Department Award – 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 Department Awards Winners!


Robert T. Haslam Cup
Sarah Hernandez

Roger de Friez Hunneman Prize
Andy Fong

C. Michael Mohr Outstanding Faculty Award
Javit Drake

Edward W. Merrill Outstanding TA
Rachel Ahlmark (10.10)

The Lourdes C. and Wing S. Fong Memorial Prize
Grace Yang, Jason Zhang

Phi Beta Kappa
Oliva Beniston, Andy Fong, Isias Workeneh, Grace Yang, Jason Zhang

Outstanding Graduate TA
Arjun Yennemadi (10.34)

James W. Swan Outstanding Faculty
Connor Coley, Sungho Shin

Best Student Seminar
Xiaoqi Sun, Samuel Degnan-Morgenstern

Michael Johnson Award
Gaurav Awasthi

ChemE Outstanding Employee Award
Matthew Sweeney

The Ellen J. Mandigo Award
James Hardsog

Individual Commendation Honorable Mention

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Layla Ghalayini (graduate) Ben Pedretti (postdoc)
Naomh Fairweather (staff)

Rock Award
Sanjay Johnson

ChemE Individual Accomplishment Citation
Catherine Gyewu, Melanie Gut, Caitlin Stier

ChemE Special Service Awards

AICHE Executive Team members
Alondra Hernandez, Sarah Hernandez, Favianna Colon, Lana Van Note, Porter Bowen, Janet Teng, Maximiliano Ramirez, Alice Hall, Kaya Weiser, Megan Eaton, Rachel Lee, Vivian Guo, Eliana Shin, Lucy Kanias, Sophie Thompson, Amanda Cheng, Katie Crowley, Logan Hammond, Lucas Ospina, Ruting Hung, Mercedes Randhan David Robichaud

Undergraduate Student Advisory Board (USAB) members
Alice Hall, Claire Underwood, Sydney Pyon, Janet Teng, Brooke Birdsall, Nishant Lahiri

Graduate Student Advisory Board (GSAB) members
Wezi Mkandawire, Tom Goodwin, Michael Li, Matthew Moy, Layla Ghalayini, Katelyn Groenhout, Jennifer Fang, Guarav Awasthi, Eric Hahnert, Anish Sukumar

GDX (Gender Diversity in ChemE, formerly GWICHE)
Kaylee McCormack, Katherine Steinberg, Kexin Dai, Simar Mattewal, KatharinaFransen, Sneha Kabaria, Namita Nabar, Alexis Hocken, Devosmita Sen, Lexy LeMar, Hannah Boyce, Nishat Tabassum, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Marieke De Bock, Dulashana Ranasinghe, Amelia Dai, Noemie Koebke, Anupama Jaraman, Mary Ehmann, Megan Herrington, Shalini Singh

The Graduate Student Council for Course X (GSC-X)
Matthew Moy, Sanjay Garimella, Eduardo Nombera Bueno, Andrea Goertzen, Tom Goodwin, Amelia Dai, Justin Griffith, Ashwin Pasupathy, Kyle De Matias, Stathis Iliakis, Alex Stoneman, Anupama Jayaraman, Brenda Zhao, Ishika Govil, Julia Monkovic, Mary Ehmann, Megan Herrington, Kento Abeywardane, Wezi Mkandawire, Anh Nguyen, Juliana Lu-Yang

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