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Faculty Awards 2010 Larry Overman 2010 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods 2009 Ara Apkarian Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Don Blake American Geophysical Union Fellowship Don Blake UCI Lauds and Laurels award for Faculty Achievement Suzanne Blum Thieme Synlett-Synthesis Journal Award William Evans Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Carl Moyer Award for Scientific Leadership and Technical Excellence from the Coalition for Clean Air John Hemminger Fellow of the American Chemical Society Alan Heyduk Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Liz Jarvo NSF CAREER Award Rachel Martin NSF CAREER Award Hal Moore Outstanding Emeritus Award James Nowick NOGLSTP Scientist of the Year Award Reginald Penner The Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry of the UK. Eric Potma NSF CAREER Award Chris Vanderwal NSF CAREER Award Christopher Vanderwal Amgen 2009 Young Investigator Award 2008 Ara Apkarian ACS Charles R. Bennett Service Through Chemistry Award Ramesh Arasasingham UCI Instructional Technology Innovation Award Don Blake UCI Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education Suzanne Blum NSF CAREER Award William Evans Spedding Award of the Rare Earth Research Society William Evans Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Richard C. Tolman Award and Medal Filipp Furche Outstanding Young German Scientist Award Filipp Furche Lecturers Scholarship (Dozentenstipendium),German Chemical Industry Fund Zhibin Guan Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Stephen Hanessian Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Alan Heyduk Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Rachel Martin Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Larry Overman Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry Greg Weiss School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Professor, selected by the senior class 2007 Ara Apkarian USC Distinguished Alumnus Award Don Blake Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Kieron Burke APS Fellow of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics Robert Corn Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award Robert Corn ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis Rob Corn Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Kim Edwards UCI Lecturer of the Year Award William Evans Sir Edward Frankland Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry Benny Gerber Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters Alan Heyduk NSF CAREER Award Sergey Nizkorodov Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Larry Overman Nagoya Medal of Organic Chemistry James Pitts, Jr. Coalition for Clean Air-Carl Moyer Award Scott Rychnovsky S.T. Li Prize for Achievements in Science and Technology Scott Rychnovsky Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science A. J. Shaka Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Kenneth Shea Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award Dave Van Vranken UCI Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education 2006 Ara Apkarian UCI Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching Ramesh Arasasingham UCI Lecturer of the Year Don Blake NASA Group Achievement Award William Evans Distinguished Faculty Award for Research Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Barbara Finlayson-Pitts UCI Distinguished Professor Benny Gerber Medal of Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences Zhibin Guan Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation John Hemminger Medard W. Welch Award from the AVS Kenneth Janda Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching Sergey Nizkorodov UCI School of Physical Sciences Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education Reginald Penner Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Doug Tobias Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Sheryl Tsai Pew Scholar 2005 David Brant Laurea Honoris Causa in Chemistry from the University of Trieste William Evans ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry Nien-Hui Ge NSF CAREER Award Zhibin Guan Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award Zhibin Guan UCI Research Innovation Award John Hemminger Nicholas Foundation Prize for Cross-Disciplinary Research Wilson Ho UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Research Kenneth Janda UCI Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education Elizabeth Jarvo Lilly New Faculty Award Elizabeth Jarvo Amgen New Faculty Award Rachel Martin Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award Sergey Nizkorodov Coblentz Award for Outstanding Young Spectroscopist Tom Poulos Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Christopher Vanderwal Lilly New Faculty Award Christopher Vanderwal Amgen New Faculty Award 2004 Ara Apkarian Professor Invitado, Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Technologias Nucleares de Cuba Ara Apkarian Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Donald Blake ACS Charles R. Bennett Service Through Chemistry Award Ralph Cicerone Nominated for President of the National Academy of Sciences Ralph Cicerone Albert Einstein World Award of Science Patrick Farmer American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award Barbara Finlayson-Pitts ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science R. Benny Gerber Israel Chemical Society Prize John Hemminger ACS Arthur C. Adamson Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Science Susan King Outstanding Professor, School of Physical Sciences Larry Overman Ta-shue Chou Lectureship Award Irwin Rose Nobel Prize in Chemistry F. Sherwood Rowland United Kingdom Royal Society Member F. Sherwood Rowland Gold Medal of the Academy of Athens (Greece) F. Sherwood Rowland Elected a founding member of the Academia Bibliotheca Alexandrinae (Egypt) Greg Weiss UCI Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education 2003 Zhibin Guan Chancellors Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research John Hemminger Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science John Hemminger ACS Charles R. Bennett Service Through Chemistry Award Larry Overman ACS Cope Award Keith Woerpel UCI Outstanding Professor of the School of Physical Sciences 2002 Ralph Cicerone Roger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union William Evans UCI Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education Frank Feher Council for Chemical Research, Collaboration Success Award Barbara Finlayson-Pitts American Geophysical Union Fellowship Zhibin Guan NSF CAREER Award Zhibin Guan 3M Award Susan King Outstanding Professor, School of Physical Sciences Vladimir Mandelshtam Sloan Research Fellowship Larry Overman UCI Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Research Larry Overman Yamada Prize Peter Rentzepis Richard C. Tolman Award and Medal Greg Weiss Beckman Young Investigator Award Keith Woerpel Focused Giving Grant Award from Johnson & Johnson 2001 Donald Blake Chancellors Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research David Brant UCI Outstanding Professor in Science Zhibin Guan Beckman Young Investigator Award Zhibin Guan DuPont Young Faculty Award Vladimir Mandelshtam UCI Faculty Career Development Award Reginald Penner Helmut Fisher Medal of DECHEMA 2000 Ralph Cicerone Franklin Institute Bower Award Ralph Cicerone Elected Member of the American Philosophical Society Barbara Finlayson-Pitts UCI Faculty Mentor Award, by Graduate Voice Wilson Ho Bonn Chemistry Prize David Van Vranken UCI Excellence in Teaching in Physical Sciences David Van Vranken Cope Scholar Award Keith Woerpel Sloan Research Fellowship 1995 F. Sherwood Rowland Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Graduate Student Awards & Fellowships (NOT a comprehensive list) 2009 Eli Lilly Fellowship Matt Beaver (Woerpel) Eli Lilly Fellowship Dave Martin (Vanderwal) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Emily Bruns (Finlayson-Pitts) Vertex Fellowship Ben Kohn (Jarvo) 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Connor Martin (Overman) Edward K.C. Lee Award Matthew Brown (Hemminger) Graduate Award for Departmental Service Malin Backlund (Farmer) Hal Moore Award Juan Diaz (Weiss) Joan Rowland Award Christopher Popeney (Guan) Michael Gebel Award Jonathan Bass (Blum) Freddy Toledo (Ho) Michael Zach Award Sergiy Levin (Nowick) Most Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award Matthew Beaver (Woerpel) Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA - Honored by the School of Physical Sciences Sergiy Levin (Nowick) Jordan Pio (Janda) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - 1st Year Jason Deckman (Mandelshtam) Buck Taylor (Jarvo) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Lower Division Brian Slafer (Rychnovsky) Keith Donovan (Penner) Zhiyang Zeng (Shea) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Upper Division Sonja Peterson (Borovik) Hasan Celik (Shaka) Smitrovich Award Danielle Vellucci (Rychnovsky) 2007 ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship Nicole White (Overman) Edward K.C. Lee Award Maggie Walser (Nizkorodov) Hal Moore Award John Huckins (Rychnovsky) Joan Rowland Award Jennie Thomas (Finlayson-Pitts) Michael Gebel Award Samar Moussa (Finlayson-Pitts) Michael Zach Award Jie Bai (Shea) Most Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award Renee Link (Woerpel) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Desiré Whitmore (Potma) Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA - Honored by the School of Physical Sciences Christopher McGee (Van Vranken) Amber Riley (Rychnovsky) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - 1st Year Steve Canham (Blum) Matthew Carlson (Blake) Glenn Eldridge (Weiss) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Continuing TA's Michael Gesinski (Rychnovsky) Sara Lorenz (Evans) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Lower Division Malin Backlund (Farmer) Matthew Beaver (Woerpel) Romas Kudirka (Van Vranken) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Upper Division Christopher Harmon (Finlayson-Pitts) Steve Mang (Nizkorodov) UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship Juan Diaz (Weiss) 2006 ACS Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship Omid Khakshoor (Nowick) ARCS Foundation Fellowship Jennie Thomas (Finlayson-Pitts) Diabetes Technology Society Peterson Student Research Bronze Prize Brian Novak (Blake) Edward K.C. Lee Award Omid Khakshoor (Nowick) Hal Moore Award Rishi Vaswani (Chamberlin) Joan Rowland Award Allison Olszewski (Weiss) Michael Zach Award Ryan Benz (Tobias) Most Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award Amber Reilly (Rychnovsky) Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA-Honored by the School of Physical Sciences Walter Salamant (Woerpel) Andrew Thomas (Woerpel) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA 1ST YEAR: Jocelyn Wang (Overman) Matt Gileto (Chamberlin) Justin Walensky (Evans) CONTINUING TA'S: Hiromitsu (Hiro) Urakami (Guan) Janice Loy (Woerpel) Siddhartha Shenoy (Woerpel) UPPER DIVISION: Sergiy Levin (Nowick) LOWER DIVISION: Viengkham (Vi) Malathong (Rychnovsky) Christian Ventocilla (Woerpel) Laura Bourque (Woerpel) Smitrovich Award Stacie Calad (Woerpel) Lori Jean Van Orden (Rychnovsky) 2005 ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Fellowship Juan Diaz Allergan Graduate Fellowship Omid Khakshoor Edward G. Weston Fellowship from the Electrochemical Society Emek Blair Edward K.C. Lee Award George Nazin Hal Moore Award Deborah Smith Joan Rowland Award Stosh Kozimor (Evans) Novartis Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry Thomas La Cruz Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA Honored by the School of Physical Sciences Christopher Popeney (Guan), Robert Sulc (Shea) 2004 Edward K.C. Lee Award Zachary Aron (Overman) Hal Moore Award Michael Chung Joan Rowland Award Filip Sulc (Farmer) UCI Medal Fellowship Omid Khakshoor ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Award David Colby (Chamberlin) ACS Organic Fellowship Jason T. Roland (Guan), Audris Huang (Overman) AGEP Fellowship Dora Guzman (Guan) ARCS Fellowship, Achievement Awards for College Students David Lee (Evans) Allergan Graduate Fellowship Mary Pavan (Overman) Bristol-Meyers Squibb Graduate Fellowship Emily Peterson (Overman) Chancellors Fellowship Daniel Shelton (Rychnovsky), Paul Tanis (Overman) Comer Fellow, Climate Change Barbara Barletta (Blake) Department of Education GAANN Fellowship Karen Callahan, Ana De La Ree, Kevin Donovan, John Karnes, Meghan Krage, James Loussaert, Stephen Mang (Nizkorodov), Rachelle Smalley (Finlayson-Pitts) Eli Lilly Graduate Fellowship Joshua Roth (Chamberlin) Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship Anthony Gomez (Nizkorodov) GCEP/GREF Fellowship Rachel Hoffman (Finlayson-Pitts) Gates Millenium Michael Chung (Nowick) Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Thomas Vasquez (Woerpel) IGB Fellow Ryan Benz (Tobias) Johnson & Johnson Fellowship Deborah Smith (Woerpel) Lilly Fellowship Zach Aron (Overman) Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award Aaron Kushner (Guan) Mosty Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award Danielle Vellucci (Rychnovsky) NASA Fellowship John Newberg (Hemminger) NIA (National Institute of Aging) Training Grant Chris Gothard (Nowick) Julianna Asgian (Chamberlin postdoc) NIH Biomedical Informatics Training Grant Phillip Tam (Weiss) NIH Fellowship Stacie Calad (Woerpel) Claudia Lucero (Woerpel) NIH Minority NRSA Zulimar Nevarez (Woerpel), Ryan Lauchli (Shea), Antonio Romero (Woerpel) NIH Synthesis and Structure Aron Levin NSF Maggie Walser (Nizkorodov) Novartis Fellowship Tom LaCruz (Rychnovsky) Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA 1ST YEAR: Christian Ventocilla (Woerpel), Sara Kennedy (Evans) CONTINUING TA's: Jennie Thomas (Finalyson-Pitts) Walter Salamant (Woerpel) UPPER DIVISION: Benjamin Murray (Penner), Szeman Ng (Farmer) Rishi Vaswani (Chamberlin) Regents Dissertation Fellowship Christopher Anderson (Overman), Zachery Aron (Overman), Brenda Burke (Overman), Trevor Charvat (Chamberlin), Guanghui Chen (Guan), Kevin Greenman (Van Vranken), Thu Zar Lwin (Tobias), Erik Menke (Penner), Benjamin Murray (Penner), Nina Riga (Martens), Xiaohong Shou (Chamberlin) Filip Sulc (Farmer) Scott Wolkenhauer (Rychnovsky) Penny Workman (Evans) Synthesis and Structure Training Grant Gary Juskowiak (Van Vranken) Jamie Cohen (Chamberlin) Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program Xiang Pan (Nizkorodov) UCI Bridge Program Award Rene Bravo (Heyduk) Melissa Prado UCI Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center Fellow Brian Novak (Blake)

Major Undergraduate Awards 2009 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award Andy Nguyen American Chemical Society-Analytical Chemistry Award Joshua Klobas American Chemical Society-Orange County William Hoang Nguyen American Institute of Chemistry Foundation Tiffany Pham CRC Press Freshmen Chemistry Award Somruedee Phadungpreechachal Don L. Bunker Award Jacob Kanady Hypercube Scholar Program Award Desirae Lau Merck Award Eun Kyu Dong Bryan Quoc Le Shane Alexander Sturman Outstanding Senior Jacob Kanady Pfizer-UCI Undergraduate Research Award in Organic Chemistry Stephen Ramgren Rita Salurialam Josh Tolopilo Robert Doedens Undergraduate Achievement Award Joshua Klobas Rosa Parks Memorial Book Scholarship Mirielle-Rose Miranda School of Physical Sciences Undergraduate Achievement Award John Paul Issa Undergraduate Research & Department Service Katherine MacKenzie