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Faculty Awards

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is recognized throughout the materials community for its educational and research accomplishments. Faculty members are renowned for their research and teaching excellence and have been honored around the world for pioneering work.

National Academies

The following faculty are members of the US National Academies:

U.S. National Medal of Science

  • Tobin J. Marks (MSE by courtesy)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • Zdeněk P. Bažant (MSE by courtesy)
  • Katherine Faber
  • Tobin Marks (MSE, by courtesy)
  • Chad Mirkin
  • Gregory Olson
  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz
  • John Rogers
  • David Seidman
  • Samuel Stupp
  • Peter Voorhees

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

  • Chad Mirkin
  • Samuel Stupp

Institute of Medicine (IOM)

  • Chad Mirkin

US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

  • Zdeněk P. Bažant (MSE by courtesy)
  • Tobin Marks (MSE by courtesy)
  • Chad Mirkin
  • Gregory Olson
  • John Rogers
  • David Seidman
  • Samuel Stupp

US National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

  • Zdeněk P. Bažant (MSE by courtesy)
  • Tobin Marks (MSE by courtesy)
  • Chad Mirkin
  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz
  • John Rogers

MacArthur Fellowship

  • Mark Hersam
  • John Rogers


NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

  • Monica Olvera de la Cruz
  • Vinayak Dravid
  • Chad Mirkin
  • Kenneth Shull
  • John Torkelson
  • Peter Voorhees

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

  • Mark Hersam
  • James Rondinelli

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation

  • L. Catherine Brinson
  • Mark Hersam
  • Jiaxing Huang
  • Lincoln Lauhon
  • Erik Luijten
  • Teri Odom
  • James Rondinelli
  • Peter Voorhees

National Academy of Inventors

  • Mark Hersam
  • Tobin Marks (MSE by courtesy)
  • Chad Mirkin
  • John Rogers
  • Samuel Stupp