Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Fredrick Omenya from Binghamton, NY has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Fredrick Omenya shows the drive, maturity and patience of a passionate, successful researcher, and a colleague notes that "his humor an understanding" bring the entire research group together. He has already made a major mark in materials chemistry and battery reactions and has provided the key experimental showing the single-phase reaction mechanism for the olivine compound. He has published a dozen peer-reviewed papers about his pioneering work in leading chemistry journals, including Chemistry of Materials, the Journal of Materials Chemistry, the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He has also made more than a dozen presentations at national conferences. His nominator writes that he "is an extremely dedicated and hard worker" and "an outstanding team player" who sought out sophisticated facilities to conduct his research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, allowing him to better follow the chemical reactions occurring as a battery was charged and discharged.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.