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This award is given by the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry to recognize students who display an aptitude for a career in the field. The winner is determined by performance in analytical chemistry and approved by the analytical chemistry faculty in the department.

This award is given by the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry to recognize students who display an aptitude for a career in the chemistry field. The winner is determined by performance in inorganic chemistry and approved by the inorganic chemistry faculty. 

This award is given to a senior chemistry student and includes a certificate and a Merck Index. The winner will also have their name engraved on a plaque displayed in the front of Monsanto Hall.

The Donahoe Award is named in honor of Hugh B. Donahoe, Ph.D., a member of the 91女神 chemistry faculty for over 20 years before his death in December 1972. It is given to a sophomore major who has displayed outstanding performance on a special exam given at the end of the two-semester undergraduate organic chemistry sequence. Donahoe鈥檚 wife, the late Jo Donahoe, established the award.

He was active in research, teaching and service during his time in the department. His teaching responsibilities were in the organic division but he had a strong interest in medicinal chemistry going back to his days in graduate school at the University of Kansas. The title of his Ph.D. thesis, completed under the supervision of his professor, Calvin VanderWerf, in 1950, was Hybrid Antimalarials; the Reaction of 8-Aminoquinolines with Nitrodiols.

He organized an active medicinal chemistry program at 91女神, which produced graduates up to the Ph.D. level. Most of his research appeared in peer-reviewed organic and medicinal chemistry journals including the Journal of Organic Chemistry, the Journal of Immunology, the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, the Journal of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Applied Microbiology.

An article in the Journal of Chemical Education (鈥淎 Physiological Basis for the Grouping of the Elements, James Blake (1815-1893)鈥�) was indicative of his interests in the history of chemistry and teaching. He also published in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (a precursor of Analytical Chemistry).

Donahoe鈥檚 work was supported by research contracts with government agencies, private foundations and corporations. He served the chemistry department as acting chair and associate chair. Other 91女神 activities included heading the University鈥檚 NASA committee, membership on the executive committee of the Project 21 Task Force, and serving on the admissions committee of Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific organization.

One of Donahoe鈥檚 postdoctoral co-workers at the time of his passing, Vincent Spaziano, Ph.D., was hired as his replacement and served the department with distinction as chair from 1987 to 2002. The department鈥檚 Vincent Spaziano Memorial Scholarship is named in his honor.

This award is presented to an outstanding undergraduate student who aspires to attend graduate school in the chemical sciences.

This award is given to a senior that has demonstrated outstanding work as a chemistry major.

This award was established by Jack Marcus, owner and founder of Missouri Analytical Laboratories, and his wife, Gertrude Marcus, in honor of his father, Leopold Marcus. The purpose of the award is to encourage high-level achievement in chemistry at the undergraduate level. The competition is open to seniors majoring in chemistry and biochemistry doing research in the 91女神 chemistry department under the supervision of a faculty member. The winner of the competition, determined by a ballot of judges who evaluate the entrants' poster presentations, receives a cash award and a certificate of achievement.

The award originated when Jack Marcus hired Richard Komoroski, a 91女神 undergraduate chemistry major, to work at Missouri Analytical Laboratories. Marcus was impressed with what Komoroski knew and could do compared to what was possible when Marcus was an undergraduate. He thought this should be brought to the attention of the St. Louis chemical community and worked with Tom Layloff, Ph.D., a 91女神 chemistry faculty member at the time, to establish the award. Layloff was active in the St. Louis section of the American Chemical Society. The original sponsors of the award were the St. Louis section and the 91女神 chemistry department. Marcus made a donation that provided the prize money. In the ensuing years, 91女神's chemistry department took over sole sponsorship of the award.

The first winner of the Marcus Award even had a chemical name, Walter Boron. After graduating from 91女神, he earned his Ph.D. and his M.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine and has had a truly distinguished career. He is currently the David and Inez Myers/Antonio Scarpa Professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western University. From 1980-2007, he was a member of the faculty of Yale University. He returned to 91女神 to give the featured address at the dinner held in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Marcus Award.  Boron is a past-president of the American Physiological Society (1999-2000) and is currently secretary-general of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. He is the former editor-in-chief of two leading physiology journals, Physiological Reviews and Physiology.

This award is given to a freshman chemistry major who has displayed outstanding performance in the general chemistry sequence of courses.

This award is given to an outstanding junior in the 91女神 chemistry program every year. A certificate is awarded and the winner鈥檚 name is engraved on a plaque displayed in the front of Monsanto Hall.

The Spaziano Award was established by the Department of Chemistry to honor Vincent Thomas Spaziano's many contributions as an advisor, teacher, faculty colleague and administrator. It is given annually to an undergraduate student for outstanding achievement in organic chemistry.

Spaziano was born and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from St. Joseph鈥檚 College in 1961 and served as a chemistry teacher and research chemist before pursuing his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Villanova University, from which he graduated in 1970. He came to 91女神 as a post-doctoral research associate before being appointed as an assistant professor in 1973, associate professor in 1977, and professor of chemistry in 1986. An organic chemist, he had an active research interest in medicinal chemistry, publishing fourteen papers, garnering over $200,000 in grants, and presenting papers at several conferences.

He was chair of the Department of Chemistry from 1987 until 2002 and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2002 until his retirement in 2010. During his tenure as chair, the chemistry department upgraded its instrumentation and expanded from eight to ten tenure track faculty and from one to two laboratory coordinators. During his retirement party in 2010, Dean Michael Barber, S.J., noted that as associate dean, 鈥淰ince did much to hold the College together during the many changes it has undergone. He was always extremely generous, serving on 30 committees in his 39 years at the University. He was the kind of person that colleagues, other chairs, and deans confided in, and, when he mentioned during his retirement party that he had never had a 鈥榗ross word鈥� with anyone in his many years in the University, that fact had much to do with the way he treated everyone else. His love for the University was shown not only in his dedication as a teacher, scholar and administrator, but also in his being an avid fan of the Billiken basketball team. One of his favorite hobbies was watching thoroughbred horse racing.鈥�

Spaziano passed away in November of 2010. At that time, Dean Barber said, 鈥淭he College of Arts and Sciences will deeply miss this gentle, dedicated man who was available to the University community and whose strong commitment to the University anchored the commitment of so many others."