Congratulations to the 2025 Undergraduate Summer Research Poster Winners

August 22, 2025 by Andy Dicks

The Department of Chemistry was thrilled to celebrate undergraduate success by hosting the annual summer research poster session on Thursday August 21st. Forty posters were on display over four hours, representing work in physical, environmental, materials/polymers, inorganic, organic, biological, analytical and theoretical/computational chemistry.

Crowd of students gathered around scientific posters.
Students and professors gather around the Undergraduate Summer Research posters.

The following five undergraduates will receive recognition in the form of prize money generously donated by the ChemClub for the exceptional quality of their research and poster presentations. In alphabetical order:

Hannah Bolton (working with Sophie Rousseaux)
Sophia Hatzinikolaou (Mike Thompson)
Sasha Maniaci (Anatole von Lilienfeld)
Chiara-Marie Marchesano (Jon Abbatt)
Charlotte Stein (Jen Murphy)

Honourable mentions go to Kim Nguyen (Cynthia Goh) and Maria Yaskina (Mark Lautens).

Collage of images from student poster presentation session.

Congratulations to each of the students who participated, and many thanks to all the 28 graduate students, post-docs and faculty who acted as judges!