i. Graduate Student Awards
2025 Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar Selected for I&EC Graduate Student Award Symposium at 2025 Fall ACS meeting.
2025 Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar, “Excellence in Innovation Award” Aspire 2025 green materials minisymposium
2025 Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar, Best Chemical Engineering Poster at the Graduate Engineering Research Showcase (2025)
2025 Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar 100+ Women Strong 2025 Travel Award ($500)
2025 Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar, BIO PACIFICMIP Fellow at UCLA and UCSB
2024 Yi-Hung Lin NAMS travel supplement award, made available by the NSF.
2023 Antara Mazumder – North American Membrane Society (NAMS) Elias Klein Travel Grant
2023 Antara Mazumder 100+ Women Strong Outstanding CHEN Graduate Student Award
2023 Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar – Best Senator of the Month – November 2023 – GSC
2023 Antara Mazumder (2021-2022) Outstanding Professional Progress Award, AU CHEN
2023 Yi-Hung Lin (2022-2023) Outstanding Professional Progress Award, AU CHEN
2023 Yihung Lin. 1st Place Poster at North American Membrane Society Annual meeting 2023.
For: Lin, Y.H., Kim, J.M., Beckingham B.S. “Salt Transport in Crosslinked Hydrogel Membranes Containing Zwitterionic Sulfobetaine Methacrylate and Hydrophobic Phenyl Acrylate” Presented at North American Membrane Society (NAMS), May 15, 2023. Tuscaloosa, AL.
2023 Yihung Lin AUsome Science in 60 Seconds Graduate Student Finalist, Council of Engineering Graduate Students (CEGS), 2023
2022 Harrish Kumar Senthil kumar – AU 3MT Finalist
2022 Harrish Kumar Senthil kumar – AU GSC Senator of the Month (November)
2022 Pravin P. Aravindhan – College of Engineering Best Poster at AU Research Symposium
2022 Vinita Shinde – GSC Travel Fellowship ($300)
2022 Yi-hung Lin*, Elias Klein Travel Grant
2021 Vinita Shinde, AICHE Women in Chem. Eng. Travel Award ($800 +AICHE registration)
2021 Vinita Shinde*, 100+ Women Strong Travel Fellowship ($500)
2021 Vinita Shinde*, Fall 2021 ACS PMSE Poster Award ($200)
2021 Jung Min Kim*, NAMS 2021 1st Place Poster Award ($300)
2021 Vinita Shinde*, Selected for I&EC Graduate Student Award Symposium at 2021 Fall ACS meeting.
2021 Sarah Gaston*, Ginn College of Engineering Woltosz Fellowship ($6000/yr)
2021 Jung Min Kim*, Auburn University Graduate School Travel Fellowship to 2021 North American Membrane Society meeting ($300)
2021 Antara Mazumder*, Auburn CPAC Presentation People’s Choice Award
2021 Vinita Shinde*, Auburn CPAC Presentation People’s Choice Award
2020 Jung Min Kim*, Outstanding Graduate Researcher (CHEN Dept. Award)
2020 Jung Min Kim*, Professional Progress Award (CHEN Dept. Award)
2020 Vinita Shinde*, Professional Progress Award (CHEN Dept. Award)
2020 Vinita Shinde*, Auburn Finish in Five Competition ($300)
2019 Jung Min Kim*, Separations Division Poster Award, AICHE 2019 Annual Meeting
2019 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, J. Alley Family Graduate Leadership Fellow ($2,000)
2019 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, Auburn CPAC Presentation People’s Choice Award
2019 Jung Min Kim*, Auburn Research Student Symposium College of Engineering Best Oral Presentation
2019 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, Auburn Tiger Cage Quarterfinalist
2017 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, DoD SMART Fellowship Finalist
2017 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, Alabama Launchpad Quarterfinalist
2017 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, 3rd Place Auburn Tiger Cage ($4,000)
2016-2018 Michael J. Minkler Jr.*, National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow
2016-2018 Breanna M. Dobyns*, National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow
ii. Undergraduate Student Awards
2022 Jessica Brouillette – Birdsong Fellowship
2022 Ryan Wozniak – AU Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2022 Brock Hunter NAMS Undergraduate Student Travel Supplement ($500 + registration)
2022 Camylle Lollar – $500 Wiley Stay the Course Grant
2022 McKenna Clinch – U. Kentucky 5-Minute Fast Track Competition Top 10
2021 Brock Hunter, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2020 Mae Baird, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2019 Tina Huang, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2019 Mingrui Gong, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2018 Claudia Hu, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2018 Alisa Mobley, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2018 Jihyuk Kim, Barry Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention
2018 Jihyuk Kim, Tau Beta Pi Scholarship ($2,000)
2017 Jihyuk Kim, Auburn University Undergraduate Research Fellowship ($3,000)
2017 Alisa Mobley, 100+ Women Strong Study Abroad Award
2017 Jihyuk Kim, Auburn MAKERS Scholarship ($4,000)
iii. Undergraduate Scholarship in AUJUS
- Wozniak, R.*; Beckingham, B.S. Impact of Different Comonomers (PEGMA, PEGMEA, AND PEGMEMA) on Solute Co-transport in PEGDA and PEGDA-AMPS Membranes.” Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, 2023.
- Hunter, B.J.*; Chapman, G.P.*; Beckingham, B.S. “Transport and Physiochemical Properties of Polyether-based Hydrogel Membranes for Ammonia Fuel Cell Applications.” Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship, 2022.
- Gong, M.*; Minkler, M.*; Beckingham, B.S. “Click chemistry towards allyl-polymer MRI contrast agents: solubility, kinetics, and magnetic responses.” Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. 2020.
- Huang, T.*; Dobyns, B*.; Beckingham, B.S. “Improving polymer-modified asphalt by changing the characteristics of SBS using click chemistry.” Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. 2019.
- Kim, J.*, Minkler, M.J.*, Beckingham, B.S. “Synthesis and properties of PTEMA” Auburn University Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. 2018.