2019 University Student Leadership Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Leader of the Year, Mimosa Sarma

2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Zhenning Cao 

2013 Gerondelis Foundation Scholarship ($5000), Despina Nelie Loufakis 

2011 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad ($6000), Tao Geng 

2011 Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Travel Grant Award, Yihong Zhan 

2011 MicroTAS CBMS Travel Grant Award, Tao Geng 

2009 Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Travel Grant Award, Yihong Zhan 

2009 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis (one of the two Purdue awardees), Jun Wang 

2009 Departmental Outstanding PhD Student Award, Jun Wang 

2009 Bilsland Fellowship, Jun Wang 

2008 American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Travel Grant Award, Jun Wang

2008 Purdue University SURF Best Young Researcher Award, Yuemin Celina Chee (undergraduate, Cornell University) 

2006 American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Travel Grant Award, Hsiang-Yu Wang 

2006 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Oral Guard Presentation Competition for District C (Region VI and VII), 2nd place, Nashley Mascarenhas (ME, undergraduate) 

2005 American Electrophoresis Society (AES) Travel Grant Award, Hsiang-Yu Wang