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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; 2002-2005)
  • 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 (1996-)
  • Charles Rees Lecture (2005)
  • NC-ACS Distinguished Lecturer Award (2005)

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)

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)
  • NCSU Alumni Outstanding Research Award - 2004

T. Brent Gunnoe

  • National Science Foundation Career Development Award (2003)
  • Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award

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

Jonathan Lindsey

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

Paul Maggard

  • Beckman Young Investigator Award

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)

Suzanne Purrington (Professor Emeritus)

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers
  • American Chemical Society Division Chair
  • ACS Fluorine Chemistry Division chair (1996)
  • Distinguished Service Award in Fluorine Chemistry from the American Chemical Society's Division of Fluorine Chemistry (2005)

Kay Sandberg

  • NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers (2001)
  • LeRoy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence (Spring 2005)
  • Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor for 2006-2008

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)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa of Université de Nantes Nantes, France (2006)

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).