Awards & Scholarships

The Beta Eta Teaching Assistant Scholarship Award recognizes outstanding teaching performance by a freshman teaching assistant in the introductory chemistry laboratory at the University of North Texas (Beta Eta Chapter). It also affords recognition to the Beta Eta Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and furthers the Fraternity’s Second Object. The award is given annually as long as Beta Eta Chapter remains an active chapter. The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize. The funds for the award are administered by the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation.
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The Daniel P. Babb Fund provides funds for the Chemistry Department at Marshall University to use to benefit the education of undergraduate chemistry students. The source of the initial endowment is the estate of Professor Daniel P. Babb and it reflects his lifelong commitment to quality undergraduate education in chemistry. The purpose of this fund is to provide funds for the Chemistry Department at Marshall University to use to benefit the education of undergraduate chemistry students. The source of the initial endowment is the estate of Professor Daniel P. Babb and it reflects his lifelong commitment to quality undergraduate education in chemistry.

In January of each year, the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation will notify the chair of the Chemistry Department at Marshall University of the amount of money available for disbursement that year and will disburse said amount to the Marshall University Foundation. The Marshall University Foundation then will distribute the funds according to instructions from the Chemistry Department. At the discretion of the Chemistry Department, any unused funds may be carried over to succeeding years.

The Chemistry Department may use these funds in any way that will directly benefit undergraduate students. Examples of appropriate expenditures include, but are not limited to:

• purchase and/or repair of instruments for undergraduate students.
• purchase of computers and/or software for undergraduate students.
• purchase of chemicals or other laboratory supplies for undergraduate students.
• travel expenses for an outside seminar speaker on a topic of particular interest to undergraduates.
• travel expenses for an alumnus of the Chemistry Department as a seminar speaker.

At the end of the year, the Chemistry Department will submit a brief report to the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation as to how the funds were used.

The Albert H. Cooper Memorial Scholarship Award is granted annually to a senior who will receive a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The senior also must exhibit exceptional merit and a high scholastic standing. In 1979 a scholarship award was established to recognize Albert H. Cooper, Alpha Phi 1929, and his lifelong dedication to students and to chemical engineering. The award also serves as a memorial to his devotion to Alpha Chi Sigma. The award was established by Brother Cooper’s widow, Louise K. Cooper.

Brother Cooper was a charter member of the Alpha Phi Chapter and served as its chapter advisor from 1970 to 1974. He also posthumously received the John R. Kuebler Award in 1974.

The award is granted annually to a senior who will receive a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The senior also must exhibit exceptional merit and a high scholastic standing. The award is to be given to an active member of the Alpha Phi Chapter unless, in the opinion of the selection committee (composed of members of the faculty in the chemical engineering department at the university), no member of the Fraternity is reasonably eligible to receive the award in any given year. Then the award may be given to a non-member.

See a list of previous winners here.

The Edmund E. Dunlap Fund is used for the benefit of students enrolled in the areas of chemistry and chemical engineering at The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Edmund E. Dunlap Fund is derived from the estate of Edmund E. Dunlap, Iota 1922, and his wife, Marcile W. Dunlap and is administered by the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation. The proceeds from the estate are to be used for the benefit of students enrolled in the areas of chemistry and chemical engineering at The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind.

At least 50 percent of the fund’s award income provides an annual scholarship to a student in the chemical sciences on the basis of academic excellence, extracurricular activities and professionalism. The remainder is used for Alpha Chi Sigma grants to students in the chemical sciences on the basis of need, above average scholarship, extracurricular activities and professionalism.

The Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation appoints three members of the professional branch of Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity to the Dunlap Scholarship Committee, at least one of whom is a faculty member in the chemical sciences at Rose-Hulman and at least one of whom is not a current or previous faculty at Rose-Hulman.

The Gamma Eta Scholarship Award provides scholarships for members of the Gamma Eta Chapter at Marshall University in Huntington, W.V. In 2004, the Gamma Eta Scholarship Fund was established to provide scholarships for members of Gamma Eta Chapter. This fund is administered by Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation.

Each April, the selection committee solicits applications from the members of Gamma Eta Chapter. Only those members who were initiated prior to the beginning of the current calendar year are eligible. The award recipient must be a student at Marshall University for at least one term after the award is presented. Both undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students who were initiated at another chapter but who are active in Gamma Eta Chapter also are eligible.

The committee will consider the following criteria in the process of choosing the award winner:
Active participation in the activities of Gamma Eta chapter and Alpha Chi Sigma as a whole
How well the applicant lives up to the Three Objects of the Fraternity
Academic record
Financial need
Any other criteria the committee may find appropriate

The committee is requested to give special consideration to those applicants whose parents did not attend college.

To view a list of previous winners, click here.

The Jody A. Goad Memorial Scholarship is awarded to a student of chemistry or any chemistry-related major attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va. The Gamma Iota Chapter established a scholarship in memory of Jody Aaron Goad, Gamma Iota 1995, who passed away in 2003 of brain cancer. The scholarship is awarded to a student of chemistry or any chemistry-related major attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.

Jody was Master Alchemist of Gamma Iota Chapter from 1997 to 1998 and Reporter from 1996 to 1997. While Master Alchemist, collegiate membership at Gamma Iota Chapter increased 150 percent, and the chapter earned a Three-Star Chapter Award and the Clyde B. Hutchison Award for Best Professional Activities.

The Priscilla (Carney) Jones Scholar supports a woman in her junior or senior undergraduate year majoring in chemistry or a chemistry-related science. The scholarship is awarded on the basis of both need and scholarship. At the discretion of the selection committee, an award in the amount of $2,500 is given annually. The selection committee is a joint subcommittee of the Women Chemists Committee and the Younger Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society.

Priscilla Jones, Beta Eta 1991, was born in Malden, Mass., on April 30, 1937. She attended Wheaton College, Bryn Mawr College and the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a doctorate degree in chemistry in 1968. She was among the first females to earn a doctorate degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. While in Madison, she met and married her husband of nearly 40 years, Paul R. Jones, Beta Eta 1971. Brother Jones was a member of the Alpha Chi Sigma Order of Altotus and was Grand Recorder Emeritus. Priscilla served as a research associate and an adjunct professor in the chemistry department at the University of North Texas for many years. Because of the difficulties she faced as a female chemist early in her life, she established this scholarship for women studying chemistry. Priscilla passed away on August 5, 2007.

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The J. Howard Mathews Loan Fund provides low-interest loans to collegiate members of Alpha Chi Sigma. Following his death in 1970, the J. Howard Mathews Memorial Fund was established to honor founder J. Howard “Matty” Mathews. Since then, all contributions to the Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity or to the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation made in memory of a deceased member are deposited in the fund, unless specifically directed otherwise. The fund provides low-interest loans to collegiate members of Alpha Chi Sigma, who become eligible to participate in the program on the first anniversary of their initiation.

Loans from $500 to $6,000 are available at an interest rate based on the current market rate. Applications must be transmitted by the chapter advisor. If the student is enrolled at a college or university where no active chapter exists, the application must be transmitted by a faculty member who is a member of Alpha Chi Sigma. Loan repayment may start at any time but no later than six months following graduation or leaving school for any reason.

→ Mathews Loan Information can be found here.

→ The Mathews Loan Application can be found here.

The Minnerly Memorial Fund, in memory of past GMA H. Edson Minnerly, Chi 1948, provides grants to members of Alpha Chi Sigma who are enrolled in colleges and universities where there is no active chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma. The purpose of a grant is to encourage expansion or reactivation at such schools by giving the necessary funds to establish a new chapter or reactivate a dormant chapter. Upon the successful reactivation or establishment of a chapter, the student responsible for the expansion shall receive an honorarium and certificate of appreciation from the Supreme Council.

The Vincent A. Sedlak Memorial Fund. Upon the donation from the estate of Vincent A. Sedlak, Alpha Pi 1946, a fund was established by the Fraternity. This fund provides grants to members of Alpha Chi Sigma for the purpose of advancing the Professional Branch of the Fraternity. Specifically, these funds support activities that promote the establishment or growth of Professional Chapters, encourage the transition of Professional Groups to Professional Chapters, or enable newly established Professional Chapters to begin or expand their program of professional activities.

The American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry. The Pure Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS) was established at the sum of $1,000 per year to recognize outstanding chemists not older than 35 years of age. It was financed from 1931 to 1937 by Drs. A.C. and Irving Langmuir. In 1938, Professor James Kendall, Alpha Alpha 1923, was the sponsor. But there was no award in 1939 due to the lack of a donor.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Alpha Chi Sigma Award in Chemical Engineering Research. In 1966, following extensive discussions between then-GPA James F. Miller, Nu 1937 (representing the Supreme Council), and the Awards Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the institute agreed to administer an award in chemical engineering research to be sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and financed through the Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation. An initial substantial contribution toward support of such an award had been made several years before by Carl F. Prutton, Gamma 1919.

The Alpha Chi Sigma Award in Chemical Engineering Research, which stipulates no age limit, recognizes individual research carried out during the ten years preceding the year in which the award is to be presented. It originally carried a stipend of $2,000. The award now is $5,000.

The award is usually presented at the annual meeting of the AIChE. The recipient is requested to present an award address at one of the national meetings or a symposium on his or her work at the annual meeting of the AIChE the following year.

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