College of Science announces student award, scholarship recipients

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 – Mohamed Abdalati, Ariana Negrete, Khanh Nguyen, Jupiter Phillips

Dr. Thomas R. Hellier, Jr. and Mrs. Evelyn F. Hellier Biology Scholarship – Peter Nguyen

William F. Pyburn Fellowship – Cristian Hernandez-Morales

T.F. Kennerly Award – Joydeep Chatterjee

Chad Watkins Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentorship – Neda Habibi Arejan, Patrick Stillson

Undergraduate Research Award – Camille Condron

Undergraduate Teaching Award – Desiree Leon, Aida Reyes

Graduate Research Award – Kelsey Beavers

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Outstanding Freshman Chemistry/Biochemistry Major — Debby Sunday

Robert F. Francis Award for Outstanding Sophomore — Natalie Cox

R.L. Hoyle Award for Outstanding Junior — Caleb Findley

John T. Murchison Award for Outstanding Senior — Seth A. Horn

American Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Chemistry/Biochemistry Major — Alexia Hartzell

Undergraduate Research Award — Roman Goff

Graduate Teaching Award — Vo Phan, Alisher Talgatov

Outstanding Chemistry Clinic Tutor Award — Sarah Le

Chemistry and Biochemistry Society Outstanding Member Award — Ana Ledesma

Daniel W. and Linda Armstrong Scholarship — Lucine Devejian, Zahin Reshad, Rose Tomson

Chemistry and Biochemistry Society Excellence Award — Cesar Lopez, Jocelyn Vincent

Sharon and Donald L. Jernigan Chemistry Scholarship — Annvi Hoang, Jenny Hoang, Han Le

Dennis S. Marynick Scholarship — Lucine Devejian, Han Le

John T. Murchison Scholarship — Omar Elkassih, Annvi Hoang, Tina Hoang

Charles K. Baker Character Fellowship — Alaa Aziz, Avisankar Chini, Deepika Karade, Gurleen Kaur, Ryan Madigan, Melissa Orr, Abhishek Rawat, Akash Talukder, Brandon T. Watson

Department of Chemistry President Spaniolo Graduate Award — Avisankar Chini

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

J.D. Boone Scholarship — Xiaoqing Yuan

Donald F. Reaser Scholarship — Julia Alvarez, Neptune Gainer, Mary Ann Moody, Jenny Nguyen

Wanda Slagle Scholarship — Jeffrey Warber

Patricia and Charles Jenkins Scholarship — Julia Alvarez, Mary Ann Moody, Marcelo Peralta, Isabella Rios

Fort Worth Wildcatters Association Scholarship — John Attaway, Adrian Dias

North Central Texas Water Utilities Association Scholarship — John Attaway

Spindletop Oil & Gas Undergraduate Fellowship — Adrian Dias, Oscar Meza-Tovar, Christine Pham, Kristen Wilson, Lois Wims

Spindletop Oil & Gas Graduate Fellowship — Erica Almance, Khawaja Hasnain Iltaf, Sneha Singh, Jhanvi Dipak Soni, Diana Valenzuela Davila, Tao Zhang

Fort Worth Geologic Society Scholarship — Tao Zhang

Department of Mathematics

Stephen R. Bernfield Memorial Scholarship — Erica Bajo Calderon

H.A.D. Dunsworth Scholarship — Darsh Gandhi

John A. Gardner Family Math Scholarship — Kyle Housman, Ghazia Ismail, Lasta Maharjan, Jared Richardson

R. Kannan Memorial Scholarship — Darsh Gandhi, Joshua Mullins

Benny M. McCarley Scholarship — Zachary Chairez

Math Academic Excellence Scholarship — Khitam Bader Aqel, Asma Alghamdi, Phuong Bui, Shreshtha Chaturvedi, Varun Jadhav, Jose Lozano

Math Student Scholarship — Christopher Eads

Alan Amaya Memorial Scholarship — Sundas Hussain

Dr. Chien-Pai Han Memorial Scholarship — Wisdom Aselisewine

Outstanding Student Mathematics Major in Secondary Teaching Option — Jennifer Hernandez Botello, Breanne Miller

Outstanding Student Mathematics Major in Bachelor of Science Option — Aaron Doupe, Varun Jadhav

Outstanding Student Mathematics Major in Pure Math/Industrial & Applied B.A. Option — Johnathan Andres

Outstanding Student Mathematics Major in Actuarial Science/Data Science Option — Lauren Staruch

Outstanding Freshman — Abdurrahman Himawan

Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher — Zachary Chairez, Christina Martinez 

Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher — Julio Cesar Enciso Alva, Wisdom Aselisewine

Outstanding Graduate Student — Wisdom Aselisewine

Outstanding Math Clinic Tutor — Aaron Doupe

Outstanding LRC Tutor — Hugo Mendoza

Department of Physics

James L. Horwitz Physics Scholarship — Gajendra Gurung, Sima Lotfimarangloo, Hany Mahdy, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov

John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics — Aravind Pazhayath Ravi, Benjamin Smithers

Carl W. Scharf Endowment — Jacqueline Baeza, Rushikesh Patil, Pavani Rambachan, Rohit Raut

Truman D. Black Endowed Scholarship in Physics — Harsh Arya, Nabin Chapagain, Yu Hong, Vivek Khichar, Joshua Osborne, Yang Pan, Shiwei Zhou

Richard ‘Jack’ Marquis Physics Scholarship — Jacqueline Baeza, Rushikesh Patil, Pavani Rambachan

B. Cecil and Jo Thompson Undergraduate Physics Scholarship — Morgan Elliott, Eric Garcia, Colby Obannon, Miranda Williams

Department of Psychology

Laurie and Paul Paulus Endowed Scholarship — Laila Haggar, Alka Panicker, Anna-Lisa Polius, Courtney Reid, Alyssa Sullins

Ralph H. Rodick Sr. Mentoring and Leadership Scholarship — Anna-Lisa Polius

Gary K. Teng Endowed Scholarship in Psychology — Michelle Wadia Ateek

Dr. Andy Baum Memorial Endowment in Psychology — Aastha Arora, Kaylana Cedano, Jose Maria Gonzalez, Amber Guo, Rashini Shameera Kumardeen, Carol Moreno, Kelly Pham, Lilly Elizabeth Wallace, Jose Zarate, Zephaniah Zuniga

COS Dean’s Office

Dean’s Excellence Scholarship — Aastha Arora, Varun Jadhav, Christina Nguyen, Jenny Nguyen, Rohit Raut, Haritha Asokan Sheeja

Dean’s Leadership Circle Scholarship — Aarti Darji, Issabella Hilbert, Roman Mathew Holguin, Kyle Housman, Kenny Phonglom, Kristen Wilson

Ann H. Benham Endowed Scholarship — Nabila Abdelmalak, Natalie Cox, Darsh Gandhi, Aliyah Ijelu, Pratyanik Sau, Mariam Zenhom

Dr. Franklyn Alexander Scholarship Fund — Taylor Lynn Antonakes

Bobbitt Family Endowed Scholarship for the College of Science — Brandon Watson

Edward and Dorothy Perez Endowed Scholarship — Bilardo Acevedo, Shreshtha Chaturvedi, Karissa Cordera, Christopher Eads, Omar Elkasih, Huda Haboul, Jose Lozano, Hany Mahdy, Shaan Patel, Isabella Rios, Rose Tomson, Giang Tran

Chance Vought Engineering and Science Endowment — Darsh Gandhi, John Jackson, Emily Williams

UTeach Arlington

Ann H. Benham Endowment for Math & Science Education — William Crain, Jassmine Garcia, Joshua Mullins, Caroline Soliman

AT&T UTeach Scholarships — Lauren Adams, Owen Cole, Mariam Hantouli, Jennifer Hernandez Botello, Kalista Villa

Bruce & Vicki Tanner Endowment for Math & Science Education — Taylor Antonakes, Laura Garcia, Kyle Housman

Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control Endowment for UTeach — Brea Brewer, Kylee Vargas

Teaching for Our Future — Kathaleen Ramirez Perez, Melani Segovia

Vought Endowed Scholarship for UTeach — Jesse Castruita, Christina Trevino

Health Professions

Allan Saxe Health Related Scholarship – Mohamed Abdalati

Carmen Trujillo-Nunez Pre-Med Scholarship in Science – Eric Pham, Giang Tran

Julia and Dale Martin Pre-Dental Scholarship – Tamette Lam, Sara Safeo-Mehro

Josephine Porter Scholarship – Omar Elkassih, David Villegas

Wiley F. and Bessie T. Martin Endowed Scholarship – Nabila Abdelmalak, Tina Hoang, Michael Rodriguez

Laurence E. Baker Memorial Scholarship – Huda Haboul, Jeremiah Joseph

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