Awards, Honors and Other Recognitions

  • 2017 Golden Goose award, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2012 Dean’s award for outstanding achievement in research/scholarship, College of Forestry, Oregon State University
  • 2009 the First Annual Entrepreneurs and Innovators award by Austin Entrepreneurship Program of Oregon State University, April 4, 2009.   
  • 2008 Wall Street Journal World Technology Innovation Award, a runner-up in Environment Category.  This was among 28 awards selected from more than 700 nominations that were submitted from more than 30 countries.
  • 2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, the US Environmental Protection Agency
  •       Archer Daniels Midland Award for Best Paper in Engineering/Technology in 2004 by American Oil Chemists’ Society (Li, K., S. Peshkova, and X. Geng. 2004. Investigation of soy protein-kymene adhesive systems for wood composites. J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 81(5):487-491)
  • Emerging Faculty Scholar Award, Oregon State University Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, May 2002