Student and Faculty Awards and Accomplishments

Our 2012 Fall Tea Awards Banquet was held in October. This program recognizes and awards our outstanding students and honors and remembers people who have made an impact on our lives. The awards presented included:

·       The David C. McIntyre Memorial Scholarship – Jordan Reiber

·       Mikal Lynn Sousa Memorial Scholarship – Jeffrey Dick

·       Newell C. Cook Sr. and Jr. Scholarship – Lucas Moore

·       Park Wiseman Scholarship – Nicholas Conners, Amani Al-Nossif, Amie Baker

·       Sandra K. And Robert J. Morris Scholarship- Cory Diemler

·       Excellent Performance in General Chemistry Award – Charlotte Brunner, My Bui, Jacob Culver, Megan Harris, Mathew Marshall, Monica Mikolajczyk, Jonathon Miksanek, Luke Schmid, Addison Smalley, Leigh Stevenson, Brock Windsor

The following graduating seniors received awards at our Annual Senior Recognition Banquet in April 2012:

·       Ralph Joyner Positive Attitude Award - Tobias Morris

·       Outstanding Senior Award - Phillip Juarez

·       Outstanding Performance by an ACS Accredited Chemistry Major - Jon Ruble

·       Outstanding Performance by a 34 Hour Chemistry Major - Pam Filby

·       Outstanding Performance by a Pre-Professional Chemist - Huicong Xie

·       Excellence In Undergraduate Research - Kevin Bell

·       Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award - Justin Giessler

·       Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award - Katherine Macri, Alicen Teitgen

·       Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award - Alicen Teitgen

The Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (ACS) won an Honorable Mention at the National ACS Meeting in New Orleans for recognition of their service and also won an Outstanding Organization Public Service Award from the Ball State Student Voluntary Services.

Our faculty members have a long history of being outstanding teachers. In 2008 two faculty members, Scott Pattison and Patricia Lang, were among the 10 finalists for the Excellence in Teaching Award. Lang was selected as one of the winners and taught “The Chemistry of Artists’ Pigments” as her dream course in the spring 2009.  In 2010, Tykhon Zubkov also received the Excellence in Teaching Award.  The department is proud of his accomplishments and he is able to pursue his dream course "Nanomaterials: The Chemistry Perspective" in the Spring of 2011.