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43rd annual Palamountain Benefit supports student opportunities through scholarships.Skidmore News, July 27, 2022.

Photo: Georgia Dittemore '22, a chemistry major who graduated with honors in May, accepts the 2022 Anne T. Palamountain Scholar Award, presented each year to a Skidmore student or recent graduate who has demonstrated leadership, service to others, and a commitment to the larger good of society.

Members of the Skidmore and local communities came together July 19 at the College’s historic Surrey-Williamson Inn to support the Joseph C. and Anne T. Palamountain Scholarship Fund, raising more than $150,000 to benefit students who, because of financial need, might not otherwise be able to attend Skidmore. 

Congratulations to the Chemistry and Biochemistry Class of 2022!

Photo: Members of the class of 2022 at the outdoor senior gathering at Porter Plaza on May 17, 2022.

The Department of Chemistry celebrated its graduating seniors and honored several students with end-of-year awards during Chemistry Academic Festival Symposium on May 4, followed by an outdoor senior gathering on May 17, 2022.

The following students earned chemistry awards this year:

• The Charlotte W. Fahey Prize: Georgia Dittemore, Heather Ricker
• The American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry: Jason Li
• The American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry – Katie Rinaolo
• The American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry: Heather Ricker

The following students earned American Chemical Society certified degrees this year:

• Georgia Dittemore, Sarah Finnegan, Katie Rinaolo, and Emma Straton

We are proud of all of our senior graduates in Chemistry and Biochemistry, many of whom are going on to graduate schools such as the University of Wisconsin, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, applying to medical and dental schools, working in industrial positions such as Corning Glassware and Blue Print Medicines, doing clinical research at teaching hospitals, or teaching chemistry at a private school. Congratulations to each and every one of you, and please stay in touch!