AWARDS

2010

2009

• János Szépvölgyi was awarded the certificate of merit for his work in university education in field of environment protection by the Hungarian Chamber of Engineers on January 29, 2009.

2008

• István Szanka got a certificate of merit of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from Tamás Németh, General Secretary of HAS, for his outstanding work on December 11, 2008.
• János Szépvölgyi was the recipient of the Varga József Award and Medal while János Móczó received the University Medal at the meeting of the Chemical Technology Committee on December 9, 2008.
• Péter Mezey and Gábor László Zügner won the Young Scientist Award while Klára Kereszturi got special honorable mention at the Science Days of the Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on December 5, 2008.
• Undergraduate students supervised by Professor Béla Iván won the following prizes at the Scientific Student Conference 2008 of the Eötvös Loránd University:
  György Kasza - distinguished 1st prize
  Ákos Szabó - 2nd prize
• Undergraduate students, supervised by our colleagues, won the following prizes at the Scientific Student Conference of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics:
  Dóra Tátraaljai (supervised by Enikő Földes) - 1st prize
  Csaba Kenyó (supervised by János Móczó) - 2nd prize
  Gábor Pénzes (supervised by Eniko Földes) - 3rd prize
• The Hungarian Chemical Society Prize of Excellence was awarded to Amália Soltész for her MS thesis entitled “Synthesis of hyperbranched poly(methyl methacrylate) from dental filling monomers” at the XXXIst Chemical Presentation Days in Szeged on October 27, 2008.
• János Szépvölgyi has been awarded the Knight Cross, the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic, granted by the President of the Hungarian Republic on the occasion of March 15 th.
• Béla Pukánszky received the Albert Szentgyörgyi Award for his outstanding work in University Education from István Hiller, Minister of Culture and Education, on January 22.

2007

• Béla Iván received the Master Teacher gold medal from the National Scientific Student Council on October 12, 2007. http://www.elte.hu/kituntetesek/mestertanar
• The poster of Györgyi Szarka, Márta Szesztay and Béla Iván entitled "Environmentally benign degradation of poly(vinyl chloride), and analysis of the products with infrared spectroscopy and gel permeation chromatography" won 2nd prize at the Centenarium Conference of the Hungarian Chemical Society.
• AndrásTóth received the Scientist Award at the Science Days of the Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007.
• Gergely Kali and Ildikó Kriston won the Young Scientist Award at the Science Days of the Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007.
• The project entitled "Fast Atom Beam Surface Engineering" of András Tóth and his coworkers was among the winners of the ValDeal Project Competition.
• Undergraduate students , supervised by Béla Iván, head of the Department of Polymer Chemistry and Materials Science, won several prizes at the final contest of the National Scientific Student Conference (Szeged, April 2-4, 2007):
  - Györgyi Szarka 2nd Prize and the Environmental Chemistry and Technology Special Prize from BorsodChem Co.
  - Klára Verebélyi 2nd Prize
  - Amália Soltész 3rd Prize and Special Innovation Prize from Bipolisz Co.
  - Csaba Fodor 3rd Prize

2006

• Mihály T. Beck received the degree of Honorary Doctor from the University of Szeged.
• Imre Bertóti was awarded Pro Arte Chemica medal by the Chemical Research Center.
• Sándor Szabó became a honorary professor of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
• Péter Groh Werner was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006.
• Zoltán Károly won the Young Scientist Award at the Science Days of the Chemical Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006.