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Student Awards

List of Student Awards

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

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

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

  4. Alyssa Shaw, NSF GRFP fellowship, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  42. Nathaniel Prine,NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020

  43. Sonia Stanciu, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  53. Luke Galuska, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2018

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

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

  56. Daniel Weller, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2017

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

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