Student Awards

Graduate student Lee Korshoj has earned the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship . The competitive fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines across the United States. Winners receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000, a $12,000 education allowance for tuition and fees (paid...

Ipsita Mishra has won a $1,000 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant from the CU Boulder Graduate School. The competitive awards support research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students and are funded primarily by private donors. Mishra is a PhD student in Professor Christine Hrenya’s research group whose research deals...

Recent graduate Clare Wise has won the Pac-12 Leadership Award and a $3,000 postgraduate scholarship. Wise, who graduated in spring 2016 with a degree in chemical engineering, also was a member of the CU Boulder alpine ski team and served as co-chair of the Pac-12 Student-Athlete Leadership Team. The award...

Several CU Boulder Chemical and Biological Engineering students took home awards for excellence at the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

PhD student Tariq Jamil earned the "Best Poster" award at the 5th World Congress on Materials Science & Engineering, held June 13-15 in Alicante, Spain. The poster was titled "Refined Parameters for Cations and Anions in Aqueous Solution for Atomistic Force Fields." Jamil is a member of Professor Hendrik Heinz's...

Adrianne Rosales, a postdoctoral researcher in the Anseth research group, was selected for the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface program.

Congratulations to our 2016 Department Awards Ceremony honorees!

The department is proud to recognize senior Ben Grote of Littleton, winner of the 2016 Donald Mackison Student Writing Award . The award includes a $1,000 prize and recognition at an upcoming ceremony. The Donald Mackison Award honors engineering and science students for excellence in writing. It is named for...

Congratulations to graduate students Patrick Coan , Benjamin Coscia , Rebecca Falatach , and Mike McGrath for being awarded 2016 NSF Honorable Mentions . Advised by Professors Rich Noble, Doug Gin, and Michael Shirts, Coscia currently models transport through nanoporous liquid crystal polymer membranes. A fellow member of the Noble...

PhD candidate Keesha Erickson won a competitive 2016 Dean’s Graduate Student Research Grant Award for her proposal, “Discovery of novel drug targets for eradication of multi-drug resistant infectious pathogens.” Dean’s Awards are sponsored by the Graduate School and support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from all...