Student Awards

List of Student Awards

Alyssa Shaw, NASA Mississippi Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellow, 2025
Otitodilichukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2025
Kaitochukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2025
Alyssa Shaw, Grand Champion for USM's 3 Minutes Thesis competition, 2024
Kaitochukwu Chukwuka (UG), Univer of Michigan, Undergraduate Engagement Scholarship, 2024
Otitodilichukwu Chukwuka (UG), Univer of Michigan, Undergraduate Engagement Scholarship, 2024
Alyssa Shaw, NSF GRFP fellowship, 2024
Ranni Middleton (UG),1st place in Undergraduate Research Symposium, Device Design and Development, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2024
Otitodilichukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2024
Kaitochukwu Chukwuka (UG), MIT summer research program for Undergraduates, 2024
Sonia Stanciu, Dean’s travel support to attend ACS spring meeting, 2024
Kundu Thapa, ORNL Neutron Scattering Graduate Research Fellowship, 2024
Yunfei Wang, USM Graduate student Hall of Fame, 2024
Yunfei Wang, Invited to participate, Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Division of Polymer Chemistry, ACS Spring meeting, 2024
Zhiqiang(Sean) Cao, Invited to present at the GRS Gordon Conference on Neutron Scattering, Ventura CA, 2023
Megan Black, 1st Place Best Poster Presentation, undergraduate REU poster session, 2023
Andrew Bates, Admitted to X-ray and Neutron summer school ORNL/ANL, 2023
Yunfei Wang, LBNL ALS Doctoral Fellowship in Residence, Berkeley Lab, 2023
Kundu Thapa, Dean’s travel support to attend APS spring meeting, 2023
Zhiqiang(Sean) Cao, Finalist Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for Excellent graduate study, DPOLY, APS March meeting, 2023
Sonia Stanciu, 2nd place poster award, USM 50th year event, 2022
Sonia Stanciu, Best poster award, MRS spring meeting, symposium SB1, 2022
Sonia Stanciu, Eastman chemical graduate student fellowship, Eastman Chemical Inc, 2022
Sonia Stanciu, 1st place Poster Award, CEMOs Annual Spring Meeting, Mississippi EPSCoR Program, 2022
Zac Ahmed (UG), NSF GRFP fellowship, 2022
Sonia Stanciu, Dean’s travel support to attend MRS spring meeting, 2022
Zac Ahmed (UG), Who's Who at Southern Miss, 2022
Sonia Stanciu, 3M thesis Regional Grand Champion for Conference of Southern Graduate Schools, 2022
Luke Galuska, invited to participate, Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium, Division of Polymer Chemistry, ACS Spring meeting, 2022
Song Zhang, Chinese Government Award For Outstanding Students Abroad, 2021
Sonia Stanciu, Grand Champion for USM's 3 Minutes Thesis competition, 2021
Sonia Stanciu, Poster Award, CEMOs Annual Spring Meeting, Mississippi EPSCoR Program, 2021
Song Zhang, AIChE 8A Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research Symposium, 2021
Zachary Ahmad (UG), 1st place in Undergraduate Research Symposium, Materials synthesis, Modification and Analysis, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021
Juan Correa Ruiz (UG), 1st place in Undergraduate Research Symposium, Device Design and Development, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021
Luke Galuska, 1st place in Oral Presentation Awards, Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021
Song Zhang, 2nd place in Oral Presentation Awards, Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021
Song Zhang, Graduate Student Research Award, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2021
Zac Ahmed (UG), Barry Goldwater Scholar and Excellence in Education, 2021
Zac Ahmed (UG), 1st place poster award in STEM at the Mississippi Honors Conference, 2021
Nathaniel Prine, Fulbright U.S. Student Program semi-finalist, 2021
Zhiqiang(Sean) Cao, Admitted to X-ray and Neutron summer school ORNL/ANL, 2021
Song Zhang, USM Graduate student Hall of Fame, 2021
Song Zhang, Finalist Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for Excellent graduate study, DPOLY, APS March meeting, 2021
Nathaniel Prine,NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020
Sonia Stanciu, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2020
Song Zhang, Dean’s travel support to attend APS march meeting, 2020
Luke Galuska, Best poster award for 2020 CNMS user meeting, Oak Ridge National Lab, 2020
Zac Ahmed (UG), McNair Scholars, 2020
Luke Galuska, Best poster award for 2020 American Conference on Neutron Scattering, 2020
Song Zhang, Charles E. Hoyle Memorial Polymer Science Scholarship, 2019
Song Zhang, Dean’s travel support to attend MRS meeting, 2019
Luke Galuska, Dean’s travel support to attend MRS meeting, 2019,
Zack Rodger (UG), 1st Place in an undergraduate research symposium, 2019
Dakota Ehlenberg (UG), Donald Drapeau Undergraduate Research Prize, 2018
Luke Galuska, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2018
Song Zhang, Charles E. Hoyle Memorial Polymer Science Scholarship, 2018
Song Zhang, Travel award to Molecular Foundry, 2018
Daniel Weller, NRT Trainee fellowship, 2017
Ben Appleby, 1st Place Best Poster Presentation, undergraduate REU poster session, 2017