Honors and Recognition
Honors Spotlight:
Guihua Yu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
Recipient of the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation names as Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars individuals who have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship in the chemical sciences and are deeply committed to education. Dr. Yu’s research contribution is focused on rational design and synthesis of functional nanoscale materials, fundamental understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly and integration strategies to enable their technologically important applications in energy, electronics, environment and life sciences. He joins a select group of only 13 premier researchers nation-wide recognized by the foundation in 2017.
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- Nobel Prize
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Medal of Science
- Alan T. Waterman Award
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
- Japan Prize
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- Members and Fellows of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences
- Members of the National Academies
- National Academy of Education
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
- National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- Prix de Rome Award
- Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
- Vannevar Bush Award
- Welch Foundation Awards
- Wolf Prize