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Faculty Awards and Honors

The Department of Chemistry has a team of outstanding faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates who have received numerous distinguished research, educational, and professional awards and honors.

Alton Banks

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers
  • Outstanding Teaching Award (1994 - 1995)
  • Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension (2000)
  • Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor (2003 2005)
  • LeRoy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence (2003)
  • Panhellenic Outstanding Teacher Award for 2003

Carl Bumgardner

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers (2000)

Phil Brown

  • Panhellenic Association's Outstanding Teacher Award (2003)

Dan Comins

  • NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award (1994)
  • NCSU Inventors Award Recipient (1993-1997)
  • Selected Member, SUNY Alumni Honor Roll (1995)
  • Minerva Award, SUNY-Potsdam (1997)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow (1998)
  • Medium Term Visitor, University of Auckland (2002)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry (current)

Dan Feldheim

  • Proctor & Gambel Research Fellowship (1992)
  • National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (1995)
  • Research Corp, Research Innovation Award (1998)
  • Beckman Young Investigator Award (1999)
  • Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Young Investigator Award (1999)
  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship (2000)
  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (2000)

Marye Anne Fox

  • Citation as an Outstanding Woman in Science by the Women's History Committee of the New York Academy of Science (1999)
  • Paul Harris Fellowship, Raleigh Rotary Club (1999)
  • Leadership Award, Women Administrators in North Carolina Higher Education (1999)
  • Election to Honorary membership in Phi Beta Kappa (1999)
  • Pines of Carolina Girls Scout Council, Woman of Today Award (2000)
  • Hall of Honor, College of Natural Sciences Foundation Advisory Council, University of Texas at Austin (2001)
  • Star Award, Women's Center of Wake County (2001)
  • Distinguished Women of North Carolina Award (2001)
  • Election to National Order of Omega (2001)
  • American Women in Science Fellow (2001)
  • YWCA of Wake County Academy of Women, Science and Technology (2001)
  • Commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel (2001)
  • Designation as a National Associate of the National Academies (2002)
  • Named North Carolina Woman of Achievement by the General Federation of Women's Clubs (2003)

Stefan Franzen

  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (1999)

Christopher Gorman

  • Army Research Office Young Investigator (1995)
  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (1996)
  • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (1995)
  • Sigma Xi Research Award (1998)
  • Drew University Alumni Achievement Award in Sciences (2002)

Brent Gunnoe

  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (2003)

Forrest "Buzz" Hentz (Professor Emeritus)

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers: 1965, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1979
  • NCSU Alumni Distinguished Professorship 1973 – 1976
  • ACS Award in Chemical Education, Western Connecticut Section 1976
  • NCSU Annual Yearbook Student Honoree 1983
  • NCSU Outstanding Extension Award 1984
  • NCSU Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal of Excellence 1992
  • Board of Governors’ Award for Excellence for Teaching 1995

Samuel Levine (Professor Emeritus)

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers

Jonathan Lindsey

  • Glaxo Distinguished University Professor with Endowed Chair (1996 - current)
  • Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award (1999)

James Martin

  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (1995)
  • Cottrell Scholar Award in Teaching and Research (1997)

Bruce Novak

  • Chancellor's Distinguished Scholarship Award, 1980
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant, CSUN, 1983-1984
  • President's Club, Outstanding Masters Candidate, 1985
  • Sherwin-Williams/American Chemical Society, PMSE Student Award in Polymer Science, 1987
  • DuPont Young Investigator Award, 1989
  • Herbert H. McCoy Award, Caltech, 1989
  • National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, 1991 - 1996
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1991-1992
  • DuPont Young Investigator Award, 1991
  • Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Young Investigator Award, 1991
  • Rohm and Haas Summer Faculty Fellowship, 1992
  • 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 1992
  • Du Pont Young Faculty Award, 1992-1994
  • National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1993 - 1998
  • Turner Alfrey Visiting Professorship, 1997-98
  • Innovation Recognition Award, Union Carbide, 1993 and 1994
  • Associate Editor Macromolecules (1995 - Present)
  • ACS, Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer Chemistry Award, 1997
  • Howard J. Schaeffer Distinguished University Professor with Endowed Chair (1998 - current)
  • Honored as one of the "Top 50 Most Cited Authors" by Advanced Materials External (2002/03)

Maria Oliver-Hoyo

  • LeRoy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence (2001)
  • Founding Member of the Board of Directors, International Center for First-Year Undergraduate Chemistry Education (2003)

Robert Osteryoung (Research Professor Emeritus)

  • American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Chair
  • Distinguished Service Award, Colorado State University, June 1975.
  • Recipient of NATO Senior Fellowship in Science Award
  • Colorado Section Award, American Chemical Society, 1978.
  • Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 1980.
  • Nominated, Vice-President, The Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ, 1986.
  • Winner of C. N. Reilley Award in Electroanalytical Chemistry, administered by the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC), sponsored by Bioanalytical Systems,Inc. and the Reilley Endowment Fund of SEAC. An award plaque and a check were presented during the Reilley Award Symposium held at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Atlantic City, NJ, March 9-13, 1987.
  • Nominated for Vice-President, The Electrochemical Society, 1989
  • Schoellkopf Medal, Western New York Section, American Chemical Society. (1990)
  • Elected as Fellow, The Electrochemical Society 1990. (First class of Society Fellows.)
  • American Chemical Society, Division of Analytical Chemistry, Award in Electrochemistry. Award presented during Symposium at American Chemical Society meeting, New York, August, 1991.
  • 1991 Recipient of the Physical Electrochemistry Division of the Electrochemical Society
  • Max Bredig Award in Molten Salt Chemistry. Award presented during Award Dinner, St. Louis Electrochemical Society Meeting, May, 1992.
  • Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University (1992)
  • American Chemical Society Journal Editor - 1987 - current

Suzanne Purrington (Professor Emeritus)

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers
  • American Chemical Society Division Chair

Kay Sandberg

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers (2001)

David Shultz

  • Camille and Henry Dreyfus Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences (1995)
  • Cottrell Scholar Award in Teaching and Research (1995)
  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (1995)
  • Sigma Xi Research Award (1997)
  • Shippensburg University Outstanding Young Alumnus Award (1998)
  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar (1998)

Alex Smirnov

  • International EPR Society, NSF Young Investigator Award (1998)

William Tucker (Professor Emeritus)

  • Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal of Excellence (1996)
  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers

George Wahl

  • Sigma Xi, NC State Chapter - Research Award - 1973
  • Sigma Xi, NC State Chapter - President - 1979-1980
  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers
  • Outstanding Teaching Award 1994-1995
  • Chair of the Faculty, N C State University - 1997 -1999
  • Phi Kappa, NC State Chapter - President - 2001 - 2002
  • Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal of Excellence - 2002
  • Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension and Engagement - 2003
    American Chemical Society
  • Division of Chemical Health and Safety, Founding member - Board of Editors - CHEMICAL HEALTH and SAFETY - 1992 - present
  • Division of Chemical Health and Safety - Chair 1995
  • Division of Chemical Health and Safety, Tillmans-Skolnick Award 1997
  • Division of Chemical Health and Safety - Councilor 1997 - present
  • North Carolina Section - Chair 1999
  • Division of Chemical Health and Safety - Fellow - 2001

Myung-Hwan (Mike) Whangbo

  • Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1995)
  • Ho-Am Prize for Basic Science (1999)
  • Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award (1999 - 2000)
  • American Chemical Society, NC Distinguished Speaker Award (2002)

Jerry Whitten

  • Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1979-80)
  • Sloan Fellow Award (1969-71)
  • SUNY Stony Brook Award for Exceptional Service to Undergraduate Education (1988).