2021

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Thank you for taking the time to watch this year’s virtual honors convocation video!

I’m jane williams, associate dean of academic affairs in the school of science here at iupui.

This the 47th annual school of science honors convocation, and while it looks a little different than in previous years, we’re just as excited to honor the achievements of our amazing students.

We also at this time recognize important staff and faculty who contribute to the success and excellence at the school of science.

On behalf of the faculty, staff, and friends of the school, i want to tell you that we are proud of your achievements and we are proud that you are part of the school of science family.

Some of you may be reaching the end of your academic career and others may be only beginning, but, no matter where you are in your education, you have proven that you are succeeding.

I would now like to introduce the school of science dean and professor of physics, dr. John ditusa.
Welcome to the school of science honors convocation.

I am dr. John ditusa, dean of the purdue school of science at iupui.

I joined the iupui family in august, and i would much prefer to meet all of you in person, but i’m glad we can recognize some of the notable achievements of our wonderful students, staff and faculty in this virtual event.

Since i arrived here at iupui, i have been continuously amazed at the great things that our student, faculty and staff have accomplished.

While facing a global pandemic, our science community has shown perseverence, determination, and above all else, a commitment to helping others.

Faculty, staff and students across the school stepped up to donate supplies and help fight covid in a myriad of ways from developing statistical models tht show virus spread, to working on a covid breathalizer, to helping us all fight the lonliness of working from home, and in understanding the uneven effects the virus has had within our community.

The incredible work you have done has also been recognized by the campus and the indiana university system.
I am very proud of our student, staff and faculty for what they have accomplished in the difficult year.

This year, 50 of the top 100 students are science majors, a record number for the school of science.

Five of our graduate students were named to the elite 50, and our faculty and staff have been recognized with research trailblazer awards, women’s history month leadership awards, and even the iu presidential bicentennial medal.
I am pleased to recognize your hard work and achievements, and i congratulate you all on a job well done.

The achievements of the students are evidence that they have combined talent, hard work and perseverance to excel in a challenging academic environment.

We are pleased to honor them, along with our faculty and staff award participants.

Award recipients will be recognized for their award under each department, program, or school level designation.

If you are not sure if your award is classified as a school award or a departmental program award, please take a moment to look through the website to see where your award is listed.

We will now begin with the school awards.

The trustees teaching award honors individuals who have a positive impact on learning through the direct teaching of students, especially undergraduates.

These award recipients have demonstrated a sustained level of teaching excellence and significant impact on the academic experience of our students.

The recipients for the trustees teaching award are:

Professor frederiqué deiss, department of chemistry and chemical biology

Professor catherine macris, department of earth
Sciences

Professor denise slayback-barry, department of biology

Professor gautam vemuri, department of physics

Professor zou, department of computer and information science

Congratulations to all of you.

The research award for a pre-tenured faculty member is presented to an individual who demonstrates emerging leadership in the area of research.

This year’s recipient is dr. Ian webb from the department of chemistry and chemical biology.

Congratulations to dr. Webb!

The research award for a tenured faculty member is presented to an individual who demonstrates established leadership in the area of research.

This year’s recipient is dr. Adam hirsh from the department of psychology.

Congratulations to dr. Hirsh!

The service award is given to an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions in the area of service by a full-time faculty member.

The award goes to dr. Aj baucum from the department of biology.

Congratulations, aj!

The full-time lecturer service award is given to an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions in the area of service by a full-time lecturer.

This year’s recipient is professor gina londino-smolar from the department of chemistry and forensic and investigative sciences program.

Congratulations, professor londino-smolar!

THE ASSOCIATE FACULTY AWARD IS GIVEN TO A FACULTY MEMBER IN RECOGNITION OF OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE AREA OF TEACHING BY AN ASSOCIATE FACULTY MEMBER.

This year’s recipient is professor john kelly
From the forensic and investigative sciences program.

Congratulations, professor kelly!

The academic advising award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions in the area of academic advising.

This year’s recipient is tenille bullock from the department of computer and information science.

Congratulations, tenille!

This next award is the partners in education full-time staff award.

This recognizes staff that make significant contributions in support of their departments and the mission of our school.

This award acknowledges individuals whose performance is most notable and who demonstrates exemplary service.

This year we have three award winners.

The first is tina carmichael from mathematical sciences.

The second is angel campbell from the school of science dean’s office.
And the third is julie nigro from the dean’s office, and specifically the animal facilities.

Congratulations to you all!

The school of science teaching assistant award honors a teaching assistant for outstanding teaching and for demonstrating superior ability to impart knowledge to students.

This year’s recipient is sushmanth jacob akkarapakam
With the department of mathematical sciences.

Congratulations, jacob!

The innovative educator award is given for an individual who has shown outstanding innovation and creativity in the classroom. The award this year goes to dr. Lixin wang of the department of earth sciences.

Congratulations, dr. Wang!

The malik-evenbeck-baker advocacy and opportunities award honors a faculty or staff member who has had substantial impact on the professional developmoent of faculty/staff in the school.

This award goes to joseph thompson from the school of science dean’s office.

Very deserving. Congratulations, joe!

The herron-bodner-boshmann award for scholarly work in science education is given to a faculty member who has engaged in meaningful science education research.

This year inaugural award is going to a very deserved person, dr. Patrick gentry from the department of biology.

Congratulations, patrick!

Next, we celebrate the students receiving school awards.

The chancellor’s scholar award goes to
Myra hussain.

The chancellor’s scholar award recognizes an outstanding individual’s performance in achieving the highest cumulative gpa and demonstrating breadth and depth within the major.

Each year this very distinguished award is only conferred upon 22 students campus-wide.

Congratulations, myra!

The chancellor’s undergraduate research award goes to grace mattingly and molly pederson.

Each candidate can nominate two of its students for this award.

Through a competitive selection process, the school of science nominated grace and molly for this award, recognizing their excellence in undergraduate research, demonstrating a commitment and a desire to explore more deeply the rich knowledge in their chosen discipline.

Congratulations to both grace and molly!

Next, we recognize our hawryluk family scholarship award winners, established by kent hawryluk, a biology alumnus, dean’s advisory council member, and a great friend of the school.

The hawryluk – bicentennial scholarship was established in 2016 with a major gift to support students completing the last phase of their undergraduate degree.

This year’s recipients are kacy black, sarah franklin from chemistry, faith prochaska from biology and neuroscience, archit shah chemistry, connor watkins geology, and kerzie wildrick computer science.

Congratulations to all of our hawryluk scholars!

The next scholarship is the varma-nelson peer leader scholarship.

School of science faculty member pratibha varma-nelson and john nelson, established this scholarship in 2017 to recognize outstanding undergraduate students in the school.

Students must have a strong academic background and be considered peer leaders in the school.

The recipients of this award are
Brendon glass and sylvia singh.

Congratulations to you both, and thank you for your leadership!

Next, we recognize our biostorage technologies rise scholarhip.

This scholarhips supports an undergraduate student work on a rise experience.

This year’s recipient is maheen waheed.

Congratulations, maheen!

Our next scholarship was established by former iupui executive vice chancellor and dean of the faculties, dr. Uday sukhatme, the indumati sukhatme rise scholarship memorializes his mother, and honors her life, and inspires others to contribute to new rise scholarships.

This year’s recipient is haeli golden.

Congratulations, haeli.

The next award is the william and elizabeth reid rise scholarship.

Established by dr. Bart ng, dean emeritus and professor at the school of science.

This scholarship honors his mentor, dr. William reid, and his wife, elizabeth m. Reid. This rise scholarship honors the reid’s legacy and supports outstanding undergraduate students from the school of science who participate in an international experience.
This year’s recipient is reggie parker.

Congratulations, reggie!

Next, we recognize our w. Michael and susan l. Wells rise scholarship, established by dedicated friends of the school, the w. Michael and susan l. Wells rise scholarship supports students with a major in the school of science who have an interest in a life sciences career and have integrated one of the four rise initiatives into their studies.

This year’s recipient is young kim.

Congratulations, young!

The john d. Barnwell scholarship was established by dean emeritus dr. David l. Stocum as a tribute to his friend and student, dr. John d. Barnwell who was a scientist, writer, and musician.

The award is given to a student in the school of science who has effectively integrated the arts and sciences into their degree program.

This year’s recipient is jenna polly.

Frank g. And ernestine m. Lambertus scholarship was established by mrs. Ernestine lambertus in honor of her husband, frank, who was a valued advisor to the dean of the school of science. Through their generosity, the lambertus family has supported many science students in the school over the past three decades.

This scholarship is awarded to a student who has shown progress and improvement in their academic program.

This year’s recipients are joshua balda, jacob gammons, and connor watkins.

Congratulations to our scholars!

The science and mathematics teaching scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate science or mathematics education major who demonstrates a record of academic excellence and a commitment to the vocation of k-12 science or mathematics teaching.

Jimmy lawson is the recipient of this year’s scholarship!

Our next honor goes to students who have earned scholarships based on academic excellence and student leadership.

The school of science alumni association academic achievement scholarship is awarded to a continuing undergraduate science major who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and service to the school.

The recipients this year are logan boyer, holly carver, and shelby kress.

Congratulations to you all!

The class of 84’ honors student scholarship goes to eleni jackson.

Established by dedicated school of science alumnus, stephen a. Freeland, this award recognizes an exceptional undergraduate student in the school of science honors program.

Congratulations, eleni!

The indianapolis project seed program is a summer research experience for area high school students.

This scholarship was established by dr. Rosanne bonjouklian, a valued friend to the school and an active supporter of the project seed summer research program.

The scholarship supports former project seed participants that attend iupui.

This year’s recipients are bryan aung, victoria bozinovski, and carlos gonzalez.

Congratulations to you all!

The next scholarship is the william and donola orr scholarship, which supports students with a major in the school of science.

This year’s recipients are daishanaé berry and ashley stoots.

Congratulations!

I now recognize the fatima hassuneh undergraduate research memorial scholarship.

Fatima was a beloved daughter, sister, and friend with a passion and enthusiasm for science.

This scholarship was established to honor her life and continue her legacy of generosity, service, academic achievement, and curiosity.

This year’s recipient is giannina ramirez.

Congratulations!

The michael and susan wells women in science scholarship was established by w. Michael and susan wells, friends of the school of science, iupui, and indiana university. This scholarship supports full-time undergraduate students in the school of science who are academically strong and have a declared major in which women are underrepresented in the school.
This year’s recipients are gillian back, abi mallo from geology, megan wells, no relation, from biology and neuroscience, and miriam wright, psychology and pre-art therapy.

Congratulations to our wells women in science scholars!

We now will honor those students who are receiving department and program awards.

At this time, dr. Ted cummins, chair of biology, will present the biology awards.

Hello. I’m dr. Ted cummins, i’m the chair of the department of biology.

It is my great honor to present to you the 2021 biology department awards.

The first awards are presented to students for outstanding academic achievement in
The bachelor of arts and bachelor of science programs.

These awards are given to undergraduate students with a high gpa in an academically challenging program.

The recipient from the bachelor of arts program is alexa carr.

Congratulations, alexa!

The bachelor of science biology recipient is jocelyn blackburn.

Congratulations, jocelyn!

The ronald e. Kirk award is awarded to the top student in freshman biology.

This year’s we have three recipients. The recipients are
Noah hamilton, sarah morrison, and rhea patel.

Congratulations to all three of you on your achievements!

The n. Douglas lees biology scholarship is in honor of doug less who served the department, school of science, and iupui for more than 45 years. This scholarship is awarded to a student majoring in biology.

The award this year goes to ryli justice.

Congratulations, ryli!

The richard o. Mccracken scholarship honors dr. Mccracken, who was a biology professor with a passion for research and teaching that was reflected upon all those with whom he had contact.

This scholarship is awarded annually to an outstanding sophomore or junior.

This year’s recipient is ana danner.

Congratulations, ana!

The robert w. Tuveson memorial scholarship was established by mary ellen tuveson and dr. David stocum to award a student with strong performance and future promise.

This year, we have two recipients.

The award goes to sam bartrom and nkiruka ogbuobele.

Congratulations to both of you!

The joseph russo memorial scholarship is awarded to a biology major with a record of academic excellence.

This year’s recipients are jocelyn blackburn, and isra haider.

Congratulations, jocelyn and isra!

The tah-tah self-achievement award is awarded to an african–american female who is pursuing a medical career.

This award is in memory of tahnesia towner,
Who was a strong, independent young woman who studied biology in pursuit of her dream to be a pediatrician.

This year’s recipient is nyah grice.

Congratulations, nyah!

The outstanding undergraduate recipeint for the undergraduate research award is isra haider.

Congratulations, isra, on your excellent efforts in research!

Now we transition to graduate student awards.

The graduate research award for a doctoral student goes to asma salek.

Congratulations, asma!

The next award, and the last award for biology, is the elizabeth steele creveling scholarship.

Dr. Howard creveling, jr. And his family established this scholarship to pay tribute to his wife, elizabeth, who was passionate about higher education and the sciences.
It is given to an outstanding master’s or doctoral student in biology.

This year’s scholarship goes to phd student alexandra hochstetler.

Congratulations, alex!

Please help me congratulate all our award winners from the biology department.

At this time, dr. Partha basu, chair of chemistry and chemical biology, will present the chemistry and chemical biology awards.

Hello. My name is dr. Partha basu, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology.

Here are our 2021 departmental awards.

Our first award is the patricia a. Boaz award, given to the graduating senior with the highest academic achievement in the bachelors of arts program.

This year’s recipient is nora gilliam.

Congratulations, nora!

The loren t. Jones award is given to a graduating senior with the highest academic achievement in the bachelor of science program.

This year’s award goes to mintare cesiunaite.

Congratulations, mintare!

The next award is the frank j. Welcher award, which is given to a graduating senior with the most outstanding professional promise.

This award is given to emerson hernly.

Congratulations, emerson!

The american institute of chemists student research and recognition award goes to kevin lingle.

Congratulations, kevin!

The distributed drug discovery award for the excellence in organic chemistry is awarded to students who have shown outstanding academic performance in organic chemistry within the classroom and laboratory, mental attitude, and work ethic.

The first recipient for this new award is
Satyajit kulkarni.

Congratulations, satyajit!

The theodore w. Cutshall scholarship is a gift of patricia cutshall to honor the memory of her husband, profesor theodore cutshall.

The scholarship is awarded to an undergraduat student majoring in chemistry who has completed and excelled in his/her organic chemistry research.

This year’s recipient is calvin rasmussen.

Congratulations, calvin!

The james r. Mccarthy memorial scholarship was established by the family of dr. James r. Mccarthy to honor his legacy and lifelong commitment to philanthropy, k-12 education, and higher education.

The scholarship supports a promising undergraduate chemistry student who is pursuing a degree in the school of science.

This year’s recipients are samantha derisse and archit shah.

Congratulations to you both!

The bonner-ferguson-keller scholarship is awarded to a student worker who has been engaged for at least two terms as a stockroom assistant, recitation instructor, or laboratory teaching assistant in the department of chemistry and chemical biology. The awardee will have demonstrated an outstanding work ethic and have been an effective contributor to the department’s educational mission. This year’s recipient is allen johnson.

Congratulations, allen!

The outstanding undergraduate analytical chemistry student award goes to mintare cesiunaite.

We are proud of your accomplishments, mintare!

Next we award the undergraduate summer chemistry research scholarship.
This scholarship will provide support for a student conducting research in the chemistry department.

This year’s recipient is gavin mccabe.

Congratulations, gavin!

Mr. And mrs. Eugene kent established the scott alan kent scholarship in memory of their son, who graduated from iupui with a degree in chemistry. This scholarship is awarded to a promising sophomore or junior chemistry major.

This year the award goes to jake stalker.

Congratulations, jake!

 
In memory of loren t. Jones, this scholarship provides a summer research stipend to a continuing undergraduate student. The loren t. Jones memorial scholarship, goes to sarah franklin.

Congratulations, sarah!

The crc freshman chemistry achievement award recognizes the outstanding student in the freshmen chemistry courses.

This year the award goes to suleman shahid.

Congratulations, suleman!

The rich–keller elementary chemistry scholarship, is presented each semester to a student who completes the elementary chemistry lecture and laboratory courses with a minimum gpa of 3.0 for each course.

The recipients are caitlin acosta and gabi clark.

Congratulations, caitlin and gabi!

The final awards from the chemistry and chemical biology department will honors graduate students in the area of research.

The graduate chemistry research scholarship awards a continuing doctoral student. This year’s award goes to kyle colston.

Congratulations, kyle!

The graduate student dissertation award is awarded to an outstanding graduate student during their final year of their research.

This year’s recipient is christine skaggs.

Congratulations, christine!

The graduate student leadership and service award goes to a 3rd year or 4th year graduate student who has gone above and beyond to benefit the department.

This year’s winner is kymeri davis.

Congratulations to all our award winners from the department of chemistry and chemical biology.
At this time, dr. Shiaofen fang, chair of computer and information science will present the computer and information science awards.

Hello. My name is shiaofen fang, chair of the department of computer and information science.
Here are our 2021 department awards.

The gersting award for an outstanding undergraduate student is made to a graduating senior for exceptional work in the baccalaureate program.

This year’s recipient is jake waggoner.

Congratulations, jake!

The gersting award for an outstanding graduate student is awarded to a graduating student in the master’s program, who has attained academic excellence and who is dedicated to the profession.

This year’s recipient is nahida chowdhury.

Congratulations, nahida!

The raymond and jane chin undergraduate research award is awarded to an undergraduate student who has not only demonstrated an aptitude for research but also has significantly contributed to the research mission of the department, especially in the domain of computational science.

This year’s recipient is brandon haakenson.

Congratulation, brandon!

The gloria and andrew olson undergraduate service award recognizes an outstanding undergraduate student who has significantly contributed to all aspects of the service mission of the department.

This year’s recipient is anna berndt.

Congratulations, anna!

The outstanding woman in computer science award is given to a female computer science major that has shown outstanding promise in the computer and information science program.

This year’s receipient is madeline glass.

Congratulations, madeline!

The promising freshman award is given to a freshman who has shown outstanding promise in the computer science program.

This year’s recipient is josh hale.

Congratulations, josh!

The computer and information science teaching assistant award is made to a graduate teaching assistant who has demonstrated excellence in performance over the course of two consecutive semesters.

This year’s recipient is sarkhan badirli.


Congratulations, sarkhan!

Please help me congratulate our award winners from the computer and information science department.

At this time, dr. Andy barth, interim chair of earth sciences, will present the earth sciences awards.

Hello. I’m jennifer nelson, senior lecturer and academic advisor in the department of earth sciences.

On behalf of dr. Barth, our department chair,
Here i present our 2021 department award recipients.

The earth sciences alumni scholarship is funded through the generous contributions of earth sciences alumni.
This year’s recipients are jennifer dixon and brady turner.

Congratulations, jennifer and brady!

Next, i present the indiana geology and gem society scholarship.

This award assists an undergraduate geology major in pursuing their academic goals.

This year’s recipients are cassia snyder and jade st. Pierre.

Congratulations cassia and jade!
The air & waste management association scholarship is awarded to an iupui undergraduate student majoring in environmental science or geology.

This year’s recipient is giannina ramirez.

Congratulations, giannina!

The next scholarship is the women in geology
(cacc geology) scholarship. This scholarship is given to an oustanding female geology student.

This year’s award goes to abi mallo.

Congratulations, abi!

the dr. Arthur mirsky geology scholarshio honors the more than 50 years that dr. Mirsky and his wife, patricia, have spent in education. Dr. Mirsky was the founding chair in our department.

This year’s recipient is ian marrs.

Congratulations, ian!
Please help me congratulate our department award winners.

At this time, dr. Christine picard, director of the forensic and investigative sciences program, will present the forensic science awards.

Hello. My name is dr. Christine picard, i’m the director of the forensic and investigative sciences program.
Here are our 2021 program awards.

The jay a. Siegel award in forensic science is given to the top student in fis 205 concepts of forensic science in honor of dr. Siegel, founding director of the iupui forensic and investigative sciences program.

The recipient of the jay a. Siegel award is gabrielle clinton.

Congratulations, gabrielle!

Next we have two awards.

The first is the outstanding research award in forensic science, given to students who have demonstrated excellence in research with a commitment and desire to advance the field.

This year’s recipient is abigail mcmillen.
The academic achievement award in forensic science is given for outstanding academic success, including high gpa and challenging course work.

Once again, we congratulate abigail mcmillen on this award.

The fis student leadership award goes to hailey stacy.
This award is presented to a student who has demonstrated leadership and service in the fis program or the fis club.

Congratulations, hailey!

The final scholarship given by fis is the charles gould memorial scholarship and this year we have two awardees.
This scholarship is named for charles gould, who was an fis graduate student and an analyst with the indianapolis marion county forensice service agency.

Established by his family in his memory, this scholarship is given to the top second-year graduate student in the forensic science program.

This year’s recipients are natalie sellnau and michaela heil.

Please help me in congratulating our award winners from the forensic and investigative sciences program.

At this time, dr. Jeffrey watt, chair of the mathematical sciences department, will congratulate the mathematical students.

Hello. My name is dr. Jeff watt, and i’m the chair of the department of mathematical sciences.

And here are our 2021 department awards.

Our first award is the yuri abramovich memorial scholarship.

The scholarship supports students who have a keen interest in the study of mathematics, who demonstrate academic excellence, especially in mathematics courses beyond the sophomore level, and who show promise for a career in mathematics.

This year’s undergraduate recipients are sanika kotnis and dacota sprague, and this year’s graduate students are maxim kosmakov and christopher neuffer.
Again, congratulations to these students.

The anna k. Suter scholarship was established in the memory of professor anna k. Suter who was an advocate for students.

She applauded academic success and encouraged many to persist with their degree objectives.

The scholarship recognizes student’s achievements in mathematics.

This year’s recipients include noah hout, emily mcclear, joshua balda, isaac manring and
Nhatnam nguyen.

Again, congratulations to our anna k. Suter scholars!

The geraldine and david rigdon rise scholarship was established by emeritus professor robert rigdon to honor the memory of his parents.

This scholarship supports undergraduate science majors who have integrated one of the four iupui rise initiatives into their studies.

The year’s recipient is grace mattingly.

Congratulations, grace!

The cowen graduate scholarship was established by dr. Carl cowen and janice wheater-cowen to honor and memorialize janet catherine cowen for her lifelong commitment to philanthropy and education.

The recipient of this scholarship is devin goedeker.
Congratulatons, devin!

The aliprantis prize was established by dr bart ng, dean emiritus and professor of the school of science to honor a dedicated faculty member, dr. Aliprantis.

This year’s recipient of the award goes to erin zhao.

Congratulations, erin!

The outstanding beginning graduate student award this year goes to jacob menix.

Again, congratulation, jacob!

The outstanding advanced graduate student award goes to zhao.

Congratulations, runzhong zhao!

The outstanding beginning statistics graduate student award goes to jiayue wang.

Congratulations, jiayue!

The outstanding advanced master’s student in statistics program award goes to bruck mulat.

Congratulations, bruck!

The outstanding graduate student teaching award goes to sushmanth akkarapakam.

Congratulations, jacob!

The outstanding senior actuarial science major award is presented to jennifer pampuch borden.

Congratulations, jennifer!

The outstanding senior in applied math major award
Is presented to bryan mcclain and to nathan swearingen.

Congratulations, bryan and nathan!

The outstanding senior in math education major award is presented to myra hussain.

Congratulations, myra!

The outstanding senior in pure math major award is presented to hafsa naeem.

Congratulations, hafsa!

The outstanding graduating student in a statistics program award is presented to caleb nye.

Congratulations, caleb!

The outstanding math assistant center tutoring award is presented to duncan hitti.

Congratulations, duncan!

The outstanding math assistant center mentoring award is presented to alyssa shaw.

Congratulations, alyssa!

The undergraduate mathematics major spirit award is given to mathematics a major who demonstrates strength and determination in pursuit of his or her degree.

This year the award is presented to zach wilcher.

Congratulations, zach!

The final awards from the department of mathematical sciences are the bernie morrel teaching awards, presented to faculty for their outstanding teaching.

The award for a full-time faculty member is presented to bryan melsheimer.

And the award for a part-time faculty member is presented this year to bruce boling.

Congratulations, bryan and bruce!

Please help me congratulate all of our award winners from the department of mathematical sciences.

At this time, i’d like to introduce dr. Teri belecky-adams, interim director of the neuroscience program, and she will congratulate the neuroscience students.

Hello. My name is teri belecky-adams, and i am the interim director of the neuroscience program.

Here are the 2021 program awards.

The neuroscience academic excellence award is given to a graduating neuroscience major with the highest grade point average.

This year’s recipients are joseph s. Elmasry,
Megan mcvey, and alejandro soto.

Congratulations to joseph, megan and alejandro!

The seth sears memorial outstanding service award goes to the graduating senior for considerable and outstanding service to the neuroscience program at iupui.

This year, the award goes to lucas montgomery.

Congratulations, lucas!

And the neuroscience outstanding research award goes to graduating senior who has extensively participated and excelled in research in neuroscience.

This year, the award goes to taylor galbari.

Congratulations, taylor, and congratulations to all of our neuroscience program award recipients!

At this time, dr. Andrew gavrin, chair of physics, will present the physics awards.

Hello. My name is dr. Andy gavrin, chair of the department of physics.

Here are our 2021 department awards.

The university physics award is given to an outstanding student in the physics 152 and physics 251 course sequence.

This year’s recipient is emily hine.

Congratulations, emily!

The forrest meiere prize for an outstanding undergraduate physics major is dedicated to forrest meiere, the physics department’s first and longest serving chair. He dedicated 32 years to physics education and research at iupui.

This year, the award goes to grace mattingly, who you’ve seen before, and will see again.

Congratulations, grace!
The d.j. Angus – scientech educational foundation physics scholarship is awarded to a sophomore or junior student who is in good academic standing, has shown a significant improvement in gpa and has displayed a good citizenship record.

The award goes to francisco rodriguez.

Congratulations, francisco!

This year, the physics department names two outstanding physics graduate students.

Our first awardee is xin chen and our second awrdee is andrew wilkey.

Congratulations xin and andrew!

The final physics award is the han paik mentoring award, given in honor of long-time physics faculty member han wan paik.

The award goes to ryan eades.

Congratulations, ryan and congratulations to all the physics award winners!

Dr. Stephen boehm, intermim chair of the
Psychology department, will congratulate psychology award recipients next.

Hello. My name is dr. Stephen boehm, interim chair of the department of psychology.

Here are our 2021 department awards.

Our first award is the robert g. Neel award, which recognizes an undergraduate psychology student who has the best overall gpa after 60 credit hours of coursework.

This year’s recipients are alyssa shaw and
Alejandro soto.

Congratulations alyssa and alejandro!

The robert i. Long award is presented to a graduating senior with outstanding academic achievement and leadership.

This award goes to deja brown.

Congratulations, deja!

The psi chi scholarship is awarded to a psi chi member, who has a minimum 3.5 gpa and demonstrates outstanding leadership and service to the department, school and campus.

This year’s recipient is olivia pedigo.

Congratulations, olivia!

The john f. Kremer undergraduate mentor award is intended to recognize outstanding peer mentors in the introductory psychology class.

This year’s recipient is ramzi maarouf.

Congratulations, ramzi!

The psychology undergraduate community engagement scholarship supports undergraduate students who participate in community engagement.

This year’s recipeint is krishma mcmurray.

Congratulations, krishma!

The psychology undergraduate research scholarship is given to ramzi maarouf.

Congratulations again, ramzi!

The next award is the outstanding student teaching award, which recognizes an outstanding undergraduate and graduate student teaching assistant for their superior ability to impart knowledge of chosen topics to students and to stimulate their desire to master such topics. This year’s awards goes to holly carver an undergraduate student, and matthew grabowski, a graduate student.

Congratulations, holly and matthew!

The clinical psychology award recognizes a graduate student with outstanding performance in clinical work and training.

This year’s recipient is mackenzie shanahan.

Congratulations. Mackenzie!

The clinical psychology award for service recognizes a graduate student with outstanding performance in citizenship service to the department. This year’s recipient is annalee johnson-kwochka.

Congratulations, annalee!

The next award is the clinical psychology award for research excellence. This award recognizes a graduate student with outstanding performance in research – going above and beyond the research requirements of the graduate degree.

This year’s recipients are tracy anastas and
Ekin secinti.

Congratulations tracy and ekin!

The paul j. Mckinley memorial award recognizes outstanding academic and research performance by a graduate student in the addiction neuroscience, formerly psychobiology of addictions, graduate program.

This award goes to clair carron.

Congratulations, clair!

The mckinley award for outreach, public engagemnt and dicersity recognizes outreach and public engagement activity promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in the addiction neuroscience graduate program.

This award goes to maribel hernandez.

Congratulations, maribel!

The outstanding industrial and organizational psychology graduate student award recognizes outstanding master’s students in industrial and organizational psychology.

This award goes to laurel mikalouski and jacob schneider.

Congratulations, laurel and jacob!

The final award from the psychology department is the outstanding practicum supervisor award. This year the award goes to dr. Sarah landsberger.

This award recognizes exemplary supervision and training provided to graduate students in clinical psychology who are engaged in clinical practice.

Congratulations, sarah!

And that’s all for psychology.

Congratulations to all our award winners from the psychology department.

Thank you.

Once again i want to congratulate all the students, faculty and staff who received awards and scholarships.

You should be very proud of your accomplishments.

Thank you for taking the time to watch our recognition ceremony.

Have a good day.