GRADUATE AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

• Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship  Eligibility: Graduate students in the final stages of writing their dissertations.

• Dolphus Milligan Graduate Fellowship Eligibility: Fellowship candidates must be accepted into the graduate program in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and be a U.S. citizen.

• The Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement  Eligibility: Current graduate students.

• The Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship  Eligibility: Graduate students working on interdisciplinary research.

• The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study  Eligibility: Post-candidacy graduate students with one year served as a teaching assistant.

•  Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Fellowship Program  Eligibility: Graduate students with US citizenship or permanent residency and with proven participation in LSAMP programs.

• Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award Eligibility: graduate students who are presenting posters or papers to scholarly, scientific or professional conferences.

• Summer Research Fellowship awarded by the Graduate School Eligibility: graduate students able to show that a summer of focused work will enable them to prepare for or complete a key benchmark in their program’s requirements. Not for dissertation completion.

• 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.

• CTE-Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellows Program  Eligibility: Post-candidacy graduate students with two years of teaching experience.

• Carl L. Robinson Teaching Award Eligibilty: graduate students with outstanding teaching performance in lectures discussions or laboratories.

• Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award  Eligibility: Graduate students with teaching assistant experience.

• First Year Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship Eligibilty: First year graduate students that have begun research in labs.

• GAANN Fellowship Program Eligibility: Post candidacy chemistry students that are US citizens or Permanent Residents. Students interested in reading more details on this Department of Education program. Please click here.

• Research of Excellence Awards Eligibilty: Post candidacy graduate students.

• William F. Bailey Summer Research Award Eligibilty: 2nd year or more senior graduate students in Chemistry and Biochemistry to support summer research.

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

• Achievement Rewards for College Scientist (ARCS) Fellowship Eligibilty: Graduate students in natural science, medicine and engineering.

• 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.

• Ruth L. Kirschstein National research Service Awards fro Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to promote diversity in Health-Related Research. Eligibility: United States citizens or permanent residents. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

• 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.

• American Chemical Society, Division of Biological Chemistry Travel Award : graduate students presenting are presenting posters at the American Chemical Society National meeting in the Division of Biological Chemistry.

• Washington Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Travel Award (contact: email@wbmsdg.org). Eligibility: graduate and undergraduate students presenting a poster at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry National Meeting.

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
• Christopher Sims and Ben Zhang, 2013

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
• Avantika Dhabaria, Bradley Gordon, and Gretchen Peters, 2012
• Cathryn Gail Blakely and Haohao Ke, 2013

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
• Stephanie Miller, 2012-2014
• Christopher Hernandez, 2013-2015

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
• Mark Nakasone, Brendan Yonke, Xiaochen Wang, and Davit Potoyan, 2012

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

• Renee Siler and Jacqueline Smith, 2006-2008
• Dave Jenkins, 2010-2012
• Taylor Hood, 2013-2015

G. Forrest Woods Award for Graduate Study in Chemistry

• Matthew Harney, 2005
• Shenghu Zhou, 2006
• Julie Khusnutdinova, 2007
• Rennisha Wickham, 2011
• Maxim Ratnikov and Luigi Alvarado, 2012

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
• Julie Nicely, Brittany Vinciguerra, Benjamin Roembke, Eleanor Gillette, Christopher Sims, 2012-2013

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
• Meghan Burke, Christopher Eginton, Chun Geng, and Jason Hustedt, 2012
• Andrew Keane, Allen Ng, Xiang Ye, and Guoqiang Jian, 2013