Recent Awards

Dino Camdzic was awarded the Petra and Baudilio Colón Award for 2023-2024, awarded by the Department of Chemistry.

Mindula Wijayahena was awarded the Mattern-Tyler Teaching Award, awarded by the Department of Chemistry.

Lahiruni Halwatura was awarded the Department of Chemistry graduate fellowship.

Lahiruni Halwatura was awarded the Medicinal Chemistry summer research award, awarded by the Department of Chemistry.

Damalka Balasuriya, Mindula Wijayahena, and Lahiruni Halwatura were awarded the ACS AGRO division travel award at the 2023 ACS Fall meeting, in San Francisco.

Dr. Diana Aga was recognized as a SUNY Distinguished Professor.

Lahiruni Halwatura was awarded the Petra and Baudilio Colón Award for 2022-2023, awarded by the Department of Chemistry.

Dr. Diana Aga was named a Fellow by the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Diana Aga was awarded the Prince Sultan Water Specialist Event Participation Distinguished Research Grant for the 17th Annual Workshop on Emerging High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry & LC-MS/MS Applications in Environmental Analysis & Food Safety.

Lahiruni Halwatura was awarded the Prince Sultan Water Specialist Event Participation Young Research Grant for the 17th Annual Workshop on Emerging High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry & LC-MS/MS Applications in Environmental Analysis & Food Safety.

Isay Angeles' paper on "Assessing pharmaceutical removal and reduction in toxicity by advanced wastewater treatment systems" was chosen as Runner-Up Best Papers of 2020 in ESWRT Journal

Rebecca Dickman was awarded the C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award from the Environmental Chemical division of the American Chemical Society.

Nita Gabriela Chavez Soria was awarded the 2019 Best PhD Dissertation Award from the University at Buffalo Department of Chemistry.

Laura Brunelle was awarded an ORISE EPA Identifying Emerging Contaminants Fellowship.

Grace Guardian was awarded the Silbert Fellowship.

Rebecca Dickman was awarded a 2020 ACS AGRO Division travel award for the 2020 ACS National Meeting in San Francisco.

Grace Guardian received the June 2020 UB Chemistry Graduate Student Research Highlight.

Dr. Diana Aga received the 2019 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.

Alumni Dr. Sara Lupton received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Grace Guardian was a the 2019 Nila T. Gnamm Research Awardee.

Laura Brunelle received the award for 2nd Best Poster at the 15th Annual LC-MS/MS Workshop in 2019.

Logan Running received the award for 3rd Best Poster at the 15th Annual LC-MS/MS Workshop in 2019.

Rebecca Dickman, Laura Brunelle and Logan Running received Travel Awards for 15th Annual LC-MS/MS Workshop in 2019.

Isay Angeles was a the 2018 Nila T. Gnamm Research Awardee.

Isay Angeles, Grace Guardian, Kayla Naas, and Becky Wombacher received the 2018 ACS AGRO Division 2018 Education Award to present their research at the 2018 Fall ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA.

Steve Travis and Grace Guardian received funding from the Mark Diamond Research Fund in 2018.

Rachel Mullen received the May 2018 UB Chemistry Graduate Research Highlight.

Grace Guardian received an Outstanding Poster Prize at the 2018 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry.

Isay Angeles, Grace Guardian, and Becky Wombacher received the 2017 travel award to present their research at the 2017 SETAC North America Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

Nita Gabriela received the November 2017 UB Chemistry Graduate Research Highlight.

Dr. Diana Aga received the 2017 Schoellkopf Medal for the Western New York section of ACS.

Ping He received funding from the Mark Diamond Research Fund in 2017.

Dr. Diana Aga received the 2017 AGRO Division Fellow Award.

Isay Angeles received the award for 2nd Best Poster at the 13th Annual LC-MS/MS Workshop in 2017.

Stacia Wegst-Uhrich received the 2015 University at Buffalo Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award.

Katia Noguera Oviedo received the 2015 C. Ellen Gonter Environmental Chemistry Award from the Environmental Chemical division of the American Chemical Society.

Stacia Wegst-Uhrich received funding from the Mark Diamond Research Fund in 2014.

Katia Noguera Oviedo received funding from the Mark Diamond Research Fund in 2014.

Katia Noguera Oviedo and Joshua Wallace received the 2014 travel award to present their research at the 2014 SETAC North America meeting in Vancouver, CA.

Rachel Mullen received the 2014 Gordon Harris Fellowship from the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo.

Deena Butryn received the 2014 Mattern-Tyler Award for excellence in teaching.

Katia Noguera Oviedo and Joshua Wallace received the 2014 AGRO Education Award from the American Chemical Society to present their research at the national ACS meeting.

Katia Noguera Oviedo received the 2014 GCI Travel Scholarship from Green Chemistry Initiative.

Rachel Mullen received the 2013-2014 Alumni Fellowship Award from the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo.

Joshua Wallace received 3rd place in the 2013 246th National ACS Meeting for best student poster presentation.

Katia Noguera Oviedo and Joshua Wallace received the 2013 AGRO Education Award from the American Chemical Society to present their research at the national ACS meeting.

Katia Noguera Oviedo received the 2013 Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy-Travel Award from the American Chemical Division.

Rachel Mullen received the 2013 Summer CAMBI Award from the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo.

Randolph Singh received the 2013 Gordon Harris Fellowship from the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo.

Deena Butryn, Michael Gross, Elizabeth Mullin, Randolph Singh, and Stacia Wegst-Uhrich received travel awards to present their research at the 2013 SETAC North America meeting in Nashville, TN.

Dr. Diana Aga won the University at Buffalo Graduate School's 2012-2013 Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award for her outstanding work in preparing graduate students for research and career placement.

David TR Stewart received an Honorable Mention in the 2012-2013 University at Buffalo Graduate Student Excellence Teaching Award.

A collaboration between Dr. Diana Aga and two teachers from Lewiston-Porter High School, Michelle Hinchliffe and Colleen Glor, won the SETAC Environmental Education Award for 2012. The award recognizes the work they have done in bringing high school students into the lab to measure the occurrence of PPCPs in their local surface water. UB Reporter Article

Elizabeth Mullin received the 2012 Solo Fellowship from the Chemistry Department of the University at Buffalo and the 2012 Presidential Fellowship from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo.

Dr. Diana Aga won the 2012 SETAC Environmental Education Award for her collaboration with Michelle Hinchliffe and Colleen Glor of Lewiston-Porter High School to bring high school students into the lab to measure the occurrence of PPCPs in their local surface water.

Susan Mackintosh Recipient of the Otto Hutzinger Student Award for outstanding student presentations at the 2012 Dioxin Symposium in Cairns, Australia.

Lijuan Su Recipient of a Travel Award to the 2012 American Chemical Society National Conference in Philadelphia and 2nd place winner of the AGRO Division Student Poster Award.

David TR Stewart Recipient of Best Ph.D Student Presentation Award at the Laurentian-SETAC Annual General Meeting 2012.

Susan Mackintosh Graduate Assistantship Recipient, University at Buffalo/Buffalo Public School Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Partnership (UB/BPS ISEP) program (2011-2012).

David TR Stewart Recipient of 2012 Student Training Exchange Opportunity Award from SETAC North America to complete a research internship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Joshua Wallace ERIE IGERT NSF Fellowship awarded in 2012.

Joshua Wallace Recipient of 2011 Best Poster Award at the Symposium of the Western New York Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Lijuan Su was selected to participate in the 2011 American Chemical Society Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy (June 26 to July 3, 2011) at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with travel support from ACS.

Susan Mackintosh Finalist in the 2011 nation-wide NSF IGERT poster competition in Washington, DC. Including a $3000 travel award for the poster, "Catch of the Day- Brominated Flame Retardants in the Food Web of Lake Erie".

Dr. Diana Aga was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue collaborative research and teaching in Environmental Sciences at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines from June-December 2011.

Divina Navarro Recipient of 2011 Gordon Conference on Nanotechnology Travel Award.

David TR Stewart Recipient of Best Ph.D Student Poster Award and Travel Award to Laurentian-SETAC Annual General Meeting 2011.

Divina Navarro Recipient of 2011 Environmental Chemistry Graduate Student Award, by the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.

Divina Navarro Recipient of 2011 Graduate Student Paper Award, the highest award given to students by the Division of Environmental Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

Stacia Wegst-Uhrich ERIE IGERT NSF Fellowship awarded in 2011.