*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