by Jennifer | Jul 18, 2025 | Awards, Center News
COMPASS is proud to announce that Professor Qian Chen, Racheff Faculty Scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received the 2025 Langmuir Lectureship from the American Chemical Society (ACS)....
by Jennifer | May 27, 2025 | Awards, Center News
We are proud to recognize Professor Martin Thuo, Deputy Director of COMPASS and faculty member at North Carolina State University, as the African Male Researcher of the Month for May 2025. Professor Thuo’s visionary work in nanotechnology, applied polymer science, and...
by jennifer | Feb 24, 2025 | Awards, Center News
We are thrilled to announce and celebrate a remarkable achievement by COMPASS member Prof. Ying Diao, who has been honored with the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This award represents the highest recognition...
by jennifer | Feb 12, 2025 | Awards, Center News
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Nicholas Kotov has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)—one of the highest professional honors in the field of engineering. This prestigious recognition highlights his groundbreaking work in biomimetic...
by jennifer | Jan 30, 2025 | Awards, Center News
It is our great pleasure to announce that one of the members of our External Advisory Board, Professor Paula Hammond recently received from President Biden the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. She earned this high distinction for groundbreaking research in...
by leeshlee | Jan 16, 2025 | Awards, CERA News
Martin Thuo has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors. The NAI announced in December the election of 170 exceptional inventors from 135 research universities, and...
