Scholarships, Awards, and Honors
| The 2026 Engineer of the Year Award by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) |
May 2026 |
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Inaugural Anna McKelvey Professor, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis |
January 2026 |
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The IUPAC 2025 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award, The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) |
July 2025 |
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2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
June 2025 |
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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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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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2019 Fellow of the American Chemical Society |
July 2019 |
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2018 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
October 2018 |
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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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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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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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| Invited speaker of Gordon Research Conference Environmental Science: Water |
June 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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| Travel Grant, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Conference |
July 2009 |
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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 |
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 |