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Graduate Awards & Honors

Graduate Student Scholarship & Award Recipients

Two awards are given out to graduate students annually for recognition in research and teaching. 

The Jay and Carol Taylor Graduate Scholarship is named after Dr. Jay Taylor and his wife Carol.  Dr. Taylor was a long-time faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and endowed this award in his retirement.  This award is given to students who have made excellent progress in their research.

The Bush Prize for Graduate Teaching is awarded to a graduate student who has had outstanding feedback from their teaching assignments within the past academic year.  

Previous Award Recipients

Jay & Carol Taylor Graduate Scholarship
  • 2023 - Rabindra Dubadi
  • 2022 - Mohamed Rushdhi Mohamed Rauff
  • 2022 - Pravin Pokhrel
  • 2022 - Nalin Abeydeera
  • 2022 - Deepak Karna
  • 2021 - Dinusha Jayawardhana
  • 2021 - Sudeshi Madushani
  • 2021 - Shankar Pandey
  • 2020 - Srijana Bhandari
  • 2020 - Keshav G.C.
  • 2019 - Arosha Dassanayake
  • 2019 - Sagun Jonchhe
  • 2019 - Han Wang
  • 2018 - Alexandre Goncalves
  • 2018 - Prakash Kharel
  • 2017 - Sumirtha Balaratnam
  • 2017 - Prakash Shrestha
  • 2017 - Yang Zhou
  • 2016 - Chamila Gunathilake
  • 2016 - Ranil Gurusinghe
  • 2016 - Shankar Mandal
  • 2015 - Michal Marszewski
  • 2015 - Sangeetha Selvam
  • 2014 - Rohan Dassanayake
  • 2014 - Zachary Graber
  • 2014 - Murthi Kandanapitiye
  • 2014 - Nilantha Wickramaratne
  • 2013 - Tawfik Khattab
  • 2013 - Deepak Koirala
  • 2012 - Harishchandra Subedi
  • 2012 - Zhongbo Yu
  • 2011 - Stacy Grant
  • 2011 - Mark Morris
Bush Prize for Graduate Teaching
  • 2023 - Thulasi Mahendran
  • 2023 - Aubree Nolan
  • 2023 - Arpit Sharma
  • 2022 - Rabindra Dubadi (1st place)
  • 2022 - Sudeshi Madushani (2nd place)
  • 2022 - Bishnu Pant (3rd place)
  • 2021 - Dinesh Marasinghe
  • 2020 - Payel Datta
  • 2020 - Morgan Stilgenbauer
  • 2019 - Srijana Bhandari
  • 2019 - Anthony Giovengo
  • 2019 - Kumudie Jayalath
  • 2018 - Alexandre Goncalves
  • 2018 - Mohammad Saifur Rahman
  • 2017 - Sumirtha Balaratnam
  • 2017 - Nathan Beals
  • 2016 - Michal Marszewski
  • 2016 - Sangeetha Selvam
  • 2015 - Zhe Li
  • 2014 - Debmalya Bhattacharyya
  • 2013 - Shuo Li
  • 2013 - Philip Yangyuoru
  • 2012 - Sonya Adas
  • 2012 - Zhongbo Yu
  • 2011 - Gretchen Laubacher
University Fellowship
  • 2022 - Shankar Pandey
  • 2019 - Srijana Bhandari
  • 2018 - Arosha Dassanayake
  • 2018 - Sagun Jonchhe
  • 2017 - Prakash Kharel
  • 2017 - Shankar Mandal
  • 2016 - Sumirtha Balaratnam
  • 2016 - Sangeetha Selvam
  • 2015 - Michal Marszewski
  • 2015 - Prakash Shrestha
  • 2014 - Chamila Gunathilake
  • 2014 - Matthew Worden
  • 2013 - Zachary Graber
  • 2013 - Nilantha Wickramaratne
  • 2012 - Deepak Koirala
  • 2011 - Zhongbo Yu