The American Chemical Society Committee on the Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) met May 14 and 15 and recommended 113 new projects in four categories: doctoral new investigators, new directions, undergraduate new investigators, and undergraduate research grants. The ACS Board of Directors approved these spring 2026 funding recommendations totaling $12,295,000 in investment. More information on the ACS PRF, the application process, deadlines, and becoming a reviewer is available on the PRF website.
The spring 2026 PRF grant recipients are:
Atanu Acharya
Syracuse University
Jill Williamson Alty
SUNY Stony Brook
Placidus B. Amama
Kansas State University
Yaxin An
Louisiana State University
Christos Athanasiou
Georgia Institute of Technology
Soumitra Athavale
University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Bandar
Colorado State University
Junwei Lucas Bao
Boston College
Brandon R. Barnett
University of Rochester
Parisa Bazazi
Colorado School of Mines
Louise Antoinette Berben
University of California, Davis
Zachariah Berkson
Arizona State University
Dylan G. Boucher
Baylor University
Anna C. Brezny
Saint Olaf College
Matthew F. Cain
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jianshu Cao
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cecile Anne-Carole Chazot
Northwestern University
Sandeep Chitta
Michigan Technological University
Sujit Sankar Datta
California Institute of Technology
Daniel Decato
University of Montana
Siddharth Deshpande
University of Rochester
Christian W. Dewey
University of Delaware
Michael S. Dimitriyev
Texas A&M University
Tyler Joseph Doyon
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Daniel Halsell Ess
Brigham Young University
Majed S. Fataftah
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dylan Joshua Freas
Bates College
Joelle Frechette
University of California, Berkeley
Neil K. Garg
University of California, Los Angeles
Debanjana Ghosh
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Edward G. Gillan
University of Iowa
Matthew Ross Golder
University of Washington
Miguel I. Gonzalez
Dartmouth College
Gennady Gor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
David J. Gorin
Smith College
Vicki H. Grassian
University of California San Diego
Gary L. Guillet
Furman University
Dugan Hayes
University of Rhode Island
Hossein Hejazi
University of Calgary
Thomas Roy Hopper
University of Central Florida
Seyyedamirhossein Hosseini
University of South Carolina
Dong Hou
Clemson University
Michael Hren
University of Connecticut
Gongfang Hu
Colgate University
Michael S. Inkpen
University of Southern California
Yanzhou Ji
The Ohio State University
Wencheng Jin
Texas A&M University
Loren G. Kaake
Simon Fraser University
Ehsan Madadi Kandjani
California State University, Long Beach
Nathanael Parker Kazmierczak
Hope College
Fardin Khabaz
University of Akron
Dong-Joo Kim
Auburn University
Myeongsub Kim
Florida Atlantic University
Yunsang Kim
Mississippi State University
Melissa Elizabeth King
Clarkson University
Yuki Kobayashi
University of Michigan
Sarah Kostinski
New York University
Pavel A. Kots
New York University
Arshad Kudrolli
Clark University
Kevin Georges Lam
University of Greenwich
Daniel Lee
University of Northern Iowa
Min Hwan Lee
University of California, Merced
Marc-André Légaré
McGill University
Naomi E. Levin
University of Michigan
Wanlu Li
Montclair State University
Yuzhang Li
University of California, Los Angeles
Jung-Fu Lin
University of Texas at Austin
Jinjun Liu
University of Louisville
Yangyang Liu
California State University, Los Angeles
Leixin Ma
Arizona State University
Nariman Mahabadi
Arizona State University
Ellen M. Matson
University of Rochester
Amal Narayanan
University of Florida
Pranjal Nautiyal
Oklahoma State University
William James Neary
University of California, Riverside
Tse Nga Ng
University of California San Diego
Sasan Nouranian
University of Mississippi
Jesse L. Peltier
Northeastern University
Jiayu Peng
University at Buffalo
Dhiman Ray
University of Oregon
Clorice Rose Reinhardt
University of Vermont
Li Zhu
Rutgers University
Cedric Schaack
Wake Forest University
Blair Schoene
Princeton University
Abdollah Shafieezadeh
The Ohio State University
Samira Shiri
University of Utah
Mahima Sneha
Dartmouth College
Maya F. Stokes
Florida State University
Jacob Schreiber Tracy
University of West Florida
David L. Valentine
University of California, Santa Barbara
Alexandra Velian
University of Washington
Keisha Bishop Walters
University of Arkansas
Chen Wang
University of Utah
Fang Wang
University of Rhode Island
Xiaoguang Wang
The Ohio State University
Yixian Wang
California State University, Los Angeles
Zhongyang Wang
University of Alabama
Jiang Wei
Tulane University
Wei Wei
Michigan Technological University
Malia B. Wenny
Wellesley College
Benjamin P. Williams
University of North Florida
Kathleen Wilson
Boston College
Jingjie Wu
University of Cincinnati
Yuzhe Xiao
University of North Texas
Kelvin Y. Xie
Texas A&M University
Lilia Shell Xie
Princeton University
Anna Yang
Swarthmore College
Yinuo Noah Yao
Texas A&M University
Brian Sae Yoon Kim
University of Arizona
David O. Zakharov
Western Michigan University
Weijie Zhang
Nova Southeastern University
Yuan Zhang
Iowa State University
Yuecheng Peter Zhou
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
