Graduate Student Awards Program
Each spring, the faculty of the Chemistry department select outstanding graduate students to receive awards based on performance. The Department is pleased to announce the recipients of the following awards for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Zappert Award - Joseph Izzo
American Chemical Society, Binghamton Section
$100.00 scholarship to an outstanding graduating Ph.D. student. Awarded at the annual
Section "Student Awards" dinner in May.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award - Victor Wambua & Lynn Schmitt
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities. Picture
taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, director of TA’s, student’s advisor,
and Department Chair.
Outstanding Research Assistant Award - Shan Yan & Yiliang (Yancy) Luan
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities. Picture
taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, director of TA’s, student’s advisor,
and Department Chair.
Outstanding Service and Outreach Award - Innocent Achari
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding research accomplishments.
Picture taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, student’s advisor and Department
Chair.
Lois D. Mackey Award - Victoria Kompanijec
Chemistry Department
$200.00 check to a graduate student.
K. Keith Innes Summer Research Grant - Jiali Wang
Chemistry and Physics Departments, Administered through the SUNY Binghamton Foundation
$4,000 to an exceptional graduate student who is not fully funded for summer research
using spectroscopy in physical chemistry, chemical physics, or other fields of chemistry
in this order of preference.
Clifford E. Myers Summer Research Grant - Yiliang (Yancy) Luan
Chemistry Department, Administered through the SUNY Binghamton Foundation
$4,000 to an exceptional graduate student who is not fully funded for summer research
in materials chemistry.
Jeffrey Beck Graduate Summer Research Grant - Yunxiang Xie
Chemistry Department, Administered through the Binghamton University Foundation
$4,000 to an exceptional Chemistry graduate or PhD student who is not fully funded
for summer research.
