The Division of Organic Chemistry congratulates the nine 2017 DOC SURF award winners and gratefully acknowledges their sponsors (Pfizer and Merck). The winners are:
| Student | School | Mentor | Sponsor |
| Amanda Cowfer | University of Illinois | Prof. Paul Hergenrother | Pfizer |
| Alex Cusumano | North Carolina State University | Prof. Joshua Pierce | Pfizer |
| Katherine Forbes | Occidental College | Prof. Jeffrey Cannon | Merck |
| Margaret McEwan | Christopher Newport University | Prof. Jeffrey Carney | Pfizer |
| Lucus Oxtoby | Wisconsin-Madison | Prof. Jennifer Schomaker | Pfizer |
| Maximilian Palkowitz | Boston College | Prof. James Morken | Merck |
| Ambarneil Saha | Cornell University | Prof. Song Lin | Pfizer |
| Holt Sakai | Yale | Prof. Timothy Newhouse | Merck |
| Emma Streff | Washington University in St. Louis | Prof. Vladimir Birman | Merck |
The Division of Organic Chemistry awards annually summer undergraduate research fellowships (SURF) to outstanding undergraduate organic chemistry students attending colleges and universities in the United States. These competitive fellowships are awarded on the merits of students’ research proposals, academic records, faculty recommendations and their passion for laboratory science. They provide support for undergraduates to carry out independent research at their respective colleges/universities in the summer between their junior and senior year under the guidance of a faculty mentor. In addition, the program provides financial support to enable recipients to visit an industrial campus in the fall for a dinner, award session, scientific talks, a tour of the campus and a poster session, where the results of the summer research investigations are presented.