The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
Fellowships and Awards
Fellowships
A large number of fellowships are awarded to graduate students in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. These range from Departmental fellowships sponsored by chemical companies and private donations to national fellowships from various federal and private foundations. For a listing of recent awardees see Student Awards and Fellowships.
Fuson Travel Award | Seemon Pines Award |
Pines Travel Award | Vandeveer Voorhees Award
Fuson Travel Award
Up to six Fuson travel awards are given annually to organic students to present their research at the ACS National Meetings or at other professional meetings such as Gordon Research Conferences. The awards are made to honor and celebrate the accomplishments of R.C. Fuson who was a distinguished faculty member at the University of Illinois for 35 years. The Fuson endowment also funds the annual R.C. Fuson lectureship series. Recent recipients of the Fuson travel awards and the lectures they gave or will give at ACS meetings are listed below.
Fall 2011- Denver, CO (ACS Meeting) |
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Marinus Bigi (White) |
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Spring 2011- Anaheim, CA (ACS Meeting) |
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Trent Oman (van der Donk) |
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Fall 2010– Boston, MA (ACS Meeting) | |
| Cyrus Anderson (Zimmerman) "Supramolecular Coupling Agents for Adhesion Promotion at Interfaces" Joseph Bair (Hergenrother) "Chemistry and Biology of Deoxynyboquione, a Potent Induce of Cancer Cell Death" (Natural Products GRC) Daniel Robbins (Hartwig) "Addressing Synthetic Challenges Using Iridium- Catalyzed C-H Borylation" (Heterocyclic Compounds GRC) |
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Spring 2010– San Francisco, CA (ACS Meeting) | |
| Mary Caruso (Moore) Ian Dailey (Burke) Erik Stang (White) | |
Fall 2009– Washington, DC (ACS Meeting) | |
| Nathan Duncan-Gould (Denmark) Aaron Finke (Moore) John Whitteck (van der Donk) | |
Spring 2009– Salt Lake City, UT (ACS Meeting) | |
| Dustin Covell (White) Leigh Anne Ihnken (van der Donk) Darrell Kuykendall (Zimmerman) | |
Fall 2008 – Philadelphia, PA (ACS Meeting) | |
| Rahul Palchaudhuri (Hergenrother) Alexander Parent (Katzenellenbogen) Tyler Wilson (Denmark) | |
Spring 2008 – New Orleans, LA | |
| Eric Gillis (Burke) "Iterative Cross-Coupling: A Simple Strategy for Complex Molecule Synthesis" Conference attending: Gordon Research Conference Matthew Levengood (van der Donk) "Investigations of the Substrate Specifcity of Lacticin 481 Synthetase and Utilization in Peptide Engineering Applications" Conference attending: Gordon Research Conference Tyler Wilson (Denmark) "Enantioselective Construction of Quaternary Stereogenic Carbons by the Lewis Base Catalyzed Additions of Silyl Ketene Imines to Aldehydes" Conference attending: Gordon Research Conference on Stereochemistry as Salve Regina University in Rhode Island |
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Seemon Pines Award
The Seemon Pines Award is sponsored by Dr. Seemon Pines, alumnus of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois who went on to establish an illustrious career at Merck after receiving his Ph.D. with Prof. Nelson Leonard. At Merck he helped develop a large number of life-enhancing therapeutic drugs, such as cortisone, easing the suffering of millions. He served as Vice President of Pharmaceutical Process R&D and was awarded Merck's highest scientific honor, the Director's Scientific Award. Dr. Pines used this cash prize to establish the Seemon Pines Award and the Pines Travel Award to foster student development at UIUC. The Seemon Pines award is granted each year for the most outstanding research presentation at the Annual Allerton Research Conference. Recipients in recent years:
| 2010 | Eric Woerly (Burke) |
| 2009 | Diana West (Hergenrother) |
| 2008 | John Whitteck (van der Donk) |
| 2007 | Douglas Davis (Moore) |
| 2006 | Kenneth Fraunhoffer (White) |
| 2005 | Benjamin Leslie (Hergenrother) |
| 2004 | Rebecca Coppins (Silverman) |
| 2003 | Joseph Rule (Moore) |
| 2002 | Gregory Beutner (Denmark) |
| 2001 | Anobel Tamrazi (Katzenellenbogen) |
| 2000 | Matthew Epperson (D. Gin) |
Pines Travel Award
Each year a number of students receive a travel grant to present their Ph.D. research in the form of a seminar at the institution from which they received their undergraduate degree in chemistry. This award is made possible by the generous donation of Dr. Seemon Pines, former Vice President of Pharmaceutical Process R&D at Merck. Recent awardees and their undergraduate institutions are:
2011 |
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| Ian Dailey (Burke) | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| Patrick Knerr (van der Donk) | University of Delaware |
| Karen Morrison (Hergenrother) | Harvey Mudd College |
2010 | |
| Joseph Bair (Hergenrother) | Brigham Young University |
| Eric Woerly (Burke) | Indiana University/ Purdue University |
2009 | |
| Mary Caruso (Moore) | Elon College |
| Douglas Davis (Moore) | University of Tennesse |
| Giang Vo (Hartwig) | Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Nathan Werner (Denmark) | Southern Utah University |
| Diana West (Hergenrother) | College of William and Mary |
| John Whitteck (van der Donk) | University of Missouri |
2008 | |
| Brad Carrow (Hartwig) | University of Missouri |
| Mirth Hoyt (Hergenrother) | College of William and Mary |
| Nathan Duncan-Gould (Denmark) | College of Charleston |
| Leigh Anne Ihnken (van der Donk) | Lake Forest College |
| Dan Palacious (Burke) | University of California- San Diego |
| Darrel Kuykendall (Zimmerman) | California State University |
2007 | |
| Erin Elliott (Moore) | University of Alberta |
| Eric Gillis (Burke) | Grinnell College |
| Jackie Murphy (Hartwig) | University of Massachusetts |
| Matthew Levengood (van der Donk) | Elizabethtown College |
| Amanda Nottbohm (Hergenrother) | Albion College |
| Stephanie Potisek (Moore) | Cornell University |
| Chris Regens (Denmark) | Lake Forest College |
2006 | |
| Bill Collins (Denmark) | New Mexico Institute of Technology |
| Charles Hickenboth (Moore) | University of Richmond |
| Benjamin Leslie (Hergenrother) | Colgate University |
| Greg Patton (van der Donk) | Miami University at Ohio |
2005 | |
| John Baird (Denmark) | Allegheny University |
| Brandon Miles (Coates) | University of Texas, Dallas |
| Dinty Musk (Hergenrother) | Taylor University |
| Ephraim Parent (Katzenellenbogen) | Brigham Young University |
2004 | |
| Ramil Baiazitov (Denmark) | University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| David Goode (Hergenrother) | Mercer University |
| Jennifer Heemstra (Moore) | University of California, Irvine |
2003 | |
| Kim Deaton (M. Gin) | Carthage College |
| Shinji Fujimori (Denmark) | Lake Forest College |
| Justin Montgomery (Denmark) | Miami University |
| Mary Smalley (Silverman) | University of Northern Iowa |
| Matthew Stone (Moore) | Michigan State University |
Vandeveer Voorhees Award
This award is presented each year to the 4th year graduate student(s) with the most creative Independent Research Proposal. Dr. Voorhees was a graduate student with Professor Roger Adams and was the coauthor on the seminal paper describing catalytic hydrogenation with palladium oxide (J. Am. Chem. Soc 1922, 44, 1397-405), which came to be known as Adams' catalyst. Recent recipients of the Vandeveer Voorhees Award:
| 2011 | Marinus Bigi (White) |
| 2010 | Pulin Wang (Burke) |
| 2009 | Rahul Palchaudhuri (Hergenrother) |
| Stacie Richardson (Baranger) | |
| 2008 | Nathan Duncan-Gould (Denmark) |
| Darrel Kuykendall (Zimmerman) | |
| 2007 | William Collins(Denmark) Benjamin Leslie (Hergenrother) |
| 2006 | Jack Liu (Denmark) |
| 2005 | John Heemstra, Jr. (Denmark) |
| 2004 | Justin Montgomery (Denmark) |
| 2003 | Dahui Zhao (Moore) |
| 2002 | Matthew Gieselman (van der Donk) Gregory Beutner (Denmark) |
| 2001 | Kyle Hurth (Katzenellenbogen) |
