Student Awards
Many Chemistry students are presented with awards throughout the academic year. We would like to celebrate their many achievements.
2010-2011
Undergraduate Students
2011 Summer Undergraduate Research/Scholarship Recipients
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Miyong Hughes Advisor: Dr. Lunsford |
2011 WSU Presidential Commendation for Excellence in Co–curricular activities
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Fadwa Constandinidis Advisor: Dr. Eric Fossum |
Other Awards:
- Triet Truong – Scholarship, Choose Ohio First Scholar, June 2011, Advisor–Dr. Audrey McGowin
- Huong Lan Hoang – 2nd place for the Poster "Kinetic studies on the nucleophile aromatic substitution reaction of 3,5–difluoroaromatic systems" at the University of Kentucky Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 15, 2011. Advisor—Dr. Eric Fossum
- Fadwa Constandinidis – Preprint Travel Award, Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science, 2011 Spring National American Chemical Society Meeting, March 27–31, 2011, Anaheim, Ca. Advisor—Dr. Eric Fossum
- Miyong Hughes – 2011 American Chemical Society, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry
- Sarah Kelly – Patterson College Award (Dayton Chapter, American Chemical Society) - Outstanding Junior, Advisors–Dr. Eric Fossum
- Triet Truong – 3rd Place, Poster Presentation "Identification of Sea Turtle Leeches using DNA Barcoding", Bridging Research Communities, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA., October 16, 2010. Advisor–Dr. Audrey McGowin

- Amy Willcox and Emily Delman (co-awardees) – Outstanding Freshman CRC Handbook
Graduate Students
- Jeff Fogle – Wright State University Graduate Student Excellence Award, Advisor – Dr. William Feld
- Catherine Anders– Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award , Advisor – Dr. Ioana Pavel
- Joshua Baker – Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award , Advisor – Dr. Ioana Pavel
- Amanda Balaguer – Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award , Advisor – Dr. Kenneth Turnbull
- Adam Stahler– Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award , Advisor – Dr. Ioana Pavel
- Joshua Baker— Best Poster Presentation, (SAS). "Estimating the Analytical and Surface Enhancement Factors in SERS: A Novel Physical Chemistry and Nanotechnology Laboratory Experiment", Dayton Chapter American Chemical Society/ Ohio Valley Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS). March 1, 2011, Advisor–Dr. Ioana Pavel
- Michael Smith— Best Poster Presentation, (ACS), "Effects of crystal orientation on the dissolution kinetics of calcite surfaces by an atomic emission spectroscopic and interferometric approach", Dayton Chapter American Chemical Society/ Ohio Valley Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS). March 1, 2011, Advisor–Dr. Steven Higgins






