Professor Craig Merlic, Advisor for Chemistry Majors and a member of the Undergraduate Study Committee presenting the Stone Prize for Excellence in General Chemistry to undergraduates Wendy Tseng and Felice Lin Wei.
Professor Ben Schwartz presenting the Excellence in First Year Academics and Research Award to Jonathan Furuyama, Kenneth Lopata, Jennifer Murphy and Geoffrey Nostrati.
KhanLinh Nguyen and Stephanie Wolahan in picture, with a hint of Ben Schwartz to the left. Excellence in Teaching award being presented to them. Others receiving the award that day: Colin Carver, Ian Craig, Ruby Dewi, Daniel Ferris, Sanaz Kabehie, and Alan Khuu
Robert Rainey (Koehler Lab) receiving the The Ernest F. Hare, Jr. Memorial Scholarship from Professor Carla Koehler.
Mike Jung presenting the The Majeti-Alapati Fellowship to Hiufung Chu.
Professor James W. Gober presenting The John M. Jordan Research Award to his research group member, Arun Divakaruni.
Mike Jung congratulating Dr. Lawrence Lavelle for being chosen to receive the Hanson-Dow Award for teaching. The Chair of Chemistry, Professor Harold Martinson, went next door and pulled Dr. Lavelle out of a classroom of about 600 people to receive this award.
Joseph Rudnick, Dean of Physical Sciences, presenting the Hanson-Dow Award to Eric Scerri for scholarly writing for his book The Periodic Table. (Ken Houk, at far left almost out of picture)
Professor Kendall Houk, (left), with Dean Joseph Rudnick presenting Hanson-Dow Award to the David Eisenberg Group member Rebecca Nelsonand Michael Sawaya (not in picture) for Eisenberg Group's research on Amyloid fibrils.
Ken Houk and Joseph Rudnick congratulationg Michael Sawaya (Eisenberg Group) (back to camera).
Ken Houk, (left) with Dean Joseph Rudnick presenting Hanson-Dow Award to Omar Yaghi for his research in the development of porous metal-organic frameworks.