Professional Recognition

Faculty

• Dr. Nikki Crowley
  $1.6 million National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (National Institutes of Health) grant to study the neurobiology of binge alcohol drinking
• Dr. Mehdi Kiani
  Tenure, July 1, 2020
  NSF Career Award
• Dr. Elizabeth Proctor
  Whitaker Center’s Women of Impact: Celebrating Women in STEM Awards
• Dr. Joan T. Richtsmeier
  Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphmetrics from Stony Brook University
• Dr. Jian Yang
  2019 Lloyd & Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Regenerative Engineering
  2018 Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
  2018 PSEAS Outstanding Research Award, Penn State University

Students

• Gregory Brown, advised by Xeumei Huang
  NIH F30 Award for The Striatum and Hippocampus: “Hubs” of White Matter Connections in Parkinson’s Disease Cognitive Decline
  Named to 20 in their 20’s list
• Philip Graybill, co-advised by Mehdi Kiani and Bruce Gluckman
  “Leighton Riess Graduate Fellowship in Engineering for Academic Excellence in Biomedical Research from Penn State
  2019 “Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award”
• Yu-Chi Huang, advised by Jian Yang
  COE CERI REU, Fall 2018
• Maria Hudock, advised by Jian Yang
  COE CERU REU, Spring 2018
  2018 Erickson Discovery Grant
• Sarah Knappman, advised by Jian Yang
  COE CERI REU, Summer 2018
  COE CERI REU, Fall 2018
  David and Shirley Wormley Scholarship, Summer 2018
  Society for Women Engineers (SWE), 2019
• Chuying Ma, advised by Jian Yang
  Harold K. Schilling Dean’s Graduate Scholarship, 2019
• Hesam Sadeghi, advised by Mehdi Kiani
  “Melvin P. Bloom Memorial Outstanding Doctoral Research Award” in Electrical Engineering
• Jessica Smith, advised by Jian Yang
  2018 Erickson Discovery Grant