Fellowship and Award Recipients
We are proud of the accomplishments of our current students and alumni. Many of our students are the recipients of prestigious fellowships & many of our alumni have gone on to have remarkable success in their careers.
Annually, we recognize a graduate with a Distinguished Alumni Award. We also have a Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series, allowing these scientists to come back and talk to the department about their lives and research.
Distinguished Alumni Award
- 2002 Dr. Phil Arkin, 1984 Ph.D.
- 2003 Dr. Ken Pickering, 1987 Ph.D.
- 2004 Dr. Mitch Goldberg, 2009 Ph.D.
- 2005 Dr. Muthuvel Chelliah, 1985 Ph.D.
- 2006 Dr. Diane Seidel, 1992 Ph.D.
- 2007 Dr. Ming Ji, 1989 Ph.D.
- 2008 Dr. Benjamin Kirtman, 1993 Ph.D.
- 2009 Dr. Paul Dirmeyer, 1992 Ph.D.
- 2010 Dr. Jae Schemm, 1981 Ph.D.
- 2011 Dr. Oreste Reale 1996 Ph.D.
- 2012 Dr. Kurt Mobley, 1977 Ph.D.
Fellowship Recipients
| Student | Year | Fellowship | Advisor |
| Chan, Steven | 2004 | NASA Earth System Science Fellowship | Nigam |
| Vant-Hull, Brian | 2004 | NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellwoship | Li |
| Kuhl, David | 2004 | NIA Fellowship | Szunyogh |
| Baker, Debra | 2005 | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Kalnay |
| Carty, Hezekiah | 2005 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fellowship | Nigam/Smith |
| Rabenhorst, Scott | 2005 | NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship | Whiteman/Zhang |
| Yegorova, Elena | 2006 | EPA Star Fellowship | Dickerson |
| Cohn, Alan | 2006 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Carton |
| Kang, Ji-Sun | 2006 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Kalnay |
| Zhou, Lei | 2006 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Murtugudde |
| Nowottnick, Edward | 2007 | NASA Earth System Science Fellowship | Colarco/Li |
| Zhou, Lei | 2007 | NASA Earth System Science Fellowship | Murtugudde |
| Loughner, Christopher | 2007 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship | Dickerson/Pickering |
| Kuhl, David | 2007 | NASA Graduate Student Researcher Program Fellowship | Szunyogh |
| Guan, Bin | 2007 | Anne Wylie Disseration Fellowship | Nigam |
| Greybush, Steven | 2007 | AMS Graduate Fellowship | Kalnay |
| Cook, Brian | 2007 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Zeng |
| Cipriani, James | 2008 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Pickering |
| Nussbaumer, Eric | 2008 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Pinker |
| Reagan, James | 2008-2009 | UMCP Graduate School Block Grant Fellowship | Nigam/Carton |
| Ganehshan, Manisha | 2009 | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Fellowship | Murtugudde |
| Sawyer, Virginia | 2009 | UMCP Block Grant Fellowship | Li, Z. |
| Johnson, Benjamin | 2009 | UMCP Block Grant Fellowship | Carton |
| Massimio Bollasina | 2009 | Anne Wylie Disseration Fellowship | Nigam |
| Cummings, Kristin | 2009 | AMS Graduate Fellowship | Pickering |
| Matus Martini | 2010 | CMPS Green Fund Award | Allen/Pickering |
| Niu, Xiaolei | 2010-2011 | Anne Wylie Dissertation Fellowship | Pinker |
| Baxter, Stephen | 2010-2011 | AMS Graduate Fellowship | Nigam |
| Cecelski, Stefan | 2011 | NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship | Zhang |
| Anderson, Daniel | 2011 | Flagship Fellowship | Dickerson |
| Greeley, Adam | 2011 | University Fellowship | Nigam |
| Zhao, Fang | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Kalnay |
| Ring, Allison | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Pickering |
| Johnson, Benjamin | 2011 | Green Fellowship | Carton |
| Shea, Dustin | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Zhang |
| Deng, Yanting | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Li |
| Esmaili, Rebekah | 2011 | Deans Fellowship | Tian/Zeng |
| Anderson, Daniel | 2011-2012 | Flagship Fellowship | Dickerson |
| Cecelski, Stefan | 2012 | Eugene Rasmusson Award | Zhang |
| Baxter, Stephen | 2012 | Summer Research Fellowship | Nigam |
| Hope, Austin | 2012 | Merit Award | |
| Hope, Austin | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | |
| Lukens, Katherine | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Berber |
| Sluka, Travis | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Miyoshi |
| New, David | 2012 | Deans Fellowship | Liang |
| Miller, William | 2012 | Deans Fellowship |
