Honors and Awards

Dr. Choi's

1. Dr. Wonbong Choi named MRS Fellow: The title of MRS Fellow honors members of the Materials Research Society who are notable for their distinguished research accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the advancement of materials research, world-wide. The maximum number of new Fellow appointments each year is limited to 0.2% of the current MRS membership.

2. FIU Excellence in Faculty Scholarship 2008, Florida International University
   (Honored by FIU President on April 2nd 2008 as a distinguished faculty member for the outstanding accomplishments in research and scholarship.

3. 2006 MRS Medal August 21, 2006 Dr. Choi has been awarded the prestigious Materials Research Society (MRS) medal for 2006 “for important developments in the materials science and applications of carbon nanotubes”. MRS is the leading organization of materials scientists and engineers in the world. The medal recognizes a specific outstanding recent discovery or advancement which is expected to have a major impact on the progress of a materials-related field. Dr. Choi shares the medal with Dr. Pulickel Ajayan from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and Dr. Mark E. Thompson from University of Southern California

4. Executive Dean’s Research Award, Florida International University, 2006

5. Recognition of outstanding lecture on Trends in Emerging Technologies and Education, Florida International University, Fall 2004

6. The Best Paper of the Year, SAMSUNG (SAIT), 2002

7. The Best Patent of the Year 2001, SAMSUNG (SAIT), 2002

8. Gold Technology Award from SAMSUNG (for carbon nanotube field emission display development),1998

9. Recognition of National R&D Evaluation Committee, 2002-2003 Awarded by Minister of Korean Ministry of Science and Technology.

10. Student poster award, The Fourth Annual Symposium on Advances in Microscopy, 1995

11. Gold Technology Award from Agency for Defense and Development, Government of Korea (for special ceramic composites development), 1993

Students

• March 19, 2009: Jun Huang: Dissertation Year Fellowship: Spring,2008 -Fall, 2008
   

• March 19, 2009: Ved Prakash Verma: Awarded first place in Technical Oral Presentation Competition organized by ASM-TMS FIU chapter-08
  Best Poster presentation (second place); evaluated by two departmental faculty judges. ASM-TMS FIU chapter-09
   

• March 13, 2008 Ved Verma and Jun Huang received the second and third place in the TMS Best paper  competition (Nanomaterials symposium), held at New Orleans, LA., 2008.

• April 13, 2007 Raghunandan Seelaboyina has won First place in Material Advantage (ASM/TMS) technical oral competition, FIU, Miami FL

• April 7, 2007 Raghunandan Seelaboyina has won third place Graduate student association (GSA) scholarly forum technical oral competition, FIU, Miami FL

• October 14, 2006 Raghunandan Seelaboyina has won First place in Material Advantage (ASM/TMS) student poster competition, FIU, Miami FL

• October 2, 2006 Raghunandan Seelaboyina has been awarded AVS Dorothy M.and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Grant and FIU GSA travel funds to attend the AVS “53rd International Symposium & Exhibition being held at Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, CA” from November 12 -17, 2006

• July 2005 Harindra Vedala received travel scholarship from both Graduate Students Association (at FIU) and NSF to attend International conference on Bio Nano Informatics Fusion 2005, Marina Del Rey, CA, Jul 2005

• September 2004 Harindra Vedala received MS&T '04 Division Sponsored Travel Scholarships for MS&T 04, New Orleans, Louisiana, Sep 2004