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 organic 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.
Chemistry Department 2022 Prizes and Awards
2022 Awardees
Alpha Chi Sigma
- Philip Parel
American Chemical Society
DIVISION OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
- Zachary Stickelman
DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
- Erin Gladu
DIVISION OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
- Philip Parel
DIVISION OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY UNDERGRADUATE AWARD
- Philip Parel
American Institute Of Chemists
GRADUATE
- Jessica Lewer
UNDERGRADUATE
- Ana Serjak
A.D. Britt Memorial, Madeleine Reines Jacobs, And Charles And Elma Naeser Fund
MADELEINE REINES JACOBS
- Spencer Bystrom, Nora Houseman, and Daisy Williams
ELMA NAESER FUND
- Rachel Greene
Chemical Society Of Washington Prize
- Nora Houseman
William E. Fitch Prize
- Philip Parel
Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award
- Sonia Goyal, Eva Schneiderlochner, Henry Schrecker, and James Tan
Benjamin D. Van Evera Memorial Prize
- Nicole Conte, Christopher Hossack, and Sara Mattson
Past Awardees