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Our 2021 Annual Student Award and Scholarship Recipients

The URI Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce its selection of the award and scholarship recipients for 2021.

Sarah Parker: Outstanding Freshman Student and recipient of a CRC Handbook and the Joseph Waite Ince
Josephine Shirah: The Chemistry Department Award for service to the Department and co-recipient of the Harold A. Riemenschneider Award
Ethan Gosselin: Rhode Island Section of the American Chemical Society and the G. Dickson & Virginia Stiles Kenney Scholarship
Taylor Kowal: The Mona Zakaria Hamer Memorial Scholarship
Madison Vinett: The Hach Chemistry Scholarship
Samantha Sylvain: The Andrew J. Clapham Student Leadership in Chemistry Award
Gregory Bassett: The ACS Undergraduate award in Physical Chemistry and co-recipient of the Harold A. Riemenschneider Award
Adelaide Levenson: The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Award
Kevin Knowlan: The ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry
Brendan Hurd: The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award
Jacob Bliss: The American Institute of Chemists Foundation Award
Adelaide Levenson: The University Academic Excellence Award
Maggie Mahaney: The Outstanding First Year Graduate Student and Milton Waltcher ’41 Scholarship
Leah Rynearson: The Outstanding Second Year Graduate Student and Victor Baxt Chemistry Scholarship
Gethmini Jayasekara: Co-recipient of the Outstanding Third Year Graduate Student and Phyllis Rosen Brown Chemistry Scholarship
Brian Sheetz: Co-recipient of the Outstanding Third Year Graduate Student and Phyllis Rosen Brown Chemistry Scholarship
James Hagan: Co-recipient of the R. Ken Force Analytical Chemistry Fellowship
Surendra Puri: Co-recipient of the R. Ken Force Analytical Chemistry Fellowship
Kassie Picard: The Bruno Vittimberga Organic Chemistry Research Award
Athina Kominia: The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and Bertram M. Brown ’36 Scholarship

Congratulations to all these outstanding students. Hopefully, next year we will be able to return to the annual ice cream social to accompany the announcement of these awards.