Awards and Honors
Undergraduate Awards and Honors:
Arthur L. Draper Award, Chemistry Department (Amy Liu)
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Scholarship (Mark Pond)
Morris K. Udall Scholarship (Alison Takemura)
Century Scholarships
NREU Research Fellowships
Marshall Scholarship (Grant Belgard)
Schering-Plough Travel Grant (Grant Belgard)
National Institutes of Health Oxford/Cambridge (OXCAM) Scholarship
(Grant Belgard)
RUSP Honors Research Fellowships
Engel Fellowship, Chemistry Department (Amy Liu)
Brown Undergraduate Research Internships
AGEP Summer Research Fellowship (Crystal Ramón)
Graduate Student Awards and Honors:
Kobayashi Fellowship Award in Chemical Engineering, Department of
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Shyam Benegal)
George Kozmetsky Award for Outstanding Graduate Research
in Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas (Vinit Murthy)
Associated Nanotechnology Congress Poster Presentation Award (Vinit
Murthy, Subashini Asokan)
Micron Technology Prize for Best Oral Presentation, RQI Summer Research
Colloquium (Vinit Murthy)
AIChE South Texas Section Best Applied Paper Award (Michael Nutt)
Southwest Catalysis Society Spring Symposium Best Poster Award (Michael
Nutt, Kimberly Heck, Nikolaos Soultanidis)
AIChE Environmental Division Graduate Student Paper Award (Michael
Nutt)
Chemical Engineering Department Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
(Michael Nutt, William Knowles)
Harry B. Weiser Teaching Award, Chemistry Department (Lori Pretzer)
Harry B. Weiser Research Award, Chemistry Department (Subashini Asokan)
SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering
(Subashini Asokan)
NanoDays CBEN Conference Poster Presentation Award (Subashini Asokan)
NSF IGERT Fellowship in Nanophotonics (Kimberly Heck, Quang Nguyen)
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Graduate Student
Research Symposium Poster Award (Jie Yu)
Kokes Student Travel Award (Yu-lun Fang, Kimberly Heck, Nikolaos Soultanidis)
National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (Yu-lun Fang)
Hellenic Professional Society of Texas Scholarship (Nikos Soultanidis)
Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship (Nikos Soultanidis)
Post-doctoral Researcher Awards and Honors:
NanoDays CBEN Conference Poster Presentation Award (Ammar Alkhawaldeh)
For Professor Wong:
AIChE South Texas Section Best Fundamental Paper in 2008 Award (2009)
IBB Hamill Innovations Award (2009)
IBB Medical Innovations Award (2008)
Smithsonian Magazine's '37 Under
36' Young Innovator Award (2007)
3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2007)
GOLD 2006 Conference Best Presentation Award, for 'best new idea
in gold catalysis' (2006)
AIChE South Texas
Section Best Applied Paper in 2005 Award (2006)
AIChE Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Young Investigator
Award (2006)
MIT Technology Review's TR35 Young Innovator Award (2006)
Hershel M. Rich Invention Award (2006)
National Academy of Engineering Indo-America Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium, Invited Speaker (2006)
3M Non-tenured Faculty Award (2006)
Smalley/Curl Innovation Award (2005)
National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Symposium, Invited
Participant (2004)
Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement
Award (2003)
National Academy of Engineering Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering
(JAFOE) Symposium, Invited Participant (2002)
Rice Quantum Institute (RQI), Fellow (2002)
Robert P. Goldberg Grand Prize, MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition
(2001)
Semifinalist, MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition (2000)
Union Carbide Student Innovation Recognition Award (2000)
4th IUMRS-ICA Conference Young Researcher Award (1997)
MIT Chemical Engineering Edward W. Merrill Outstanding Teaching
Assistant Award (1997)