Elon Huntington Hooker Fellowship

The Elon Huntington Hooker Fellowship is a one-year dissertation fellowship for students from various fields of science whose work is primarily and clearly concerned with chemistry. The fellowships are funded by a gift from Mrs. Hooker in memory of Mr. Elon Huntington Hooker, a graduate and, for many years, a Trustee of the University. Mr. Hooker was founder of the Hooker Chemical Company and a graduate of the University of Rochester.

Appropriate candidates are full-time students who have passed their qualifying exams and are engaged in full-time research toward the dissertation.

Award Recipients

• 2004 - Biochemistry - Weifeng Gu
• 2004 - Biochemistry - Kefang Xie
• 2005 - Biochemistry - Anshika Bajaj
• 2005 - Biophysics - Lea Vacca
• 2006 - Biochemistry - Patrick Brandt
• 2006 - Biophysics - Andrew Torelli
• 2007 - Biochemistry - Lindsay Burwell
• 2007 - Biochemistry - Celeste MacElrevey
• 2007 - Biophysics - Charles Mace
• 2008 - Biochemistry - Jason Stewart
• 2008 - Biophysics - Prakash Palde
• 2009 - Biochemistry - Chenguang Gong
• 2009 - Biochemistry - John Karijolich
• 2010 - Biophysics - Krystle McLaughlin
• 2010 - Biophysics - Jessica Snyder
• 2011 - Biochemistry - Wen Shen
• 2011 - Biophysics - Zhenjiang Xu
• 2012 - Biochemistry - Joseph Liberman
• 2012 - Biophysics - He Fang
• 2012 - Biophysics - Laura DiChiacchio
• 2013 - Biochemistry - William McDougall
• 2013 - Biophysics - Nicholas Leioatts
• 2014 - Biochemistry - Morgan Monaghan
• 2014 - Biophysics - Dejun Lin
• 2015 - Biochemistry - Lu Han, Clarence Ling, Shihao Xu
• 2016 - Biochemistry - Michael Sloma
• 2017 - Biochemistry - Amber Cutter, Bronwyn Lucas
• 2017 - Biophysics - Leslie Salas-Estrada
• 2018 - Biochemistry - Dudarshika  DeZoysa
• 2018 - Biochemistry - Christina Lai
• 2019 - Viktoriya Anokhina (BMB), Thareendra DeZoysa (BMB), Ethan Walker (BMB)
• 2020 - Chapin Cavender (BSCB), Michael Bryan (BSCB)
• 2021 - Rachel Bonn-Breach (BMB) , Jessica Ciesla (BMB)
• 2022 – Justin Galardi (BMB), Matthew Raymonda (BMB), Griffin Schroeder (BMB)
• 2023 - Madeline Jensen (BMB)
• 2024 - Xueyang He (BSCB) and Daniil Kiliushik (BMB)