POTSDAM -- Clarkson University professor Ross Taylor, has been awarded Clarkson’s Lifetime Research Achievement Award; and associate professor Costel C. Darie was recognized for external funding exceeding $1 million.

The Lifetime Research Achievement Award is granted annually to recognize research by a tenured faculty member who is recognized internationally for a body of work that exemplifies the highest level of research accomplishment and has made a significant impact on their chosen field of study.

Taylor is the Liya Regel and Bill Wilcox Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Clarkson. He received his bachelor of science, master’s, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He joined the Clarkson in 1980.

Darie is teaches in the chemistry & biomolecular science area and becomes the 107th member of the Million Dollar Club.

The Million Dollar Club was established in 1998 to recognize Clarkson faculty and staff for their distinguished achievement by securing one million dollars or more of external funding.

Darie has been with Clarkson University since 2009. He has mentored over 60 undergraduate

students, 10 graduate students, four international visiting researchers and four Ph.D.-level scientists. He also had two Fulbright visitors (and a third one will arrive in August 2021) and several Erasmus+ exchange faculty and students.