2017
- Kami Hull won a 2017 Amgen Young Investigator Award
- Martin Gruebele, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, and Catherine Murphy elected as Center for Advanced Study Professors
- Sharon Hammes-Schiffer selected as the winner of the 2019 G.M. Kosolapoff Award by the Auburn Local Section of the American Chemical Society
- Kenneth S. Suslick appointed the 76th Eastman Professor at the University of Oxford for the academic year 2018-2019
- Jeffrey Moore named director of the Beckman Institute
- Prashant Jain received a 2017 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
- Prashant Jain chosen as the Kavli Foundation Emerging Lecturer for the Fall 2017 American Chemical Society meeting
- Martin Burke announced as inaugural faculty of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine
- Alison Fout awarded the 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- Jeffrey Moore elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- David Sarlah named a 2017 Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Catherine J. Murphy named 2017 Materials Research Society Fellow
- Scott E. Denmark elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Chemistry affiliate professor Rohit Bhargava received the 2017 Beckman Institute Vision and Spirit Award
- Kenneth Suslick awarded the annual Crano Memorial Award by the Akron Section of the American Chemical Society
- Martin Gruebele awarded the 2017 Nakanishi Prize at the Plenary American Chemical Society National Award Ceremony
- Paul Hergenrother received the 2017 American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award for innovative use and application of organic synthesis
- Jefferson Chan selected as a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry
- David Sarlah selected as a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry
- Josh Vura-Weis selected as a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry
- David Sarlah received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award