2023 Graduates and Awards

Congratulations to all of our graduates and award winners for 2023! The university celebrated on campus last week with graduation cookout and then this week we held commencement at the University of Notre Dame. What a joy it is that our graduating class and guests are too big of a crowd for our campus. A few of our department awards have been renamed, particularly the freshman achievement award that started as the CRC Press Chemistry Achievement Award because the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) provided the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics as the gift. The freshman award is now a cash gift funded by the IU South Bend Chemistry Department Fund (as are several other awards*) in honor of retired laboratory director, Ms. Connie Fox, who has been instrumental in the freshman year of our chemistry program for decades.

Constance J. Fox Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award*
   Kristen Miller
   Mackenzie Reasor
Analytical Chemistry Achievement Award*
   Elizabeth Pask
Organic Chemistry Achievement Award*
   Hannah Gregor
Senior Excellence Award in Biochemistry*
   Rachel Hall
Senior Excellence Award in Chemistry*
   Elizabeth Pask
Joseph H. Ross Award for Outstanding Oral Presentations
   Shaun Calhoun
   Precious-Gold Akpadija
   Emily Barrera
Gretchen Anderson Pathways Scholarship
   Hannah Gregor
   Machenzie Reasor
   Nikki Sweet
Carolyn & Lawrence Garber Summer Research Scholarship
   Zahra Aljuboori
   Hannah Gregor