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2025 Green Chemistry Award Winners Announced

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By David Laviska, Portfolio Manager for Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Education, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Student and instructor winners of the 2025 ACS Green Chemistry Institute and Office of Sustainability awards have been selected. A standing committee of volunteer reviewers faced the challenging task of selecting winners for each of the awards that best exemplify the spirit and intentions of the individual award descriptions.

By David Laviska, Portfolio Manager for Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Education, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

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Student and instructor winners of the 2025 ACS Green Chemistry Institute and Office of Sustainability awards have been selected and will be celebrated at the opening dinner and second annual awards ceremony at the 29th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, June 23-26, 2025. The ACS GCI received an unprecedented response to the call for nominations for our five student awards in the fall of 2024. A standing committee of volunteer reviewers faced the challenging task of selecting winners for each of the awards that best exemplify the spirit and intentions of the individual award descriptions. We are delighted that all 14 student winners will join us at the GC&E conference where they will present their research and receive their awards. 

Making the event even more special, we will also be celebrating the winners of our Green Chemistry awards for instructors who have been working to advance green and sustainable chemistry in their teaching and research. We are delighted to celebrate the four individuals who were selected to receive the awards as shown in the list below. They all have succeeded in reimagining their own teaching while acting as role models for other instructors and the broader academic community. The instructor awardees will be invited to give brief remarks at the opening ceremony of the GC&E conference when they receive their awards. 

More detailed information about the student and instructor awardees will be included in separate articles to be published in the March and May editions of The Nexus. Please find a complete list of winners below: 

 

Instructor Awards 

Career Achievement in Green Chemistry Education Award: Andrew Dicks (University of Toronto) 

Teaching Green Award: David Vosburg (Harvey Mudd College) 

Rising Stars in Green Chemistry Education Award: Qi Dong (Purdue University) and Iris Yu (National University of Singapore) 

 

Student Awards 

Ciba Travel Award: Gabriela Torres Batista (Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce, PR), Alexander Broschek (Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN), Ulfet Ergogan-Uzunoglu (Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY), Endras Tia Fadhilah (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY), and Kelsey Plasse (University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA) 

Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award: Hailey Holshouser (University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL) and Sargun Singh Rohewal (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) 

Joseph Breen Memorial Fellowship: Sarah Boudreau (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL, Canada), Emmanuel Fagbohun (Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada), and Sahar Gholami (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK) 

Nina McClelland Memorial Award: Christopher Koch (Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC) and Xin Liu (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO) 

Heh-Won Chang, Ph.D. Fellowship in Green Chemistry: Swabiiha Buxoo (University of Mauritius, Mauritius) and Tom Nelis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland) 

 

Join us in congratulating the winners! Explore all the awards, grants, scholarships, and fellowships the ACS offers on the Awards page.