Helen Chan, Fulbright Scholarship, 2016.

Shen Dillon, Lee HSUN Lecture Award, Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Metals Research, 2016.

Jian Liu, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, 2016. 

Martin P. Harmer, Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society, 2015.

Shen Dillon, Robert L. Coble Award  for young scholars, The American Ceramic Society, 2015.

Anthony Rollett, Member of Honor, French Society of Metallurgists, 2015, awarded to one foreign scientist per year.

Graduate Student, Chris Marvel (Lehigh), won Best of Show, Roland B. Snow Award for his poster at the MS &T Conference, Oct. 2014.

Anthony Rollet (CMU) recevied the TMS Cyril Stanley Smith award this year at the January 2014 Annual TMS Meeting.

Graduate student at CMU, Qin Gao, has been awarded the 2014 McWilliams Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding creativity, dedication and commitment to carrying out leading-edge research. Qin Gao studies the nanophysics that occurs at the surfaces between crystalline grains. A fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics, Gao analyzes atomically thin films of one material placed on another material, specifically bismuth on nickel. Exotic two-dimensional physics arises at the surfaces between the materials, and Gao is using nanostructure modeling and quantum mechanical energy calculation to understand it. Together with his advisor Professor Michael Widom, Gao has formulated a new picture of the structure and electronic properties of the nickel/bismuth system. This work can explain the observed phenomenon of embrittlement of nickel due to bismuth impurities and can be extended to many other combinations of elements, utilizing first principles computations coupled with structure modeling.

Shen Dillon, Recipient Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, NSF Career Award, February, 2013.

At the MS & T conference in Pittsburgh, Oct. 2012, MURI researchers Qian Wu, Zhiyang Yu, and Wanjun Gao, (under the direction of H.M. Chan, M.P. Harmer, and J. M. Rickman) won First Place in the TEM category in the Ceramographic Awards for their poster entitled, "Hf Atomic Terraces at Alumina Grain Boundaries." 

Also at the MS & T conference in Pittsburgh (2012), MURI researchers, Zhiyang Yu, Qian Wu, and Wanjun Gao, (under the direction of H.M. Chan, M.P. Harmer, and J. M. Rickman) won Second Place in the TEM category in the Ceramographic Awards for their poster entitled, "Batman Returns from Reciprocal Space."

Stephanie Bojarski, Sapphire Award, Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) in 2012.

Greg Rohrer, Sapphire Prize, Second Place, Best Paper of the year, Journal of Materials Science, 2011.