Department Award – 2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Department Awards Winners!


C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award
Lucas Ospina and Favianna Colon

The Robert T. Haslam Cup
Nicole Doering

The Roger de Friez Hunneman Prize
Lucas Ospina-Quintero

The Lourdes C. and Wing S. Fong Memorial Prize
Julie Chen and Amanda Cheng

ChemE Special Service Awards
Alice Hall, Amanda Cheng, Ava Johnston, David Robichaud, Eliana Shin, Favianna Colon, Fiona Shangguan, Francisco Gomez Rivas-Vazquez, Gabriel Sanchez, Hannah Hicks, Julia Casey, Julie Chen, Katelyn Battacharia, Kaya Weiser, Lucas Ospina, Mercedes Randhahn, Olivia Bartrum, Rachel Lee, Ruting Hung, Sophie Thompson, Tyler Arnold, Valeria Mejia, Veronica Calzadilla Sosa, Vivian Guo

Undergraduate Student Advisory Board Members (USAB)
Alice Hall, Claire Underwood, Brooke Birdsall, Nishant Lahiri, Yagmur Kavukcuoglu, Wesley Smith

Graduate Student Advisory Board Members (GSAB)
Alex Stoneman, Anish Sukumar, Gaurav Awasthi, Jennifer Fang, Katelyn Groenhout, Matthew Moy, Michael Li, Zahmiria Johnson, David Gillingham, Yijun Yang

Gender Diversity in ChemE (GDX)
Hannah Boyce, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Lexy LeMar, Megan Herrington, Marieke de Bock, Devosmita Sen, Mary Ehmann, Amelia Dai, Anupama Jayaraman, Miyu Mudalamane, Smita Mankar

Together for Representation in Course X (T-REX)
Nishat Tabbassum, Shelbe Johnson, Juliet Okorie

The Graduate Student Council for Course X (GSC-X)
Aidan Kindopp, Andy Liu, Ben Kash, Boxun Huang, Derin Gumustop, Gaurav Awasthi, Gigi Wang, Hannah Uhl, James Law, Julia Treese, Katelyn Meister, Katie Traynelis, Keyu Chen, Lauren Hubert, Maria Castellanos, Miyu Mudalamane, Olivia Wilkinson, Palak Vora, Pragnay Nevatia, Sanjay Johnson, Yile Jiang, Zahmiria Johnson

ChemE Postdoc Advisory Board
Naresh Kumar Amradi, Lurii Babkin, Sunanda Dey, Tali Dotan, Joana Ferreira, Ginevra Giangeri, Yoo Kyung Go, Babak Mahjour, Konstantinos Zinelis

The Edward W. Merrill Outstanding TA Award
Megan Herrington for 10.32

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Alex Stoneman for 10.40

Outstanding Seminar Presentation Award
Ishika Govil (Stark Lab), Alex Stoneman (Hammond Lab)

ChemE Outstanding Employee Award
Denise Scott

Community And Culture Awards
Valeria Mejia, Zahmiria Johnson, Naresh Kumar Amradi, Christelle Hayles

Outstanding Rookie First-Year Advisor Award
Dr. Joshua Abraham

Mentor Advocate Partnership Protégé of the Year Award
Mazzi Moore

BCAP Fellowship Award
Akorfa Dagadu

The Albert G. Hill Prize
Akorfa Dagadu and Peyton Meader

The Graduate Student Council Teaching Award
Matthew Moy

Chemical Engineering Individual Commendation Awards
Prof. Bradley D Olsen, Julia Casey, Bryn van Dommelen, Adrienne Fuller, Aidan Kindopp, Maria Castellanos, Lucas Ospina, Favianna Colon

Undergraduate Faculty Award
Joey Gu and Josh Abraham

James W. Swan Outstanding Faculty Award
Prof. Connor Coley

Michael Johnson Award
Magdalena Lederbauer

The Rock Award
Brandon Tapia

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