COSAM News Articles 2019 April Dean’s Research Awards Highlight COSAM Research and Achievements

Dean’s Research Awards Highlight COSAM Research and Achievements

Published: 04/23/2019

“The Dean’s Research Awards program is an opportunity for us to celebrate the forefront research being conducted by faculty and students including work at the graduate and undergraduate levels,” said Dean Nicholas J. Giordano. “At this year’s program, I was proud to showcase research published in Science by faculty, graduate students that have spoken at national conferences and an undergraduate student whose research work has garnered an award from the American Chemical Society.”

This year’s Dean’s Research Awards program for the College of Sciences and Mathematics (COSAM) took place on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in the Sciences Center Classroom Building. Faculty being recognized included:

Steven O. Mansoorabadi, Chemistry and Biochemistry – Lecture presented:
David A. Maurer, Department of Physics - Young Faculty Scholar Awardee
Krystyna Kuperberg, Department of Mathematics and Statistics – Faculty Service/Outreach Award
Robert S. Boyd, Department of Biological Sciences – Faculty Service/Outreach Award

Three doctoral students were recognized with Graduate Student Awards:

Isuru R. Ariyarathna, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Hannah E. Correia, Department of Biological Sciences
Taylor Hall, Department of Physics

A master’s and an undergraduate student were recognized with student awards:

Collin Sutton, Department of Geosciences
Kevin Wyss, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

To learn more about these researchers, view the awards program online.

Dean Giordano with Dr. Steven Mansoorabadi at the Dean's Research Awards program.

Dean Giordano presents Dr. Steven Mansoorabadi with the 2018-2019 Dean's Faculty Research Awardee plaque at the Dean's Research Awards program.

Doctoral student Isuru Ariyarathna accepting a Graduate Student Award from Dean Giordano.

Dean Giordano presenting Hannah Correia, a doctoral student, with a Graduate Student Award.

Dean Giordano presenting Collin Sutton with the Master's Student Award.

Kevin Wyss receiving the Undergraduate Student Award from Dean Giordano.

Dr. David Maurer, professor in the Department of Physics, receives the award as the Young Faculty Scholar Awardee from Dean Giordano.

Dr. Krystyna Kuperberg, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, receives a Faculty Service/Outreach Award from Dean Giordano.

Dr. Robert Boyd, alumni professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and COSAM's new Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, receives a Faculty Service/Outreach Award from Dean Giordano.