Awards & Recognition

Our faculty, staff and students are recognized nationally and internationally for their professional excellence.

Latest Awards

More recent awards

  • National Recognition and Professional Leadership

    Early Career Awards

    Duke University Recognition

    Media Recognition

    • Most Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science (Clarivate)—Mark Wiesner

  • Professional Society Recognition

    Early Career Awards

    • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)—Johan Guilleminot

    News Media Recognition

  • National Academy of Engineering Membership

    • Ana Barros

    National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

    • Member, Science Advisory Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—Mark Wiesner

    Professional Society Recognition

    • Hydrology President, American Geophysical Union—Ana Barros

    Media Recognition

    • Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers, Clarivate Analytics—Mark Wiesner

    University and School Honors

    • Senior Giving Challenge “Celebrating Mentors” honoree—Michael Blagg

  • National Research and Professional Leadership Awards

    • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (United States of America)—Ana Barros

    Professional Society Recognition

    • Chair, Section of Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science—Ana Barros

    Early Career Awards

    • Kalvi Fellow, National Academy of Sciences and the Kalvi Foundation—Guglielmo Scovazzi
    • EUROMECH Young Scientist Prize, 16th European Turbulence Conference, Stockholm—Andrew Bragg

    University and School Honors

    • Member, Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy (University of Iowa College of Engineering)—Mark Wiesner
    • Member, Bass Society of Fellows (Duke University)—Wilkins Aquino

  • Professional Society Recognition

    • Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers – Ana Barros and David Schaad

    Early Career Awards

    • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers – Guglielmo Scovazzi

    University and School Honors

    • 2017 Alumnus of the Year Award, (Politecnico di Torino) – Guglielmo Scovazzi

    Distinguished and Plenary Lectures

    • Distinguished Lecturer, Midwest Mechanics Seminar Series – John Dolbow
    • Plenary Lecturer, 13th Annual International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant – Heileen “Helen” Hsu-Kim

    Media Recognition

    • Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers (Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson Reuters) – Mark Wiesner

Undergraduate Awards

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ASCE Outstanding Senior Prize

Recognizes exceptional, positive impact on Duke’s student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Aubrey E. Palmer

Palmer Award

Presented in recognition of outstanding academic achievement.

Eric I. Pas

Pas Award

Recognizes the most outstanding independent study project by a graduating civil engineering senior.

William Brewster Snow

Snow Award

Honors demonstrated academic excellence, interest and enthusiasm in the study of environmental engineering.

Chi Epsilon Honor Society

Membership recognizes academic achievement and demonstrated character.

Graduate Awards

Robert J Melosh

Melosh Medal

Awarded to the best student paper on finite element analysis.

Senol Utku

Utku Awards

Presented to student authors of outstanding pre-PhD peer-reviewed research.

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Taub Award

Voted by environmental engineering graduate students to recognize an outstanding peer.

Earl Brown Faculty Award

Presented to an outstanding Duke CEE faculty member by the Duke student chapter of Chi Epsilon.

Honor Roll
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