2019 American Vacuum Society Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Graduate Student Award

2021 Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award

2022 FACSS Hirschfeld Scholar Award

2022 Coblentz Society Student Award

Graduate Student Honors and Awards

  • The Best Student Poster Award (2024 AVS Prairie Chapter Symposium), awarded to Shilpa (2024)
  • The Paaren Fellowship for Graduate Research, awarded to Dairong Liu (2024)
  • UIC Graduate College Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2023)
  • Wayne B. Nottingham Prize, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2023)
  • American Vacuum Society National Student Award, awarded to Dairong Liu (2023)
  • FACSS Hirschfeld Scholar Award, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2022)
  • Coblentz Society Student Award, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2022)
  • The First Place Student Poster Award (The 82 nd Physical Electronics Conference), awarded to Dairong Liu (2022)
  • Russell and Sigurd Varian Award (American Vacuum Society), awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2021)
  • Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2021)
  • Wayne B. Nottingham Prize, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2021)
  • UIC Graduate College Dean’s Scholar Fellowship Award, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2021)
  • American Vacuum Society National Student Award, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2020)
  • Morton M. Traum Surface Science Student Award, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2020)
  • The UIC Chemistry Paaren Fellowship for Graduate Research, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2020)
  • Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Graduate Student Award Winner, American Vacuum Society, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2019)
  • Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffmann Travel Grant, American Vacuum Society, awarded to Jeremy Schultz and Sayantan Mahapatra (2019)
  • Bodmer International Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, awarded to Sayantan Mahapatra (2019)
  • Student Presenter Scholarship, University of Illinois at Chicago, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2019)
  • Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffmann Travel Grant, American Vacuum Society, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2018)
  • Graduate Student Council Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2018)
  • The Best Poster Award at The International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (Jeju, Korea), awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2018)
  • 3rd Place Image of Research Competition, University of Illinois at Chicago, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2018)
  • Bodmer International Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, awarded to Jeremy Schultz (2018)
  • Bodmer International Travel Award, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, awarded to Philip Whiteman (2017)

Undergraduate Student Honors and Awards

  • The Leonard Kotin Award for Physical Chemistry, awarded to Eunbyoel Kim (2018)