Chemistry Graduate Student Fellowship Showcase 2026
CHEMISTRY GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP SHOWCASE 2026
Awards received from August 2025-August 2026
Seth Allen (Roberts Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Nirvana Almada (Page Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Anastacia Armijo
- Graduate School Mentoring Fellowship
Ian Arny (Carsch Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Jacob Baker (Aubrey Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Malcolm Barnard (Brodbelt Group)
- NIH T32 Training Grant Fellowship in Project-to-Product Team Entrepreneurship and Active Mentoring
- Selected to attend ComSciCon-Houston 2026
- Spot Award, MilliporeSigma
Wren Berry (Milliron Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Atri Bhattacharya (Samanta Group)
- 2026-27 Outstanding Graduate Research Fellowship
Jeremy Brinker (Rose Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Mairead Brownell (Mullins Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
Danyella Cabrera (Callmann Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Melanie Campbell (Brodbelt Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Logan Carr (Milliron Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Juan Cervantes (Sessler Group)
- College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Strategic Fellowship
Estevan Cleveland (Marty Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
- Paul Robert DeGregory Memorial Endowed Fellowship in Chemistry
Nicholas Covalsen (Raccah Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Samantha Cox
- Graduate School Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Olivia Dioli (Brodbelt Group)
- Chemistry Department Recruiting Service Award
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Lauren Ekeleme (Anslyn Group)
- College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Strategic Fellowship
Nada Elessawy (Lin Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
Austin Engstrom (Humphrey Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
Maddie Evarts (Krische Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Chentao Fang (Humphrey Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Parivash Feyzishendi (Thirumalai Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Lara Fitzpatrick (Lu/Rose Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Torrick Fletcher (Anslyn Group)
- Graduate School Mentoring Dean’s Strategic Fellowship
Ellen Forehand (Page Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Zach Freeman (Raccah Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Barshali Ghosh (Hull Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
Gabriel Gilman (Samanta Group)
- Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Graduate School Dean’s Prestigious Supplement
- Henze Teaching Award
Alyssa Gomez (Hsu Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Robert Gudgel (Ren Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Alexia Hartzell (Raccah Group)
- Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- Graduate School Dean's Prestigious Supplement
Margaret Hebert (Roberts Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Jessica Hellinger (Brodbelt Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Sophia Henges (Callmann Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Phuong Ho (Marty Group)
- NIH T32 Training Grant Fellowship
Irene Huq (Que Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
Caleb Hurst (Lu/Rose Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
Lauralee Hurst (Milliron Group)
- NSF GRFP Fellow
- Graduate School Dean’s Prestigious Supplement
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Xingchen Jin (Sessler Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Naomi Jones (Baiz Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Gabe Juarez (Sessler Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Kyle Juetten (Brodbelt Group)
- Graduate School Dissertation Writing Fellowship
Sung Jung (Henkelman Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Sung Yeon Kim (Sessler Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Lauren Kimberly (Que Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
Seoyoung Lee (Krische Group)
- Graduate School Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Ming-Yu Li
- Matsen Endowed Presidential Fellowship in Theoretical Chemistry
Alex Lin (Belardi Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Cristobal Lopez (Roberts Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Diane Madeksho (Webb Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Alyssa Malto (Que Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Debasree Mandal (Ren Group)
- 2025/2026 ACS-ANYL Younger Chemist Conference Travel Grant Award
- UT Austin Housing and Dinning Tenant Advisory board award 2025-2026
Peyton Meares (Krsiche Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Em Medlock (Page Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Delaney Miller (Rose Group)
- NSF GRFP Fellow
- Graduate School Dean’s Prestigious Supplement
- CNS Copeland Fellowship
Darya Moiny
- Graduate School Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Elias Mondaca Medina (Ren Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Alex Monterde (Hull Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Surya Pravo Mookherjee (Hsu Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Cameron Muniz (Hsu Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Sara Nixon (Samanta Group)
- NSF GRFP Fellow
- Graduate School Dean’s Prestigious Supplement
- ACS Women Chemists Committee/Merck Research Award
Dario Ochoa (Brodbelt Group)
- NIH T32 Training Grant Fellowship
Yuto Onozuka
- Graduate School Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Finn Reil (Belardi Group)
- Chemistry Department Recruiting Service Award
Lucas Rodriguez (Rose Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Neha Satish (Samanta Group)
- Chemistry Department Recruiting Service Award
Saurabh Satpute (Hull Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
Sridhar Sethuram Markandaraj (Mullins Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
- Director's Choice 1st Place in Poster Competition, 2026 Global Solar Power + Energy Storage and Hydrogen Day, Energy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
- Second Place in Research Poster Competition, UT Energy Week 2026, Energy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
Dana Sheehan (Baiz Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Mingyu Shi (Page Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
Kailee Shlipak (Lu Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Aneesh Sridhar (Hull Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Emmie Stumbo (Rose Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Yuanjie Sun (Samanta Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Yang Tao (Ren Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Sarah Teoh (Krische Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
Kaylin Thonsgaard (Roberts Group)
- Henze Teaching Award
J. Danny Urbina (Anslyn Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Rinish Reddy Vaidyula (Mullins Group)
- Jeff Byers Memorial Graduate Award
Benjamin Van Schaick (Roberts Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Lindsay Vaughn (Callmann Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Maddie Walden (Carsch Group)
- Faraday Teaching Award
Jia’ao Wang (Henkelman Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Ziqing Wang (Mullins Group)
- UT Chevron Energy Fellows Graduate Award
- Bard Center for Electrochemistry Travel Fellowship
Moriah Weiss (Li Group)
- NSF NRT (Research Traineeship) Q-CAT
- College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Strategic Fellowship
Sam Wenzel (Ren Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Scotty Wicker (Li Group)
- NSF GRFP Fellow
- Graduate School Dean’s Prestigious Supplement
- College of Natural Sciences Dean’s Strategic Fellowship
Wesley Wolfe (Hsu Group)
- NIH T32 Training Grant Fellowship
Xinyi Wu (Roberts Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Jiaqing Xu (Lu Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Jian Yang (Sessler Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Briaunna Zamarripa
- Graduate School South Texas Fellowship
Izzy Zamborini (Callmann Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Jiaxi Zeng (Que Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Pangmiaomiao Zhang (Lin Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Houyuan Zhao (Liu Group)
- Chemistry Department Summer Endowed Fellowship
Joy Zhou (Page Group)
- Provost’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship
