Selected Honors & Awards

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Selected Awards & Recognition

Selected Honors and Fellowships
Buck-Whitney Award (Eastern New York ACS Section)                    2009
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship                                 2006-2008
CAREER Award for “Rational Synthesis and Studies of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes”
(National Science Foundation)                                                             2004-2008
3M Nontenured Faculty Award                                                           2002-2004

Selected Synergistic Activities
• Chair of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) User Executive Committee at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2009 – 2010) and co-organizer of the 2010 National Synchrotron Light Source / CFN Users’ Meeting, entitled ‘Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change Using Synchrotron and Nanoscience Research’.

• Member of the Materials Research Society National Nanotechnology Initiative Task Force (Summer 2010).

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Chemistry of Materials (2008 - present).

• Section editor of the ‘Materials: synthesis and self-assembly’ section of Nanotechnology (Institute of Physics journal) and member of the editorial board (2010 - 2011).

• Nanoscience Chair-Elect (2008), Nanoscience Chair (2009), and Nanoscience Programming Chair (2009-2012) of the Inorganic Chemistry Division (American Chemical Society).

• Member of the Institutional Nanoscience Safety Committee at BNL (Fall 2006 - present).

• Co-organizer (with Dr. Barbara Karn, EPA/Georgetown University, and Professor Thomas Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University) of the Green Chemistry sessions (Synthesis of nanomaterials using green chemistry principles) at the Nanotechnology and the Environment Symposium, sponsored by the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, at the 231^st, 233^rd, 235^th, 237^th , 239^th, and 241^st American Chemical Society National Meetings (2006-11).