| 26 | 1st Year Murphy Fellowship (2004 -2005) Awarded to Derek Shiell |
| 27 | Terminal Dissertation Year Cabell Fellowship (2004 - 2005) Awarded to Yajun Wei |
| 28 | Motorola Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2005- 2005) Awarded to Tom Nelson |
| 29 | 1st Year Murphy Fellowship (2004 - 2005) Awarded to Tom Nelson |
| 30 | Research Training Period Award, Prix de la Fondation from Ecole Polytechnique, France (2005) Awarded to Pierre-Yves Delaunay |
| 31 | Elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2004) Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 32 | Elected as Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) (2004) Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 33 | Best Paper Award at the SPIE Photonics West Optoelectronics ‘04 Symposium Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 34 | Elected as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (2004) Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 35 | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2001 - 2004) Awarded to Ryan McClintock |
| 36 | SPIE Educational Student Scholarship (2004) Awarded to Allan Evans |
| 37 | 1st Year Murphy Fellowship (2003 - 2004) Awarded to Allan Evans |
| 38 | 1st Year Murphy Fellowship (2003 -2004) Awarded to Andrew Hood |
| 39 | Residential College Fellow Assistant Researcher Award (FARA) (2003 - 2004) Awarded to Derek Shiell |
| 40 | Motorola Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2001 - 2004) Awarded to Derek Shiell |
| 41 | Motorola Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2003 - 2004) Awarded to Lisa Doris |
| 42 | SPIE Educational Student Scholarship (2004) Awarded to Allan Evans |
| 43 | Best ECE Graduate Student Poster in Solid State/Photonics (2004) Awarded to Allan Evans |
| 44 | Best Paper Award at the SPIE Photonics West Optoelectronics ‘04 Symposium Awarded to Allan Evans |
| 45 | Best PhD Thesis from the ECE Department (2004) Awarded to Jutao Jiang |
| 46 | R.F. Bunshah Award 2003 for Best Paper, “Passivation of Type II (InAs/GaSb) Superlattices for VLWIR FPA Applications,” presented at the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) in San Diego, CA, May 2003 Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 47 | Elected as the first woman Fellow of International Engineering Consortium (IEC) (2003) Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 48 | Nominated for the Northwestern University McCormick Teacher of the Year Award (2002 - 2003) Awarded to Dr. Manijeh Razeghi |
| 49 | National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship (2000-2003) Awarded to Aaron Gin |
| 50 | Motorola Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2002 - 2003) Awarded to John David |