Roger & Ruth Schmitz Scholarship

The Roger and Ruth Schmitz Scholarship honors the late professor Roger A. Schmitz and his wife Ruth Schmitz. Roger Schmitz earned his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1959 and went on to earn a doctorate from the University of Minnesota. He was a long-time researcher, educator, and administrator at the University of Notre Dame. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, his research contributions were in experimental observation of complex behavior in chemical reactions and catalysis.

Past Recipients:

2023-2024 Martha Abrahamson
2022-2023 Kevin Chen 
2021-2022 Melissa Manetsch 
2020-2021 John Ito 
2019-2020 Ameer Barbour