Pictured: Past winners of Research Excellence Awards include (clockwise from left) Dr. Lauren Davis, Dr. Solomon Bililign, Dr. Zhichao Li, and Dr. Cathy Kea.

Research Excellence Award winners, 2000-present

Pictured: Past winners of Research Excellence Awards include (clockwise from left) Dr. Lauren Davis, Dr. Solomon Bililign, Dr. Zhichao Li, and Dr. Cathy Kea.

Senior Researcher of the Year

Outstanding Junior Researcher

Rookie of the Year

Intellectual Property Award

Interdisciplinary Team Award

Senior Researcher of the Year

Year Name College/School Department
2012 Dhananjay Kumar Engineering Mechanical Engineering
2012 Ram Mohan Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering Nanoengineering
2011 Mulumebet Worku Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Animal Science
2010 Ipek Goktepe Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Family & Consumer Sciences
2010 Cathy Kea Education Curriculum & Instruction
2009 Huiming "Anna" Yu Engineering Computer Science
2008 Numan Dogan Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering
2008 Kofi Obeng Business & Economics Economics
2007 Mohamed Ahmedna Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Family & Consumer Sciences
2007 Shanthi Iyer Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering
2006 Abolghasem Shahbazi Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Natural Resources & Environmental Design
2006 Kunigal Shivakumar Engineering Mechanical Engineering
2005 Ajit Kelkar Engineering Mechanical Engineering
2004 G.B. Reddy Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Natural Resources & Environmental Design
2004 Yong Song Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering
2003 Abdollah Homaifar Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering
2002 Solomon Bililign Arts & Sciences Physics
2002 Shamsuddin Ilias Engineering Chemical & Bioengineering
2001 Jagannathan Sankar Engineering Mechanical Engineering
2000 Celestine Ntuen Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering

Outstanding Junior Researcher

Year Name College/School Department
2012 Ellie Fini Engineering Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
2011 Zhichao Li Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2010 Lauren Davis Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2008 Salil Desai Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2007 Margaret Kanipes Arts & Sciences Chemistry
2007 Dhananjay Kumar Engineering Chemical & Bioengineering
2006 Omoanghe Isikhuemhen Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Natural Resources & Environmental Design
2005 Ipek Goktepe Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Family & Consumer Sciences
2004 Salam Ibrahim Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Family & Consumer Sciences
2003 Paul Stanfield Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2002 Mohamed Ahmedna Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Family & Consumer Sciences
2001 Guochen Yang Agriculture & Environmental Sciences Natural Resources & Environmental Design
2000 Yong Song Engineering Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rookie of the Year

Year Name College/School Department
2012 Shyam Aravamudhan Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering Nanoengineering
2011 Ellie Fini Engineering Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering
2010 Zhichao Li Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2009 Wendy Hamblet Arts & Sciences Liberal Studies
2009 Xiuli "Shelly" Qu Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2008 Nathan Huynh Engineering Civil, Architectural & Environmental
2007 Stephanie Luster-Teasley Engineering Civil, Architectural & Environmental
2007 Loury Ollison-Floyd Education Curriculum & Instruction
2006 Salil Desai Engineering Industrial & Systems Engineering
2005 Yaohang Li Engineering Computer Science

Intellectual Property Award

 
Year Name College/School Department
2012 Ajit Kelkar Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering Nanoengineering
 

Interdisciplinary Team Award

 
Year Name College/School Department
2012 Solomon Bililign Interdisciplinary NOAA ISET Center
Points of Pride