Graduate Awards
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National/International Awards
ACCESS Operation Discover Grant
2024 Beauty Chabuka
ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship
2024 Beauty Chabuka
ACS Chemistry Champions Contest
2015 Hadi Fares (1st place)
ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Younger Chemist Conference
2023 Emmanuel Ogunkunle
ACS Division of Computational Chemistry, CCG Excellence Award
2012 Brian Gold
ACS General Papers Presentation Award: POLY Division
2024 Courtney Leo
ACS Petroleum Chemistry Student Award
2009 Amy McKenna
ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award
2017 Xiaoyan Tan
AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
2006 Richard Page
2009 George Bou-Assaf
2016 Nikita Mukhitov
Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows
2016 Brian Gold
2023 Ashley Arcidiacono
CAS SciFinder Future Leaders
2018 Gabriel dos Passos Gomes
Chateaubriand Fellowship
2022 Sandugash Yergeshbayeva
CONACYT Fellowship
2016 Edgar Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Director’s Fellowship (LANL)
2014 Justin Cross
2019 Sam Greer
DoD SMART Fellowship
2020 Carl Conti (Semi-Finalist)
2022 Catherine Fabiano
2022 Jason Kuszynski
DOE Fuel Cycle Research Award
2014 T. Gannon Parker
2015 Samantha Cary
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship
2019 Judith Roth
2022 Michael Deck
Eastman/ACS Analytical Summer Graduate Fellowship
2024 Joshua Davis
Edward H. Kraus Grant in Crystallography
2015 Elias Nakouzi
Ford Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2012 Corey Thompson
2016 Tristan Dilbeck (honorable mentioned)
Fulbright Graduate Award
2010 Cristian Escobar
2020 Pamela Knoll
GEM Fellowship
2016 Kerestin Goodman
Harold Agnew National Security Post-Doctoral Fellowship (LANL)
2016 Samantha Cary
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
2016 Gabriel Gomes
Jarome & Mary Straka Scholarship for the Kosciuszko Foundation
2016 Gabriel Gomes
Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Award
2015 Elias Nakouzi
National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellowship
2018 Matthew Marsh
NIH Predoctoral Fellowship
2005 Jacob Moore
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Grant
2015 Jeremy Hrudka
NSF Graduate Student Fellowship Program
2014 Sam Greer
2015 Jamie Wang
2016 Josue Liriano (honorable mentioned)
2017 Pamela Knoll
2019 Victoria Posey
2019 Ashely Arcidiacono (honorable mentioned)
2020 Charlisa Whyms (honorable mentioned)
2021 Leah Kuhn
NSF Graduate Stem Fellows In K-12 Education
2002 Wendy Walton
P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship
2015 Omotola Ogunsolu
2015 Rana Mohamed (finalist)
2023 Ashley Arcidiacono (finalist)
POLY Graduate Travel Award
2022 Brianna Coia
Reaxys Ph.D. Prize
2010 Abdulkader Baroudi (finalist)
USP Global Fellowship Program
2007 Steve Allmon
Regional Awards
ACS Florida Annual Meeting & Exposition Travel Grant
2024 Beauty Chabuka
Gayle M. Krause-Edwards Scholarship
2022 Yael Medley
McKnight Dissertation Fellowship
2014 Lenzi Williams
2019 Alyssa Rose
2020 Kerestin Goodman
2020 Tony Saucedo
McKnight Doctoral Fellowship
2014 Alyssa Rose
2016 Luis Saucedo
2016 Malcolm McCray
2019 Tony Saucedo
2022 Charlisa Whyms
NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium Dissertation Fellowship
2020 Pamela Knoll
Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award, SPIE West
2016 Wentao Wang
2018 Anshika Kapur
2020 Zhicheng Jin
Florida State University Awards
3-minute 188bet½ð±¦²©¹ÙÍøµÇ¼sis Competition
2024 John Akintola (People’s Choice Award)
Congress of Graduate Students Conf. Presentation Grant
2006 Richard Page
2012 Dylan Murray
2024 John Akintola
Dave Atkinson Student Travel Award
2022 Jusung Lee
Dissertation Research Grant
1999 Myriam Cotton
2005 Tarek Zeidan
2010 Michael Bair
2010 Augustine Felix
2010 Lawrence Keniley
2010 Zahraa Khamis
2011 Corey Thompson
2011 Wang-Yong Yang
2013 Jonathan Christian
2013 Hoa Phan
2013 Paul Stewart
2013 Brian Gold
2014 Xiaoyan Tan
2014 Carlos Arias
2015 Anna Wright
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Book Stipend
2016 Gabriel Gomes
FSU-ORNL GO! Research Program
2013 Kevin Ryan
2014 Xiaoyan Tan
2015 Xiaoyan Tan
2018 Alyssa Gaiser
Graduate Research & Creative Activity Award
1997 Forest M. White
2008 Huan He
2011 H.M. Zhang
2014 Brian Gold
2015 Xiaoyan Tan
2018 Gabriel Gomes
2019 Yan Zhou
2020 Jin Zheng
2021 Pamela Knoll
2023 Ashley Arcidiacono
2024 Tunde Shonde
Graduate Student Leadership Award
2010 Layal Rouhana
Kasha Award
2001 Jungfeng Wang
2009 Hui-Min Zhang
2011 Dylan Murray
Legacy Graduate Fellowship
2011 Jeremy Jarrett
2023 Ethan Lambert
2024 Hao Le
Leslie N. Wilson-Delores Auzenne Assistantships
2009 Corey Thompson
2010 Corey Thompson
2011 Corey Thompson
2011 Jennifer Myers
2012 Jennifer Myers
2013 Jennifer Myers
2014 Jennifer Myers
2016 Kerestin Goodman
2018 Kerestin Goodman
Marion Jewell Hay Award
2011 Rebecca Allen
PIE Teaching Associate Assistantship
2002 Husam Jumaa
2016 Kate Carnevale
2018 Maribel Borger
University Fellowship
1994 Forest M. White
2005 Rachel Younge
2020 Sina Mostafanejad
FSU Chemistry Awards
ChemiMoles Travel Award
2024 Jaehoon Jang, Amir Zarei
Cheryl and Joel Rosenfield Endowment Award
2018 Edward Nguyen
2018 Joshua Santiago
2019 Alyssa Gaiser
2019 Thien Hua
2020 Sina Mostafanejad
2021 Ashley Arcidiacono
2022 Leah Kuhn, Brianna Coia
2023 Grace McLeod
2024 Milo Adams, Madeline Jeffes
2025 Divya Kumar, Dristy Sarker
Crowell Tatum Dawkins Graduate Fellowship
2024 Courtney Leo, Sonia Kiran
2025 Sonia Kiran
Dorothy and Russell Johnsen Dissertation Award
1997 Forest M. White
2004 Hassan Rmaile
2007 Boris Breiner
2009 Huan He
2014 Jacob Hunt
2015 Brian Gold
2018 Daniel Nascimento
2019 Hadi Fares
2020 Jin Zheng
2022 Adam Altenhof
2023 Zach VanOrman
2024 Jason Kuszynski
2025 Yudan Chen
Howard W. Smoyer Graduate Service Award
2024 Cat Fabiano, Zana Singleton
2025Â Kristen Weeks
Johnsen Award for Excellence in Analytical Chemistry
2018 Lidong He
2019 Jin Zheng
2020 Sydney Niles
2022 Yuan Lin
2023 Tyler Cropley, Emmanuel Ogunkunle
2024 Joseph Frye
2025 Joshua Davis
Johnsen Award for Excellence in Biochemistry
2024 Yu Xue
2024 Yu Xue
Joseph M. Schor Fellowship in Biochemistry
2006 Richard Page
2019 Shawn Sternisha
2022 Charlisa Whyms, Timothy Hua
2023 Blaine Gordon
2024Â Sonia Kiran
2025 Yu Xue
Johnsen Award for Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry
2018 Jamie Wang
2019 Po-Hsiu Chien
2020 Okten Ungor
2022 Judy Clark
2023 Sandugash Yergeshbayeva
2024 Miguel Gakiya
2025 Govind Kumar
Johnsen Award for Excellence in Materials Chemistry
2024 Grace McLeod
2025 Erica Truong
Johnsen Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry
2018 Pamela Knoll
2019 Elvis Maradzike
2020 Qingpu Wang
2022 Zack VanOrman
2023 Marcus Liebenthal
2024 Jason Kuszynski
2025 Lin Wang
Katherine B. Hoffman Excellence Award
2002 Richard Page
2010 Thomas Green
2022 Joshua Davis, Colette Sullivan, Lisa Monluc
2023 Ben Hanks
2024 Kaira Mayberry, Caitlin Padgett
2025 Kayla James, Rachel Perez
Hassan H. Rmaile and Karyn M. Usher Graduate Award in Chemistry
2018 Tristan Dilbeck
2019 Rachel Abbett
2020 Sina Mostafanejad
2021 Carl Conti
2022 Jason Kuszynski
2023 Carl Fleischer
2024 Joshua Davis
2025 Lin Wang
Philip Schlenoff Travel Award
2018 Tristan Dilbeck, Samuel Greer, Anshika Kapur
2018 Pamela Knoll, Elvis Maradzike, Richard Surmaitis
2019 Yan Zhou, Jin Zheng, Qingpu Wang
2019 Shawn Sternisha, Ling Du
2020 Alex Bieber, Gina Buillory, Zhicheng Jin
2020 Sina Mostafanejad, Okten Ungor, Zach VanOrman
2022 Zack VanOrman, Yuan Lin, Ashley Arcidiacono, Miguel Gakiya-Teruya, Blaine Gordon, Raul Ortega
2023 Bella Bertini, Brianna Coia, Joseph Frye, Thiago Grigol, Sonia Kiran, Erica Knorr, He Liu, Emannuel Ogunkunle, Tunde Shonde
2024 Vitalii Basistyi, Selin Donmez, Courtney Leo, James Kimball
2025 Beauty Chabuka, Josh Davis, Yusuf Muhammed, Bright Ogbolu, Dara Olasupo, Ifeoluwa Oyekunle, Debashis Sen, Lin Wang
Wilder Scholarship
2024 Leah Kuhn, Sonia Kiran, Erica Truong, Sandugash Yergeshbayeva
Zachary Tolchin Memorial Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry
2018 William Neary
2019 Maribel Borger
2020 Edgar Gonzalez Rodriguez
2023 Thiago Grigolo
2024 Courtney Leo
2025 Vitalii Basistyi