​2023:
Mark Robertson: 1) APS DPOLY Chang Ryu Travel Award (two recipients each year)
                                        2) USM Graduate Student Hall of Fame
                                        3) USM Graduate Student Innovation Award (from Office of the Vice President for Research)
                                        4) USM Graduate Research Assistant of the Year
​                                        5) ACS I&EC Graduate Student Award
                                        6) 2nd place, AIChE Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research
                                        7) Selected to Serve on Neutron Scattering Society of America Executive Committee
                                        8) AIChE 3MT (Three-mintue thesis) Finalist
​Andrew Barbour: 1) Waterborne Symposium Best Undergraduate Poster Prize
                                         2) Donald Drapeau Prize for Excellence in Research Presentation
                                         3) SPSE Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research Award
                                         4) NASA-Mississippi Space Grant Scholarship
                                         5) USM SPSE Student of the Month
Mikaela Sadri:  3rd Place Award in SAMPE Student Poster Session
Anthony Griffin:  College of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Research Grant 
Paul Smith: National Graduate Research Polymer Conference, People's Choice Poster 

2022:
Ryan Davis: USM SPSE Student of the Month
Paul Smith: 1) 2nd place poster prize in Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium 
                           2) 1st place poster prize in Southern Soft Matter Annual Symposium
                           3) SPSE Alumni day, Poster Prize Honorable Mention
                           4) NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead
Mark Robertson: 1) 1st place poster prize in Susan A. Siltanen Graduate Student Research Symposium 
                                        2) ACS Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research
                                        3) College of Arts and Science Graduate Student Travel Award
                                        4) NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead
Jonathan Perkins: 1) USM SPSE Student of the Month
                                          2) Dean's List for Recognizing Academic Accomplishments
Andrew Barbour: NASA-Mississippi Space Grant Scholarship

2021:
Ryan Davis: USM Eagle SPUR Grant Award
Mark Robertson: 1) DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR)Award 
                                         2) USM Three-minute Thesis Finalist
Ashley Hanna: 2nd prize in the 2021 Undergraduate Research Symposium at USM 
Clayton Keene: 3rd place award in the Undergraduate Research in Polymer Science Symposium in POLY at the 2021 Spring National ACS meeting
Jonathan Perkins: 1) Academic Excellence Scholarship Award
                                          2) Mississippi Eminent Scholar Grant
                                          3) Ford Family Foundation Scholarship 

2020:
Mark Robertson: 1) 2nd place presentation prize at 2020 Applied Polymer Technology Extension Consortium
                                        2) NSF-NRT Trainee fellowship
Alex Fortenberry: 1) 3rd place presentation prize at 2020 Applied Polymer Technology Extension Consortium
                                          2) 1st Lightning round at 2020 Applied Polymer Technology Extension Consortium
                                          3) NSF-NRT Trainee fellowship
Jonathan Perkins: Dean's List for Recognizing Academic Accomplishments