2008 Lindsay Shuller receives an award for Best Poster for Session 20C :
"HLW/TRU Miscellaneous Topics"

at Waste Management 2008 in Phoenix, AZ

2008 Rod Ewing becomes a Fellow of the Materials Research Society
and the American Ceramic Society

2007 Elizabeth Anderson receives an award for Best Student Paper Presentation at
 Materials Research Society 2007 in Sheffield, UK

2007 Martin Reich receives a Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies for his thesis entitled:

"Nanoscale and atomistic processes in minerals"

2007 Martin Reich receives the John Dorr Academic Achievement Award in Geological Sciences

2007 Lindsay Shuller receives a Roy G Post Foundation Scholarship

2007 Rod Ewing receives Honorary Doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie
in Paris, France

2006 Rod Ewing receives the Lomonosov Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences

2006 Rod Ewing becomes a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2006 Rod Ewing receives the Mineralogical Society of America's Dana Medal

2006 Elizabeth Anderson receives a National Science Foundation fellowship in support of her graduate research

2006 Frannie Skomurski receives "Best Technical Presentation" award in the Materials Science and Engineering II session at the American Nuclear Society Student Conference

Prof. Lumin Wang receives the Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award in the department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences for 2005-2006

Migration 2005 in Avignon, France: Satoshi Utsunomiya receives an award for his poster         "Fate of the epsilon phase in the Oklo natural reactors"

2005 Elizabeth Anderson receives The Radiochemistry Society Fellowship

2005 Tianhua Ding receives Microscopy Society of America Presidential Student Award

2005 Rod Ewing named Department Chair for Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan

2005 Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Fellowship

awarded to Elizabeth Anderson

2005 Chris Palenik receives a Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Rackham School of Graduate Studies for his thesis entitled:

"The Isotopic Composition and Neutronics of the Okélobondo Natural Nuclear Reactor"

2004 Rod Ewing named Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science

2004 Rod Ewing named Donald R. Peacor Collegiate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

2004 Microscopy Society of America Outstanding Poster in the Physical Science Category awarded to Jie Lian

2004-2005 Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lectuer
Awarded to Rodney Ewing

2004-2006 Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Fellowship

Awarded to Frannie Skomurski

2004 John Dorr Academic Achievement Award
Awarded to PhD candidate Chris Palenik

2003-2004 American Nuclear Society John Randall Memorial Scholarship
Awarded to PhD candidate Kathy Traexler

2003 Turner Research Grants
Awarded to PhD candidates Frannie Skomurski and Chris Palenik

"Man against a Mountain" - Rodney Ewing featured in March, 2003 Scientific American

Rod Ewing named William Kerr Professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (2002)

Best Paper Award to William J. Weber and Rodney C. Ewing  for
"Radiation Effects in Crystalline Host Phases for the Immobilitization of Actinides"
at 25th Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Conference 
2001 - Materials Research Society Meeting

Best Paper Award to Chris Palenik and Rodney Ewing for
"Microanalysis of Radiation Damage Across a Zoned Zircon Crystal"
at 25th Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management Conference 
2001 - Materials Research Society Meeting

Mineralogical Association of Canada's Hawley Medal awarded to Rodney Ewing

Rodney Ewing receives Guggenheim Fellowship Award

Chris Palenik awarded Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Fellowship

Jie Lian awarded Rackham Predoctoroal Fellowship

Sha Zhu awarded
Microscopy Society of America 2001 Distinguished Scholar Award
and
2nd Place for Best Poster - Physical Science Division