Awards and Accolades

Prof. Pappas received the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Prof. Kristin Hutchins has received the NSF-CAREER award entitled “CAREER: Solid-state molecular motion, reversible covalent-bond formation, and self-assembly for controlling thermal expansion behavior.”+ MoreThe total grant amount is $651,350. The award starts April 01, 2021 through March 31, 2026.
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Prof. Gamez received the 2020 Young Plasma Scientist Award, sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, at the Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry held in Tucson, January 2020.+ MoreThe award “recognizes achievements in conceptualization and development of novel instrumentation as well as the elucidation of fundamental events or processes involved in plasma spectrochemistry” and also “authorship of significant research papers or books that have had an influential role in new advancements as well as outstanding applications that open new fields of use for plasma spectrochemistry”.
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Prof. Latham will be the recipient of the 2021 A&S Excellence in Research Award for the natural and physical sciences.
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Prof. Shi received a BASF-TTU Project Revolution grant to create breeding materials in cotton using gene-editing technology. The total grant amount is $228,032. The award starts January 01, 2021, and lasts through June 30, 2022.
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Additional Departmental News

Student Highlights

Maureen Oliva, MS graduate in the Gamez lab, received the Outstanding Masters Student in Forensic Science Award from the Institute of Forensic Science at the TTU Dept. of Environmental Toxicology. August 2020.

Kevin Finch, PhD candidate in the Gamez lab, received the 2021 Edward Steers Bursary Award from the Association of British Spectroscopists. + MoreThe international award, established to recognize the contributions of eminent atomic spectroscopist Prof. Edward B.M. Steers, assists a promising early scientist (non-tenured academic post or in industry, within 7 years of award of PhD excluding career breaks) engaged in or utilizing analytical spectroscopic techniques to attend a recognized scientific meeting or visit a place of learning. January 2021.

Navkiran Kaur Juneja (Hutchins Group) has been awarded a TTU Study Abroad Competitive Scholarship.

The winners of the 2020 graduate student poster completion were:
Analytical: Bhagya Wickramaratne (1st place), Kevin Finch (2nd place); Inorganic: Chamila Manankandayalage (1st place); Organic: Adineh Rezaei (1st place), Navkiran Juneja (2nd place); Physical: Bhumika Jayee (1st place)

Shiva Moaven was invited to present her research at the Global Inorganic Discussion Weekend (GIDW - https://www.cheminst.ca/cic-virtual/gidw/), + Morean international virtual symposium series that has featured some of the top inorganic scientists globally. Each week they feature a senior PI, a junior PI and then a postdoc or graduate student. Her talk was entitled “Pnictogen bonding and reversed bilayer vesicles” and she presented on Monday, June 29th.