Faculty Awards

A Legacy of Excellence

Between 2016 and 2021, over fifty national and University awards have been presented to chemistry faculty members, including:

• 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award
• Four AAAS Fellows 
• ACS Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry 
• ACS Talented 12
• ACS Unilever
• ACS Akron Award
• ACS Doctoral New Investigator Award
• ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award
• ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator 
• ACS Pfizer Award
• ACS Early-Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry
• ACS OpenEye  Outstanding  Junior  Faculty  Award in  Computational Chemistry
• Two ACS Langmuir Lecture Awards
• Air Force YIP
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• American Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students Steering Committee Member
• The Analytical Scientist's Power List for 2019
• ANACHEM Award
• Army Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 
• Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
• CAPA Distinguished Junior Faculty
• Charles E. Kaufman Foundation New Investigator Award
• DOE Early Career
• Fulbright
• Two Humboldt Prizes
• International Award of the Polymer Society of Japan
• Kaufman New Investigator Grant
• Marion Milligan Award
• Maximizing Investigators' Research Award
• National Academy of Sciences
• NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA)
• NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
• NIGMS Council Member
• Five NSF CAREER Awards 
• NSF Center for Nanothreads
• NSF Ultrafast Lab
• Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering
• PECASE (Presidential Early Career Award)
• Pew Biomedical Scholar
• PRF Grant
• The Scialog Fellow
• Searle Scholars Program
• Sloan Research Fellowship
• Two Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
• Unilever Award, ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry
• C. I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Eberly Family Distinguished Chair in Science
• Gladys Snyder Award
• Verne Willaman Professor
• Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Distinguished Professor
• ECoS Mentoring Award
• Faculty Scholar Medal
• Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in Life and Health Sciences
• George Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching
• Pew Scholar
• Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award
• Virginia S. and Philip L. Walker, Jr. Faculty Fellowship