Group Awards:
Dept of Energy Early Career Research Program (DOE ECRP) - 875K : https://news.iu.edu/college/live/news/49070-chemistrys-georgescu-group-awarded-dept-of-energy
international Workshop on Oxide Electronics Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research https://news.iu.edu/college/live/news/48274-chemistry-professor-wins-prestigious-oxide
NSF DMR Solid State Chem grant w Sara Skrabalak on Photoluminescent Oxyhalides (550K): https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/8/21/skrabalak-and-georgescu-groups-receive-nsf-dmr-solid-state-chemistry-grant-to-study-photoluminescent-bismuth-lone-pair-materials
And student awards:
National Awards
NSF GRFP:
Madison Genslinger (as yr 1 PhD student), sole winner in the US in the Materials Research - Materials Theory category &
Emily Ward (alumna, now at Princeton) in Materials Research - Materials Chemistry, performing both theory and experiment.
College Level Awards:
John and Wendy Kindig Fellowship: Md. Rajbanul Akhond
Department Level Awards:
C500 - best 1st yr research write-up award: Md. Rajbanul Akhond.
Associate Instructor (TA) award - Madison Genslinger. She is the second consecutive student in the group to win after Varsha Kumari in 2024-2025.
Siedle Materials Fellowship - Varsha Kumari
Additionally, our students have secured other awards and opportunities. These include Carina Jacobson’s undergraduate summer research through SURF at NIST in DC, Varsha and Madison’s computational quantum materials summer school in Canada - and Madison’s NSF travel grant supporting her, as well as a travel award for Akhond from the department.