Graduate Student Awards Program
Each spring, the faculty of the Chemistry department select outstanding graduate students to receive awards based on performance. The Department is pleased to announce the recipients of the following awards for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Zappert Award
American Chemical Society, Binghamton Section
$100.00 scholarship to an outstanding graduating Ph.D. student. Awarded at the annual
Section "Student Awards" dinner in May.
2022 Recipient: Yunxiang Xie
2023 Recipient: Ezer Castillo
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities. Picture
taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, director of TA’s, student’s advisor,
and Department Chair.
2022 Recipient: Ezer Castillo and Justine Gordon
2023 Recipient: Faith Wachira
Outstanding Research Assistant Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding teaching abilities. Picture
taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, director of TA’s, student’s advisor,
and Department Chair.
2022 Recipient: Ezer Castillo and Daniel Ciulla
2023 Recipient: Christopher Ryan
Outstanding Service and Outreach Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 to a graduate student demonstrating outstanding research accomplishments.
Picture taken and check awarded at a luncheon for student, student’s advisor and Department
Chair.
2022 Recipient: Victoria Kompanijec
2023 Recipient: Ezer Castillo
Lois D. Mackey Award
Chemistry Department
$200.00 check to a graduate student.
2022 Recipient: Brandon Tessier
2023 Recipient: Colin Clark
K. Keith Innes Summer Research Grant
Chemistry and Physics Departments, Administered through the SUNY Binghamton Foundation
$4,000 to an exceptional graduate student who is not fully funded for summer research
using spectroscopy in physical chemistry, chemical physics, or other fields of chemistry
in this order of preference.
2022 Recipient: Bernard Stevenson
2023 Recipient: Lynn Terry
Clifford E. Myers Summer Research Grant
Chemistry Department, Administered through the SUNY Binghamton Foundation
$4,000 to an exceptional graduate student who is not fully funded for summer research
in materials chemistry.
2022 Recipient: Dominic Caracciolo
2023 Recipient: Michael Njuki and Ben Pei
eisch summer research grant
Chemistry Department, Administered through the Binghamton University Foundation
$4,000 ... given to students who pursue bold and unexpected leads in high risk, high
reward research.
2022 Recipient: Christopher Ryan
2023 Recipient: Chetan Joshi
SHIMADZU SUMMER RESEARCH GRANT
Chemistry Department, Administered through the Binghamton University Foundation
$4,000 ... graduate student in the Chemistry Department of exceptional quality who
is not fully-funded for summer research.
2023 Recipient: Yueyue Shi
2023 Recipient: Yang Dong
Jeffrey Beck Graduate Summer Research Grant
Chemistry Department, Administered through the Binghamton University Foundation
$4,000 to an exceptional Chemistry graduate or PhD student who is not fully funded
for summer research.
2022 Recipient: Ilze Kumpina
2023 Recipient: June Kenyaga and Victor Nyagilo
