Pogorelov Group Distinctions!

H         A high-school researcher
U         An undergraduate researcher
P          A postdoctoral researcher
*          Award external to Chemistry, ChBE, or Biophysics at UIUC

2024 *uZaeem Qureshi  receives 2024 Fiddler Innovation Award

2024 *uZaeem Qureshi  receives NCSA Director’s Recognition Letter

2024 *Sepehr Alaeen wins the Travel Award of the 81th Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, Pittsburgh Diffraction Society, Ithaca, NY.

2024 *uZaeem Qureshi receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship.

2023    *Melanie Brunet selected to deliver a talk at 2024 BPS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

2023    *Melanie Brunet wins BPS Travel Award to present at 2024 BPS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

2023    *Melanie Brunet (ChBE, Kraft Lab) is awarded NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship F31. Our lab will serve as a co-sponsor.

2023    *Kevin Cheng delivers an invited talk at ACS Central Regional Meeting (CERM), Ann Arbor, Michigan

2023    *uAndrew Lee our graduating senior receives UIUC Senior 100 Honorary recognition

2023    *Kevin Cheng wins the 2023 BPS Students Research Achievement Award (SRAA)

2022    *Kevin Cheng awarded the GRC Board of Trustees Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority (CSURM) Fellowship

2022    *Mayank Boob wins 2022 Protein Society Symposium Best Poster Award

2022    Our graduate Dr Meredith Rickard co-mentored with Martin Gruebele receives 2021 PChem Dissertation Award and delivers Department of Chemistry seminar

2022    *uHaolin Luo earns the Jackson Merit award for Outstanding thesis, Department of Biochemistry

2022    *uHaolin Luo earns the Highest Distinction recognition, Department of Biochemistry

2022    *Mayank Boob wins the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Travel Award 2022 to present at the 36th Protein Society Annual Symposium in San Francisco

2022    *Kevin Cheng wins the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology Travel Award 2022 to present at BPS Annual Meeting in San Francisco

2022    *Mayank Boob selected to present a talk at 2022 Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Fransisco, CA

2022    *Kevin Cheng receives Biophysical Society Travel Award to present at 2022 BPS Meeting in San Fransisco

2021    *uJuan David Campolargo and Kevin Cheng selected for the Spring 2022 XSEDE EMPOWER program

2021    *uHaolin Luo receives Fiddler Innovation Fellowship, NCSA

2021    *uAndrew Lee receives Fiddler Innovation Fellowship, NCSA

2021    *Kevin Cheng selected to present a talk at 2022 GRS Protein Folding Dynamics in Oxnard, CA

2021    *uHaolin Luo receives NCSA Director’s Recognition

2021    *Mayank Boob wins Protein Society 35th Anniversary Award

2021    *uHaolin Luo awarded 2021 Jackson Summer Research Fellowship by the Department of Biochemistry

2021    *uHaolin Luo receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship

2021    *uAndrew Lee receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship

2020    *uAndrew Lee receives NCSA SPIN 2020/21 Internship

2020    *uAndrew Lee receives  the Robert H. Doremus Chemistry Scholarship

2020    *uAndrew Lee receives the Theodore and Audrey Brown Chemistry Scholarship 

2020 *uZach Wang receives the Philip J. and Betty M. Anthony Undergraduate Research Prize, Department of Physics

2020    *uAndrew Lee receives NCSA SPIN Summer Internship

2020    *pAshley De Lio selected to attend the NextProf Science NSF-sponsored Workshop hosted by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2020    *Meredith Rickard wins GRS Best Talk Award sponsored by the Protein Society at GRS Protein Folding Dynamics and delivers second talk at the following GRC

2019    *uZach Wang wins BPS Travel Award to attend the 2020 BPS Annual Meeting in San Diego

2019    *Meredith Rickard selected to present a talk at 2020 GRS Protein Folding in Galveston, TX

2019    *Mayank Boob selected to lead discussions at 2020 GRS Protein Folding in Galveston, TX

2019    *Meredith Rickard is the winner of the Cover Art category in the SCS Science Image Challenge!

2019    *Mayank Boob is a Finalist in the SCS Science Image Challenge!

2019    *Mayank Boob is a Finalist in the Graduate College Research Live!

2019    *uZichen (Zach) Wang NCSA SPIN Internship

2019    *uZichen (Zach) Wang NCSA Director’s Recognition

2019    uRiya Jain, the Dow Undergraduate Summer Research Scholar

2019      Meredith Rickard, the Geerdes Memorial Travel Award in Physical Chemistry

2019    *Meredith Rickard, GRS Proteins, Selected talk

2019    *Meredith Rickard, Protein Folding Consortium, St. Louis, Selected talk

2019    *pAshley De Lio, GRS Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR, Selected talk

2019    *pAshley De Lio, GRC Computational Aspects of Biomolecular NMR, Selected talk

2019    *pAshley De Lio, Elected co-chair 2021 GRS Comp. Aspects of Biomolecular NMR

2019    *HArtem Mustaev, the James Scholars Honor Program, UIUC