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 8 in the Ford ES&T Building.
AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistants - Aditya Sankaran and Maeve Janecka,
AIChE Honors
AIChE Freshman Recognition Award - Hannah Reynolds
AIChE Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Excellence Award - Benjamin Wellisch
AIChE MAC Scholarship Award - Oluwadarasimi Jakande
AIChE Othmer Scholarship Award - Anugeeth Raghavan
AIChE McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship Award - Saksham Malik
AIChE Outstanding Senior Award - Shreya Ghosh
AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award - Aditya Sankaran, Maeve Janecka, Grace Menard
AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Anna Kaehr, Amisha Patel, Anush Venkataraman
AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award - Christian Cuba-Torres, Yonathan Thio
Graduate Honors
Research Accomplishments
Ziegler Award for Best Thesis Proposal - Victor Brandão
“Microenvironment Engineering for the CO₂ Reduction Reaction Over Copper Electrocatalysts”
Ziegler Award for Best Paper - Rajas Poorna
“Toward Gene-Correlated Spatially Resolved Metabolomics with Fingerprint
Coherent Raman Imaging” (Journal of Physical Chemistry B)
Academic
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam - David Witdorchic
Outstanding PhD Thesis - Lukas Bingel
Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Richa Ghosh, Sayan Bhowmik, Soor Vora. Hsiang-Ju Kai, Steven Crouse
Exemplary Academic Achievement - Luisa Barraza Vergara, Hung Yu Chang, Haoyu Chen, Anomitra De, William Freer, Jacob Hewes, Geoffrey Hopping, Cheng-Tien Hsieh, Sahba Khorsandzadeh, Jieun Lee, Huston Locht, Kijeong Nam, Nisha Raman, Steven Renfroe, Eric Sarbacker, Steven Schlosser, Adam Senko, Mohammed Tahmid, Alberto Tous Granados, Soor Vora, Abraham Weinstein, David Witdorchic, Xintong Xu, Jin Yu, Wanqing Yu, Morgan Ziegelski
Leadership
Symposium Chairs - Anush Venkataraman, Jennifer Lee
AChEGS - Caitlyn Davis, Michael Rettstatt, Ishmamul Hoque Sadab, Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva, Ramy Ghanim, Priyadarshini Seshasayee, Daniel Kim, Jason Ye, Calib Lanier, Savyasachi Shrikhande, Geoffrey Hopping
Recruiting Committee - Raja Selvakumar, Anush Venkataraman, Ananya Vajapayajula, Chizi Chibuko, Lotanna Onua, Isabel Panicker, Emad Renfroe
Fellowship Recognition
NSF Fellowships - Richa Ghosh, Emily Heckard, Kaitlin Jacobson, Henry Kantrow, Felicia Oentoro, David Pando, Nisha Raman
NSERC (Government of Canada) - Sucharita Vijayaraghavan
David Witdorchic, winner of Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam (with Professor Martha Grover, associate chair for graduate studies)
Winners of the Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistant Honors
Anugeeth Raghavan, winner of the Chair's Award - Outstanding ChBE Senior (with Professor and School Chair Chris Jones and Academic Advising Manager Ellen Riley)
Gianna Fiduccia, winner of the Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior, with Professor and School Chair Christopher Jones and Academic Program Manager Adrienne Hillman
Undergraduate Honors
Overall Accomplishments
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior - Anugeeth Raghavan
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior - Gianna Fiduccia
COE Honors Day Award - Jeffrey Li
ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Julia Vallier
Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup - Saksham Malik
Love Family Foundation Scholarship—ChBE Nominee - Maeve Janecka
Leadership
AIChE Student Chapter Advisors - President: Saksham Malik; Vice President: Gabrielle Wong
ChBE Student Advisory Board Advisor - Leadership: Suhyun (Su) Kim, Sasha Bronovitskiy, Michael Silas
CHBE Peer Led Help Desk - Archita Jayaram, Lizmarie Chavez , Saksham Malik, Karan Kotak
ChBE Student Ambassadors - Leadership: Owen Pittman, Regina Cuellar Lelo de Larrea, Maggie D’Amaro, Lizmarie Chavez
ChBE First-year Peer Mentors Advisor - Leadership: Anugeeth Raghavan, Saksham Malik, Xingwan (Helen) Zhu
Undergraduate Scholarships
Albemarle Corporation Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship - Ben Wellisch
Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship - Lizmarie Chavez, Naisargi Goyal, Karan Kotak, Saksham Malik, Rui Matsubara, Mattias Silva Larsson
Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Jr. Scholarship - Jessica Bermudez, Harper Finch, Peter Gardner, Sarah Szabo
Elbert Ward Jones Jr. Scholarship - Yelizaveta Pivnik
Exemplary Academic Achievement:
Camryn Aguilar
Abigail Auty
William Barton
Jessica Bermudez
Ghufran
Bhatti
Anna Brewer
Joshua Brown
Anna Burson
Michael Camacho
Andrey Chee
Natasha Chen
Christine Cheng
Hyunchan Chung
Joshua Clark
Lincoln Crowe
Lewis Denson
Radeen Dixon
Max Freidlin
Layla Ghalayini
Carter Guerrin
Hunter Hammond
Shane Harris
Joseph Henderson
Connor Herrington
Bingcheng Huang
Timothy Hurley
Nicolas Kelhofer
Ellie Kim
Sareum Kim
Andrew Knobbe
Jeffrey Li
Makenna Locke
Oliver Long
Saksham Malik
Catherine McCoy
Nancy McNichols
Lauren Mellinger
Aliasgar Momin
Tanishq Moondra
Demetrios Pappas
William Poindexter
Javier Pratdesaba
Christopher Qi
Anugeeth Raghavan
Hannah Reynolds
Nathan Saliceti
Jack Sanders
William Schulman
Christina Sealy
Alexandra Seesee
Michael Silas
Henry Skinner
Paul Teltscher
Sebastian Toyotoshi
Kenneth Truong
Julia Vallier
Avery Walker
Garrett Warner
Benjamin Wellisch
Hannah West
Lonnie White
Paige Woodham
Liliana Wuerth