The faculty of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry have received recognition through the award of local, national, and international awards presented by professional associations, foundations, and academic institutions.

Faculty honors and awards include:

  • A National Medal of Science winner
  • A member of the National Academy of Science
  • Two members of the National Academy of Engineering (adjunct)
  • Eleven Alfred P. Sloan Fellows
  • Eight fellows of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
  • Eighteen NSF CAREER awardees
  • Eight fellows of the American Chemical Society
  • Nine fellows of the American Physical Society
  • Two Beckman Foundation Awardees
  • Two PECASE Awardees
  • Two Research Corporation Cottrell Fellows
  • Seventeen Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2024

  • Facundo Fernandez — Associate of Analytical Chemists (ANACHEM) Award
  • Neha Garg — Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award

2023

  • Vinayak Agarwal — Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award
  • Younan Xia — ACS Award for Creative Invention
  • Neha Garg — Young Academic Investigator's Symposium
  • Younan Xia — Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation Award
  • John Reynolds — Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award
  • David Sherrill — Herty Medalist
  • Mary E. Peek — Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award
  • Pamel Pollet — Innovation in Co-Curricular Education Award
  • Eric Shen — CoS Research Faculty Community Trailblazer Award
  • Amit Reddi — CoS Leddy Family Dean's Faculty Excellence Award
  • Amanda Stockton — CoS Cullen-Peck Scholar Award
  • Cam Tyson — CoS Ralph and Jewel Gretzinger Moving School Forward Award
  • Deborah Santos — Undergraduate Sustainability Education Innovation Award

2022

  • Micah J. Schaible — CoS Research Faculty Community Trailblazer Award
  • Anton S. Petrov — CoS Outstanding Senior Research Faculty Award
  • Loren Williams — American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows
  • Loren Williams — CoS Faculty Mentor Award
  • Pamela Peralta-Yahya — CoS Cullen-Peck Scholar
  • Carrie Shepler — GT Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher Award
  • Thom Orlando — GT Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award
  • Pete La Pierre — Sloan Research Fellow
  • Suttipong Suttapitugsakul (Wu group) — GT Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis
  • Vinayak Agarwal — Young Academic Investigator's Symposium
  • Neha Garg — CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Award
  • Christy O'Mahony — CTL Innovation and Excellence in Laboratory Instruction Award
  • Jake Soper — CTL Co-Curricular Education Award
  • Mike Evans — CTL Teaching Excellence Award for Online Teaching
  • Mike Evans — CTL Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award
  • Stefan France — NSF Innovations in Graduate Education National Competition
  • Will Gutekunst — PMSE Arthur K. Doolittle Award
  • Pamela Peralta-Yahya — Vasser Woolley Faculty Fellowship

2021

  • Charles Liotta — PMSE Cooperative Research Award
  • Loren Williams — GT Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development
  • Vinayak Agarwal — Cottrell Scholar Award
  • Nasrin Hooshmand — GT Research Faculty Teaching Fellows Fall 2021/Spring 2022
  • Thomas Orlando — AVS Theodore E. Madey Award
  • Amit Reddi — Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 Award
  • Carrie Shepler — Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 Award
  • Ronghu Wu — Vasser Woolley Professorship
  • Pamela Pollet — Vasser Woolley Faculty Development Professorship
  • Stefan France — GT Outstanding Achievement in Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Research
  • Michael Evans and Carrie Shepler — CTL Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
  • Pamela Pollet — Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award
  • Amit Reddi — Vasser Woolley Faculty Fellowship
  • Neha Garg — Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction
  • Neha Garg — NSF CAREER Award

2020

  • Vinayak Agarwal — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Faculty Fellowship
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — MRS Materials Theory Award
  • Christine Conwell — GT EVPR Outstanding Achievement in Research Enterprise Enhancement Award
  • Stefan France — CoS Leddy Family Faculty Teaching Fellowship
  • Pete La Pierre — NSF CAREER Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — CoS Ralph and Jewel Gretzinger Moving the School Forward Award
  • Thomas Orlando — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Faculty Fellowship
  • Pamela Pollet — CTL Geoffrey G. Eichholz Faculty Teaching Award
  • Pamela Pollet — ANAK Faculty Award
  • John Reynolds — ACS Cope Scholar
  • David Sherrill — CoS Faculty Mentor Award

2019

  • Carlos Silva — APS Fellow
  • Vinayak Agarwal — Kavli Fellow
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — Humboldt Research Award
  • Will Gutekunst — Blanchard Assistant Professor Award
  • Nicholas Hud — American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
  • Wilbur Lam — Sigma Xi Research Award, Best Faculty Paper
  • Raquel Lieberman — Vasser Woolley faculty fellowship
  • Amit Reddi — GT CTL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence
  • John Reynolds — Florida Award, ACS Florida Section
  • David Sherrill — ACS ChemLuminary Award for Outstanding Community Involvement in National Chemistry Week
  • Loren Williams — Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction
  • Ronghu Wu — CoS Cullen-Peck Faculty Scholar Award
  • Younan Xia — Sigma Xi Research Award, Sustained Research

2018

  • Vinayak Agarwal — Sloan Research Fellow
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Charles Hatchett Award
  • Henry La Pierre — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — Faculty Award for Academic Outreach
  • Seth Marder — GT Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor
  • Adegboyega Oyelere — GT Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor - Senior Faculty
  • Amit Reddi — Bergmann Memorial Award
  • Joseph Sadighi — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Kimberly Schurmeier — GT Outstanding Undergraduate Academic Advising Award
  • Jeff Skolnick — Sigma Xia Sustained Research
  • Matt Torres — CTL/BP Faculty Teaching Excellence
  • Christy O'Mahony — Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction

2017

  • William Baron — GT CETL Facuty Teaching Award
  • Kenneth Brown — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — GT Sigma Xi Best Paper Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — CoS Faculty Mentor Award
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — CCR Diversity Award
  • Elsa Reichmanis — ACS Chemistry of Materials Award
  • John Reynolds — MRS Fellow
  • Gary Schuster — ACS Fellow
  • Gary Schuster — GT Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award
  • Amanda Stockton — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award
  • Mary Peek — GT CETL Undergraduate Educator Award
  • Pamela Pollet — Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction
  • Younan Xia — MRS Medal
  • Younan Xia — GT EVPR Outstanding Faculty Research Author Award

2016

  • William Baron — Vasser Woolley Award for Excellence in Instruction
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — ACS Priestley Medal
  • M. G. Finn — Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — RSCA TREE Award
  • Yomi Oyelere — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Amit Reddi — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award

2015

  • Pamela Peralta-Yahya — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award
  • Wendy Kelly — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Stefan France — GT Senior Faculty Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor
  • Wendy Kelly — CoS Faculty Mentor Award
  • Amit Reddi — NSF CAREER Award
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — CCR Diversity Award
  • Facundo Fernandez — GT-CETL/Hesburgh Teaching Fellow Award
  • Ronghu Wu — NSF CAREER Award
  • Younan Xia — Innovation in Materials Chemistry Award
  • Christoph Fahrni — American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
  • Paul Wine — American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

2014

  • David Sherrill — American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
  • Ronghu Wu — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award
  • Christine Payne — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Stefan France — GT CETL Academic Outreach Award
  • Seth Marder — MRS Mid-Career Researcher Award
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences
  • Paul Wine — Fellow, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC)

2013

  • Angelo Bongiorno — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — David Adler Award of the American Physical Society in Materials Physics
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of Graduate Research Assistants
  • Stefan France — GT Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award
  • Nick Hud — GT Outstanding Achievement in Research Innovation
  • Raquel Lieberman — GT Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Mentor
  • Elsa Reichmanis — IUPAC Distinguished Woman in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award
  • Carrie Shepler — Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award
  • Jake Soper — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Loren Williams — Georgia Tech Faculty Award for Academic Outreach
  • Loren Williams — Georgia Tech College of Science Faculty Mentor Award
  • Younan Xia — Nano Today Award
  • Younan Xia — ACS National Award in the Chemistry of Materials,
  • Younan Xia — MRS Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience

2012

  • Bridgette Barry — GT, College of Sciences, Faculty Mentoring Award.
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — International Jean-Luc Bredas - Chair in Chemistry, International Solvay Institutes, Belgium.
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — Member the Georgia Research Alliance Board of Trustees.
  • Facundo Fernandez — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Stefan France — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Awardon
  • Julia Kubanek — Silverstein-Simeone Award of the International Society of Chemical Ecology
  • Julia Kubanek — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Paul Houston — Fellow, American Chemical Society
  • John Reynolds — ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science
  • Carrie Shepler — Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award
  • Loren Williams — Petit Institute "Above and Beyond" Award
  • Loren Williams — SAIC Student Advisement Award

2011

  • Jean-Luc Bredas — Member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
  • Jean-Luc Bredas — Thomson-Reuters, top 100 Materials Scientists of the Decade
  • David Collard–- Georgia Tech Outstanding Professional Education Award
  • Robert Dickson — Georgia Tech Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Thomson-Reuters, #17 in listing of top Chemists of the Decade
  • Stefan France — NSF CAREER Award
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Vasser Woolley Faculty Fellowship
  • Wendy Kelly — Chemistry and Biochemistry Blanchard Award
  • Carrie Shepler — Georgia Tech Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award
  • Carrie Shepler — Freshman Advisory Board Freshman Professor of the Year
  • David Sherrill — Fellow, American Chemical Society
  • Seth Marder — Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, American Chemical Society
  • Christine Payne — DARPA Young Faculty Award
  • Joseph Perry — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Younan Xia — Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

2010

  • William Baron — Georgia Tech College of Science Faculty Mentor Award
  • Bridgette Barry — Fellow, American Chemical Society
  • Facundo Fernandez — Ron A. Hites Award, Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Fellow, American Chemical Society
  • Nicholas Hud — Vasser Woolley Faculty Fellowship
  • Julia Kubanek — Waernska Guest Professorship, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Raquel Lieberman — Pew Charitable Trusts Scholar Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — Blanchard Assistant Professor Fellowship
  • Carrie Shepler — Georgia Tech Best Freshman Professor Award
  • Carrie Shepler — Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Academic Advisor Award
  • David Sherrill — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Robert Whetten — The Finland Distinguished Professor Award (FiDiPro)
  • Paul Wine — Fellow, American Chemical Society

2009

  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Inaugural Fellow, American Chemical Society
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Charles H. Stone Award, American Chemical Society
  • Kenneth Brown — Blanchard Assistant Professor Fellowship
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Glenn T. Seaborg Medal
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Honorary Fellow, Chinese Chemical Society
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Medal of the Egyptian Republic, First Class
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Inaugural Fellow, American Chemical Society
  • Facundo Fernandez — CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • Christoph Fahrni — Chemistry and Biochemistry Vasser Woolley Award
  • Wendy Kelly — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award
  • Nils Kröger — NSF CAREER Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert/American Federation for Aging Research, New Investigator Award in Alzheimer Disease
  • Raquel Lieberman — NSF CAREER Award
  • Seth Marder — Georgia Tech Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development
  • Christine Payne — NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
  • Joseph Perry — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Jake Soper — NSF CAREER Award
  • Jake Soper — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award
  • Younan Xia — Fellow, Materials Research Society (MRS)

2008

  • Bridgette Barry — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Fellow, Materials Research Society
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Facundo Fernandez — 3M Non Tenured Faculty Award
  • Nils Kröger — Cottrell Scholar Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — Glaucoma Research Foundation Shaffer Award for Innovative Glaucoma Research
  • Seth Marder — Selected Member, Department of Commerce Emerging Technologies and Research Advisory Committee
  • Seth Marder — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Christine Payne - ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship
  • Arthur J. Ragauskas — Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Alternative Energy
  • David Sherrill — Vasser Woolley Faculty Fellow (2008-2010)
  • Robert Whetten — ADVANCE Distinguished Lecturer (Kansas State)
  • Yomi Oyelere — Blanchard Assistant Professor Fellowship

2007

  • Robert Dickson — Georgia Tech Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — United States National Medal of Science in Chemistry
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Georgia Tech Class of 1943 Distinguished Professor
  • Facundo Fernandez — NSF CAREER Award
  • Stefan France — FACES Career Initiation Grant
  • Jiri Janata — Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
  • Nils Kröger — Blanchard Assistant Professorship
  • Seth Marder — Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Seth Marder — Fellow, SPIE
  • Christine Payne — NIH Research Scholar Development Award
  • Joseph Sadighi — EverettMoore Baker Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching (MIT)
  • Joseph Sadighi — Outstanding UROP Mentor Award (MIT)

2006

  • Gary Schuster - ACS Georgia Section Herty Medal
  • Facundo Fernandez — Blanchard Assistant Professorship
  • Facundo Fernandez — Professor Doctor Federico Luis Leloir Award, Special Mention, Buenos Aires University
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship
  • Wendy Kelly — 2006 Dreyfus Foundation New Faculty Award
  • Raquel Lieberman — American Chemical Society Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry
  • Andrew Lyon — 2006 National Fresenius Award of Phi Lambda Upsilon
  • Andrew Lyon — Hesburgh Award Teaching Fellow
  • Joseph Perry — Fellow, Optical Society of America
  • David Sherrill — Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teacher
  • Laren Tolbert — Regents’ Professor
  • Marcus Weck — Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award
  • Marcus Weck — Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award
  • Marcus Weck — CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • Younan Xia — NIH Director's Pioneer Award, the National Institutes of Health.

2005

  • David Collard — Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor
  • Charles Eckert — Clarence Gerhold Award in Separactions from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Facundo Fernandez — American Society of Mass Spectrometry Young Investigator Research Award
  • Julia Kubanek — Blanchard Assistant Professorship
  • Charles Liotta — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Charles Liotta — Malcolm Pruitt Award of the Council for Chemical Research
  • Seth Marder — Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiaotung University (2005-present)
  • Seth Marder — Guest Professor, Huazhang University of Science and Technology (2005-present)
  • Boris Mizaikoff — Pittcon Achievement Award; and GT Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities
  • Laren Tolbert — NSF Discovery Corps Fellow
  • Marcus Weck — DuPont Young Professor Award and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
  • Robert Whetten — 3éme Cyclé Lectureship (Switzerland)
  • Younan Xia — Leo Hendrik Baekeland Award, North Jersey Section of the ACS

2004

  • Facundo Fernandez — Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh Award
  • Stefan France — National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Enginers (NOBCChE)/GlaxoSmithKline Lendon Pridgen Fellowship
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Julia Kubanek — PECASE Awardee
  • Charles Liotta and Charles Eckert — EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award
  • Seth Marder — Fellow, Optical Society of America
  • Boris Mizaikoff — Outstanding Paper in Applied Spectroscopy
  • Arthur J. Ragauskas — TAPPI Fellow
  • Joseph Sadighi — NSF CAREER Award
  • Gary Schuster — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Marcus Weck — DuPont Young Faculty Awarduster
  • Marcus Weck — Blanchard Assistant Professorship

2003

  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Inclusion in 2003 list of the ISI Highly Cited Researchers for Chemistry;
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Fellow, Optical Society of America
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Honorary Professor, Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Descartes Prize of the European Commission
  • Paul Houston — Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Nicholas Hud — Sigma Xi Best Paper Award
  • Jiri Janata — SEAM (Search for Electro-active Materials) 2003 Award
  • Andrew Lyon — Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
  • Andrew Lyon — Blanchard Assistant Professor
  • Seth Marder — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Boris Mizaikoff — Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award
  • Thomas Orlando — Fellow, American Associate for the Advancement of Science
  • Arthur Ragauskas — Fellow, International Academy of Wood Science
  • Laren Tolbert — Mercator Fellowship, German Research Society;
  • Laren Tolbert — Georgia Tech Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development
  • Marcus Weck — NSF CAREER Award

2002

  • Robert Dickson — Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Outstanding Research Author at Georgia Tech
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Goizueta Junior Faculty Rotating Chair
  • Paul Houston — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Jiri (Art) Janata — Honorary Foreign Member to the Learned Society of the Czech Republic
  • Andrew Lyon — Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
  • Seth Marder — Guest Professor, Wuhan University, Wuhan China (2002-present)
  • Thomas Orlando — Fellow of American Physical Society
  • David Sherrill — Blanchard Assistant Professor
  • Marcus Weck — 3M Young Faculty Fellowship and ORAU Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
  • John Zhang — Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
  • Younan Xia — Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award

2001

  • Ken Brown — Graduate Fellow, Kavil Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Robert Dickson — Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and Blanchard Assistant Professor
  • Donald Doyle — Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics;
  • Paul Houston — Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society
  • Nicholas Hud — Research Innovation Award from the Research Corporation
  • Jiri Janata — Honorary Member, Czech Learned Society
  • Julia Kubanek — NSF CAREER Award
  • Laren Tolbert — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • John Zhang — PECASE Award
  • John Zhang — DOE Defense Programs Early Career Scientist and Engineer Award

2000

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Northeastern Section ACS Award Richards Medal
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Georgia Tech Regents’ Professor
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and Sigma Xi Southeast Regional Young Investigator
  • Andrew Lyon — Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award
  • James C. Powers — ACS Georgia Section Herty Medal
  • David Sherrill — NSF CAREER Award
  • John Zhang — ExxonMobil ACS Award in Solid State Chemistry
  • Younan Xia — Fellow in Science and Engineering, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Younan Xia — Research Fellow, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundationia
  • Suzanne Shuker — Blanchard Assistant Professorship

1999

  • Robert Dickson — NSF CAREER Award and Research Corporation Research Innovation Award
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — ACS Florida Section Award
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, Blanchard Assistant Professor of Chemistry
  • Andrew Lyon — NSF CAREER Award and Research Corporation Research Innovation Award
  • James C. Powers — Georgia Tech Distinguished Professor
  • David Sherrill — Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award
  • John Zhang — Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award
  • John Zhang — Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award
  • Younan Xia — NSF CAREER Award
  • Younan Xia — Victor K. LaMer Award, the American Chemical Society

1998

  • Ken Brown — John and Fannie Hertz Fellow (1998-2003)
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Thomas Orlando — NIH Young Investigator Award
  • Will Rees — Alexander von Humboldt Prize and Fellow, American Institute of Chemists and Fellow - Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Gary Schuster — Chancellor's Award, University System of Georgia
  • Robert Whetten — Alexander von Humboldt Prize
  • John Zhang — NSF CAREER Award

1997

  • David Collard — W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teaching Award
  • Charles Eckert — Georgia Tech Distinguished Professor
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Doctor Honoris Causa, Hebrew University
  • Rigoberto Hernandez — NSF CAREER Award
  • Seth Marder — NSF Special Creativity Award
  • Thomas Orlando — NATO Collaborative Research Fellowship andVisiting Professor CNR/University of Rome, La Sapienza (1997-2000)
  • Joseph Perry — NSF Special Creativity Award
  • Joseph Perry — Senior Research Scientist Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • John Zhang — ORAU Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
  • Younan Xia — New Faculty Award, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

1996

  • Jiri Janata — Outstanding Achievement Award, Electrochemical Society
  • Jiri Janata — Appointed Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar
  • Angus Wilkinson — NSF CAREER Award
  • Angus Wilkinson — Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research by a Junior Faculty Member
  • Paul Wine — Sigma Xi Award for Senior Faculty Best Paper

1995

  • Seth Marder — 3M Lecturer in Materials Science, University of British Columbia

1993

  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Associate Member, Royal Academy of Belgium
  • Jean-Luc Brédas — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Leon Zalkow - ACS Georgia Section Herty Medal
  • Robert Whetten — Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award

1992

  • Joseph Perry — NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement

1990

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — King Faisal International Prize in the Sciences (Chemistry)
  • Jiri Janata — Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
  • Robert Whetten — H. N. McCoy Research Award (UCLA)
  • Robert Whetten — Glenn T. Seaborg Research Award (UCLA)

1989

  • Paul Houston — Fellow, American Physical Society
  • Joseph Perry — Director’s Research Achievement Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1988

  • Robert Whetten — Packard Foundation Fellowship
  • Robert Whetten — Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship

1987

  • Jiri Janata — Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Prize
  • Robert Whetten — Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF)
  • Paul Wine — GTRI Award for Outstanding Performance in Research

1986

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow
  • Paul Houston — J. Simon Guggenheim Fellow

1985

  • Robert Whetten — Dreyfus Distinguished New Faculty Award
  • Robert Whetten — Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education (ACS)

1984

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Member, Third World Academy of Sciences
  • Eugene Ashby - ACS Georgia Section Herty Medal

1983

  • Laren Tolbert — Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

1982

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellow

1980

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Member, United States National Academy of Sciences
  • Paul Houston — Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

1979

  • Paul Houston — Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

1971

  • Laren Tolbert — National Science Foundation Fellow
  • Laren Tolbert — Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow

1967

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Fresenius National Award in Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1967-68)

1965

  • Mostafa El-Sayed — Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1965-71)

1963

  • Jack Hine — ACS Georgia Section Herty Medal