Senior Send Off: Recognizing the Academic Milestones of our Senior Undergraduates

Senior Send Off - Recognizing the Academic Milestones of our Senior Undergraduates Congratulations class of 2021! A virtual recognition and awards ceremony for graduating CHEM majors and minors was held on Thursday, June 10th in advance of UC San Diego Commencement, where 215 students were awarded their bachelor's degree. We are immensely proud of each student’s accomplishments and the wide range of careers for which their UC San Diego degrees have prepared them! We also want to acknowledge our 2020-21 Undergraduate Award Recipients. In recognition of outstanding work in the field, Tommy Lee (Tatiana Mishanina Lab) has received the Martin D. Kamen Award. For outstanding achievement in undergraduate research, the Joseph E. Mayer Award has been earned by Calvin Huang (Colleen McHugh Lab) and Amalia Villagram-Suarez (Elizabeth Komives Lab). Nine graduates are celebrated for their exceptional academic achievement with the Harold C. Urey Award: Serena Huang, Julie Thanh Huynh, Nhuan Duc Vu, Ella Lee, Xuanhe Jiang, Adrian Jordi De Almenara, Helen Than, Sara Rew, Siavash Moghadami. New this year, six Undergraduate Inclusive Excellence Awards were granted in the name of distinguished emerita faculty. The honorees are: Marc Zepeda - Marjorie Caserio UG Excellence Award; Kunyang Sun - Katja Lindenberg UG Excellence Award; Ryan Welsh - Roger Tsien UG Excellence Award; John Brown - Marye Anne Fox UG Excellence Award; Chloe Wohlenberg - Mario Molina UG Excellence Award; Immanuel Tjahjadi - Joseph Watson UG Excellence Award. Additionally, twelve Chemistry and Biochemistry students have been recognized with the 2020-2021 UC San Diego Physical Sciences Dean’s Undergraduate Award for Excellence: Alberto Castanedo, Andres De La Rosa, Calvin Huang, Tommy Le, Alina Luk, Jori Mills, Anthony Rodriguez, Sarah Schwab, Kunyang Sun, Vanessa Tian, Nga (Swan) Van, and Amalia Villagram-Suarez. Sarah Schwab, one of our many remarkable community college transfer students, was also a Silagi Awardee in honor of her extraordinary distinction in academics and commitment to the pursuit of postgraduate research.