President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists
THE WHITE HOUSE
For Immediate Release
November 5, 2010
Contact: Rick Weiss
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
202-456-6037
rweiss@ostp.eop.gov
PRESIDENT HONORS OUTSTANDING EARLY-CAREER SCIENTISTS
President Obama today named 85 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
The Presidential early career awards embody the high priority the Obama Administration places on producing outstanding scientists and engineers to advance the Nation’s goals, tackle grand challenges, and contribute to the American economy. Ten Federal departments and agencies join together annually to nominate the most meritorious scientists and engineers whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for assuring America’s preeminence in science and engineering and contributing to the awarding agencies' missions.
"Science and technology have long been at the core of America’s economic strength and global leadership," President Obama said. "I am confident that these individuals, who have shown such tremendous promise so early in their careers, will go on to make breakthroughs and discoveries that will continue to move our nation forward in the years ahead.”
The awards, established by President Clinton in 1996, are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President. Awardees are selected for their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology and their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach. Winning scientists and engineers have received research grants for up to five years to further their studies in support of critical government missions.
This year’s recipients are:
Department of Agriculture
Lee K. Cerveny, Forest Service
Michael L. Looper, Agricultural Research Service
Jeffrey S. Ross-Ibarra, University of California, Davis
Department of Commerce
R. David Holbrook, Jr., National Institute of Standards and Technology
Daniel S. Hussey, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ian B. Spielman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Matthew J. Menne, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Charles A. Stock, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
J. Christopher Taylor, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Defense
Andrea M. Armani, University of Southern California
Adam E. Cohen, Harvard University
Eugenio Culurciello, Yale University
Nathan C. Gianneschi, University of California, San Diego
Ryan C. Hayward, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Andrew A. Houck, Princeton University
Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University
Emilia Morosan, Rice University
Abhay P. Narayan, Columbia University
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Willie J. Padilla, Boston College
Eric Pop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michelle L. Povinelli, University of Southern California
Emily A. Weiss, Northwestern University
Martin W. Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Education
Catherine P. Bradshaw, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jennifer G. Cromley, Temple University
Department of Energy
Ilke Arslan, University of California, Davis
Eric D. Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jeremy T. Busby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gavin E. Crooks, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Juan Estrada, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dillon D. Fong, Argonne National Laboratory
Jacob M. Hooker, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Gianluca Iaccarino, Stanford University
De-en Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sergei V. Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Trent R. Northen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Elena V. Shevchenko, Argonne National Laboratory
Jacob G. Wacker, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Department of Interior
Jeanne L. Hardebeck, U.S. Geological Survey
Nicolas Luco, U.S. Geological Survey
Pamela L. Nagler, U.S. Geological Survey
Department of Veterans Affairs
Pamela J. VandeVord, Wayne State University
Rachel M. Werner, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Matthew J. Oliver, University of Delaware
Rahul Ramachandran, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
Dominique C. Bergmann, Stanford University
Edward A. Botchwey III, University of Virginia
Brian P. Brooks, National Eye Institute, NIH
Mauricio R. Delgado, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Amy N. Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alfredo Fontanini, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Manolis Kellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jessica Y. Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bradley A. Malin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Ana P. Martinez-Donate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kimberly Nixon, University of Kentucky
Caryn E. Outten, University of South Carolina
Muneesh Tewari, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Doris Y. Tsao, California Institute of Technology
Charles P. Venditti, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Amy J. Wagers, Joslin Diabetes Center
Ziv Williams, Massachusetts General Hospital
Joseph C. Wu, Stanford University School of Medicine
Haoxing Xu, University of Michigan
Martin T. Zanni, University of Wisconsin-Madison
National Science Foundation
Scott J. Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David M. Amodio, New York University
Alexandre M. Bayen, University of California, Berkeley
Rachel E. Bean, Cornell University
Magdalena Bezanilla, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jose H. Blanchet Mancilla, Columbia University
Virginia A. Davis, Auburn University
Jayne C. Garno, Louisiana State University
Michael T. Laub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Steven K. Lower, The Ohio State University
Jerome P. Lynch, University of Michigan
Malcolm A. MacIver, Northwestern University
Shelie A. Miller, University of Michigan
Reza Olfati-Saber, Dartmouth College
Laura E. Schulz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joshua W. Shaevitz, Princeton University
Ivan I. Smalyukh, University of Colorado at Boulder
Edo Waks, University of Maryland, College Park
Katrin Wehrheim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
