Graduate Fellowships

External Fellowships

NIH Fellowship - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
Melanie Brunet Torres

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
David Potts
Darien Raymond
Anaira Roman-Santiago
Archana Verma

NSF MoISSI
Diego Kleiman

Republic of China Study Abroad Scholarship 
Ching-Yu Chen

Departmental Fellowships

3M Fellowship
Rithwik Ghanta
Genesis Rios Adorno
Apurva Godbole

Chia-Chen Chu Fellowship
Siying Yu

Harry G. Drickamer Fellowship
Nayeong Kim 

DuPont Science and Engineering Fellowship
Eric Burgeson

Samuel W. Parr Fellowship
Keertna Bhuvan
Ching-Yu Chen
Melanie Fournier
Trevor Gayer
Christian Hurd
Austin Lomas
Abiela Meek
Jared Rivera-Otero
Juan Rojas
Alyssa Spencer
Michael Taleff
Archana Verma
Hao Xu
Song Yin
Zhixin Zhu

Glenn E. and Barbara R. Ullyot Fellowship
Tianhao Yu

A.T. Widiger Fellowship
Yash Kamble
Melanie Brunet Torres
Azzaya Khasbaatar
Prateek Bansal
Emmanuel Ejiogu

Campus Fellowships

Beckman NSF/NRT Fellowship
William Baker 

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program
Keertna Bhuvan 
Hao Xu

GEM Associate Fellowship
Jared Rivera-Otero
Juan Rojas
Dejuante Walker
Howard Weatherspoon

Graduate College Fellowship
Vanessa DaSilva
Austin Lomas
Jared Rivera-Otero
Alyssa Spencer

Graduate College Distinguished Fellowship
Michael Taleff

Grainger Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship
Jiankai Ge
Jiachun Shi
Gunnar Thompson
Tianhao Yu

Grainger SURGE Fellowship
Melanie Brunet Torres
Destiny Gray
Vanessa DaSilva
Genesis Rios-Adorno
Anaira Roman Santiago
Alyssa Spencer
Dejuante Walker
Howard Weatherspoon

Sloan Scholar
Christian Hurd
Jared Rivero-Otero

TechnipFMC Fellowship
Rachel Gaines

TiME Training Program Scholar
Victoria Kriuchkovskaia

3M Corporate Fellowship

• Jiangyan Feng
• Alexander Horn
• Uzoma Nwabara
• Isamar Pastrana-Otero

A.T. Widiger Chemical Engineering Fellowship

• Talha Al-Zoubi
• Claudia Berdugo Diaz
• Raylin Chen
• Daniel Davies
• Andrew Kuhn
• Dinesh Kumar

Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program

• Melanie Brunet Torres
• Jesse Horne

Chia-chen Chu Fellowship

• Jiming Chen
• Chengyou Shi

Dissertation Completion Fellowship

• Mai Ngo

DuPont Science and Engineering Fellowship

• Uzoma Nwabara

GEM Associate Fellow

• Dejuante Walker

Glenn E. and Barbara R. Ullyot Graduate Fellowship

• Ajit Vikram

Graduate College Fellowship

• Vanessa DaSilva
• Darien Raymond
• Anaira Roman Santiago
• Howard Weatherspoon

Harry G. Drickamer Graduate Research Fellowship

• Prapti Kafle
• Uzoma Nwabara

Illinois SLOAN Scholar

• Danielle Harrier
• Jason Madinya
• Anaira Roman Santiago
• Chris Torres
• Dejuante Walker
• Howard Weatherspoon

JME Graduate Student Award

• Anshu Deewan
• Tianwei Yan

Link Foundation Energy Fellowship

• Saket Bhargava

Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship

• Saket Bhargava
• Kavinraaj Ella Elangovan
• Richa Ghosh
• Prapti Kafle
• Andrew Kuhn
• Jarom Sederholm
• Meng Zhang

NIH NRSA National Institute Environmental Health Science

• Whitney Sinclaire

NSF Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems Summer REI

• Ryan Miller

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

• Paola Baldaguez Medina
• Richa Ghosh
• Danielle Harrier
• Aliki Kolliopoulos
• Jason Madinya
• David Potts
• Raul Sun Han Chang
• Aleczandria Tiffany
• Chris Torres

NSF Miniature Brain Machinery

• William Baker
• Ryan Miller

NSF Molecular Sciences Software Institute Fellowship

• Matthew Chan

PPG-MRL Graduate Research Assistantship

• Dinesh Kumar

Samuel W. Parr Fellowship

• William Baker
• Vanessa DaSilva
• Richa Ghosh
• Jesse Horne
• Matthew Jacobson
• Jemin Jeon
• Azzaya Khasbaatar
• Nayeong Kim
• Ohsung Kwon
• Darien Raymond
• Anaira Roman Santiago
• Jarom Sederholm
• Gunnar Thompson
• Siqing Wang
• Howard Weatherspoon
• Rui Hua Jeff Xu

Studying Abroad Scholarship by the Ministry of Education, Republic of China

• Yu-Tong Connie Hong
• Joanne Hwang

SURGE Fellowship

• Zeynep Ayla
• Melanie Brunet Torres
• Vanessa DaSilva
• Bryan Mejia-Sosa
• Ryan Miller
• Uzoma Nwabara
• Tomas Ricciardulli
• Anaira Roman Santiago
• Dejuante Walker
• Howard Weatherspoon

TechnipFMC Fellowship

• Yu-Heng Deng

Thomas and Margaret Huang Award for Graduate Research

• Kianoush Falahkheirkhah

Tom and Yolanda Stein Graduate Fellowship

• Tianwei Yan

Jason Adams 

Jason Adams 

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• Jason Adams (David Flaherty)
• Danielle Harrier (Guironnet Group)
• Jason Madinya (Leckband, Sing Groups)
• Mai Ngo (Harley Group)

National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (Miniature Brain Machinery)

• Whitney Sinclair (Kenis, Leckband Groups)

National Institutes for Health Predoctoral Fellowship

• Whitney Sinclair (Kenis, Leckband Groups)
• Daniel Bregante (Flaherty Group)

National Institutes of Health Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program

• Jiming Chen (Shukla Group)
• Vasiliki Kolliopoulous (Harley Group)

American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship

• Prapti Kafle (Diao Group)

College of Engineering Support for Underrepresented Groups in Engineering (SURGE) Fellowship

• Ece Zeynep Ayla (Flaherty Group)
• Liliana Bello Fernandez (Sing Group)
• Bryan Mejia-Sosa (Zhao Group)
• Ryan Miller (Kong Group)
• Uzoma Nwabara (Kenis Group)
• Tomas Ricciardulli (Flaherty Group)
• Raul Sun Han Chang (Harley Group)

Illinois Sloan Scholar

• Liliana Bello Fernandez (Sing Group)
• Danielle Harrier (Guironnet Group)
• Bryan Mejia-Sosa (Zhao Group)
• Zully Perez-Sierra (Leckband Group)

Sloan Scholar

• Jason Madinya (Leckband, Sing Groups)
• Chris Torres (Flaherty Group)

Graduate College Fellowship

• Chris Torres (Flaherty Group)

Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship

• Edward Jira (Schroeder Group)

National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) Associate Fellowship

• Liliana Bello Fernandez (Sing Group)
• Chris Torres (Flaherty Group)

College of Engineering Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship

• Jee-Wei (Emily) Chen (Harley Group)
• Mai Ngo (Harley Group)
• Isamar Pastrana-Otero (Kraft Group)
• Dylan Walsh (Guironnet Group)

3M Corporate Fellowship

• Saket Bhargava (Kenis Group)
• Charles Young (Sing Group)
• Chuankai Zhao (Shukla Group)

Harry G. Drickamer Fellowship

• Ge Qu (Diao Group)

Merck Fellowship

• Liliana Bello Fernandez (Sing Group)
• Ryan Miller (Kong Group)
• Chris Torres (Flaherty Group)

Parr Fellowship

• Roger Chang (Leckband Group)
• Lin Chen (Bhargava Group)
• Chris Torres (Flaherty Group)

DuPont Fellowship

• Dylan Walsh (Guironnet Group)

Technip FMC Fellowship

• William Ballance (Kong Group)

Glenn E. and Barbara R. Ullyot Fellowship

• Hyunjoong (Tim) Chung (Diao Group)
• Ching-Wei (Johnny) Lee (Rogers Group)
• Yajie Wang (Zhao Group)

Chia-chen Chu Fellowship

• Yajie Wang (Zhao Group)
• Jiangyan Feng (Shukla Group)

A.T. Widiger Fellowship

• Jee-Wei (Emily) Chen (Harley Group)
• Hyungjoong Chung (Diao Group)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

Jason Adams (David Flaherty)

Raul Sun Han Chang (Brendan Harley)

Aleczandria Tiffany (Brendan Harley)

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow

Daniel Bregante (David Flaherty)

National Institutes of Health, Tissue Microenvironment Training Program

Jee-Wei Chen (Brendan Harley)

University Block Grant Fellowship

Jiming Chen (Diwakar Shukla)

Jaimie Kurtz (Damien Guironnet)

David Ollodart (Edmund Seebauer)

Sloan Scholar

Danielle Harrier (Damien Guironnet)

Jason Madinya (Deborah Leckband, Charles Sing)

Illinois Sloan Scholar

Zully Perez Sierra (Deborah Leckband)

Aleczandria Tiffany (Brendan Harley)

Illinois Distinguished Fellow

Mai Ngo (Brendan Harley)

Graduate College Fellow

Jason Madinya (Deborah Leckband, Charles Sing)

College of Engineering Support for Underrepresented Groups in Engineering (SURGE)

Zeynep Ayla (David Flaherty)

Uzoma Nwabara (Paul Kenis)

Tomas Ricciardulli (David Flaherty)

Raul Sun Han Chang (Brendan Harley)

College of Engineering Mavis Future Faculty Fellow

Daniel Bregante (David Flaherty)

Katelyn Dahlke (Charles Sing)

Glenn E. and Barbara R. Ullyot Fellow

Sumit Verma (Paul Kenis)

Harry G. Drickamer Fellow

Katelyn Dahlke (Charles Sing)

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering JME Graduate Student Award

Erfan Mohammadi (Ying Diao)

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Samuel W. Parr Fellow

Jiming Chen (Diwakar Shukla)

Gary Min Chiang Ong (Charles Sing)

Michael Samp (Charles Sing)

Matthew Wade (Simon Rogers)

Cheng Zhang (Hong Yang)

Ford Fellowship in Biophysics

Kevin Cheng (Diwakar Shukla)

Technip FMC Fellow

Megan Witzke (David Flaherty)

Summer 2017 Fellowships

Chia-Chen Chu Fellowship

Ge Qu (Ying Diao)

Dow Chemical Company Fellowship

Sumit Verma (Paul Kenis)

A.T. Widiger Fellowship

Kai-Chieh Tsao (Hong Yang)

Erfan Mohammadi (Ying Diao)

Dylan Walsh (Damien Guironnet)

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow
Daniel Bregante (David Flaherty)

National Institutes of Health—Chemistry Biology Interface Traineeship
Katelyn Dahlke (Charles Sing)

National Institutes of Health—Tissue Microenvironment Traineeship
Jee-wei Chen (Brendan Harley)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Elizabeth Horstman (Paul Kenis)
Mai Ngo (Brendan Harley)
Megan Witzke (David Flaherty)

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science—Graduate Student Research Fellow
Thao Ngo (Hong Yang)

Sloan Scholar
Jason Madinya (Deborah Leckband/Charles Sing)

Illinois Sloan Scholar
Isamar Pastrana-Otero (Mary Kraft)
Aleczandria Tiffany (Brendan Harley)

University Block Grant Fellowship
Girija Bodhankar (Christopher Rao)
Gavin Donley (Simon Rogers)
Charles Young (Charles Sing)

College of Engineering Mavis Future Faculty Fellow
Elizabeth Horstman (Paul Kenis)

College of Engineering Support for Underrepresented Groups in Engineering (SURGE)
Elizabeth Horstman (Paul Kenis)
Uzoma Nwabara (Paul Kenis)
Raul Sun Han Chang (Brendan Harley)

Graduate College Fellow
Jason Madinya (Deborah Leckband/Charles Sing)

Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Yung-Tin Pan (Hong Yang)

3M Fellow
Behnam Enghiad (Huimin Zhao)
Zahra Shamsi (Diwakar Shukla)
Yajie Wang (Huimin Zhao)

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship
Kai-Wen Hsiao (Charles Schroeder)
Ge Qu (Ying Diao)
Dylan Walsh (Damien Guironnet)

Dow Chemical Company Fellow
Sumit Verma (Paul Kenis)
Neil Wilson (David Flaherty)

Harry G. Drickamer Fellow
Geethika Yalamanchili (Christopher Rao)

DuPont Science and Engineering Fellow
Yelena Ilin (Mary Kraft)
Jeremy Schieferstein (Paul Kenis)

Merck Fellow
Alexander Horn (Damien Guironnet)
Uzoma Nwabara (Paul Kenis)

Samuel W. Parr Fellow
Jason Adams (David Flaherty)
Daniel Davies (Ying Diao)
Anshu Deewan (Christopher Rao)
Yu-Tong Hong (Hyunjoon Kong)
Bijal Patl (Ying Diao)
Abinaya Sampath (David Flaherty)
Nicholas Troescher (Jonathan Higdon)
Michael Tu (Charles Schroeder)

A.T. Widiger Fellowship
Hyunjoong Tim Chung (Ying Diao)
Zahra Shamsi (Diwakar Shukla)

3M Fellowship
Enghiad Behnam
Malek Ibrahim
Geethika Yalamanchili

Harry G. Drickamer Fellowship
Yelena Ilin

Dow Chemical Company Fellowship
Kai-Wen Hsiao
Vivek Kumar
Ming Li
Erfan Mohammadi
Abiodun Fatai Oki
Yung-Tin (Frank) Pan
Sumit Verma
Dylan Walsh
Neil Wilson
Yajie Wang

DuPont Science and Engineering Fellowship
Nicholas Clay

Parr Fellowship
Daniel Bregante
Marjorie Bridgewater
Jingtian Kuang
Evan Lloyd
Mai Ngo
Sichong Pei

A. T. Widiger Chemical Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Daniel T. Reilly

Glenn E. and Barbara R. Ullyot Fellowship
Joe Whittenberg

School of Chemical Sciences Chia-Chen Chu Fellowship
Linling Miao

College of Engineering SURGE (Support for Underrepresented Groups in Engineering)
Laura Mozdzen

University of Illinois Graduate College Block Grant
Syeda Ahmed
Shivani Patel
John Schultz

National Institutes of Health, Chemistry/Biology Interface Training Program
Katelyn Dahlke
William Grier

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Elizabeth Horstman
Danielle Mai
Thao Ha Ngo