Faculty Honors

LIN X. CHEN

2026 E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy

WILL DICHTEL

2026 Mark Scholar Award

E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching (WCAS)

2026 Arthur K. Doolittle Award from the ACS PMSE Division

OMAR FARHA

• 2025 Fellow National Academy of Inventors

• Reticular Science Prize by Atoco Inc.

JAMES GAYNOR

NSF CAREER Award

FRANZ GEIGER

2026 Senior Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry

SONGI HAN

• Vice Chair Elect of the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry

JULIA KALOW

• 2026 Brown Investigator Award

MERCOURI KANATZIDIS

• Honorary Doctorate from ETH Zurich

• 2026 ACS William H. Nichols Medal

NEIL KELLEHER

• Catherine E. Costello Award at US HUPO

CHAD MIRKIN

• 2023-2024 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology

• 2026 ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials

TERI ODOM

2025 John Gamble Kirkwood Award

2026 Violet Diller Award for Professional Excellence 

TOM O'HALLORAN

• Academy of Arts & Sciences

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RICK SILVERMAN

• 2026 IUPAC Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry

DAYNE SWEARER

• 2026 Army Research Office Early Career Program (ECP) Award in Electrochemistry

• 2026 ACS Unilever Award: Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid and Surface Science 

ROEL TEMPELAAR

• 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

MICHAEL WASIELEWSKI

• 2026 Marsha I. Lester Award for Exemplary Impact in Physical Chemistry

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