Bluemel Group Awards

HOME \| DR. JANET BLUEMEL \| GROUP \| RESEARCH \| PUBLICATIONS \| INVITED LECTURES \|TEACHING

AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS
	Jacqueline Pope was one of 10 finalists selected out of 53 applicants to give an oral presentation at the BASF-TAMU Graduate Student Symposium on Excellence in Chemical Research on August 1, 2013. The finalists were selected by a committee consisting of BASF and TAMU judges, and each was awarded a $500 prize.
	Jacqueline Pope was chosen as one of only 100 chemistry graduate students from all over the world to attend BASF's 126th International Summer Course at their site in Ludwigshafen, Germany on August 20-29, 2013. http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en/innovations/global-r-d-network/science-relations/summercourse
	Casie Hilliard won the Sharon Dabney Memorial Scholarship awarded by the Beta-Beta Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon to outstanding graduate students in the field of chemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering. Casie will receive the award at a formal ceremony on May 1.
	Elizabeth White received the Alfred H. Nolle Scholarship for the research she did as a REU student in the Bluemel lab. This scholarship is awarded by the Alpha Chi National Honor Society.

The Texas A&M Student Chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) has won the 2013 SPE Outstanding Student Chapter National Award under the leadership of its present president Jacqueline Pope. See more at: http://www.science.tamu.edu/articles/1058
	Jacqueline Pope received the Summer/Fall 2013 Eastman Chemicals travel award in the amount of $500. This award is to assist graduate students with their travel expenses related to scientific meetings.
	Casie Hilliard received the Fall 2013 Phi Lambda Upsilon (PLU) travel award in the amount of $500. PLU is the honors society for chemistry graduate students. This award is granted to active members each semester and recognizes those for their service to the organization so that they may present scientific research at local, national or international conferences.
	Casie Hilliard was selected as the College of Science recipient of a George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Grant. The award, received in January 2013, supports travel to conferences, research projects, or internships in the US and abroad.
	Johannes Guenther gave his Final Thesis Defense: Tridentate Phosphine Linkers for Immobilized Catalysts and Solid-State NMR Studies of Polymers on July 16, 2012. He will now be pursuing postdoctoral studies in the Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée LHFA at the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
	Casie Hilliard was awarded the Third Place Poster Prize in April 2012 by the Polymer Technology Industrial Consortium (PTIC).
	Casie Hilliard is the recipient of a $1,000 award from the Association of Former Students Scholarship committee. The award, received in August 2011, was given based on her academic performance as well as her leadership qualities.
	Johannes Guenther is the recipient of the Phi Lambda Upsilon (PLU) travel award for the 2011 Summer semester. The PLU travel award, in the amount of $500, is granted to active members each semester and recognizes those for their service to the organization so that they may present scientific research at local, national or international conferences.
	Casie Hilliard won a $1,000 J. Malon Southerland Aggie Leader Scholarship from Texas A&M. This award is based on her leadership and campus involvement. She will use this money to purchase a new work computer.
	Jennifer Belcik receives a certificate for completing 43 hours of coursework in the Texas A&M Professional Development Program (PDP).
	Johannes Guenther received a Martin Corera Travel Award for Summer/Fall 2011 in the amount of $350.00 to be used to travel to the EUROMAR 2011 Conference in Germany. He also received 500 € from EUROMAR to be used to attend this conference.
	Casie Hilliard received an A. E. Martell Travel Award for Summer/Fall 2011 in the amount of $350.00 to be used to travel to the EUROMAR 2011 Conference in Germany. She also received 500 € from EUROMAR to be used to attend this conference.
	Johannes Guenther received the 2011 Richard W. Schmude, Jr. Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry, in the amount of $1,650. This scholarship is awarded to outstanding graduate students in Chemistry.
	Jacqueline Pope received the 2011 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Scholarship, in the amount of $1,000, for her research: Immobilized Sonogashira Catalyst Systems for C-C Coupling Reactions: New Mechanistic Insights and Improved Recyclability.
	Jacqueline Pope received the Spring 2010 Excellence in General Chemistry Teaching Award for First-Year Program Graduate Teaching Assistants. This award was given to eight First-Year Program graduate students who exhibited outstanding performance as teaching assistants.
	Casie Hilliard was awarded the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel Award for $800. This money will be used to fund her trip to the Spring ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, California, which will be held on March 21-25, 2010.
	Casie Hilliard was awarded the 2010 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Scholarship, in the amount of $1,000, for her research: Diphosphine Cage Molecules for Homogeneous and Immobilized Catalysts and for Investigating Surface Adsorption Phenomena.
	Melanie Perera, Casie Hilliard and Johannes Guenther were awarded the Graduate Student Research and Presentation 2010 Travel Grant from the Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate Studies, in the amount of $400.00 each. This money will be used to fund their trip to the Spring ACS National Meeting: Chemistry for a Sustainable World, which will be held in San Francisco, California on March 21-25, 2010.
	Johannes Guenther was awarded the 2009-10 Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Henry Kahn Scholarship, in the amount of $1,000, for his research: Immobilized Tridendate Phosphine Ligands on SiO₂: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications in Polymerization Reactions.
	Bjoern Beele completed his doctoral research in the Bluemel Group in July 2009, and defended his dissertation in Heidelberg, Germany. After conducting postdoctoral research in the Gladysz Group at Texas A&M University, he became an Assistant Professor for the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) in Germany.
	Michaela Stach was awarded the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship by the German Academic Exchange Agency on May 25, 2009. This fellowship covered her expenses while she completed her diploma thesis in the Bluemel Group, which was done in cooperation with Professor Hashmi of Heidelberg University.
	Casie Hilliard was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship on May 19, 2009. The NSF GRF Program will completely fund her for three years while she continues her research in surface-immobilized catalysts.