This award is presented each year to the fourth-year graduate students with the most creative Original Research Proposals (ORPs). Dr. Voorhees was a graduate student with Prof. Roger Adams and was the coauthor on the seminal paper describing catalytic hydrogenation with platinum oxide, which is known as Adams' catalyst (J. Am. Chem. Soc 1922, 44, 1397).
| 2025 | Matthew Albritton (Denmark) Kameron Medine (Burke) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Alexis Lower (van der Donk) Jake Weaver (White) |
| 2023 | Sydney McKee (Hergenrother) Chelsea Swartchick (Chan) |
| 2022 | Daniel Szczepankiewicz (Mehta / Sarlah) Dinh Nguyen (Mitchell / van der Donk) |
| 2021 | Emily Mumford (Denmark) Sven Kaster (White) |
| 2020 | Matthew Boudreau (Hergenrother) Yaroslav Boyko (Sarlah) |
| 2019 | Lucas Hernandez (Sarlah) Hailey Knox (Chan) |
| 2018 | Andrew Zahrt (Denmark) |
| 2017 | Jonathan Lehmann (Burke) |
| 2016 | Jonathan Tietz (Mitchell) |
| 2015 | Michelle Richter (Hergenrother) |
| 2014 | Michael Lambrecht (Hergenrother) |
| 2013 | Tommy Osberger (White) |
| 2012 | Paul Gormisky (White) |
| 2011 | Marinus Bigi (White) |
| 2010 | Pulin Wang (Burke) |
| 2009 | Rahul Palchaudhuri (Hergenrother) Stacie Richardson (Baranger) |
| 2008 | Nathan Duncan-Gould (Denmark) Darrell Kuykendall (Zimmerman) |
| 2007 | William Collins (Denmark) Benjamin Leslie (Hergenrother) |
| 2006 | Jack Liu (Denmark) |
| 2005 | John Heemstra (Denmark) |
| 2004 | Justin Montgomery (Denmark) |
| 2003 | Dahui Zhao (Moore) |
| 2002 | Matthew Gieselman (van der Donk) Gregory Beutner (Denmark) |
| 2001 | Kyle Hurth (Katzenellenbogen) |