Cherry Chen: Coblentz Society Student Award - April 2002
Cherry Chen: Charles Overberger Award - October 2002
Cherry Chen: Barber Scholarship - November 2002
Zhan Chen: Beckman Young Investigator Award - March 2003
Research Profile in Analytical Chemistry: "Vibrations in situ", Anal. Chem., 75, 336A (2003) - August 2003
Cherry Chen: Finalist, student presentation competition in the PMSE Division of the 226th ACS National Meeting - September 2003
Zhan Chen: Dow Corning Professorship - September 2003
Journal of Physical Chemistry B Cover Article: Chunyan Chen, Cheryl L. Loch, Jie Wang, and Zhan Chen, "Different Molecular Structures at Polymer/Silane Interfaces Detected by SFG", 107 (38), 10440-10445 (2003) - September 2003
Cherry Chen: Best poster award for polymer physics at the Annual Macromolecular Science and Engineering Symposium - October 2003
Cheryl Loch: Peebles Award from the Adhesion Society - January 2004
Cheryl Loch: Second Prize, Alan Gent Student Best Paper Award at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society - February 2004
Cheryl Loch: Margaret & Herman Sokol Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry - July 2004
Matthew Clarke: ACS Outstanding Graduate Student Award for Research and Teaching - July 2004
Zhan Chen: National Science Foundation Career Award - December 2004
Cherry Chen: Outstanding Chinese Oversea Graduate Student - 2005
Xiaoyun Chen: 2005 PECRUM Oral Presentation Award - June 2005
Zhan Chen: Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure - June 2005
Matthew Clarke: Student Poster Award, 2005 FACSS Meeting - October 2005
Sarah Spanninga: Dow Chemical Award - October 2005
Langmuir Most-Accessed Article January-June 2005: Xiaoyun Chen, Jie Wang, Jason J. Sniadecki, Mark A. Even, Zhan Chen, "Probing Alpha-helical and Beta-sheet Structures of Peptides at Solid/Liquid Interfaces with SFG", Langmuir, 21 (7), 2262-2264 (2005) - October 2005 (go to article)
Nature Research Highlight: Xiaoyun Chen, Haizhong Tang, Mark A. Even, Jie Wang, Gregory Tew, Zhan Chen, "Observing a Molecular Knife at Work", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128 (7), 2711-2714 (2006) (go to article)
Chunyan Chen: Honorable Mention in UM Thesis Award Competition (April 2006)
Xiaoyun Chen: Wirt & Mary Cornwell Graduate Student Research Award, 2006
Zhan Chen, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Invitation Fellowship, September, 2006
Matt Clarke: Honorable Mention in UM Thesis Award Competition (April 2007)
Arthur McClelland: Coblentz Society student award winner, 2007
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry May 2007 "Paper in forefront": Xiaoyun Chen, Jie Wang, Zoltan Paszti, Fulin Wang, Joel N. Schrauben, Volodymyr V. Tarabara, Alvin H. Schmaier, Zhan Chen, "Ordered Adsorption of Coagulation Factor XII on Negatively Charged Polymer Surfaces Probed by Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy", Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 388 (1), 65-72 (2007)
Xiaoyun Chen: UM outstanding thesis award, 2008. (One of eight recipients)
Xiaoyun Chen: University of Michigan's (single!) nominee for 2008 national "CGS/University Microfilms International (UMI) Distinguished Dissertation Award"
Our laser "shrine" receives press coverage! Nature, Wired (twice!), and the Michigan Independent ran stories.
Anne Vázquez: PECRUM Poster Award (August 2008)
Stephanie LeClair: PECRUM Poster Award (August 2008)
Xiaoyun Chen: Fajan Thesis Award for 2006-2007, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan (Jan. 2009)
Qing Shi: Outstanding PhD award, Tianjin University (2009)
Qing Shi: Outstanding PhD award, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University (2009)
Anne Vázquez: American Chemical Society Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Research and Teaching (2009)
Anne Vázquez: Vaughan Symposium Student Speaker Travel Award (2009)
Shannon Watt: American Chemical Society Younger Chemists Committee Leadership Development Award (Jan. 2010)
Sarah Spanninga: Grand Prize, Artistic Merit- Imaging Microstructure contest (2010)
Chris Avery: Florence Fenwick Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award (2010)
Andy Boughton: Vaughan Symposium Poster Award (August 2010)