Department of Chemistry Awards & Honors

The following awards do not require an application. All undergraduate students, including students in first professional degree programs such as Pharmacy, are eligible for the Lena DeLisser Matthews Prize.

Note 2: All undergraduate students, including students in first professional degree programs such as Pharmacy, are eligible for the Lena DeLisser Matthews Prize.

Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society Award

The award made by the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society recognizes outstanding academic scholastic achievement by our undergraduate chemistry, biochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry majors, as well as service to the ACS Student Affiliate Organization. This is the oldest student award made by the department, beginning in 1951.

Lena DeLisser Matthews Prize

The Lena DeLisser Matthews Prize recognizes students in bachelor's and first professional degree programs throughout the University for outstanding efforts as teaching assistants in the chemistry laboratory courses offered by the department.

Virginia Lebo Osol Memorial Prize

The Virginia Lebo Osol Memorial Prize recognizes outstanding student service activities by our undergraduate chemistry, biochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry majors, including participation in the Department's Student Affiliate of the American Chemical Society.

Undergraduate Research Awards include the "Martin and Karen Gibbs' Prize in Biological Sciences and Chemistry" and the "Louis A. Reber Memorial Research Awards in Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry".