Georgia Tech's School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering recognized graduate and undergraduate achievement at the annual Student Honors Luncheon held on April 9.
AIChE Awards
- AIChE Outstanding Sophomore Award - Katherine Mueller
- AIChE Outstanding Senior Award - Trent Weiss
- AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award -Trent Weiss
- AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant - Stefani Kocevska
- AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award - Yonathan Thio
ChBE School Chair David Sholl with Stefani Kocevska, AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Undergraduate Honors
Overall Accomplishments and Scholarships
- ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Soham Sinha
- COE Honors Day Award - Megan Kaiser
- Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior - Grant Larkin
- Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior - Jade Marcus
- Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup—ChBE Nominee - Rohan Kadambi
- Albemarle Corporation ChBE Scholarship - Megan Kaiser
- Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship - Jonathan Bentata Benezry, Yueyi Li, Charles Van-Hein Sackey, Jimin Yoon, and Ga Hyun Lee
- Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Jr. Scholarship - Louis Apraku-Boadi, Jade Marcus, and Amanda Schaefer
Leadership
- AIChE Student Chapter - President: Elsa Samantaray, Vice President: Rachel Stammen
- ChBE Student Advisory Board - President: Umair Alvi
- ChBE Student Ambassadors - Co-Presidents: Ben Thompson, Jade Marcus
- Transfer Student Association - President: Bradley Wolters; Vice President: Oladipo Bakare
- ChBE First-year Peer Mentors - Executive Board: Alison Heffron, Yueyi Li
ChBE School Chair David Sholl with Student Ambassadors' Co-Presidents Jade Marcus and Ben Thompson
Exemplary Academic Achievement
Seniors - Sally Carroll, Cameron Chong, Megan Delgrego, Harold Feininger, Riley Geran, Osama Mohammad Ghani, Michael Gustafson, Yanghang Huang, Kaitlin Jacobson, Megan Kaiser, Mark Keenum, Samantha Klein, Madison Landis, Alex Lehman, Vivaan Patel, Craig Thomas, Trent Weiss, Bradley Wolters, and Rebecca Xiao
Juniors - Zachary Althouse, Ethan Cain, Shashwati Da Cunha, Blake Daniels, Megan Giles, Siobhan Kells, Megan Kelly, John Kim, Mirielle Kruger, Melina Le, Anthony McClellan, Katherine Mueller, John Pederson, Vitaliy Popovych, Brandon Reznicek, Aaron Simon, Paige Steppe, Samuel West, and Christina Whetzel
First-year Transfer - Rachel Gordon, Ziyao Ren, and Adhika Retnanto
Graduate Honors
Research Accomplishments
- Ziegler Award for Best Proposal - Shivesh Chaudhary, “Automated tools for fast processing of C. elegans wholebrain videos and investigating effects of monoamines on global brain dynamics”
- Ziegler Awards for Best Paper - Chinmay Satam, “Spray-coated multilayer cellulose nanocrystal—chitin nanofiber films for barrier applications," and Fengyi Zhang, “Solution-based 3D printing of polymers of intrinsic microporosity”
Academic
- Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam - Gabriel Gusmao
- Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis - Rui Chang
- Outstanding M.S. Thesis - Chi-Ta Lee
- Outstanding Ph.D. Proposal - Anthony Engler
Teaching
- Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Zachary Herde, Anshul Dhankher, Kelvin Smith, and Maxim Bukhovko
Leadership
- Symposium Chairs - Samantha Pustulka, Juan Luis Mena Lapaix
- Teamwork Awards - Conrad Roos, Anshul Dhankher, Maggie Manspeaker, Taylor Hatridge, Aaron Liu, and Brianna Thornton
External Fellowships
- Eastman Graduate Fellowship - Stephen DeWitt
- NIH T32 Biomaterials Training Grant - Adriana Mulero Russe
- NSF Graduate Fellowship - Andrew Kristof, Colton Lagerman
- Sloan Foundation Fellowship - Kelvin Smith, Ifayoyinsola Ibikunle
- GEM Fellowship - Isaiah Borne
Exemplary Academic Achievement - Sumner Dudick, Arvind Ganesan, Geetanjali Pendyala, Udita Ringania, and Sachin Shyam Shirpurkar
School Chair David Sholl and Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants (Anshul Dhankher, Maxim Bukhovko, and Kelvin Smith)