Gu research group

List of Student Awards

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1. Saroj Upreti, LBNL ALS Doctoral Fellowship in Residence, Berkeley Lab, 2026

2. Alyssa Shaw,  NASA Mississippi Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellow, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

8. Alyssa Shaw, NSF GRFP fellowship, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

46. Nathaniel Prine,NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020

47. Sonia Stanciu, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

57. Luke Galuska, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2018

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

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

60. Daniel Weller, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2017

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