Awards & Honors

2019

  • Tamra Fisher
    • Awarded the 2019 John Demuth Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from UNL Chemistry Department and the 2019 Student Travel Award from the Great Plains Catalysis Societry

2018

  • Zane Gernhart and Barry Cheung
    • Awarded the US Patent # 9,738,541: “Synthesis of Cerium Oxide Nanorods”

2017

  • Anuja Bhalkikar
    • Awarded a Spring 2017 Citation for Excellence in Teaching Chemistry

2016

  • Barry Cheung
    • Received the NCMN Ambassador Award for Exceptional Contributions and Service to the NCMN Education and Outreach Program, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience
  • Isaac Wells
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Anuja Bhalkikar
    • Accepted to the Commercialization Analyst Internship Program at the NUtech Ventures

2015

  • John Burke
    • Graduated with BS in Chemical Engineering with Highest Distinction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Yunyun Zhou
    • Received the James Carr Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Student Abroad
  • Yousif Ibrahim
    • Received the 2nd place poster award in the High School Students Category at the 2015 UNL Annual Chemistry Poster Session

2014

  • John Burke
    • Received the NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Barry Cheung
    • Received the Achievement Award for Outstanding Service in Materials and Nanoscience Education Outreach, Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience
  • Zane Gernhart
    • Received the John J. Stezowski Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Ivan Moreno-Hernandez
    • Received the pre-doctoral NSF fellowship
  • Yunyun Zhou
    • Received the Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2013

2013

  • John Burke
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Neil Lawrence
    • Invited to give a talk in the “American Chemical Society presidential symposium: Innovation and entrepreneurship” in the 246th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition in Indianapolis. Talk title: “Academic innovation to job creation in rare earth extraction and separation technology”
  • Ivan Moreno-Hernandez
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Kate Sonnenfeld
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2012

  • John Burke
    • Received the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AIES) Intel Scholarship
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Robert Jacobberger
    • Received the pre-doctoral NSF fellowship
  • Ivan Moreno-Herandez
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Elizabeth Needels
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2011

  • Chris Marin
    • Received the Best Poster Award in the 2011 UNL Department of Chemistry Research First Poster Session, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Dichele Jackson
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Michael Thompson
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Elizabeth Needels
    • Received the Nebraska NASA EPSCoR Space Grant Fellowship
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2010

  • Joseph Brewer
    • Received Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Barry Cheung
    • Received the Layman Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Received the Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship
  • Robert Jacobberger
    • Received the Nebraska NASA EPSCoR Space Grant Fellowship
    • Received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship
  • Marcella Ihrig
    • Received the Nebraska NASA EPSCoR Space Grant Fellowship

2009

  • Robert Jacobberger
    • Received the Nebraska NASA EPSCoR Space Grant Fellowship
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2008

  • Barry Cheung
    • Received Layman Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Received NSF Nebraska EPSCoR First Award

2007

  • Dalal Gumeel
    • Received the UCARE Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln