Prizes & Awards

Chemistry Department 2023 Prizes and 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.