Tran B. Nguyen (grad alum of Nizkorodov lab) won The Sheldon K. Friedlander Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research.

This award, which is presented at the 2015 AAAR annual meeting, recognizes an "outstanding dissertation by an individual who has earned a doctoral degree". Tran defended her PhD dissertation "Molecular Composition and Chemical Transformation of Secondary Organic Aerosols from Biogenic Precursors" at UCI in 2012. She is currently working as postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and will soon start her independent faculty career at the University of California, Davis.