| Awards |
| Mr. Yongjun Liu will receive the Graduate Research Award from the American Vacuum Society at the AVS 56th International Symposium& Exhibition in San Jose. |
Mr. Justin Abell received a 2009 travel scholarship for the NANO-DDS meeting
organized by Department of Defense. |
| Mr. John Gibbs received a 2009 travel assistantship from National Science Foundation to participate the NSF CMMI annual grantee meeting in Hawaii. |
| Dr. Yiping Zhao received the 2009 Creative Research Medal of University of Georgia. |
| Mr. Yongjun Liu received the 2009 Sean M. Kirkpatrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia. |
| Miss Whitney Ingram won the first place for the poster presentation in the category of Physics in FGLSAMP (Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) National Conference in Miami, Florida. |
| Miss Junxue Fu received the 2008 Departmental Outstanding Research Asistant Award. |
| Mr. Zhongyue Zhang received the 2008 Departmental Outstanding Research Asistant Award. |
| Mr. Wilson Smith was selected to participate the 58th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics from June 29th to July 4th 2008 in Lindau, Germany |
| Dr. Jianguo Fan received
the 2008 excellence in research by the Gradutate Student Award, University of Georgia |
| Mr. Jianguo Fan received the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship from the American Vacuum Society at the AVS 54th International Symposium& Exhibition in Seattle, one of the
five top-level named graduate student awards for the AVS annual meeting. UGA News |
| Dr. Yuping He was selected as a recipient of a 2007 Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the Thin Film Dinision of the American Vacuum Society. UGA News |
Currently we have three graduate student assistanship positions available.