ACS Excellence in Chemical Sciences Award
Recipient: Brandon Lu
Awarded to a top senior who has completed analytical coursework.
ACS Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry
Recipients: Melissa Barrera and Gabriel Herrera
Awarded to a top senior who has demonstrated excellence in organic chemistry through coursework, research and a desire to pursue a career in chemistry.
ACS Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry
Recipient: Claire Casaday
Awarded to a top senior who has demonstrated excellence in physical chemistry through coursework, research and a desire to pursue a career in chemistry.
Albert Borgman / Phi Beta Kappa Thesis Prize
Recipient 2021: Samantha Ciervo Nominee 2020: Mengdi Qiu
Awarded to a senior with the top honors thesis in science.
Arthur E. Hill Prize in Chemistry
Recipient: Danni Tang
Created in memory of Arthur E. Hill, a member of the Department of Chemistry for 35 years and head of the Department from 1912 to 1937, this anonymously donated prize is awarded for excellence in chemistry to a senior who has majored in the subject.
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Recipients: Melissa Barrera, Isabel Brown, Samantha Ciervo, Hannah Hameedy, Brandon Lu, Sumaita Mahmood, Bearach Shunske Miwatani-Minter, Hyewon Shin, Eric Zhu, Natalie Zhu
This is awarded to a student with a double grade point average (chemistry course GPA and overall GPA) of 3.8 or above. The student must also have exhibited a talent for research.
Departmental Scholar Award
Recipient: David Sung
This is awarded to a student with a double grade point average (chemistry course GPA and overall GPA) of 3.8 or above. The student must also have exhibited a talent for research.
Edward J. McNelis Thesis Prize in Chemistry
Recipient: Claire Casaday
Established in memory of Edward J. McNelis, a member of the Department of Chemistry faculty and chair of the Department in the 1980's, this prize is awarded for an outstanding thesis to a student planning to pursue research in the chemical sciences at the graduate level and beyond.
George Granger Brown Scholarships
Recipients: Rawit Assamongkol, Mathew Gelin, Hannah Liu, Navkawal Mattu, Bearach Miwatani-Minter, Ilan Pesselev, and Michael Zheng
Established in 1967 to honor the memory of Dr. George Granger Brown, Dean of the University of Michigan School of Engineering, this scholarship is awarded for academic excellence to science majors in their senior year.
Harold Seidenstein Award
Recipient: Brandon Lu
Established in memory of alumnus Harold Seidenstein (BS in Chemistry 1934; MD in 1937), this award is for a student who shows exceptional ability in chemistry.
Isidore Rubiner Award
Recipient: Eric Zhu
Established in honor of alumnus Isidore Rubiner (B.S. in chemistry 1922), this award is for outstanding chemical research.
Neville R. Kallenbach Award
Recipient: Samantha Ciervo
Established in honor of Neville R. Kallenabch, NYU Chemistry Professor Emeritus and chair of the department from 1987-1995, this award is for the best undergraduate thesis in the field of Chemical Biology, broadly defined.
Lillian Lindhardt-Solotoroff Prize in Chemistry
Recipient: Connie Xiao
Established in memory of Lillian Lindhardt-Solotoroff (class of 1924), this prize is awarded to a woman student who has taken at least three years of her college work in CAS and exhibited excellent scholarship in chemistry and in her overall studies.
Morris Fishman Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry
Recipient: Robert Wolesensky
Established in memory of Morris Fishman, a longtime educator in the Department of Chemistry, this award is for a senior exhibiting excellence in organic chemistry and planning to pursue a career in medicine.
New York University Chemistry Alumni Association Award
Recipient: Georgina Dabdoub
Awarded to a junior or senior with an outstanding record in chemistry.
Société de Chimie Summer Fellowship
Recipient: Brandon Lu
Founded in 1918 in New York as an off-shoot of its parent organization in France, the Société sponsors this fellowship to support an undergraduate chemistry student's outstanding summer research project.
For more information, see the Undergraduate Awards Page on the Graduation Tribute!