Ufuk Kilic is winner of one of the three 2018 UNL College of Engineering Commendation Awards for his 2018 UNL Research Fair Poster presentation. He received the award in recognition for his poster entitled �Tayloring the optical properties of highly coherent Au-Si nano-bamboo plasmonic resonators�. The award was announced and honored at the annual College-wide Graduate Student Recognition Event on April 27, 2018. The winner of the award also receives a $200 cash prize from the College of Engineering.