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Students' Awards

2021

• Daniel Gil Valenzuela earned a FAU’s Stan and Renee Wimberly Scholarship.

• Sofia Feliciano received an American Chemical Society Scholarship.

2022

• Satviki Singh became 2022 FAU Undergraduate Researcher of the Year in the College of Science.

• Steven Soini won the first poster prize at the 2022 AMERI Conference "Materials and Devices for Energy, Sustainable Manufacturing, and Health (MESH)".

• Dawn Raja Somu won a poster award at the 2022 FAU Data-Driven Science and AI Conference.

• Steven Soini won the third prize for his oral presentation at the 20th Annual Raymond N. Castle Student Research Conference at the University of South Florida.

• Steven Soini won the first prize in the STEM category at the 13th Annual Graduate Research Day 2022 organized by FAU's Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) 

• Jo Laura became 2022 University Scholar Award for FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

• Malena Fuentes received the outstanding graduating senior award from the South Florida section of the American Chemical Society (SoFL-ACS) in chemistry.

• Jo Laura received the outstanding graduating senior award from the South Florida section of the American Chemical Society (SoFL-ACS) in biochemistry.

• Satviki Singh won the second place in FAU's WAVE competition.

• Jo Laura won the second place in the category Basic Sciences at FAU's OURI symposium for her oral presentation entitled "Development and Characterization of Chitin-Mineral Hybrid Materials".

2023

• Sofia Feliciano received the Dean's Award for outstanding achievement in the joint B.S./M.S. degree program.

• Dawn Raja Somu won a preliminary round ("Heat") of FAU's Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition with her presentation "With Every Fiber: Characterizing Biomineral Ultrastructure and Nanomechanical Properties of Shark Vertebrae"

• Edward de la Uz won the first place in the category Basic Sciences at FAU's OURI symposium for his oral presentation entitled "Calcium Carbonate and Hydroxyapatite Biomineralization of Chitin Utilizing Tempo Oxidation and Poly(Acrylic Acid) Modification".

• Diannelle Lacambra-Rivera received a FAU Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

• Edward de la Uz became a NSF REU student at Northwestern Shyne.

• Alejandra Coronel-Zegarra received FAU's Diversity Graduate Fellowship. 

• Steven Soini received a Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).