Outstanding Teachers to be honored with Department of Chemistry awards for Teaching, Graduate Grading, Research, and Leadership

Many members of the Department of Chemistry’s Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher teaching community were selected to be honored for their outstanding contributions to Teaching, Graduate Grading, Research, and Leadership. The winners were chosen from a pool of nominations submitted by members of the Department of Chemistry’s faculty and instructional staff, and will be honored with an awards ceremony on August 31, 2026.

The following graduate students will receive the Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Teaching for 2025-2026 in recognition of their contributions to teaching in the Department:

Abigail Chapman

Xinnuo Chen

Martin Chujfi

Cole English

Amanda Gin

Tierani Green

Stephanie Halim

Yuxin Huang

Constantine Kyprianou

Chu Luo

Alvin Meng

Micah Miles

Alexander Mueller

Kiarra Ning

Matthew Ong

Diana Tymochko

August Vitarbo

Dalaney Westbroek

Luke Zhou

The following graduate student will receive the Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Performance as a Graduate Grader for 2025-2026:

Sunny Tang

The following graduate students and postdocs will receive the Department of Chemistry Award for Research Excellence for 2025-2026:

Collaborative Research: Dr. Gabi Wenzel, Dr. Shuo Zhang, and Gary Gong

Dr. Satparshi Mandal

Dr. Jonas Rein

Minsik Cho

Kwangwook Ko

Dangliang Liu

Chonghe Zhang

The following graduate students and postdocs will receive the Department of Chemistry Leadership Award for 2025-2026:

Dr. Aditi Dixit

Nina Greeley

Dr. Kubra Kaygisiz

Carina Luo

Omar Salinas

Jennifer Pierre-Louis