Nuckolls is named a 2007 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists finalist The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists have been created to celebrate the excellence of our most noteworthy and innovative young scientists from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
July 2006: Colin Nuckolls is promoted to Full Professor
Nuckolls is awarded the 2004 New York City Mayor's Medal for Excellence in Science for a Young Investigator
July 2004: Colin Nuckolls is Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure Nuckolls is promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure. He joined the faculty in July 2000.
Colin Nuckolls is awarded a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award for 2004 The award is intended to support and encourage young scholars who represent excellence in both academic research and teaching.
Colin Nuckolls is awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for 2004 These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.
Colin Nuckolls is awarded the a National Science Foundation CAREER award for 2003 The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century.
Colin Nuckolls is awarded the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), James D. Watson Investigator Award For the 2002-3 fiscal year, NYSTAR will make ten two-year grants to early career investigators at academic, public and not-for-profit private research institutions in New York State.
Colin Nuckolls is awarded the 2002 Dupont Young Faculty Award The DuPont Young Faculty Award was first introduced in the USA in 1968. The grant sponsors young faculty members who, within five years of full time appointment, have produced highly original research.
Colin Nuckolls is awarded The Beckman Young Investigator Award for 2002 The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.