Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognition Program Recipients


Congratulations to the 2024 recipients of the ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognition Program. We are proud to recognize the talented graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in:

  1. Mentoring
  2. Promotion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect
  3. Promotion of Research Safety

Visit the ACS Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Recognition Program page to learn more about the program and criteria for nominations. 

Group of Students

Recognition Program by the Numbers

From 2022 to 2024, the number of institution recipients increased from 18 to 47, respectively, with larger international recognition.

47

Number of Institutions

73

Number of Recipients

58

Graduate Student Recipients

15

Postdoctoral Scholars Recipients

Leadership in Mentoring

This recognition category highlights outstanding efforts and impact in research and safety mentoring, broadly defined. Mentoring may involve peers in their own research group as well as outside groups, undergraduate/high school researchers, and participants in short-term research programs (e.g. summer programs, REUs, international exchanges).

Graduate Student Recipients
Toyin Akinleye
Middle Tennessee State University

Farbod Amirghasemi
University of Southern California 

Aleksander Bartnik
University of California, Irvine

Alejandro Burgos Suazo
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Fuqiang Chen
Zhejiang University

Andrew Cruz
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Kwabena Dabie
University of New Mexico

Prakriti Das
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Luana de Brito Anton
New York University

Neil Grenade
Queen's University, Kingston

Michaela Jacobs
University of Southern California


Jennifer Kean
Eastern Michigan University

Seungheon Lee
The University of Texas, Austin

Brian Leonard
West Virginia University

Willa Mihalyi-Koch
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Abhiroop Mishra
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Callan Norby
Idaho State University

Sadia Nowshin
University of California, Santa Barbara

Marius Popa
The University of Texas, Dallas

Lyndsey Prosser
Emory University

Wenting Shi
Georgia Institute of Technology


Azalea Uva
University of Toronto

Alicia Wagner
Northeastern University

Moriah Weese-Myers
University of Cincinnati 

Xinzhe Xue
University of California, Santa Cruz

Sam Zarcone
Texas A&M University

Postdoctoral Scholar Recipients
Zakiya Barnes
University of Chicago

Maria Cleveland
Queen's University, Kingston

Huidong Dai
Northeastern University

Tesfaye Abebe Geleta
National Taiwan University


Luiz Henrique Da Silva Correa
University of Victoria

Ingrid Heyns
University of Alabama

Zoe Marr
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Saurabh Nath
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Emily Saccuzzo
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Vineeth Suja
Harvard University

Ökten Üngör
The Ohio State University

Kunyu Wang
University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Watkins
University of California, Santa Barbara

Leadership in the Promotion of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect

This recognition category highlights outstanding efforts that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect in the program. Activities may include participation in recruitment to enhance diversity, engagement in impactful conversations that strengthen the culture of inclusivity, and efforts to identify and eliminate inequities in the department/institution-wide.

Graduate Student Recipients
Samuel Brunclik
University of Kansas

Élodie D’Astous
Université de Sherbrooke

Ines Forrest
Scripps Research Institute

Rosario Fuentes Chang
University of California, Santa Cruz

Joseph Mancuso
Emory University

Jonathan Martinez
The University of Texas, Dallas

Dinorah Martinez-Torres
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras 

Alivia Mukherjee
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Rifat Nabi
Temple University

Dana Nanan
Queen's University, Kingston

Jeanette Pina
Texas A&M University

Brittany Prempin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sumeyye Seker
University of California, San Diego

Durgalakshmi Sivasankar
Northeastern University

Melanie Susman
University of California, Santa Barbara

Camryn Wallace
University of California, Irvine

Fiona Wasson
University of Cincinnati

Md Zaid
University of Chittagong

Linda Zuckerman
Yale University

Postdoctoral Scholar Recipients
Matthew Hannigan
New York University

Safia Jilani
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Leadership in the Promotion of Research Safety

This recognition category highlights outstanding efforts to promote safety in research environments, broadly defined. Activities may include exemplary service as a safety officer, participation in efforts to enhance safety culture and awareness, and leadership in promoting safety in areas outside of the wet laboratory, including safety issues associated with computational and theoretical chemistry.

Graduate Student Recipients
Syed Fahad Bin Haque
The University of Texas, Dallas

Raisa De Jesus-Torres
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras 

Caroline Donaghy
University of Connecticut 

Sukanya Dutta
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Madison Edwards
Texas A&M University


Brandon Hosford
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Erin Kuker
University of California, Irvine

Kaye Kuphal
University of Rochester

De’Zhane McCall-Butler
Boston University


Babatunde Obadawo
University of Toledo

Fateme Rezagholizade
Queen's University, Kingston

Dylan Snider
The University of Texas, Austin

Andrew Vogler
Northeastern University

Past Recipients

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