Over 110 were in attendance for the Department of Chemistry's annual Academic Awards Program conducted recently in the Frank Hovorka Atrium.

The program was presided over by the Department's Chair, Lawrence M. Sayre, and awards were presented to both undergraduate and graduate students by Professors Fred L. Urbach and Robert C. Dunbar.

The awards program was instituted to give recognition to undergraduate and graduate students who have excelled in their studies and teaching performance, and to recognize an outstanding alumnus or alumna in the field of chemistry.

This year the Outstanding Alumnus Award was presented to Arnold Rheingold, who received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Western Reserve University in 1962 and 1963. He is currently a professor of chemistry at the University of Delaware and has published extensively in X-ray Crystallography.

The student awards are as follows:

• Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award for the highest achievement in freshman chemistry: Puja Samudra

• Iota Sigma Pi/Frank Hovorka Prize for the female chemistry major with the highest average after three semesters: Sophia Chung

• Olin Freeman Tower Prize for excellence in physical chemistry: Michael Bokoch

• Carl F. Prutton Prize for scholarship in chemistry: Benjamin Sherry

• W. R. Veazey Prize for highest academic achievement in physical chemistry: Christine Conageski

• Eli Lilly Award for outstanding sophomore or junior chemistry student: Michelle Adams

• Hippolyte Gruener Award for student merit in chemistry: Jeffrey Goshe, Chris Fossaceca and Kathryn Bunasky

• Merck Index Award for outstanding chemistry students: Glen Alliger and Rachel Hopkins

• 2002 Hypercube Scholar Award: Benjamin Sherry

• Analytical Chemistry Award: Michelle Adams

• Graduate Teaching Awards: Jennifer Thomas-Wohlever, Qiling Cheng, Harinandini Paramahamsan and Eugen Mesaros

• Dumitru and Gheorghe D. Mateescu Student Citizenship Awards: Heather Watrob and Louis Rendek

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