Student Recognition

Dwight Tshudy Chemistry Achievement Award

Awarded annually to a student entering the second year of study at Gordon College. Recipients shall show great potential in Chemistry as evidenced by two or more of the following criteria:

A Chemistry major who has demonstrated good progress towards the completion of the chemistry major during their freshman year
A student who is active in the ACS Student Chapter
A student who earned a grade of A- or better in each semester of freshman chemistry (CHE 111 and CHE 112)
A Chemistry minor

Awardees will be selected at the end of each spring semester, and the awards will be granted for the following academic year of enrollment at Gordon College. The recipients will be determined by a scholarship committee comprised of the full-time chemistry faculty and in conjunction with Student Financial Services. The award consists scholarship support for the next academic year and a commemorative book selected by the faculty.

This award is funded by the Gordon College Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society's fundraising efforts and by donations from friends of the department. By unanimous vote of the student chapter, the award was named in honor of Prof. Dwight Tshudy.

2018 – Amanda Page
2017 – Victoria Ganss
2016 – Eimi Percival
2015 – Daniel Gray
2014 – Elizabeth Fjellstad & Ivy Ngo
2013 – Daniel Dufoe
2012 – Stacy Strobel & HanByul Chang

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Awarded annually to a student employee of the department who has performed services above and beyond expectations. The awardee is selected by the faculty of the department and will receive a certificate and a commemorative book selected by the faculty. The award is presented at the end of the spring semester.

The award is funded by friends of the Department of Chemistry in recognition of the vital work that student employees provide both as peer mentors and as valuable assistants to the faculty.

2018 – Anne-Milda Pu
2017 – Mirielle Nauman & Ivy Ngo
2016 – Brooke Arthur
2015 – Mollie Enright
2014 – Justin Andrews
2013 – Lee Andrews

Graduation with Honors Thesis

Students who have completed substantial undergraduate research during their studies at Gordon College may elect to write an honors thesis. The student works under the guidance of a thesis committee to craft the document and the work is presented in a public forum. A bound copy of the successful thesis is added to the collection of the college library.

The following students have successfully completed the major with an Honors Thesis:

Kayla Kroning '18
Using FRET to Elucidate the Lipid Trafficking Mechan ism ofSP-B C and N Terminal Peptides in Comparison with KL₄
Julia Bonney '18
Greener Friedel-Crafts Acylation Using a Deep Eutectic Solvent: An Undergraduate Laboratory Method
Mollie Enright '15
Greening an Antioxidant Analysis: A New Method for Lycopene Extraction in Tomato Using 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran
HanByul Chang '15
Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment on Kinetics Using FD&C Food Dyes and Fe^III-TAML System
Rachael Albury '13
Greener Dehydration Chemistry: Clay Catalyzed Dehydration of Alcohols for the Undergraduate Laboratory
Lee Andrews '13
Porous TiO₂/Acrylic Composite Materials for the Photocatalytic Oxidation of Carbon Monoxide
CJ Daly ' 13
Investigation of Porous Polymeric Support Materials for TiO₂ Photocatalytic Water Purification
Bria Pelletier '13
The Determination of the Optimal Crosslink Density for the Durability of Acrylic-Titania Composite Photocatalytic Materials
Ben Stewart '13
A Green Chemistry Approach to Fabricating Porous TiO₂-Acrylic Composite Support Materials for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Water Contaminants
Kristen Entwistle '12
Polymerization of 4-Ethylphenol by the Fe^III-TAML System
Rachel Shirron '10
On Improved Mononuclear Ruthenium Water Oxidation Catalysts
Cassie Freyschlag '08
Exploring Hemichromes as Precursors of S-Nitrosohemoglobin
Nicole Sittner '03
An Analysis of the Photosynthetic Pigments Present in Marine Algae
Elizabeth Pino '01
Ab Initio Studies of the Li^...FCH₃ van der Waals Complex