Scholarships, Awards, and Honors
2022 Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award, The Clay Minerals Society |
July 2022 |
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2022 AEESP Distinguished Service Award, The Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) |
June 2022 |
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2021 ACS ES&T Engineering Excellence in Review Award, ACS ES&T Engineering |
May 2022 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2020 Environmental Chemistry raduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Zhenwei Gao |
January 2022 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2020 Environmental Chemistry Advisor to a recipient of the 2021 C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Zhenwei Gao |
July 2020 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2020 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Yaguang Zhu |
Februar 2021 |
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Certificate of Merit (Advisor of Mr. Zhenwei Gao, Paper title: Effects of cations on abiotic photochemical oxidation of aqueous Mn2+), Environmental Chemistry Division, The American Chemical Society |
December 2020 |
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Certificate of Merit (Advisor of Mr. Yaguang Zhu, Paper title: Sulfate decreases CaCO3 nucleation rate and increases its growth rate on quartz), Environmental Chemistry Division, The American Chemical Society |
December 2020 |
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2020 James M. Lee Memorial Award, The US chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE)-American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) |
November 2020 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2020 Environmental Chemistry Undergraduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Charlie Skurie |
July 2020 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2019 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Deoukchen Ghim |
February 2020 |
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2019 Fellow of the American Chemical Society |
July 2019 |
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Advisor to the 2019 AEESP Dissertation Award Finalist, Ms. Lijie Zhang |
February 2019 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2019 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Xuanhao Wu |
February 2019 |
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2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
October 2018 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2018 Doh Wonsuk Memorial Award (Mr. Doyoon Kim), The US Chapter of Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) |
October 2018 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2018 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Mr. Haesung Jung |
February 2018 |
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Certificate of Merit, Environmental Chemistry Division, The American Chemical Society |
June 2017 |
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Invited attendee of the 2016 EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, The U.S. National Academy of Engineering partners with the European Council of Applied Sciences, Technologies and Engineering, Helsinki, Finland. |
October 2016 |
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Advisor to the 2015 AEESP Dissertation Award Finalist, Ms. Chelsea Neil |
June 2016 |
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Certificate of Merit, Environmental Chemistry Division, The American Chemical Society |
June 2016 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2016 Environmental Chemistry Undergraduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Ms. Yue Hui |
Maay 2016 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2016 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Ms. Qingyun Li |
Februaey 2016 |
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Invited attendee of the 2nd Korean-American Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, Co-sponsored by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Jeju Island, South Korea |
June 2015 |
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Top Science Paper in Environmental Science & Technology in 2014 (among ~1700 published paper in ES&T in 2014), American Chemical Society |
April 2015 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2015 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Ms. Chelsea Neil |
January 2015 |
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Harold D. Jolley Career Development Professorship, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Washington University in St. Louis |
October 2014 |
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Five Year Service Award of STARS Program Faculty Mentor, “Students and Teachers as Research Scientists” (STARS; for high school juniors and seniors and their teachers), University of Missouri-St. Louis |
July 2014 |
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Advisor to a recipient of the 2014 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society, Ms. Jessica Ray |
January 2014 |
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| Invited speaker of Gordon Research Conference Environmental Science: Water |
June 2012 |
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| Advisor to a recipient of the 2012 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society Ms. Yandi Hu) |
February 2012 |
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| Invited author for the special issue "2012 Emerging Inverstigators" in Journal of Environmental Monitoring |
2012 |
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| NSF CAREER Award, U.S. National Science Foundation |
2011-2016 |
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| Keynote speaker, Goldschmidt conference, Mineral Nucleation: from atomic to the planetary scale |
August 2011 |
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| Advisor to a recipient of the 2011 Environmental Chemistry Undergraduate Student Award, The American Chemical Society (Mr. Daniel J. Garcia) |
May 2011 |
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| Certificate of Merit (role: advisor), Paper title: The Effect of Water Conditions on Oxidation and Dissolution of Arsenopyrite, Environmental Chemistry Division, The American Chemical Society (Ms. Chelsea W. Neil) |
May 2011 |
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| Certificate of Merit (role: advisor), Paper title: Surface Reactions of Galena in the Presence of Leakages from Geologic Sequestration: CO2-H2O-PbS interactions, Environmental Chemistry Division, The American Chemical Society (Ms. Kathleen O’Malley) |
May 2010 |
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| Travel Grant, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Conference |
July 2009 |
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| Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists (COACh) Travel ScholarshipTravel Grant, Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists (COACh), supported by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Energy |
March 2009 |
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| Gordon Conference (Environmental science: Water) Travel grant |
June 2008 |
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| Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
May 2008 |
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| Travel Grant, Committee on the Advancement of Women Chemists (COACh), supported by National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Energy |
April 2008 |
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| Travel Grant, American Physical Society March Meeting 2005 (Environmental Interfaces) |
March 2005 |
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| Travel Grant, Cambridge Science Foundation |
September 2003 |
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| IRG project Grant, National Science Foundation, Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center |
2003-2004 |
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| DEAS Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University |
2000-2002 |
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| Ewha Scholarship, Ewha Womans University |
1998 |
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| Research Fellow Scholarship, Ewha Womans University |
1997-1998 |
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| Research Grant, Korea Research Foundation |
1997-1998 |