Associate Professor Steffen Rebennack (EB) was recently awarded the INFORMS ENRE “Young Researcher Prize of 2015". The ENRE Young Researcher Prize is awarded to one or more young researcher(s) for an outstanding paper on the application of OR/MS to an important problem in energy, natural resources, or the environment. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of promising researchers who are at the beginning of their academic or industrial career.

Associate Professor Matt Posewitz (CH) co-authored a paper published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: "Critical role of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii ferredoxin-5 in maintaining membrane structure and dark metabolism Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.”

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor Bo Wu and College of William and Mary Assistant Professor Xu Liu won best paper for "ScaAnalyzer: A Tool to Identify Memory Scalability Bottlenecks in Parallel Programs” in the Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in Austin, Texas.

Associate Professor Christopher Higgins (CEE) received a 2015 Excellence in Review Award from the Environmental Science & Technology journal.

Steve Sonnenberg, professor and Charles Boettcher Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Geology (GE), was selected to receive the 2016 Honorary Member of the House Award for the House of Delegates of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. AAPG is the world’s premier professional association for explorationists, with over 40,000 members in 129 countries.

Mines had additional honorees at the recent 2015 Society of Exploration Geophysists (SEG) annual meeting: