 In 1987, the university acknowledged him with the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.He was promoted to associate professor in 1991, and to full professor in 1995, the same year he was named a fellow of the American Physical Society.He received the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award in 2002 for his work in CRDS, and in 2003, was granted the Earle K. Plyler Prize in Molecular Spectroscopy.