This award honors an individual undergraduate woman who has overcome economic, personal, or academic hardships to succeed in chemistry. It provides a $250 monetary prize and up to $1,000 for travel to the ACS Fall Meeting, where the awardee is recognized. Applicants must be enrolled in chemistry-related programs at institutions without doctoral degrees and demonstrate academic improvement and initiative.
Applicants must be individual undergraduate women enrolled in two-year chemistry-related programs or four-year chemistry programs without doctoral degrees. They must have completed one semester of college-level chemistry and demonstrate overcoming hardships in pursuit of education.