Mufit Akinc
Ross Coffin Purdy Award, 2006
Faculty CYtation Award, Iowa State University Alumni Association, 2001
Fellow, American Ceramic Society, 1996

Paul Canfield
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2002
Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters, 2002

John Corbett
F.H. Spedding Award in Rare Earth Research, 2005
Co-organizer, Symposium on The Chemistry of Intermetallics and Zintl Phases at 226th American Chemical Society Meeting, 2003
Award for Distinguished Service in Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 2000
National Academy of Sciences, 1992
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1986

Cynthia Jenks
Iowa Board of Reagents Award for Staff Excellence, 2006
Iowa State University Professional & Scientific Council CYtation Award, 2006
Co-organizer, 9th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Ames, Iowa, 2005

Thomas Lograsso
Materials Research Society Fall 2003 Best Poster Award, 2003 (with M. Kramer & Y. Wu)
Service Provider Impact Award, Iowa Manufacturing Extension Partnership, 2000

Surya Mallapragada
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2006
Global Indus Technovators Award, 2003
Treasurer, Food Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2003-Present
MIT's Technology Review's "Top 100 Young Innovators", 2002
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2001
Early Excellence in Research Award, Iowa State University Foundation, 2001
Chair of MRS symposium on Biomaterials for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, Boston, 2000
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award, 2000
Andrews Graduate Fellowship, 1993

Gordon Miller
Visiting Scientist, MPI-CPfS Dresden, Germany, 2006
Co-organizer, Symposium on The Chemistry of Intermetallics and Zintl Phases at 226th American Chemical Society Meeting, 2003
Visiting Professor, ETH-Zürich, Switerland, 2000

Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Editorial Advisory Board, Macromolecules, 2002
Editorial Advisory Board, Polymer, 2002
John H. Dillon Medal of the Polymer Division of the American Physical Society, 2001
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000

Dan Shechtman
Elected Honorary Member, Japan Institute of Metals, 2005
Elected Member, European Academy of Science and Arts, 2004
EMET Prize in Chemistry, 2002
Honorary Doctorate, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2002
Elected Honorary Member, French Physical Society, 2000
Muriel & David Jacknow Technion Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000
Elected Member, American National Academy of Engineering, 2000
Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2000
Elected Honorary Member, Israel Crystallography Association, 1999
Elected Honorary Member, Israel Society for Microscopy, 1999
Elected Honorary Member, International Society for Interdisciplinary Sciences, 1998
Elected Honorary Member, Materials Research Society of India, 1997
Elected Member, Israel Academy of Sciences, 1996

Daniel Sordelet
Co-organizer, 9th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Ames, Iowa, 2005
Member of the International Program Committee for the 12th LAM Conference, 2004
Symposium Co-organizer, Quasicrystals, Materials Research Society Annual Fall Meeting, 2003

Patricia Thiel
Co-organizer, 9th International Conference on Quasicrystals, Ames, Iowa, 2005
Dr. Honoris Causa (honorary degree), Institut National Polytechnic de Lorraine, France, 2005
Plenary Lecturer, 22nd European Conference on Surface Science, Prague, The Czech Republic, 2003
Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, 2002
Fellow, American Vacuum Society, 2001
Fellow, American Physical Society, 2001
Invitation Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2001
Visiting Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2001
Visiting Professor, École des Mines, Nancy, France, 1999, 2000, 2002