COS students receive scholarships, awards for academic, research, and teaching excellence

Thursday, Jun 17, 2021 • Greg Pederson :

College of Science students were recently honored by the College and their respective departments for their superior achievements in academics, research, and teaching with awards and scholarships.

Award and scholarship recipients include, by department or program:

Department of Biology

William L. and Martha Hughes Scholarship – Efe Amrovhe, Mohammad Jafar, Joanne Mai, Nhu Nguyen, Agnes Otieno, Balan Ramesh, Ohitha Sana, Ishrar Shaid

Biology and Shimadzu Undergraduate Research Award – Richard Schargel, Lauren Stangoni, Tiffany Vo

Graduate Research Award – Swatantra Neupane

T.F. Kennerly Award - Trung Huynh

William F. Pyburn Fellowship – Kaitlyn Howell

Dr. Thomas R. Hellier, Jr. and Mrs. Evelyn F. Hellier Biology Scholarship – Lisa Mey

Chad Watkins Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentorship – Sarbjeet Niraula, Mustafi Raisaamin

Tech Titans Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award – Francis Siro, Kristen Wilson

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Undergraduate Student Awards and Scholarships

Outstanding Freshman Chemistry/Biochemistry Major - Ravi Ramkissoon

Robert F. Francis Award for Outstanding Sophomore - William Badger

1. L. Hoyle Award for Outstanding Junior - Trinh Thao, My Nguyen

John T. Murchison Award for Outstanding Senior - Amina Agbonoga

American Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Chemistry/Biochemistry Student - Umang Dhaubhadel

Undergraduate Research Award - Emily Preuss, Rachel Price

Undergraduate Teaching Award - Aladin Elkhalil

Outstanding Chemistry Clinic Tutor Award - Ridge Tull

Chemistry and Biochemistry Society Outstanding Member - My Ho

Daniel W. and Linda Armstrong Scholarship - Zachrieh Alhaj, Karla Silva

Duncan and Sylvaine Aust Award - Han Le

Chemistry and Biochemistry Society Excellence Award – My Ho, Julissa Mireles

Sharon and Donald L. Jernigan Chemistry Scholarship - William Badger, Duc Minh Ngu

Dennis S. Marynick Scholarship - Umang Dhaubhadel

John T. Murchison Scholarship - Hoang Kim, Vy Nguyen, Diana Ruiz, Jessica Tran

Graduate Student Awards and Scholarships

Graduate Teaching Award - Melissa Reardon

Charles K. Baker Character Fellowship - Marian Awadalla, Monika Patterson, Elizabeth Readel, Brandon Watson, Adway Zacharias

President James Spaniolo Graduate Research Award - Abbas Vali

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

J.D. Boone Scholarship - Hannah Bahrami

Donald F. Reaser Scholarship - Karissa Cordero, Shadman Tahmid Hossain, Britney Lawrence, Tyler Spence, Lauren Williams

Spindletop Oil & Gas Co. Graduate Fellowship - Xuewei Ning, Jiwon Oh, Tristan Tom, Qiming Wang, Chen Zhao

Spindletop Oil & Gas Co. Undergraduate Fellowship - Laura Ardila, Roshan Prasad Chaulagain

Fort Worth Wildcatters Association Scholarship - Daniel Tague

North Central Texas Region of the Water Utilities Association Scholarship - Patrick Sumner, Stephanie Tran

Patricia and Charles Jenkins Scholarship - Cameron Bates, Laila Watko, Katrina Wisofsky

Fort Worth Geological Society - Christopher Michael McCauley

Department of Mathematics

Stephen R. Bernfeld Memorial Scholarship - Saber Ahmed

H.A.D. Dunsworth Scholarship Endowment - Heather Condarco

John A. Gardner Family Math Scholarship - Surya Achanta, Jared Ackley, Johnathan Andres, Samantha Louie, Logan Marshall, Madison Nguyen

1. Kannan Memorial Scholarship - Aayush Bhattarai, Lien Dao, Andrew Kupka

Benny M. McCarley Scholarship - Fawaz Karhan R. Alalhareth, Madhu Gupta, Tianqiao Hu

Academic Excellence Scholarship - Hung Tran, Jose Lozano, Julie Davis, Ana Segovia, Will Chen, Mapu Pham, Yifei Yu, Jodi Treszoks

Alan Amaya Memorial Scholarship - Jeremy Valdez

Outstanding Seniors - Luke Overman, Kayla Robb, Juna Villegas Padilla

Outstanding Juniors - Johnathan Andres, Nicholas Asirvvadam

Outstanding Sophomores - Melanie Cabriales, Ivana Moya

Outstanding Freshman - Jennifer Hernandez-Botello

Outstanding Math LRC Clinic and Lab Tutors - Toluwani Ijaseun, Addison Silva, Berlinda Batista

Outstanding Graduate Student Teachers - Talon Johnson, Andrew Kercher

Outstanding Graduate Student Researchers - Saber Ahmed, Pei Wang

Outstanding Graduate Student - Tyler Anway

GAANN Student Awards - Rebekah Aduddell, Anthony Thomas

Department of Physics

1. Cecil and Jo Thompson Undergraduate Physics Scholarship - Richard Barton, Shailesh Giri, Achyuth Manoj, Joshua Perez, Ana Segovia

Truman D. Black Endowed Scholarship in Physics - Hussain Alathlawi, Harsh Aryan, Aayush Bhattarai, Archit Jaiswal, Vivek Khichar, Youfang Lai, Shashank Kumbhare, Joshua Osborn, Christopher Ryan, Christina Xing, Shiwei Zhou

Dr. John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics - Logan Norman, Benjamin Smithers, Justin Tyska, Lesley Vestal

James L. Horwitz Physics Scholarship Fund - Noura Alkhaldi, Nil Pandey, Ilker Parmaksiz, Aravind Ravi, Marialis Rosario-Franco, Hori Pada Sarker

Carl W. Scharf Endowment - Eric Amador, Sima Lotimarangloo, Andrew Myers, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov

Richard Jack Marquis Physics Scholarship Fund - Jacqueline Baeza, Eric Garcia, Gajendra Gurung, Parvat Sapkota, Cesar Zaldivar

Department of Psychology

Laurie and Paul Paulus Endowed Scholarship - Alexis Stein, Haien Won

Gary K. Teng Endowed Scholarship in Psychology – Sharma Rubal, Tayna Khan

Dr. Andy Baum Memorial Endowment in Psychology - Jailene Williams, Maritssa Clinkscales       

Ralph H. Rodick Sr. Mentoring and Leadership Scholarship – Mitchell Strahlman

Verne Cox Outstanding Graduate Research Award – Sampoorna Nandi

COS Dean’s Office

Dean’s Excellence Scholarship - Mohammad Jawad Abuawad, Ai-Vy Dinh, Jenna French, Doris Granados, Gajendra Gurung, Kevin Harris, Rushikesh Patil, Tyler Spence, Mitchell Strahlman, Hepeng Tian, Jessica Tran, Stephanie Tran

Ann H. Benham Endowed Scholarship - Ahmad Abdelhadi, Jacqueline Baeza, Michelle Le, Hannah Martin, Jessica Nwankwo, Izabella Russell, Parvat Sapkota, Anh Hoang Van Truong, Laila Watko, Miranda Michelle Williams

Dr. Franklyn Alexander Scholarship Fund - Eric Garcia, Nga Le

Chance Vought Science Endowment - Jared Hunter Ackley, Chelsea Onyiah, Cesar Zaldivar

Bobbitt Family Endowed Scholarship for the College of Science - Jose Lozano, Philip Peper, Thanh Thuy Vuong

UTeach Arlington

AT&T UTeach Scholarship – Lindsey Boyle, Alexia Brackens, Xiaoshi Guo, Alice Nguyen

Ann H. Benham Endowment for Math & Science Education – Jared Ackley, Jason Chambers, Julie Davis, Gerald Hodges, Vivian Nguyen

Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control Endowment for UTeach - John Luke Robinson, Christina Trevino             

Bruce & Vicki Tanner Endowment for Math & Science Education – Heather Condarco, Shardae Powell, Janellis Ramirez, Merci Reyes, Amy Selvarathinam

Teaching for our Future – Cecilia Almazan, Juan Gonzalez, Isabel Lopez Dominguez

Vought Endowed Scholarship for UTeach – Ryan Bishop, Heather Lake

Health Professions

Allan Saxe Health Related Scholarship - Lynn Nguyen, Tracy Nguyen, Jessica Nwankwo, Vy Su

Carmen Trujillo-Nunez Pre-Med Scholarship in Science - Waris Khuwaja, Christina Nguyen

Julia & Dale Martin Pre-Dental Scholarship - Katherine Nguyen, Jessica Tran, Warda Wyne

Josephine Porter Scholarship – Nga Le, Shalyn Montgomery, Jessica Nwankwo, Thu Tran

Wiley F. and Bessie T. Martin Endowed Scholarship - Angel Bayardo, Huda Haboul, Hannah Martin

Laurence E. Baker Memorial Scholarship - Ahmad Abdelhadi, Mohammad Abuawad, Miriam Ahmed, Van Dang, Tanviben Kotadia, Michelle Le, Hannah Martin, Caitlin Nguyen, Thu Tran