College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences

Awards and Fellowships

GRADUATE AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

  • Hockmeyer Fellowship (for more information contact Carol Granger (carol@umd.edu)). Eligibility: post-candidacy graduate student working in Life Sciences research in a laboratory of CMNS
  • Emad Fellowships (for more information contact Carol Granger (carol@umd.edu)). Eligibility: post-candidacy graduate student working in a laboratory of CMNS.


GRADUATE AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES, PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS

  • Dolphus Milligan Graduate Fellowship Eligibility: Fellowship candidates must be U.S. citizens who will have completed their undergraduate degrees in chemistry, chemical engineering or a related discipline by August, 2012.
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Eligibility: United States citizens or permanent residents. Individuals are eligible to apply: 1) during the senior year of college, 2) after graduating from college and prior to entering graduate school, 3) during the first year of graduate school, 4) prior to completing the first term of the second year of graduate school.
  • American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. Eligibility: graduate students working in research broadly related to cardiovascular function and disease, stroke or to related clinical, basic science, bioengineering or biotechnology, and public health problems.


PAST AWARD WINNERS 

Alphi Chi Sigma Albertus Magnus Award for Outstanding Teaching in General Chemistry

Pedro Bueno, 2004 and Elizabeth Patton, 2004
Wendy Heiserman, 2005
Anthony Dylla, 2006
Cassandra Taylor, 2007
Romina Heymann, 2010


American Chemical Society (ACS) Awards

Bo He, 2006 Best Poster at 232th National Meeting, San Fransisco
Leonard Demoranville, 2007 Nuclear Chemistry Division Graduate Student Travel Award

American Physical Society Awards


Linjie Li, 2008 Division of Laser Science Student Travel Grant Award

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Defense Scholarship for Service Program (SMART), Fellow

Dennis Mayo, 2008
Amanda Chamber, 2009
Edward Sisco, 2011

Ann G. Wylie Dissertation, Fellow

Wei-Hao Huang, 2007
Wei Zhang, 2008
Jacqueline Smith and Lei Yan, 2010
Daniel Gowetski, Sanghee Nah and Jia Wei, 2011

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS), Fellow

Rebecca Vieira, 2007-2008
Colin Wynne and Merle Zimmerman, 2008-2009
Seth Thomas and Stefanie Sherrill, 2009-2010 & 2010-2011

Calixarene (Calix)

James Creagan, 2007 Best Poster Award at the College Park Conference

Carl L. Rollinson Teaching Award

Leonard Demoranville and Mara Dougherty, 2008
Min Jia and Lenea Rader, 2009
Abulfazl Fakhari Mehrjardi, 2010
Matthew Hurley and Frederck Nytko III, 2011

Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award

Nicole Carbonaro, 2008
Bryna Clover, 2008
Katherine Connor, 2008
Kelly Daggett, 2008
André Dennis, 2008
Mara Dougherty, 2008
Aaron Haeusler, 2008
Will Harrell, 2008
Raffaele Perrotta, 2008
Adam Smolinsky, 2008
Soheila Bahmanjah, 2010

College of Chemical and Life Sciences Travel Award

Leonard Demoranville, 2008
Marvourneen Dolor, 2008
Juan Du, 2008
Soumyadip Ghosh, 2008
Eugene Khaskin, 2008
Julia Khusnutdinova, 2008
Qingnan Liu, 2008
Jing Wu, 2008
Qin Zhong, 2008

The Dolphus E. Milligan Graduate Fellowship Award, Fellow

Monique Pichon, 2007-2009
Christopher Sims, 2008-2010
Reyniak Richards, 2009-2011
Julia Greenfield, 2010-2012
Blessing Deeyaa, 2011-2013

Excellence in Graduate Research Award

Okan Esenturk, Melanie Moses, Yonghui Zhang and Ranjani Varadan, 2004
Emren Nalbant-Esenturk and W. Michael Seganish, 2005
Christopher Lafratta and Arthur J. Catino, 2006
Michael B. Pomfret and Bo He, 2007
Linjie Li and Ling Ma, 2008
Juan Du, Patrick McTamney and Qin Zhong, 2009
Jonathon Duay, Maria Del Mar Ingaramo and Jia Wei, 2011

Fellow in the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship Program

Renee Siler and Jacqueline Smith, 2006-2008
Dave Jenkin, 2010-2012

G. Forrest Woods Award for Graduate Study in Chemistry

Matthew Harney, 2005
Shenghu Zhou, 2006
Julie Khusnutdinova, 2007
Rennisha Wickham, 2011

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), Fellow

Pedro Bueno, Kelly Daggett, Wendy Heiserman, Regan Nally, 2006-2007
Brian Borak, Anthony Dylla, Cassandra Taylor, 2007-2008
Domonique Downing, Derick Lucas, Thao Nguyen, Lenea Rader, Jacqueline Smith, 2009-2010
Mara Dougherty, Domonique Downing, Raffaele Perrotta, Maxim Ratinokov, James Wittenberg, 2010-2011

International Carotenoid Society (ICS) Awards

An-Ni Chang, 2008 Young Investigator Travel Award

Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award

An-Ni Chang, 2008
Marvourneen Dolor, 2008

James M. Stewart Excellence in Teaching Award

Carmen Beildeck and Jennifer Kuebler, 2004
William McElroy, 2005
Qing Zhu, 2006
Arthur Winter, 2007

Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement

Oluyomi Okunola, 2008

National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers

Oluyomi Okunola, 2007 Best Oral Presentation, Graduate/Professional Division at SE Regional Meeting

Summer Research Fellowship awarded by the Graduate School, Fellow

Maria Del Mar Ingaramo, Karen Lohnes, Emily Trunkely, Jing Wu, 2008
Domonique Downing and Huizhi Bai, 2010

Washington Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Awards

Stephen Swatkoski, 2007 Travel Award

Wiliam F. Bailey Summer Research Fellowship

Maria Del Mar Ingaramo, Sanghee Nah, Jingxin Wang and Jia Wei, 2010
Joseph Cannon and Michael Stocker, 2011