Prizes & Awards

About Our Awards

Alpha Chi Sigma Award

Awarded to the graduating senior with the highest academic record in chemistry courses (with at least 16 hours at GW).

American Chemical Society Awards

Division of Analytical Chemistry:

  • Awarded to a student completing his or her junior year and who has demonstrated excellence in Analytical Chemistry.

Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award

  • Awarded to a student who has demonstrated excellence in inorganic chemistry at the undergraduate level and whose future plans include a career in chemistry.

Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award

  • Awarded to a student who has demonstrated excellence in inorganic chemistry at the undergraduate level and whose future plans include a career in chemistry.

Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award

  • Awarded to a student who has demonstrated excellence in physical chemistry at the undergraduate level and whose future plans include a career using chemistry.
American Institute of Chemists

Awarded to a senior graduate student and graduating senior majoring in chemistry who excel in scholarship, integrity and leadership. (Graduate and Undergraduate Levels)

A.D. Britt Memorial, Madeleine Reines Jacobs and Charles and Elma Naeser Fund

Awarded to one or more outstanding junior or senior undergraduate majors to carry out research in the summer.

Chemical Society of Washington Prize

Awarded to the outstanding junior majoring in chemistry.

Byrne Thurtell Burns Memorial Prize

Awarded to the graduating chemistry major who has shown the greatest proficiency in organic chemistry as demonstrated by a written examination.

William E. Fitch Prize

Awarded to the graduating chemistry major with the best written comprehensive examination in chemistry.

Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award

Awarded to one or more freshmen who have achieved the highest records in their respective sections of lntroductory Chemistry.

Benjamin D. Van Evera Memorial Prize

Awarded to the most effective Graduate Teaching Assistants in Chemistry.

2024 Awardees

Alpha Chi Sigma
  • Ahan Panchal
American Chemical Society

DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

  • Jamison Shih

DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

  • Ahan Panchal

DIVISION OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

  • Rose Milano

DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

  • Ahan Panchal
American Institute Of Chemists

GRADUATE

  • Dominique Brager

UNDERGRADUATE

  • Vicky Wang
A.D. Britt Memorial, Madeleine Reines Jacobs, And Charles And Elma Naeser Fund
 

MADELEINE REINES JACOBS

  • Claire Belatti, Isabel Gredler, Sydney Reiser

CHARLES AND ELMA NAESER

  • Jack Poland
Chemical Society Of Washington Prize
  • Paige Montgomery
Byrne Thurtell Burns Memorial Prize
  • Ahan Panchal
William E. Fitch Prize
  • Ahan Panchal
Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award
  • Lucas Farhat, Korsal Lim, Hamza Lodhi, William Mueller, Bar Shir, and Michelle St Jacques
Benjamin D. Van Evera Memorial Prize
  • Abby Bierschbach and Erin McCaughey

2023 Awardees

Alpha Chi Sigma
  • Zachary Stickelman
American Chemical Society

DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

  • Vicky Wang

DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

  • Annika Dombrowski

DIVISION OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

  • Spencer Bystrom and Priscilla Long

DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD

  • Zachary Stickelman
American Institute Of Chemists

GRADUATE

  • Rebekah Brucato

UNDERGRADUATE

  • Nora Houseman
A.D. Britt Memorial, Madeleine Reines Jacobs, And Charles And Elma Naeser Fund

A.D. BRITT MEMORIAL

  • Massimo Pavan

MADELEINE REINES JACOBS

  • Natalie Clay, Abigail Ladau, Alexa Mehlman, Rose Milano, and Eva Schneiderlochner
Chemical Society Of Washington Prize
  • Alexa Mehlman
William E. Fitch Prize
  • Priscilla Long
Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award
  • Ashley Garrison, Josiah Morita, Roan Riordan, Aanya Sachdeva, Tryg Van Wyk, and Zoe Wise
Benjamin D. Van Evera Memorial Prize
  • Darren Dolan and Christopher Grubb

Past Awardees