Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering recognized the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students over the past year.
An honors presentation and dinner were held April 12 in the Ford ES&T Building. Event program here.
AIChE Honors
AIChE Outstanding Senior Award - Natalie GaNun AIChE (pictured above with ChBE School Chair Chris Jones and Academic Advising Manager Ellen Murkison)
Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award - Raghav Acharya AIChE
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Nicholas Leon, Andrew Kristof
AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award - Christian Cuba-Torres
AIChE Freshman Recognition Award - Ryan Cortes
AIChE Donald F. Othmer Sophmore Excellence Award - Layla Ghalayani
AIChE MAC Travel Award - Andrea Green
AIChE Donald F. Othmer Junior Excellence Award Nominee - Jason Kang
AIChE McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship Nominee - Isabella Bowland
Graduate Honors
Research Accomplishments
Ziegler Award for Best Thesis Proposal - Jaeyoung Park (pictured above), “Developing New Vaccine Platforms to Preserve Structure of Antigens as a Strategy to Enhance Effectiveness of Universal Flu Vaccines”
Ziegler Award for Best Paper - Steven Frey, “Multivalent S2-Based Vaccines Protect Hamsters Against SARS-CoV-2 and Elicit Broadly Cross-Reactive Antibodies to Endemic Coronaviruses”
Academic
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam 2021 - Eashaan Godbole
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam 2022 - Victor Brandao (pictured above)
Outstanding PhD Thesis - Andrew Tricker
Outstanding MS Thesis - Thomas Pho
Outstanding PhD Proposal - Hannah Holmes, Brian Huang
Exemplary Academic Achievement - Hammed Balogun, Logan Brabson, Victor Brandao, Zhihao Feng, Ji Gao, Eashaan Godbole, Emily Heckard, Woo Jin Jang, Henry Kantrow, Jeong Soo Lee, Linh Mai, Dingqi Nai, Donghyun Oh, Habin Park, Akriti Sarswat, Raja Selvakumar, Lucas Timmerman, Andrew Wu, Megan Yutthasakunthorn, Yongjoon Yu
Leadership
Symposium Chairs - Pengfei Cheng, Shubham Jamdade Leadership
Teaching
Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Andrew Bai, Aaron Liu, Jose Lopez Ninantay, Andrew Kristof, Yuchen Chang, Valerie Kay, Alicia Robang (pictured above: Ninantay,Robang, Kay)
Recruiting
Recruiting Committee - Sabrina Westgate, Valerie Kay
Fellowship Recognition
Bert H. Wells Sr. Fellowship - Alicia Robang
Fredric Holloway Fellowship - Yoyin Ibikunle, Adam Yonge, Zhenzi Yu
Garry Betty Fellowship - Megan McSweeney, Fernanda Piorino, Hal Wilson Field Fellowship, Andrew Cazier, Rebecca Schneider
James P. Harris Fellowship - Karoline Hebisch
James T. Porter Fellowship - Arvind Ganesan
R.E.B. Foundation Fellowship - Brian Huang, Jaihe Huang
Rohm & Haas Fellowship - Yi Ren
William R. McLain Fellowship - Hyun June Moon
NSF Graduate Fellowship - Sabrina Westgate, Hannah Holmes, Amy Wood-Yang, Alexandra Patterson
NASA Fellowship - Alexandra Marnot
IBM Fellowship - Gabriel Gusmao
NDSEG Fellowship - Tanner Hickman
Undergraduate Honors
Institute Honors
COE Honors Day Award - Sophia Ung
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior - Ethan Guglielmo
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior - Christina Whetzel (pictured above)
ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Katelyn Groenhout (pictured below)
Love Family Foundation Scholarship—ChBE Nominee - Katelyn Groenhout (pictured below)
Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup—ChBE Nominee - Zahra Shivji
Helen Grenga Outstanding Woman Engineer Award - Shelbe Johnson
Leadership
AIChE Student Chapter - President: Josh Polevoy, Vice President: Lacee Pinkleman
ChBE Student Advisory Board - Co-Presidents: Ethan Guglielmo Kartik Saigal
CHBE Peer Led Help Desk (a unit of SAB) - Neeraj Bhide, Shelbe Johnson, Christina Whetzel, Jason Yao
ChBE Student Ambassadors - Caroline Orange, Sofia Vainikos, Suchir Ural, Ferguson Beardsley
ChBE First-year Peer Mentors - Executive Board: Amelia Szabo, Sophia Ung, Jessica Barber, Jacqueline Glazer
Transfer Student Association Advisor - Leadership: Joanna Thomas
Undergraduate Scholarships
Albemarle Corporation Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship - Tariq Mohmedzain
Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship - Ralph Andraos, Enerelt Burentugs, Kevin Jorgih, Jason Kang, Weng Hei Kong, Quan Nguyen
Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Jr. Scholarship - Anthony Caropolo, Shelbe Johnson, Zahra Shivji, Christina Whetzel
Walk on Stamps President’s Scholarship - Mahogany Labor (pictured above)
Exemplary Academic Achievement (4.0)
Juniors and Seniors - Kalpana Agarwal, Dema Alhazmi, Christopher Allen, Jillian Armstrong, Christie Azar, Jessica Bermudez, Devon Boatright, Isabella Bowland, Lizmarie Chávez, Christine Cheng, Saachi Dalvi, Matthew Dedman, Gautam Desai, Grace Erlinger, Lucien Fernandez, Harper Finch, Caroline Gerage, Layla Ghalayini, Naisargi Goyal, Katelyn Groenhout, James Hanus, James Harrison, Joseph Henderson, Stella Joly, Kyle Katreeb, Maxwell Kazman, Nicolas Kelhofer, Kyle Kicklighter, Ellie Kim, Weng Hei Kong, Madison Landis, Saksham Malik, Julianna Mannarelli, Aleecia Marshall, Amanda McAuley, Cameron McCanless, Tariq Mohmedzain, Azhar Moihdeen, Nila Murali, Pallavi Natarajan, Quan Nguyen, Kayley Olewicz, Olusotemidayo Oyedele, Javier Pratdesaba, Anugeeth Raghavan, Christina Sealy, Zahra Shivji, Kenneth Truong, Sophia Ung, Suchir Ural, Julia Vallier, Hannah West, Angela Wharton, Christina Whetzel, Liliana Wuerth, Maxim Zhelyabovskiy, Talia Zheng, Xingwan Zhu
First-Year Transfers - Anna Burson, Philip Cassidy, Ava Maalouf, Duy Nguyen, Dominick Rhoden