Michael Zach - Awards

1.       R&D100 Award. R&D Magazine editors and a panel of independent judges named Argonne's Ultrafast, Ultrasensitive Nanostructured Hydrogen Sensor as one of the 100 most technologically significant products added to the marketplace for 2006. This was announced on page 23 of the September 2006 issue of R&D Magazine. http://www.rdmag.com/

Left: Awards banquet photo for the R&D100 Award, October 19, 2006 in Chicago. Pictured are members of the development team: Michael Martin, EMTEC; Zhili Xiao, Argonne National Laboratory & NIU; Michael Zach, Argonne & UWSP; Tao Xu, Argonne & NIU; and Benjamin Ward, Makel Engineering, Inc. Right: Image of the World's fastest hydrogen sensor.

2.       Micro/Nano25 Award. The Editors of R&D Magazine and MICRO/NANO Newsletter have selected Argonne's Nanostructured Hydrogen Sensor as one of the most innovative products of 2006.

3.       Prominently featured research highlight in Argonne News concerning our research on the World's fastest, commercially-producible hydrogen sensor. This news story has been picked up by numerous sources and has received coverage by over 50 different news organizations ranging from physorg.com to the Iran Daily News. Original story: http://www.anl.gov/Media_Center/News/2005/news050525.html

4.       Awarded Glenn Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship for post-doctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory. Started April 2004. Guaranteed funding for two years.

5.       Elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division (AAAS-PD) Board of Directors as Council Member at Large. Term 2002 -2005.  

6.       AAAS-PD, Larus Travel Award to compete at the National AAAS meeting in Boston, February 2002.

7.       Awarded the Miller Research Fellowship for post-doctoral research at University of California, Berkeley. Awarded December 2001. Started July 2002. Guaranteed funding for up to three years.

8.       Second Place Poster, (cash award), Microscopy and Microanalysis, National Meeting, Awarded August 2001.

9.       First Place Poster Presentation in Engineering and Industrial Chemistry Division (cash award), AAAS-PD, Pacific Division Regional Meeting, June 2001.

10.    Presidential Award (cash award), AAAS-PD, Pacific Division Regional Meeting, June 2001.

11.    E.K.C. Lee Memorial Award, UCI Chemistry Department's highest award given to graduate students, (cash award) Awarded May 2001.

12.    Awarded Merck Fellowship (stipend, national award), American Chemical Society - Division of Analytical Chemistry Graduate Student Fellowship, June 2001 to March 2002.

13.    Second Place Student Paper, (cash award), Southern California Chapter of the American Vacuum Society October 2000.

14.    Departmental Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Honorable Mention for 1998-1999, University of California, Irvine.

15.    Departmental Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant for 1997-1998 (cash award), University of California, Irvine.

16.    Named Head Teaching Assistant for Analytical, Nuclear, and General Chemistry Courses, various quarters 1998-2000, University of California, Irvine.

17.    Chancellor's Leadership Award, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 1997.

18.    Graduation with Honors, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 1997.