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Awards and Recognition
2025-2026 Awards
| Award | Name |
|---|---|
| Rock River ACS Introductory Chemistry Award | Valeria Aguilera, Owen Resenbeck and Sonya Plescia |
| Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award – Honorable Mention |
Bobby Barczak, Bennett Bennett, Victor Castro, Oak Johnson, Air SanMiguel, Isabella Shields, Tatum Tison |
| Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award | Berenice Carmona |
| Outstanding Sophomore Award | Vanessa Ramos |
| Undergraduate ACS Award in Physical Chemistry | Samantha Ottinger |
| Undergraduate ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry | Sophia Galla |
| Undergraduate ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry | Angelina Jerantowski |
| Undergraduate ACS Award in Organic Chemistry | Pablo Diaz-Carbajal |
| Undergraduate ACS Award in Biochemistry | Odin Klotz |
| Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Scholarship Fund | Maya Al-Massad, Vincent Cheesman and Gia Memenga |
| Chemistry Alumni Undergraduate Endowed Scholarship | Jocelyn Kuntz |
| American Institute of Chemists Award | Navi Ruiz |
| Outstanding Senior Award | Elle Durgan |
| Rock River ACS Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award | Pablo Diaz-Carbajal |
| NIU Chemistry Club Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award | Arizbeth Suarez Ramirez |
| Zydowsky Research Fund Recipients | Craig Dobbe, Heather Matenaer, Vanessa Ramos and Alex Simko |
| Van Acker-Duminy-Kovarik Endowed Scholarship | Kaitlyn Nelson |
| Rosalie Reynolds Endowed Scholarship | Magy Ponce |
| College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award | Leslie Munoz |
| Edwin Hyland Memorial Scholarship in Chemistry | Maxwell Tatman |
| NIU Chemistry Club Endowed Edwards-Hyland Award | Jasmine Pacheco |
| Jon Carnahan Chemistry Scholarship | Angelina Jerantowski |
| Kevin Cull Memorial Endowed Teaching Awards | Shaista Ahmad, and Jacob Bojan |
| John D. Graham Endowed Scholarship | Xudong Xiao |
| Outstanding Graduate Student Award | Diksha Gautam, Owen Wostoupal |
| 2026 Summer Research Award | Segun Ogundare, Md Jasim Uddin Sohel, Shaista Ahmad, Arghavan Mollazadeh-Moghaddam, Richard Frimpong, Anastasija Rudan and Charles Lail |
2025-2026 Academic Year Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
- Mariam Adegbenro
- Mengyuan Li
- Michael Heene
- Owen Wostoupal
- Qijia Zhu
- Xudong Xiao
Master of Science
- Diksha Gautam
- Lalita Rai
- Shoaib Mahmud Shizu
Bachelor of Science
- Adam Baldocchi
- Angelina Jerantowski
- Anthony Dabe
- Jacqueline Ladik
- Emanuel Naumann
- Beatrice Landowski
- Brenna Schmitt
- Eve Linden
- Danya Al Aukaidy
- Estephanie Lopez
- Owen Bruneau
- Leslie Munoz
- Emily Burris
- Sam Ottinger
- Pablo Diaz-Carbajal
- Navi Ruiz
- Elle Durgan
- Arizbeth Suarez Ramirez
- Luis Garcia
- Mia Zavala
- Becca Garcia-Stam
- Montgomery Komas
- Tamiah Hart
- Darielys Morales Ruiz
Contact Us
Northern Illinois University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faraday Hall, Room 319
DeKalb, IL 60115
