Maddy Kim '26 is the recipient of the Drago Chemistry Award.  This award is given to a rising senior based on academic achievement, laboratory skills, promise in the field of Chemistry and recommendations by the faculty of the Department of Chemistry.

About Maddy:

Maddy Kim is a Chemistry and Physical Therapy double major at Ithaca College. She loves working as a teaching assistant for the Chemistry department and connecting with new students every semester to share her love of chemistry. She particularly has an interest in inorganic/solid-state chemistry, and is currently working on her Senior research and capstone with Dr. Janet Hunting to synthesize and characterize transition metal doped quaternary chalcogenides with analysis by X-ray diffraction. After finishing her undergraduate degrees, Maddy is planning on attending graduate school at Ithaca College for two more years to earn her Doctorate of Physical Therapy.

Other Academic Achievements:

Oracle Honors Society (2022-2023)

Outstanding First Year Chemistry Award (2023)

Dean’s List School of H&S

Previous Award Recipients

2023: Emily Leach 

2022: Olivia Grogan 

2022: Maxwell Bridges

2021: Alex Babcock

2020: Sidney Kay

2019: Andrew McCabe & Nora Vail

2018: Anthony DiBernardo & Kito Gilbert-Bass

2017: Noah A. Budin

2016: Benjamin C. Morse 

2015: Kaitlyn DeHority & Connor Shea

2014:  Rachael Snyder

2013: Carina Chittim

2012: Kathleen Sampson & Christine Gomes

2011: Robert Hoyuela

2010: Juan Duchimaza & Anthony Farrari

2008: Melissa Martin

2007: Amanda Kowalsick

2006: Josh Mesland

2004: Michael Sangi & Mathew Sprague

2002: Shannon Werner

2001:  William Pomerantz

2000: Teresa Porri

1999: Neal Abrams

1997: Brain Mruk

1995: David Finger

1994: Rachael Sawyer