Awards and Honors by Faculty

Shefford P. Baker

Associate Professor

Sonny Yau '72 Excellence in Teaching Award(Cornell University College of Engineering)2002
Outstanding Educator, Mentor to Merrill Presidential Scholar Deborah Schorr(Cornell University)2000
NSF CAREER Award 1999
Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award(Cornell University College of Engineering)1999

Nicole A. Benedek

Assistant Professor

Journal of Materials Chemistry Emerging Investigator 2016
NSF CAREER Award 2015
Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award 2014
Australian Postgraduate Award 2003

Eve Lorraine Donnelly

Associate Professor

NSF CAREER Award 2015
Harold M. Frost Young Investigator Award, Sun Valley Workshop on Musculoskeletal Biology, 2013
Junior Faculty Osteoporosis Research Award 2012
Dale R. Corson Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow (Cornell University) 2012
John Haddad Young Investigator Award (ASBMR - Advances in Mineral Metabolism) 2011
ICCBMT Young Investigator Award(10th International Conference on the Chemistry and Biology of Mineralized Tissues)2010
Young Investigator Award (ASBMR) 2010
New Investigator Recognition Award ORS 2009

Julia Dshemuchadse

Assistant Professor

Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow Award (University of Michigan), 2016
Max-von-Laue-Preis awarded to a Young Scientist (German Crystallographic Society (DGK)), 2015
SNSF Early Postdoc. Mobility fellowship (Swiss National Science Foundation), 2014

Lara A. Estroff

Professor

NSF CAREER Award
College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching 2016
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Affiliate2013
Keynote Speaker(Gordon Research Seminar on Biomineralization)2012
Marilyn Emmons Williams Award(Cornell Undergraduate Research Board)2009
Fiona Li ‘78 & Donald Li ‘75 Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Cornell University 2007
James D. Watson Investigator Award, NYSTAR

Emmanuel P. Giannelis

Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering

ACS Fellow
PMSE Fellow
B.F. Dodge Distinguished Lecture(Yale University)2009
Dow-Karabatsos & Distinguished Alumni Lectureship(MSU)2005
Associates Award in Applied Polymer Chemistry(PEL)1999
Dean's Prize for Excellence in Teaching(Cornell University)1994
Top 25 in Nanotechnology Citations(ISI)

James Hwang

Research Professor

Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021), IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Mentorship Appreciation Award (2019), Lehigh University
Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering (2018-2019), Cornell University
Distinguished Alumni Award (2018), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University
Brandt Visiting Professor (2016), Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Fellow (1994) and Life Fellow (2015), IEEE
Outstanding Contribution Award (2011), Wireless and Optical Communications Conference
Faculty Award (2007), IBM
Outstanding Achievement Award (2007), Chinese Institute of Engineers
Nanyang Professor (1999-2003), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Debdeep Jena

David E. Burr Professor of Engineering

APS Fellow
NFS CAREER Award
IEEE Senior Member
2020 Intel Outstanding Researcher Awards
Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow (Cornell University) 2015
Most Valuable Contribution(Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Materials and Devices)2014
Advisor of PhD student Faiza Faria(Winner of poster award for ICNS 2013)2013
IBM Faculty award2012
Young Scientist Award(International Symposium of Compound Semiconductors)2012
Joyce award for excellence in undergraduate teaching 2010

Hari Nair

Assistant Research Professor

Device Research Conference (DRC) Student Paper Award (2013)
The Ben Streetman prize for “Outstanding Research in Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices” from the University of Texas at Austin (2013)
Electronics Materials Conference (EMC) Student Paper Award (2012)

Christopher K. Ober

Francis Norwood Bard Professor of Metallurgical Engineering

NAE Member
APS Fellow
ACS Fellow
AAAS Fellow
SPIE Senoir Member
NFS Creativity Award
Gutenberg Research Prize (U of Mainz)
PMSE Fellow
The Photopolymer Science and Technology Outstanding Achievement Award (The Society of Photopolymer Science and Technology - SPST) 2015
Distinguished Polymer Lecturer (Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS) 2015
Student selected polymer speaker (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN) 2015
Japan Photopolymer Science and Technology Outstanding Achievement Award 2015
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow, TokyoTech 2014
Humboldt Research Prize 2011, 2007
Faculty of Science Alumni of Honour Award, University of Waterloo 2007
Award in Applied Polymer Science (ACS) 2006

Richard Douglas Robinson

Associate Professor

NSF CAREER Award
Fulbright Scholar (2015)
Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award 2015
Non-tenured Faculty Award (3M) 2012
R&D 100 Award, Nanocrystal Solar Cells 2009
Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Darrell Schlom

Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry

American Physical Society Fellow
NAE Member
MRS Fellow
American Vacuum Society Fellow
James C. McGroody Prize for New Materials (APS) (2021)
International Organization for Crystal Growth Frank Prize (2019)
American Vacuum Society Fellow (2019)
Humboldt Research Prize (2018)
Inducted into National Academy of Engineering (2017)
College of Engineering Research Award (2016)
MRS Medal (2008)
Faculty Scholar Medal in Engineering, Penn State

Andrej Singer

Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow

NSF CAREER Award
VFFD award at DESY, Hamburg 2013
Scholarship from Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 2007

Jin Suntivich

Associate Professor

Emerging Investigator in Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2020)
Young Innovator Award in Nano Energy, Nano Research, Tsinghua University (2019)
Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator (Royal Society of Chemistry) 2017
Journal of Materials Chemistry A Emerging Investigator (Royal Society of Chemistry) 2016
Doctoral New Investigator, Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society) 2014
Early Career Research Program (DOE)
Sloan Research Fellowship

Michael Thompson

Associate Professor

N. American Award for Technical Contributions to Semiconductor Industry (2009)
Excellence in Teaching Award (Cornell University) 2001
Excellence in Teaching Award (Cornell University) 1998
Excellence in Teaching Award (Cornell University) 1995
IBM Faculty Development Award (IBM)

R.B. van Dover

Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of Engineering

APS Fellow
IEEE Senior Member
Eta Kappa Nu Member 2015
"Highly Cited--Physics". Ranked 29th in the world for the period 1981 - 1997. (Thomson ISI)

Chekesha M. Watson

Associate Professor

NSF CAREER Award
Emerging Scholars Class of 2011, Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine 2011
Provost's Award for Distinguished Research, Office of the Provost, Cornell University 2010
Dow Distinguished Lecturer (University of California at Santa Barbara UCSB) 2009
Certificate of Appreciation for Mentoring (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) 2007
Frontiers of Science Symposium Invitee (National Academy of Science (NAS) and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 2007
PECASE (NSF) 2007
Watson Career Award, National Science Foundation 2006

Uli B. Wiesner

Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering

NFS Creativity Award (2020 and 2008)
“Ambassadeur pour la Chimie Française” by the Institute of Chemistry, CNRS, France (2019)
Arthur K. Doolittle Award (ACS) (2016)
Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker Excellence in Teaching Award from Cornell University (2005)
IBM Faculty Partnership Award (2001)
Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) (1999)

Huili Grace Xing

William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

NSF CAREER Award
Intel Outstanding Researcher Awards 2020
APS Fellow 2019
Richard E. Lunquist Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow (Cornell University) 2015
Young Scientist Award (International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS)) 2014
Featured Notre Dame Faculty at UND-BYU football game 2012
Young Investigator Program Award (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) 2008
IEEE Senior Member