University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Dr. Robert Steinmeier, Chair of the Dept. Awards Committee, announced the winners for this years awards. A complete list of people to be honored at the CSAM awards can be found here. Award winning graduating undergrads include Mr. Sam Collom who also was selected by CSAM as the College Outstanding graduating BS. Ms. Celeste Cole who has been Past ACS Student Affiliate President was selected by the Department as the outstanding graduating BA student.  Ms. Cole has also been doing undergraduate research with Dr. Tito Viswanathan and she will be working at the FDA laboratory in Pine Bluff upon graduation.

Outstanding MS graduate was Mr. Gunawan Gunawan, who completed his thesis work on natural radioactivity under direction of Dr. Jeff Gaffney.

Mr. Shawn Bourdo, soon to be Dr. Shawn Bourdo!, was selected as outstanding graduating Ph.D. student. Shawn has done an outstanding job working on nanomaterial chemistry under the direction of Dr. Tito Viswanathan.