Dr Nurmawati's academic achievements, passion for chemistry education and service contributions have been recognized by the following honours and awards:

• Gold Award, Singapore Accreditation Council – Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (SAC-SINGLAS) of SPRING Singapore (2017) in the fields of Chemical & Biological and Environment
• Silver Award, Singapore Accreditation Council – Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (SAC-SINGLAS) of SPRING Singapore (2015) in the fields of Chemical & Biological and Environment
• Graduate (PhD) Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, Dept. of Chemistry
• Graduate (Masters) Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, Dept. of Chemistry
• Laboratory Teaching Assistant Award (two times), National University of Singapore, Dept. of Chemistry. Conferred by the Award, Grant and Scholarship Fund Committee and the Head of the Chemistry Department for receiving nomination by approaching eighty percent of TAs’ own students
• Lijen Industrial Award, National University of Singapore (Conferred by National University of Singapore to the best Honours Project Student in Applied Chemistry (2001))