2001 David Turnbull Lectureship Award from the Materials Research Society 2006 David Adler Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society 2013 Anneesur Rahman Prize from the American Physical Society 1996 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Outstanding Referee for Journal of the American Physical Society

M. Kim and J.R. Chelikowsky: "Simulated non-contact atomic force microscopy for GaAs surfaces based on real-space pseudopotentials,'' Appl. Surf. Sci. 303, 163 (2014).

N. Marom, R. A. DiStasio Jr., V. Atalla, S. Levchenko, A.M. Reilly, J.R. Chelikowsky, L. Leiserowitz, and A. Tkatchenko: ''Many-body dispersion interactions in molecular crystal polymorphism,'' Ang. Chemie 52, 6629 (2013).

N. Sai, R. Gearba, J. R. Tritsch, W.-I. Chan, A. Dolocan, J. R. Chelikowsky, K.Leung, X. Zhu: ''Understanding the Interfacial Dipole Field at the CuPc/C60 Interface: Theory and Experiment,'' J. of Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2173 (2012).

R. Viswanatha, D. Naveh, J. R. Chelikowsky, L. Kronik, and D. D. Sarma: ''Magnetic properties of Fe/Cu co-doped ZnO Nanocrystals,'' J. of Phys. Chem. Lett. 3, 2009 (2012).