2011-2012 Awards Recipients

The ChE Department hosted it Annual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at the Raytheon Amphitheater, 240 Egan Center, to honor and recognize the accomplishments of its students and faculty in academic year 2011-2012. Below is a list of the awards and recipients.

UNDERGRADUATE:

American Institute of Chemists Award
- Thomas Dusseault

Hodgkinson Award
for distinguished scholastic achievement with due consideration of character, personality, quality of leadership, cooperative work experience, and service in voluntary organizations and activities.
- Lauren Gianino

Honors Early Research Grant Award
- Taylor M. Dickman

Nabil Morris Award
- Taylor M. Dickman

Omega Chi Epsilon Awards
- Paul DiMilla – Professor of the Year
- Thomas Dusseault – Student of the Year

Provost Undergraduate Research Awards
- Brian Beauvais
- Emily Nelson
- Megan Harless
- Peter Ries
- Taylor M. Dickman

Ralph A. Buonopane Awards
- Brian T. Lejeune
- Meghan E. McGill
- Sean P. Burns

Sears B. Condit Awards (AKA President’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship)
for achieving an overall GPA in the top 10% of the graduating class.
- Daniel Shea
- Emily Nelson
- Jason Rossi
- John Henske
- Lauren Gianino
- Peter Ries
- Thomas Dusseault

Travel Grant Award
for presenting research findings at the Seastanding Institute meeting.
- Melissa J. Roth

US NSF Graduate Fellowships Awards
- Emma Chory
- Thomas Dusseault

100 Most Influential Seniors Awards
for the potential to change society.
- Anthony Fusco
- Emma Chory
- Laura Rushford
- Lauren Gianino
- Michelle Sopko
- Peter Ries
- Thomas Dusseault

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (AIChE):

AIChE National Sophomore Academic Excellence Award
for attaining the highest scholastic grade-point average during her freshman and sophomore years.
- Taylor M. Dickman

Jeffrey Pierce Award
- Emma Chory

Outstanding Newcomer (2012) Awards
for outstanding leadership in the first year of being an AIChE member.
- Ben Langhouser – Middler Class
- Griffin Rapsilber – Freshman Class
- Marcello Auriti – Junior Class
- Will Chauvin – Sophomore Class

Outstanding Senior Award (Local Section)
- Emma Chory

GRADUATE:

American Institute of Chemists Award
- Fulden Buyukozturk

Completion of Doctoral Degree
- Bing Sun

Completion of Master’s Degree
- Brian McMahon

Completion of Proposal Defense
- Adam Hatch
- Dwayne Vickers
- Melissa Loving
- Nina Bordeaux
- Pegah Hosseinpour
- Radhika Barua
- Sean Kevlahan

GRADUATE EXTERNAL

Electrochemical Society Student Travel Award
for his research presentation at the spring ECS meeting.
- Salem Zehmi

Honorable Mention
for her application to the NSF Graduate Fellowship.
- Noreen Rizvi

IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School Award
- Pegah Hosseinpour

Magnetics Award
for acceptance to the 2012 IEEE Magnetic Summer School.
- Nina Bordeaux

13th National School on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering
- Melissa Loving

2011 Northeast Bioengineering Conference Travel Award
- Selena DiMaio