text: *1979 Can Test Award by the Chemical Institute of Canada
  *1983 Science & Engineering Research Council Senior Fellowship
  *1983 Co-recipient of an IR-100 Award
  *1984 Meggers Award by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy
  *1984 Lester W. Strock Award by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy 
  *1984 Anachem Award
  *1985 Chemical Instrumentation Award by the American Chemical Society
  *1986 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
  *1986 Theophilus Redwood Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
  *1987 American Chemical Society Award in Analytical Chemistry
  *1987 Tracy M. Sonneborn Teacher-Scholar Award from Indiana University
  *1987 Elected to Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  *1988 R&D 100 Award by Research & Development Magazine
  *1989 ACS Award in Spectrochemical Analysis from the Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society
  *1989 Indiana Academy of Science, Fellow
  *1991 Received the Gold Medal of the Quality Control Academy of the Upjohn Company
  *1991 Pergamon/Spectrochimica Acta Atomic Spectroscopy Award
  *1992 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry
  *1992 Awarded a second Lester W. Strock Award
  *1993 Distinguished Faculty Award from the College of Arts and Sciences alumni of Indiana University
  *1993 Golden Key National Honor Society, Honorary Member
  *1995 Honorary Professor of Jilin University, Jilin, China
  *1996 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists
  *1996 Meggers Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy
  *1998 ACS-Analytical Division Award for Excellence in Teaching
  *1999 Awarded Honorary Membership in the Society for Applied Spectroscopy
  *1999-00 Director of the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Instrumentation and Measurement Science at Indiana University
  *2000 Appointed to the Robert and Marjorie Mann Chair of Chemistry
  *2000-01 Indiana Academy of Science Speaker of the Year
  *2001 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award
  *2002 Trustees Teaching Award at Indiana University
  *2004 New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award
  *2004 Monie A. Ferst Award (Sigma Xi)
  *2004 Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Fellow
  *2005 Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow
  *2007 CSI XXXV Award, sponsored by Wiley
  *2009 Maurice Hasler Award
  *2010 USP Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Standard-Setting Process
  *2010 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science
  *2011 American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellow
  *2011 R&D 100 Award by Research and Development Magazine
  *2012 Distinguished Service Award by the American Chemical Society-Analytical Division
  *2012 Ralph and Helen Oesper Award by the University of Cincinnati
  *2020 Bicentennial Medal