Student Awards

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National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Michael Arnold
Ian Murray
Kyle Luck
Andy Mannix
Megan Beck
Hadallia Bergeron
Stephanie Liu
Lindsay Chaney
Matthew Bland
Cory Thomas
Leo Georgopoulos

Nathan Yoder
Tony Liang
Nikhita Mansukhani
Brian Kiraly
Shay Wallace
David Lam
Anushka Dasgupta
Lidia Kuo
Alessandro Pereyra
Paul Brown
Santiago Diaz-Arauzo
Gregory Moller

Reagan Kinser
Tejas Shastry
Michael Geier
Eric Pozzi
William A. Gaviria Rojas
Nathan Bradshaw
Julia Downing
Katherine Su
Mitchell Walker
Paty Lohman-Meza
Davy Zeng

Honorable Mentions

Linda Guiney
Theodore Gao
Matthew Rahn
Joshua Park

Sarah Clark
Karen Yang
Suyog Padgaonkar
Albert Tsui

Andrew Rowberg
Norman Luu
Levi Hoogendoorn
Heather Kurtz

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Michael Arnold
Mark Greene
Heather Arnold
Spencer Wells
Nathan Bradshaw

Nathan Yoder
Reagan Kinser
Amanda Walker
Megan Beck
Sam Amsterdam

David Comstock
Ian Murray
Ethan Secor
David Lam

NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship

Heather Arnold

Julian McMorrow

Ryan Fellowship

Qing Hua Wang
Albert Lipson
Sam Amsterdam
Riddhi Ananth

Tejas Shastry
Brian Kiraly
Xiaolong Liu
Justin H. Qian

Spencer Wells
Ethan Secor
Thomas W. Song
Janan Hui

Terminal Year Fellowship

Alex Green
Albert Lipson
Spencer Wells
Norman Luu

Qing Hua Wang
Michael Geier
Xiaolong Liu
Sonal Rangnekar

Tony Liang
Ethan Secor
David Lam
Anushka Dasgupta

Hierarchical Materials Cluster Program Fellowship

Ken Everaerts
Laila Jaber-Ansari
Ted Seo
Deep Jariwala
Julia Downing
Justin Qian
Riddhi Ananth
Ky Lamarca
Maryam Khalaj
Albert Tsui

Yujin Shin
Chris Ryder
Eric Pozzi
Linda Guiney
Lindsay Chaney
Mike (Hong Youl) Park
Cory Thomas
Janan Hui
Heather Kurtz
Zhanpeng Wang

 

Andy Mannix
Sarah Clark
Sonal Rangnekar
Matthew Rahn
Lidia Kuo
Tommy Song
Mitchell Walker
Kevin J. Liu
Celeo Matute Diaz

IBM PhD Fellowship

Norma Sosa

Justice Alaboson

Barry Goldwater Scholar

Levi Hoogendoorn

IIN Outstanding Researcher Award

Tony Liang
Michael Geier
Megan Beck

Deep Jariwala
Ethan Secor
Julia Rocio Downing
Dr. Iqbal Utama

Josh Wood
Joohoon Kang
Paul Brown

Other Awards

3M Graduate Fellowship

Sonal Rangnekar

APS Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award

 Deep Jariwala

Argonne Chain Reaction Innovations Fellowship

 Ted Seo

ASM Chicago Regional Chapter Graduate Student Award

Deep Jariwala

ASM Chicago Regional Chapter Carl Samans Undergraduate Award

Rajan Kumar

AVS Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Award

 Xiaolong Liu

AVS Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship

 Justice Alaboson
Nathan Guisinger
Lidia Kuo-Kim

AVS Graduate Research Award

 Nathan Yoder
Rajiv Basu

AVS Morton M. Traum Surface Science Award

 Qing Hua Wang

AVS Nanometer Scale Science and Technology Division Graduate Student Award 

Qing Hua Wang
Justice Alaboson
Deep Jariwala
Xiaolong Liu
Lidia Kuo

AVS Russel and Sigurd Varian Award

 Liam Pingree
Deep Jariwala

AVS Twitter Poster Competition, First Place

 Sonal Rangnekar

Benjamin Walter Fellowship

 Beata Szydlowska

Big Ten Postgraduate Fellowship

Levi Hoogendoorn

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

Xiaolong Liu

Forbes 30 under 30

 Tejas Shastry
Michael Geier

Fulbright Fellow

 Andrew Rowberg

Fulbright Foreign Student Program

Carlos Torres

Gates Cambridge Scholarship

 Stephen Filippone

GEM Fellowship

 Julia Downing
Santiago Diaz-Arauzo
Alessandro Pereyra
Celeo Matute Diaz

Gotaas Award

Ryan Broch
  Andrew Baluch
Matthew Bland

Graham Fellowship

 Nathan Guisinger

Harvey Fellowship

 Lidia Kuo

Hilliard Award for Leadership, Scholarship, and Service

 Ryan Brock
Norman Luu

Hilliard Award for Research and Design

 Cameron Kadleck
Theodore Gao
Davy Zeng

Hilliard Symposium, First Place Award

 Michael Arnold
Deep Jariwala
Sonal Rangnekar

Lindsay E. Chaney

Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

 Dominic Goronzy

ICMR Apprentice Science Reporter Award

 David Comstock

IEEE DEIS Graduate Fellowship

 Deep Jariwala

International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Iqbal Utama

ISEN Cluster Fellowship

 Sarah Clark
Nathan Bradshaw
Suyog Padgaonkar

Kavli Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship

 Xiaolong Liu

KSEA CHI Scholarship

 Jaemin Yoo

Meister Summer Research Grant

 Jianting He
Gregory Mulderink

MSE Outstanding Junior Award

 Paul Brown
Zachary Martin
Davy Zeng

McCormick Summer Undergraduate Research Award

 Davy Zeng
Eric Alexander Sorensen
Thomas Zeng

MSE Outstanding Sophomore Award

 Paul Brown
Levi Hoogendoorn

MRS Graduate Student Gold Award

 Megan Beck

MRS Graduate Student Silver Award

 Liam Pingree
Deep Jariwala
Joohoon Kang
Xiaolong Liu

MRSEC Fellow

 Qing Hua Wang

National Research Foundation of Korea Postdoctoral Fellowship

 Kyu-Young Park

Nottingham Prize

 Nathan Guisinger
Xiaolong Liu

NSEC Outstanding Researcher Award

 Mike Walsh
Josh Kellar

NSERC Postgraduate Scholar

 Alex Green
Hadallia Bergeron

NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

 Shay Wallace

NU MSE Early Career Achievement Award

 Michael Arnold
Nathan Guisinger

Rhodes Scholarship

Danielle Grey-Stewart

Sao Paulo Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ana Moraes

Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists Symposium, First Place Presentation

Norma Sosa

SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

 Deep Jariwala

SWE Outstanding Collegiate Member Award

 Megan Beck

Office of Undergraduate Research Grant

Daphne Tsai

TMS Electronic Materials Conference, Best Student Paper

 Nathan Yoder

Weertman Doctoral Fellowship

 Deep Jariwala

Weertman Doctoral Fellowship, Runner-Up

 David Lam

2023 FLEX Conference in San Francisco, First Place Poster Presentation

 Lindsay E. Chaney