Pagano (center) accepts the American Chemical Society/Dreyfus Foundation National Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences from ACS President, Bassam Shakhashiri (left), and Richard Zare (right).
Visiting Scholar | 2019-2021 | University of Tartu, Estonia - Excellence in Analytical Chemistry program (European Union & Erasmus Mundus) |
Open@RIT Fellow | 2021 | Open@RIT (Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Sloan Foundation) |
Elected Full Member, Sigma Xi | 2020 | Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society |
Volunteerism Award | 2018 | American Chemical Society, Rochester Section |
Named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) | 2018 | Royal Society of Chemistry; London, U.K. |
Fulbright Specialist | 2017 | University of Tartu, Estonia- Institute of Chemistry; Fulbright Commission, U.S. Dept. of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs |
Excellence in Teaching Award | 2016 | Science Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) |
Outstanding Undergraduate Science Teacher Award (OUSTA) | 2016 | Society for College Science Teachers (SCST)/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)/Co-Sponsored by Springer |
Augustine Silveira Jr., Distinguished Lecturer | 2014 | State University of New York, Oswego |
Provost's Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award | 2013 | RIT |
| Outstanding Career Achievement Award | 2013 | Tufts University |
| United States Professor of the Year Award | 2012 | Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education |
| Named to the “Forty Under 40” List | 2012 | Rochester Business Journal |
| National Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into the Chemical Sciences | 2012 | Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation/ American Chemical Society |
| Institute Faculty Research Award | 2012 | RIT |
Named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACSF) | 2011 | American Chemical Society |
Stanley C. Israel Award | 2008 | American Chemical Society |
ChemLuminary Award (w/ Rochester Section ACS) | 2008 | American Chemical Society |
Dawan L. Albritton Faculty Humanitarian Award | 2007 | NTID |
Salutes to Excellence Award | 2007 | American Chemical Society |
| Richard & Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching | 2005 | RIT |