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Student Awards

List of Student Awards

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  1. Otitodilichukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2025

  2. Kaitochukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2025

  3. Alyssa Shaw, Grand Champion for USM's 3 Minutes Thesis competition, 2024 

  4. Kaitochukwu Chukwuka (UG), Univer of Michigan, Undergraduate Engagement Scholarship, 2024

  5. Otitodilichukwu Chukwuka (UG), Univer of Michigan, Undergraduate Engagement Scholarship, 2024

  6. Alyssa Shaw, NSF GRFP fellowship, 2024

  7. Ranni Middleton (UG),1st place in Undergraduate Research Symposium, Device Design and Development, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2024 

  8. Otitodilichukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2024

  9. Kaitochukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2024

  10. Sonia Stanciu, Dean’s travel support to attend ACS spring meeting, 2024

  11. Kundu Thapa, ORNL Neutron Scattering Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024

  12. Yunfei Wang, USM Graduate student Hall of Fame, 2024

  13. Yunfei Wang, Invited to participate, Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Division of Polymer Chemistry, ACS Spring meeting, 2024

  14. Zhiqiang(Sean) Cao, Invited to present at the GRS Gordon Conference on Neutron Scattering, Ventura CA, 2023

  15. Megan Black, 1st Place Best Poster Presentation, undergraduate REU poster session, 2023

  16. Andrew Bates, Admitted to X-ray and Neutron summer school ORNL/ANL, 2023

  17. Yunfei Wang, LBNL ALS Doctoral Fellowship in Residence, Berkeley Lab, 2023

  18. Kundu Thapa, Dean’s travel support to attend APS spring meeting, 2023

  19. Zhiqiang(Sean) CaoFinalist Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for Excellent graduate study, DPOLY, APS March meeting, 2023

  20. Sonia Stanciu, 2nd place poster award,  USM 50th year event, 2022

  21. Sonia Stanciu, Best poster award, MRS spring meeting, symposium SB1, 2022

  22. Sonia Stanciu, Eastman chemical graduate student fellowship, Eastman Chemical Inc, 2022

  23. Sonia Stanciu, 1st place Poster Award, CEMOs Annual Spring Meeting, Mississippi EPSCoR Program, 2022

  24. Zac Ahmed (UG), NSF GRFP fellowship, 2022

  25. Sonia Stanciu, Dean’s travel support to attend MRS spring meeting, 2022

  26. Zac Ahmed (UG), Who's Who at Southern Miss, 2022

  27. Sonia Stanciu, 3M thesis Regional Grand Champion for Conference of Southern Graduate Schools, 2022

  28. Luke Galuska, invited to participate, Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Division of Polymer Chemistry, ACS Spring meeting, 2022

  29. Song Zhang, Chinese Government Award For Outstanding Students Abroad, 2021

  30. Sonia Stanciu, Grand Champion for USM's 3 Minutes Thesis competition, 2021 

  31. Sonia Stanciu, Poster Award, CEMOs Annual Spring Meeting, Mississippi EPSCoR Program, 2021 

  32. Song Zhang, AIChE 8A Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research Symposium, 2021 

  33. Zachary Ahmad (UG), 1st place in Undergraduate Research Symposium, Materials synthesis, Modification and Analysis, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021

  34. Juan Correa Ruiz (UG), 1st place in Undergraduate Research Symposium, Device Design and Development, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021

  35. Luke Galuska, 1st place in Oral Presentation Awards, Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021

  36. Song Zhang, 2nd place in Oral Presentation Awards, Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021

  37. Song Zhang, Graduate Student Research Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021

  38. Zac Ahmed (UG), Barry Goldwater Scholar and Excellence in Education, 2021

  39. Zac Ahmed (UG), 1st place poster award in STEM at the Mississippi Honors Conference, 2021

  40. ​Nathaniel Prine,  Fulbright U.S. Student Program semi-finalist, 2021

  41. Zhiqiang(Sean) Cao, Admitted to X-ray and Neutron summer school ORNL/ANL, 2021

  42. Song Zhang, USM Graduate student Hall of Fame, 2021

  43. Song Zhang, Finalist Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for Excellent graduate study, DPOLY, APS March meeting, 2021

  44. Nathaniel Prine,NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020

  45. Sonia Stanciu, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020

  46. Song Zhang, Dean’s travel support to attend APS march meeting, 2020

  47. Luke Galuska, Best poster award for 2020 CNMS user meeting, Oak Ridge National Lab, 2020 

  48. Zac Ahmed (UG), McNair Scholars, 2020

  49. Luke Galuska, Best poster award for 2020 American Conference on Neutron Scattering, 2020 

  50. Song Zhang, Charles E. Hoyle Memorial Polymer Science Scholarship, 2019

  51. Song Zhang, Dean’s travel support to attend MRS meeting, 2019

  52. Luke Galuska, Dean’s travel support to attend MRS meeting, 2019, 

  53. Zack Rodger (UG), 1st Place in an undergraduate research symposium, 2019

  54. Dakota Ehlenberg (UG), Donald Drapeau Undergraduate Research Prize, 2018

  55. Luke Galuska, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2018

  56. Song Zhang, Charles E. Hoyle Memorial Polymer Science Scholarship, 2018

  57. Song Zhang, Travel award to Molecular Foundry, 2018

  58. Daniel Weller, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2017

  59. Ben Appleby, 1st Place Best Poster Presentation, undergraduate REU poster session, 2017

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