotions
- Dr. Nick Fitzkee – early promotion to Professor (2021)
- Dr. Virginia Montiel – promotion with tenure to Associate Professor (2022)
- Dr. Snow Xu – promotion to Associate Clinical Professor (2022)
- Dr. Xin Cui – promotion with tenure to Associate Professor (2022)
2021-2022 External Awards Nominations and Winners
- Dr. Todd Mlsna – 2022 MS State Chemist
- Dr. Deb Mlsna – Grisham Master Teacher
- Dr. Colleen Scott – CAS Researcher Award
- Dr. Eugene Caldona – ChemDawg Ph.D–2020 New Assistant Professor at NDSU
- Matthew Carlo – ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy & 2022 ACS YCC Leadership Development Award
- Chathuranga Rathnamalala – 2022 3MT Thesis Competition, Grand Champion – Runner–Up
- Mohammed Almtiri – 2022 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Highlighted Paper, American Chemical Society
- Ernesto Borrego – Graduate Research Assistant Award
Department of Chemistry Nominations for Awards
- Abigail Ressler – Outstanding Graduate Student – Service
- Dr. Eric Dornshuld – CAS Teaching Award
- Dr. Chris Johnson – Eminent Scholar Award
- Dr. Todd Mlsna – Oldham Outstanding Mentor
- Dr. Todd Mlsna – SEC Faculty Member
2022 Graduate Symposium Winners
- Education, Arts & Sciences, and Business Doctoral Students:
- Oral First Prize – Ernesto Borrego
- Poster First Prize – Gabriela Sanchez
2021/22 Graduate Degrees
Summer 2021
- Chanaka Navarantha - PhD
- Advisor - T Mlsna
- Keith Cobb - MS
- Advisor - Smith
- Weiyu Peng - MS
- Advisor - Zhang
- MD Raihan Uddin - MS (NT)
- Advisor - Emerson
Fall 2021
- Lakmal Hetti Handi - PhD
- Advisor - Cui
- Chathuri Mohottige - PhD
- Advisor - T Mlsna
- Maleesha De Silva - PhD
- Advisor - Patrick
- Ryan Williams - MS
- Advisor - Johnson
- Mahmuda Akter - MS
- Advisor - Emerson
- Aia Ul Islam - MS (NT)
- Advisor - Emerson
Spring 2022
- Beatrice Arwenyo - PhD
- Advisor - T Mlsna
- Jerrano Bowleg - PhD
- Advsior - Gwaltney
- Karl Mukeba - PhD
- Advisor - Smith
- Guery Saenz - PhD
- Advisor - Scott
- Ketki Shelar - PhD
- Advisor - Smith
- Hellen Stephanie - PhD
- Advisor - Wipf
- Ranganath Don - PhD
- Advisor - Scott
- Tran Nguyen - MS
- Advisor - Hollis
- Dexin Liu - MS (NT)
- Advisor - Wipf
2021-2022 Graduates
- Lauren Adams
- Estefania Armendariz
- Kyra Brown
- Christina Burse
- Emily Chandler
- Hayden Davis
- Nelson Felder
- Araceli Figueroa
- Esmeralda Figueroa
- James Goodrich
- Tara Hambrick
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