Honors & Awards

  • Invited speaker and panelist, Cool Tech Nanomedicine event (Northern Virginia Technology Council), McLean, Virginia, November 2008
  • Participant, U.S.  Bone and Joint Decade’s Young Investigator Initiative (YII) Program (2007-2008)
  • NSF Fellowship, NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials (2007)
  • Organizer and co-chair, symposium “Biomimetics and nanoscience: advances in protein/peptide-based biomaterials,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Biomaterials, Chicago, IL, April 2007
  • More than 10 invited talks in Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Infection prevention, and Drug delivery (2005-present)
  • Emeritus Director "Changxu Shi" Award, Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2000
  • Top Presidential Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999
  • Emeritus Director "Changxu Shi" Award, IMR, CAS, 1999
  • Excellent Dissertation Award, the 3rd Youth Academic Annual Meeting, Liaoning Province, 1998
  • Top Director's Award, IMR, CAS,1997
  • Outstanding Graduate Fellowship, IMR, CAS, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
  • Outstanding Graduate Leadership, IMR, CAS, 1995
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Fellowship, CSU, 1991, 1992, 1993
  • Outstanding Undergraduates, 1991, 1992, 1993, CSU
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Leadership, CSU, 1992
  • Outstanding Member Award in Summer Industry Internship, 1992,1993
  • Graduation Certificate for undergraduate program in Management Engineering, Department of Management, CSU, 9/1992-1/1994
  • Outstanding Award of National High School Chemistry Competition, Chenzhou, 1989