- Received the Best Paper Award for Van Osch, W. and Coursaris, C.K. (2015). Tracing the Evolution of Social Media Research: Topics and Theories.Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Economics, Business, and Management, Bali, Indonesia, May 6-9, 2015.
- Received the Best Paper Award in HCI and Consumer Health Informatics mini-track (and nominated for Best Paper in Healthcare track), for Coursaris, C.K., Spoelstra, S. L., Given, B., Sikorskii, A., Majumder, A., DeKoekkoek, T., Schueller, M., Ridenour, K., Wormser, M., and Given, C. W. (2015). A Health Belief Messaging Framework and a Randomized Controlled Trial of an SMS-based Intervention for Cancer Patient Outcomes. Proceedings of the 48th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, January 5-8, 2015.
- 2012: Received the Best Paper Award at the AIS SIGHCI pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), for Van Osch, W., and Coursaris, C.K. (2012). The Duality of Social Media: Enabling Structuration and Socialization through Organizational Communication. Orlando, Florida, December 15.
- 2010: Inducted in Phi Beta Delta (Alpha Alpha Chapter) Honor Society for International Scholars
- 2010: Nominated for the best paper award, AIS SIGHCI pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), for Coursaris, C.K., Yun, Y., and Sung, J. Understanding Twitter’s adoption and use continuance: the Synergy between Uses and Gratifications and Diffusion of Innovations. St. Louis, U.S.A., Dec. 12-15.
- 2009 – 2010: Received the Outstanding Faculty Award by MSU’s Senior Council for his commitment to and achievements in undergraduate education
- 2009: Received the ITERA Innovative Course Award at the 2009 ITERA Conference in Atlanta (note: ITERA is the International Telecommunication Education and Research Association)
- 2007: Nominated for the best paper award, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), for Coursaris, C.K., Hassanein, K, Head, M., and Bontis, N. The Impact of Distractions on the Usability and Adoption of Mobile Devices for Wireless Data Services
- 2007: People’s Choice Poster award, World Usability Day, for Coursaris, C.K., Swierenga, S., and Watrall, E. (2007). Effects of Aesthetics on Website Usability.
- 2004 – 2005: Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Provincial – held at McMaster University
- 2004 – 2005: Graduate Scholarship (Ph.D.), McMaster University, waived due to OGS
- 2003 – 2004: Academic Scholarship, Hellenic-Canadian Federation of Ontario
- 2003 – 2004: Graduate Scholarship (Ph.D.), McMaster University
- 2002 – 2003: Academic Scholarship, Hellenic-Canadian Federation of Ontario
- 2002 – 2003: Entrance Scholarship (Ph.D.), McMaster University
- 2001: Valedictorian Finalist, McMaster University
- 2000 – 2001: M.B.A. Dean’s Honour List, McMaster University
- 1991: National Honour Society, American Community Schools of Athens, Greece