Communications of the ACM
President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists
President Obama earlier this month named 85 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 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
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