Honors

Honors

• Ragauskas Named Fourteenth UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair
  
  
• Ten ORNL scientists among world’s most highly cited researcher
  
  
• Nanocellulose: Rediscovering Forest Resources
  
  
• Dr. Ragauskas Awarded AICHE Professional Achievement Award
  
  
• ACS Award For Affordable Green Chemistry
  
  
• Valorizing Lignin
  
  
• TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award (2014)
  
  
• ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry (2014)
  
  
• ORNL Visiting Fellow (2013)
  
  
• Faculty Elected as Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012)
  
  
• Nominated to TAPPI Research Management Committee (2009)
  
  
• Nominated to National Commission on Energy Policy (2008)
  
  
• Served on the Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting, Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies (2005-06)
  
  
• Recipient of 2008 William H. Aiken Research Award
  
  
• Fulbright Fellow (2008)
  
  
• Elected TAPPI Fellow (2003).
  
  
• Elected Fellow to International Academy of Wood Science (2003).
  
  
• Invited faculty to Universidade da Beira Interior, Departamenta de Ciencia E Technologia do Papel and Departmento de Quimica sponsored by Lusoa-Americana Fundacao (2003).
  Morning walk to UBI class
  
  
• Invited speaker to International Lignin Institute 6th Forum, Wageningen, The Netherlands (2003).
  
  
• Invited guest professor for advanced graduate Fiber Line course at Department of Forest Products and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden (2001).
  
  
• Outside expert for European Commission Research Directorate-General Invitation to the evaluation of proposals to "Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources" RTD programme (2001).
  
  
• Best Poster at International Pulp Bleaching Conference, Halifax (2000).
  
  
• Cited in Who’s Who in Plastics and Polymers (2000).
  
  
• 1999 IPST President’s Award for Education.
  
  
• 1999 Teacher of the Year, selected by IPST graduate students.
  
  
• Cited in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (1999-2002).
  
  
• Invited by Olle Alsholm, President of Skogsindustrins Tekniska Forskningsinstitut (STFI) for sabbatical research visit in the STFI Pulping and Bleaching Chemistry Group (1998).
  
  
• Research Associate Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada (1987-89).
  
  
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship (1985-87).
  
  
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Graduate Fellowship (1980-84).

Own Pedagogical Prizes Awarded

• 1999 IPST President’s Award for Education



• 1999 Teacher of the Year, selected by IPST graduate students

Student Awards Achieved under Ragauskas’ Supervision

• Fadi S. Chakar ACS Graduate Student Award - 2000



• James E. Sealey II Best IPST Ph.D. Student – 1997



• Troy M. Runge Best IPST Ph.D. Student – 1998



• Fadi S. Chakar Best IPST Ph.D. Student – 1999



• Fadi S. Chakar Best Poster at International Pulp Bleaching Conference - 2000.



• Fadi S. Chakar ACS Graduate Student Award – 2000



• Richard Chandra ACS Graduate Student Award – 2003