Recognition: Awards & Achievments (listing)

Faculty

 

Helen Blackwell
2024 Vilas Distinguished Achievement

A.J. Boydston
2025-26 Vilas Associates Competition Awardee

Andrew Buller
2025 Romnes Award

Josh Coon
2025 Donald F. Hunt Distinguished Contribution in Proteomics Award from the Human Proteome Organization

Song Jin / Graduate
Student Katelyn Michael
2024 WARF Innovation Award

Ive Hermans
2025 AAAS Fellow

Sam Pazicni
2025 Exceptional Service Support Program
2025 Appointed associate editor for Chemistry Teacher International, IUPAC’s new journal for chemistry education. Sam will be the associate editor for North America.

Shannon Stahl
2025 Robert K. Grasselli Award from the European Federation of Catalysis Societies

Arun Yethiraj
2025 Fulbright US Scholar to India

Dan Weix
2025 Kellett Mid‐Career Award

Zachary Wickens
2024 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows
2025 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Tehshik Yoon
2026 David A. Evans Award for the Advancement and Education of Organic Synthesis ACS

Martin Zanni
2025 Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences
2025 WARF Professorship

Staff

 

Lauren Aria
2025 American Scientific Glassblowers Society Memorial Award

Amanda Buchberger
2025 Taylor Teaching Award
2025 L&S Academic Staff Early Career Award

Michelle Fitzgerald
2025 University Staff Excellence Award

Heike Hofstetter
2025 College of Letters & Science Distinguished Status

Char Horsfall
2025 Chemistry Department Staff Award

Peter Jaeger
2025 Selected to serve a three-year term on the Executive Board of Water at UW–Madison

Jericha Mill
2025 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Postdoc Career Development Award

Becca Moy
2025 University Staff Recognition Award

Michael Shortreed
2025 Al Yergey American Society for Mass Spectrometry Scientist Award

Marc Willadson
2025 University Staff Recognition Award

Chad Wilkinson
2025 L&S Academic Staff Mid-Career Award

Student

 

Jalianet Roman Matias (Jin), Georgia Sands (Boros)
2025 Graduate Student NSF Research Fellowship awardee

Ali Altamimi (Van Lehn), Anna Clayborn (Goldsmith), Dylan Forbes (Coon), Leonardo Lizardi Rodriguez (Gopalan), Madison McGuire (Blackwell), Ruby Neisser (Widicus Weaver), Liza Ryutov (Wickens), Evan Smith (Goldsmith)
2025 Graduate Student NSF Research Fellowship honorable mention

Riley Lehman (Gellman), Daria Rudykh (Boydston), Rodrigo Villanueva (Yoon)
2025 Undergraduate NSF Research Fellowship honorable mention

Lauren Fields (Li), Holden Rogers (Ge)
2025 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Graduate Student Award

Michael Kelley
2025 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Undergraduate Student Award

Cade MacAllister (Yoon)
2025 ACS Future Pharma Innovators

Elijah Marris (Weix)
2025 ACS Graduate Student Leadership Award in Mentoring

Adrian Matthews
2025 WCC Merck Research Award

Lauren My-Linh Tran
2025 ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Travel Award sponsored by Eli Lilly & Company

Bojun Liu (Huang)
2025 Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award for Graduate Students from the ACS COMP Division 2025 APL Computational Physics Best Poster Award at the 55th Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference

Brenna Bierman (Rhodes), Harrison Esterly (Zanni), Willa Mihalyi-Koch (Jin), Irene Stoutland (Blackwell), Brittany Trinh (Boydston), Philip Zhou (Stahl)
2024 PPG Travel Award Recipients

Alissa Choi
2025 Goldwater Scholarship

Jonathan Rebelsky (Widicus Weaver)
2025 Wisconsin Wanderer Award from Badger Talks for giving outreach talks in the greatest number of Wisconsin counties

Ray V. Czerwinski (Goldsmith)
2025 WISL Award for Communicating Ph.D. Research to the Public

NOBCChE, University of Wisconsin–Madison Chapter
2025 NOBCChE Chapter Awards — Best Social Engagement

Abayomi Awoyomi, Brenna Bierman, Rich Botzoc, Patrick Cross, Cristina Gonzales, Ryan Hall, Sneha Maheshwari, Shay McLean, Julianna Mouat, Alex Nelson, Hazel Styers, Brittany Trinh, Katie Weber,  Yuzhe Zhang
2025 Department of Chemistry Outstanding Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award