Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. The White House, following recommendations from participating agencies, confers the awards annually. To be eligible for a Presidential Award, an individual must be a U.S. citizen, national or permanent resident. Some of the winning scientists and engineers receive up to a five-year research grant.

History

In February 1996, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), was commissioned by President Bill Clinton to create an award program that would honor and support the achievements of young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers in the fields of science and technology. The stated aim of the award is to help maintain the leadership position of the United States in science. Originally, 60 recipients received the PECASE award per year. Due to increased participation by the Department of Defense, this has increased to 100 per year. The 2002 PECASE awards were not announced until May 2004 due to bureaucratic delays within the Bush administration.

Agencies

The agencies participating in the PECASE Awards program are: Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution

Recipients

2013

On February 18, 2016, President Obama presented the following scientists with the award for 2013:

Department of Agriculture

• Renee Arias, National Peanut Research Laboratory
• Matthew Thompson, Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Kenong Xu, Cornell University

Department of Commerce

• Nathan Bacheler, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Adam Creuziger, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Gijs de Boer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Colorado-Boulder
• Tara Lovestead, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Andrew Ludlow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• James Thorson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department of Defense

• Pieter Abbeel, University of California-Berkeley
• Deji Akinwande, University of Texas-Austin
• Jin-Hee Cho, US Army Research Laboratory
• Sarah Cowie, University of Nevada-Reno
• Dino Di Carlo, University of California-Los Angeles
• Alon Gorodetsky, University of California-Irvine
• Elad Harel, Northwestern University
• Patrick Hopkins, University of Virginia
• Anya Jones, University of Maryland
• Colin Joye, Naval Research Laboratory
• Lena Kourkoutis, Cornell University
• Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Pennsylvania State University
• Timothy Ombrello, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Heather Pidcoke, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
• James Rondinelli, Drexel University
• Bozhi Tian, University of Chicago
• Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington

Department of Education

• Christopher Lemons, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
• Cynthia Puranik, University of Pittsburgh

Department of Energy

• Tonio Buonassisi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Milind Kulkarni, Purdue University
• Keji Lai, University of Texas-Austin
• Paul Ohodnicki, Jr., National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Michelle O'Malley, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina
• Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
• Michael Stadler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Melissa Teague, Idaho National Laboratory
• William Tisdale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jonathan Hopkins, University of California, Los Angeles
• Tammy Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• David Mascareñas, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Department of Health and Human Services

• Hillel Adesnik, University of California, Berkeley
• Cheryl Broussard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Samantha Brugmann, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Namandje Bumpus, Johns Hopkins University
• Jacob Carr, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Kafui Dzirasa, Duke University
• Camilla Forsberg, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Tina Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
• Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
• Jordan Green, Johns Hopkins University
• Katie Kindt, National Institutes of Health
• Andre Larochelle, National Institutes of Health
• Jennifer Lorvick, RTI International
• Courtney Miller, The Scripps Research Institute
• Kiran Musunuru, University of Pennsylvania
• David Pagliarini, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Sachin Patel, Vanderbilt University
• Amy Ralston, University of California Santa Cruz
• Carrie Reed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Ervin Sejdic, University of Pittsburgh
• Elizabeth Skidmore, University of Pittsburgh
• Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Muhammad Walji, The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston

Department of Interior

• Richard Briggs, U.S. Geological Survey
• Jeffrey Pigati, U.S. Geological Survey
• Maureen Purcell, U.S. Geological Survey

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Paul Marasco, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
• Panagiotis Roussos, James J. Peters VA Medical Center
• Erika Wolf, VA Boston Healthcare System

Environmental Protection Agency

• Rebecca Dodder, EPA
• Alex Marten, EPA

Intelligence Community

• Kregg Arms, National Security Agency
• Nicole Bohannon, Central Intelligence Agency
• Ashley Holt, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Jon Kosloski, National Security Agency
• David Loveall, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Whitney Nelson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• James Benardini, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Jin-Woo Han, NASA Ames Research Center
• Michele Manuel, University of Florida
• Andrew Molthan, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Colleen Mouw, Michigan Technological University
• Vikram Shyam, NASA Glenn Research Center

National Science Foundation

• Adam Abate, University of California at San Francisco
• Marcel Agueros, Columbia University
• Arezoo Ardekani, Purdue University
• Cullen Buie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Erin Carlson, Indiana University
• Antonius Dieker, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• Erika Edwards, Brown University
• Julia Grigsby, Boston College
• Todd Gureckis, New York University
• Tessa Hill, University of California - Davis
• Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia
• Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania
• David Masiello, University of Washington
• Daniel McCloskey, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
• Shwetak Patel, University of Washington
• Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
• Sayeef Salahuddin, University of California, Berkeley
• Jakita Thomas, Spelman College
• Joachim Walther, University of Georgia
• Kristen Wendell, University of Massachusetts-Boston
• Benjamin Williams, University of California-Los Angeles

2012

On December 23, 2013, President Obama presented the following scientists with the award for 2012:

Department of Agriculture

• Steven Cannon, Iowa State University
• Isis Mullarky, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Justin Runyon, U.S. Forest Service

Department of Commerce

• Gretchen Campbell, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Adam Clark, University of Oklahoma
• Alan Haynie, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• R. Joseph Kline, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Ana Rey, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado at Boulder
• Scott Weaver, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department of Defense

• Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University
• Mohamed El-Naggar, University of Southern California
• Gregory Fuchs, Cornell University
• Kristen Grauman, University of Texas at Austin
• Mona Jarrahi, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
• Lane Martin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Yael Niv, Princeton University
• Derek Paley, University of Maryland
• Greg Pitz, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Ronald Polcawich, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Rodney Priestley, Princeton University
• Jeremy Robinson, Naval Research Laboratory
• Onome Scott-Emuakpor, Air Force Research Laboratory
• Ramon van Handel, Princeton University
• David Weld, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Yongjie Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University

Department of Education

• Jeffrey Karpicke, Purdue University
• Young-Suk Kim, Florida State University

Department of Energy

• Brian Anderson, West Virginia University
• Theodore Betley, Harvard University
• Matthew Brake, Sandia National Laboratories
• Adrian Chavez, Sandia National Laboratories
• Gary Douberly, University of Georgia
• Mattan Erez, University of Texas at Austin
• Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University
• Daniel Kasen, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Meimei Li, Argonne National Laboratory
• Miguel Morales, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Jennifer Reed, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Seth Root, Sandia National Laboratories
• Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Department of Health and Human Services

• Debra Auguste, City College of New York
• Jessica Belser, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Jeremy Clark, University of Washington
• Andreea Creanga, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Damien Fair, Oregon Health and Science University
• Thomas Fazzio, University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Jessica Gill, National Institutes of Health
• Andrew Goodman, Yale University School of Medicine
• Aron Hall, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Xue Han, Boston University
• Susan Harbison, National Institutes of Health
• Richard Ho, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Shingo Kajimura, University of California at San Francisco
• Young Kim, Yale University School of Medicine
• Todd Macfarlan, National Institutes of Health
• Gaby Maimon, Rockefeller University
• Sandra McAllister, Harvard Medical School
• Quyen Nguyen, University of California at San Diego
• Sallie Permar, Duke University School of Medicine
• Katherine Radek, Loyola University Chicago
• Katherine Rauen, University of California at San Francisco
• Ida Spruill, Medical University of South Carolina
• Andrew Yoo, Washington University School of Medicine

Department of Interior

• Anna Chalfoun, U.S. Geological Survey
• Gavin Hayes, U.S. Geological Survey
• Burke Minsley, U.S. Geological Survey

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Karunesh Ganguly, San Francisco VA Medical Center
• Brian Head, VA San Diego Healthcare System
• Katherine Iverson, VA Boston Healthcare System
• Hardeep Singh, Houston VA Medical Center

Environmental Protection Agency

• Steven Thomas Purucker, Environmental Protection Agency

Intelligence Community

• Joeanna Arthur, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
• Lucy Cohan, Central Intelligence Agency
• Justin Jacobs, National Security Agency
• Steven Jaslar, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Daniel Stick, Sandia National Laboratories
• Charles Tahan, National Security Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Joshua Alwood, NASA Ames Research Center
• Douglas Hoffmann, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology
• Randall McEntaffer, University of Iowa
• Tamlin Pavelsky, University of North Carolina
• Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center

National Science Foundation

• Theodor Agapie, California Institute of Technology
• Javier Arce-Nazario, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
• Sarah Bergbreiter, University of Maryland at College Park
• Moises Carreon, University of Louisville
• Sigrid Close, Stanford University
• Raffaella De Vita, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Abigail Doyle, Princeton University
• Daniel Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Joel Griffitts, Brigham Young University
• Samantha Hansen, University of Alabama
• Rouslan Krechetnikov, University of California at Santa Barbara
• Tamara Moore, University of Minnesota
• Daniela Oliveira, Bowdoin College
• Jonathan Pillow, University of Texas at Austin
• Benjamin Recht, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• David Savitt, University of Arizona
• Noah Snavely, Cornell University
• Junqiao Wu, University of California at Berkeley
• Ahmet Yildiz, University of California at Berkeley

Smithsonian Institution

• Rossman Irwin III, National Air and Space Museum

2011

On July 23, 2012, President Obama presented the following scientists with the award for 2011:

Department of Agriculture

• Joseph E. Jakes, U.S. Forest Service
• Ian Kaplan, Purdue University
• Christina L. Swaggerty, Agricultural Research Service

Department of Commerce

• Anthony Arguez, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Ian Coddington, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Frank W. DelRio, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Jayne Billmayer Morrow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Kyle S. Van Houtan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Rebecca Washenfelder, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Department of Defense

• David M. Blei, Princeton University
• Ania Bleszynski Jayich, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Alejandro L. Briseno, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Lee R. Cambrea, Naval Air Research Intelligence
• Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
• Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology
• Craig J. Fennie, Cornell University
• Keith Edward Knipling, Naval Research Laboratory, Department of the Navy
• Wen Li, Wayne State University
• Timothy K. Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Cindy Regal, University of Colorado Boulder
• Matthew B. Squires, Air Force Research Laboratory, Department of the Air Force
• Joseph E. Subotnik, University of Pennsylvania
• Ao Tang, Cornell University
• C. Shad Thaxton, Northwestern University
• Maria Laina Urso, U.S. Army Research Institute for Environmental Medicine

Department of Education

• Li Cai, University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Energy

• Stanley Atcitty, Sandia National Laboratories
• Jeffrey W. Banks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Amy J. Clarke, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Derek R. Gaston, Idaho National Laboratory
• Christopher Hirata, California Institute of Technology
• Heileen Hsu-Kim, Duke University
• Thomas Francisco Jaramillo, Stanford University
• Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• John R. Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University
• Peter Mueller, Argonne National Laboratory
• Daniel B. Sinars, Sandia National Laboratories
• Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Heather Whitley, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Department of Health and Human Services

• Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard University
• Nihal Altan-Bonnet, Rutgers University
• Peter D. Crompton, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Margherita R. Fontana, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
• Ervin Ray Fox, University of Mississippi Medical Center
• Valerie Horsley, Yale University
• Steven T. Kosak, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Erica N. Larschan, Brown University
• Daniel R. Larson, National Cancer Institute
• Krista M. Lisdahl, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
• Emanual M. Maverakis, University of California, Davis
• Biju Parekkadan, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Jay Zachary Parrish, University of Washington
• Peter Philip Reese, University of Pennsylvania
• Niels Ringstad, Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine
• Pawan Sinha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Georgios Skiniotis, University of Michigan
• Beth Stevens, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital
• Justin Taraska, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Jennifer Rabke Verani, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
• Brendan M. Walker, Washington State University
• Lauren Bailey Zapata, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Department of the Interior

• Joseph P. Colgan, U.S. Geological Survey
• Karen R. Felzer, U.S. Geological Survey
• Justin J. Hagerty, U.S. Geological Survey

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Jeffrey R. Capadona, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veteran Affairs Medical Center
• Charlesnika T. Evans, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital
• Amy M. Kilbourne, Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System
• Kinh Luan Phan, Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Environmental Protection Agency

• Adam P. Eisele, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Mehdi Saeed Hazari, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Morgan B. Abney, Marshall Space Flight Center
• Ian Gauld Clark, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology
• Temilola Fatoyinbo-Agueh, Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jessica E. Koehne, Ames Research Center
• Francis M. McCubbin, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico
• Yuri Y. Shprits, University of California, Los Angeles

National Science Foundation

• Baratunde Aole Cola, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Brady R. Cox, University of Arkansas
• Meghan A. Duffy, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Joshua S. Figueroa, University of California, San Diego
• Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University
• Erin Marie Furtak, University of Colorado Boulder
• B. Scott Gaudi, The Ohio State University
• Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University
• Christopher A. Mattson, Brigham Young University
• David C. Noone, University of Colorado Boulder
• Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Alice Louise Pawley, Purdue University
• Amy Lucía Prieto, Colorado State University
• Mayly C. Sanchez, Iowa State University and Argonne National Laboratory
• Sridevi Vedula Sarma, Johns Hopkins University
• Suzanne M. Shontz, Pennsylvania State University
• Mariel Vázquez, San Francisco State University
• Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University
• Brent R. Waters, University of Texas, Austin
• Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, University of California, Los Angeles

2010

On September 26, 2011, President Obama honored the following scientists:

National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

• Rommie E. Amaro, University of California, Irvine
• Sonja M. Best, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• David T. Breault, Children's Hospital Boston
• John S. Brownstein, Children's Hospital Boston
• Brian S. Caffo, Johns Hopkins University
• Nicola J. Camp, University of Utah
• Pierre R. Comizzoli, Smithsonian Institution
• Chyke A. Doubeni, University of Massachusetts Medical School
• Jose C. Florez, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute
• James L. Gulley, National Cancer Institute
• W. Nicholas Haining, Harvard Medical School
• Thomas L. Kash, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
• John C. March, Cornell University
• Katherine L. O'Brien, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Carla M. Pugh, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
• Jamie L. Renbarger, Indiana University
• Sara L. Sawyer, University of Texas at Austin
• Hari Shroff, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
• Mary Jo Trepka, Florida International University
• Linda E. Wilbrecht, University of California at San Francisco

Department of Agriculture

• Laura L. Bellows, Colorado State University
• Jonathan G. Lundgren, Agricultural Research Service
• Samuel L. Zelinka, U.S. Forest Service

Department of Commerce

• Jeffrey A. Fagan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• James A. Morris, Jr., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Erin M. Oleson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• David E. Richardson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Kartik A. Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Jacob M. Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Department of Defense

• Michael S. Arnold, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Jeffrey W. Book, Naval Research Laboratory
• Tad T. Brunye, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center
• Dirk R. Englund, Columbia University
• Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Reuben H. Kraft, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
• Tonghun Lee, Michigan State University
• Anne J. McNeil, University of Michigan
• Aydogan Ozcan, University of California, Los Angeles
• Tomas A. Palacios, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sumita Pennathur, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Kyle M. Shen, Cornell University
• Amit Singer, Princeton University
• Stephen M. Spottswood, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory
• Joseph M. Teran, University of California, Los Angeles
• Lan Yang, Washington University in St. Louis

Department of Education

• Roy Levy, Arizona State University

Department of Energy

• Christian W. Bauer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Fotini Katopodes Chow, University of California, Berkeley
• Carole Dabney-Smith, Miami University
• David Erickson, Cornell University
• Daniel C. Fredrickson, University of Wisconsin—Madison
• Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan
• Gang Logan Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Alysia D. Marino, University of Colorado at Boulder
• Victoria J. Orphan, California Institute of Technology
• Wei-Jun Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Evgenya I. Simakov, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Interior

• Sasha C. Reed, U.S. Geological Survey
• David R. Shelly, U.S. Geological Survey

Department of Transportation

• Kristin C. Lewis, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Tanya Z. Fischer, Veterans Health Administration
• Christine M. Freeman, Veterans Health Administration
• B. Price Kerfoot, Veterans Health Administration and Harvard Medical School
• DKristina M. Utzschneider, Veterans Health Administration and University of Washington

Environmental Protection Agency

• Gayle S.W. Hagler, National Risk Management Research Laboratory
• David M. Reif, National Center for Computational Toxicology

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Jonathan W. Cirtain, Marshall Space Flight Center
• Ian M. Howat, The Ohio State University
• Gregory G. Howes, University of Iowa
• Benjamin A. Mazin, University of California, Santa Barbara

National Science Foundation

• Katherine E. Aidala, Mount Holyoke College
• Hatice Altug, Boston University
• Amir S. Avestimehr, Cornell University
• Joshua C. Bongard, University of Vermont
• David J. Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University
• Elizabeth S. Cochran, U.S. Geological Survey
• Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
• Xiangfeng Duan, University of California, Los Angeles
• Michael J. Escuti, North Carolina State University
• Demetra C. Evangelou, Purdue University
• Benjamin A. Garcia, Princeton University
• Tina A. Grotzer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Lasse Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
• Benjamin Kerr, University of Washington
• Benjamin L. Lev, Stanford University
• Elena G. Litchman, Michigan State University
• Yasamin C. Mostofi, University of New Mexico
• Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Andre D. Taylor, Yale University
• Claudia R. Valeggia, University of Pennsylvania
• Maria G. Westdickenberg, Georgia Institute of Technology

Smithsonian Institution

• Justin C. Kasper, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

2009

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

2008

Department of Agriculture

• David H. McNear Jr., University of Kentucky
• Dean E. Pearson, Rocky Mt. Res. Station
• Erica Spackman, Poultry Res. Lab/USDA

Department of Commerce

• Craig Brown, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Michael C. Coniglio, National Severe Storms Laboratory
• Dana H. Hanselman, Auke Bay Laboratory
• Pamela L. Heinselman, National Severe Storms Laboratory
• Dean DeLongchamp, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Till P. Rosenband, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Department of Defense

• David P. Arnold, University of Florida
• Seth R. Bank, University of Texas, Austin
• Christopher W. Bielawski, University of Texas, Austin
• Elizabeth Boon, Stony Brook University
• Markus J. Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Scott A. Craver, Binghamton University
• John O. Dabiri, California Institute of Technology
• Chris L. Dwyer, Duke University
• Gregory S. Engel, University of Chicago
• Thomas H. Epps III, University of Delaware
• Gregory A. Fiete, University of Texas, Austin
• Oliver Fringer, Stanford University
• Anthony Grbic, University of Michigan
• Carlos E. Guestrin, Carnegie Mellon University
• Michael A. Hickner, Penn State University
• Michael J. Hochberg, University of Washington
• Yu Huang, University of California, Los Angeles
• Gregory H. Huff, Texas A&M University
• Jacob L. Jones, University of Florida
• Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley
• Xiaoqin Li, University of Texas, Austin
• Mathew M. Maye, Syracuse University
• Leigh S. McCue-Weil, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Beverley J. McKeon, California Institute of Technology
• Anastasia H. Muliana, Texas A&M University
• Ryan P. O'Hayre, Colorado School of Mines
• Jiwoong Park, Cornell University
• Susan E. Parks, Penn State University
• Jason R. Petta, Princeton University
• Justin K. Romberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts, Duke University
• Benjamin R. tenOever, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
• Joel A. Tropp, California Institute of Technology
• Derek H. Warner, Cornell University
• Sharon M. Weiss, Vanderbilt University
• Patrick J. Wolfe, Harvard University
• Robert J. Wood, Harvard University
• Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University
• Jianglong Zhang, University of North Dakota
• Xiaolin Zheng, Stanford University
• Rashid Zia, Brown University

Department of Education

• Nonie K. Lesaux, Harvard University
• Katherine A. Rawson, Kent State University

Department of Energy

• Cecilia R. Aragon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Gary A. Baker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Joshua A. Breslau, Princeton Plasma Physics
• Gianluigi Ciovati, Thomas Jefferson Lab National Accelerator Facility
• Stefan P. Gerhardt, Princeton Plasma Physics
• Lynford L. Goddard, University of Illinois
• Jason Graetz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Jeffrey B. Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Thao D. Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University
• Paul Sorensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Ivan Vitev, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

• Melina R. Kibbe, Jesse Brown VA
• Alexander H. Sox-Harris, Palo Alto VA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Benjamin E. Smith, University of Washington
• Joshua K. Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

• Thomas P. Cappola, University of Pennsylvania
• Pablo A. Celnik, Johns Hopkins University
• Felicia D. Goodrum, University of Arizona
• Bruce J. Hinds III, University of Kentucky
• Helen H. Lu, Columbia University
• Ulrike Peters, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Jeremy F. Reiter, University of California, San Francisco
• Marisa Roberto, The Scripps Research Institute
• Erica O. Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute
• Oscar E. Suman, Shriner's Hospital, University of Texas
• Kristin V. Tarbell, The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
• Gonzalo E. Torres, University of Pittsburgh

National Science Foundation

• Maria M. Calbi, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• Amy B. Cerato, University of Oklahoma
• Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois
• Monica F. Cox, Purdue University
• Cameron R. Currie, University of Wisconsin
• Joel L. Dawson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jimmy de la Torre, Rutgers University
• Roland G. Fryer Jr., Harvard University
• Sean Hallgren, Penn State University
• John M. Herbert, Ohio State University
• Steven D. Jacobsen, Northwestern University
• Charles R. Keeton II, Rutgers University
• Chun Ning Lau, University of California, Riverside
• Hao Lin, Rutgers University
• Harmit S. Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
• Rada F. Mihalcea, University of North Texas
• Scott R. Sheffield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine
• Adam D. Smith, Penn State University
• Joy K. Ward, University of Kansas

2007

Department of Agriculture

• Valerie T. Eviner, University of California, Davis - USDA, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• Wendell R. Haag, USDA, Forest Service
• Zhongli Pan, USDA, Agricultural Research Service

Department of Commerce

• Yi Ming, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• William H. Rippard, National Institute for Standards and Technology
• Raymond Simmonds, National Institute for Standards and Technology

Department of Defense

• Mung Chiang, Princeton University
• Stefano Curtarolo, Duke University
• Chad D. Fertig, University of Georgia
• Maya Gupta, University of Washington
• Brian A. Lail, Florida Institute of Technology
• Zhenqiang Ma, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Ravi Ramamoorthi, Columbia University
• Purnima Ratilal, Northeastern University
• Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
• Rachel A. Segalman, University of California, Berkeley
• Max Shtein, University of Michigan
• Enrique R. Vivoni, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
• Krista S. Walton, Kansas State University
• Haiyan Wang, Texas A&M University
• Shengli Zhou, University of Connecticut

Department of Education

• Gregory A. Fabiano, University of Buffalo
• Nicole M. McNeil, University of Notre Dame

Department of Energy

• Mickey G. Chiu, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Hooman Davoudiasl, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Bert Debusschere, Sandia National Laboratories
• Jennifer S. Martinez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Wei Pan, Sandia National Laboratories
• Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory
• Yugang Sun, Argonne National Laboratory
• Jeanine Cook, New Mexico State University

Department of Health and Human Services:National Institutes of Health

• Daphne W. Bell, National Human Genome Research Center, National Institutes of Health
• Thomas A. Blanpied, University of Maryland, School of Medicine
• Kevin C. Eggan, Harvard University
• Raymond Habas, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Amy Heimberger, University of Texas
• James C. Iatridis, University of Vermont
• Francis S. Lee, Cornell University
• Michael J. MacCoss, University of Washington
• Elliott H. Margulies, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
• Suchitra Nelson, Case Western Reserve University
• Laura E. O'Dell, University of Texas, El Paso
• Li Zhang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Mary Bethe Humphrey, Oklahoma City VA Medical Center
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Charles Kankelborg, Montana State University
• Anna M. Michalak, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Merav Opher, George Mason University

National Science Foundation

• Monica Medina, University of California, Merced
• Michael Elowitz, California Institute of Technology
• Sonia Altizer, University of Georgia
• Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University
• Stergios I. Roumeliotis, University of Minnesota
• Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley
• Nicholas Feamster, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Jeremy Gray, Yale University
• Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Xi Chen, Columbia University
• Sanjay Lall, Stanford University
• Andre W. Marshall, University of Maryland, College Park
• Aaron M. Thomas, University of Idaho
• Joan L. Walker, Boston University
• Kim M. Cobb, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Michael Yu, Johns Hopkins University
• Alexander Gamburd, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Anastasia Volovich, Brown University
• Kathrina M. Miranda, University of Arizona
• Paul Torrens, Arizona State University

2006

Department of Agriculture

• Douglas D. Bannerman, USDA Agricultural Research Service
• Sarah D. Brooks, Texas A&M University
• Samuel A. Cushman, USDA Forest Service

Department of Commerce

• Casey Brown, Columbia University
• Mark Scheuerell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Joshua C. Bienfang, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Department of Defense

• Odest C. Jenkins, Brown University
• Kenneth C. Slatton, University of Florida
• Jonathan E. Spanier, Drexel University
• Jacob L. Roberts, Colorado State University
• Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
• Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University

Department of Education

• Carol McDonald Connor, Florida State University

Department of Energy

• Kyle Cranmer, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Brian J. Kirby, Cornell University
• Jeffrey W. Kysar, Columbia University
• Julia Laskin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Ho Nyung Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Shawn Newsam, University of California, Merced
• Carlos Pantano-Rubino, University of Illinois
• Len A. Pennacchio, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

• Katrina Akassoglou, University of California, San Diego
• Jeanmarie Houghton, University of Massachusetts
• Jay R. Hove, University of Cincinnati
• Sven-Eric Jordt, Yale University
• Susan M. Kaech, Yale University
• Bruce D. McCandliss, Cornell University
• Alexandra C. McPherron, National Institutes of Health
• Gus R. Rosania, University of Michigan
• J. Peter Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
• Ravindra N. Singh, Iowa State University
• Michelle P. Winn, Duke University
• Adam T. Woolley, Brigham Young University

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Sterling C. Johnson, William S. Middleton VA Hospital
• William S. Yancy, Jr., Durham VA Medical Center

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Olivier Guyon, Subaru Telescope
• Matthew Rodell, Goddard Space Flight Center

National Science Foundation

• Sonya Bahar, University of Missouri-St. Louis
• Bahar Biller, Carnegie-Mellon University
• Matthew J. Fouch, Arizona State University
• Eric C. Greene, Columbia University
• Pradeep R. Guduru, Brown University
• Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University
• Dean S. Karlan, Yale University
• Brian G. Keating, University of California, San Diego
• Kiran Kedlaya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Edward Kohler, University of California, Los Angeles
• J. Nicholas Laneman, University of Notre Dame
• Chekesha M. Liddell, Cornell University
• Elliot Moore II, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Amy J. Pruden-Bagchi, Colorado State University
• Carlos Rinaldi, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
• James P. Schmiedeler, Ohio State University
• Ahna Skop, University of Wisconsin
• Yi Tang, University of California, Los Angeles
• Joseph W. Thornton, University of Oregon, Eugene
• Lisa M. Zurk, Portland State University

2005

• Mark C. Hersam, Northwestern University

Department of Education

• Laura Justice, University of Virginia

National Science and Technology Council

• Dr. Carlos Del Castillo, Program Scientist for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C..

2003

Department of Agriculture

• Timothy E. Link, University of Idaho
• Curtis P. Van Tassell, Agricultural Research Service
• Patrick A. Zollner, Forest Service North Central Research Station

Department of Commerce

• Sim D. Aberson, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
• Scott A. Diddams, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Jon R. Pratt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Kyle W. Shertzer, Southeast Fisheries Science Center

Department of Defense

• Brian P. Anderson, University of Arizona
• Vladimir Bulovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Rustem F. Ismagilov, University of Chicago
• Lyon B. King, Michigan Technological University
• Christopher A. Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Moe Z. Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Energy

• Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
• Saskia Mioduszewski, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Catherine M. Snelson, University of Nevada
• Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Donald P. Vasco, Jr., Tennessee Technological University
• Brian D. Wirth, University of California, Berkeley

Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

• Matthew I. Banks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Leonardo Belluscio, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Linzhao Cheng, Johns Hopkins University
• William DeBello, University of California, Davis
• Michael B. Eisen, University of California, Berkeley
• Stuart Forman, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Peter D. Kwong, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
• Anne M. Moon, University of Utah
• Sean J. Morrison, University of Michigan
• Steven D. Munger, University of Maryland School of Medicine
• Stephanie B. Seminara, Harvard Medical School
• Brian D. Strahl, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Department of Veterans Affairs

• Steven M. Asch, Los Angeles Veterans Health Services
• Albert C. Lo, West Haven Veterans Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Stuart D. Bale, University of California, Berkeley
• Carlos Del Castillo, Stennis Space Center
• Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay, Harvard University

National Science Foundation

• Treena L. Arinzeh, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Paola Barbara, Georgetown University
• Carla E. Caceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Harry J. Dankowicz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Daniel R. Gamelin, University of Washington
• Arjun M. Heimsath, Dartmouth College
• Joseph Henrich, Emory University
• Jennifer S. Lerner, Carnegie Mellon University
• Yoky Matsuoka, Carnegie Mellon University
• Roxana A. Moreno, University of New Mexico
• Kara L. Nelson, University of California, Berkeley
• Erica L. Plambeck, Stanford University
• Carla Mattos, North Carolina State University
• Juan G. Santiago, Stanford University
• Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California
• Sandeep K. Shukla, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Kimmen Sjölander, University of California, Berkeley
• Elisabeth Smela, University of Maryland, College Park
• Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland, College Park
• Ravi D. Vakil, Stanford University

1998

Department of Agriculture

• John Dobrinsky, USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Service
• Krishna Niyogi, University of California at Berkeley
• Brian J. Palik, Forest Service North Central Forest Experiment Station

Department of Commerce

• Michael H. Bergin, University of Colorado Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, NOAA (now Georgia Tech)
• Sharon C. Glotzer, Material Sciences and Engineering Laboratory, NIST
• Anthony J. Kearsley, Information Technology Laboratory, NIST
• Joseph A. Shaw, Environmental Technology Laboratory, NOAA (now Montana State University)

Department of Defense

• Daniel J. Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Elizabeth C. Dickey, University of Kentucky
• Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego
• John D. O'Brien, University of Southern California
• Robert G. Parker, Ohio State University
• Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota

Department of Energy

• Mari Lou Balmer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Toyna L. Kuhl, University of California at Santa Barbara
• James E. Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Roya Maboudian, University of California at Berkeley
• Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Christopher P. Palmer, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
• Gary P. Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

• Alan E. Mast, VA Medical Center
• Richard N. Pierson, VA Medical Center

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Mitchell S. Albert, Longwood Medical Research Center
• Howard Pearlman, University of Southern California
• Shobita Satyapal, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Azadeh Tabazadeh, NASA Ames Research Center
• Paul O. Wennberg, California Institute of Technology
• Andrew Westphal, Space Science Laboratory, University of California

National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

• Angelika B. Amon, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
• Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University
• Mark E. Brezinski, Massachusetts General Hospital
• David D. Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
• Brian D. Dynlacht, Harvard University
• Ulrike A. Heberlein, San Francisco General Hospital
• Linda A. Hicke, Northwestern University
• Effie W. Petersdorf, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Gregory J. Quirk, Urb. Punto Oro
• Jeffrey Struewing, National Cancer Institute, NIH
• Mark Von Zastrow, University of California
• Matthew Waldor, New England Medical Center, #41

National Science Foundation

• Mario Affatigato, Coe College
• Eric I. Altman, Yale University
• Nalini Ambady, Harvard University
• Alexander Barvinok, University of Michigan
• Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Janet Conrad, Columbia University
• Christopher J. Diorio, University of Washington
• Shirley J. Dyke, Washington University
• Rhonda F. Drayton, University of Illinois - Chicago
• Cassandra L. Fraser, University of Virginia
• Julie A. Jacko, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Robert B. Jackson, University of Texas - Austin
• Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan
• Elizabeth A. Lada, University of Florida
• Gregory H. Leazer, University of California - Los Angeles
• Gina M. MacDonald, James Madison University
• Scot Martin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• Hudson K. Reeve, Cornell University
• Venugopal Veeravalli, Cornell University
• Daniel Walczyk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1995 National Science Foundation

• Nancy Butler Songer, University of Colorado

See also

• Presidential Young Investigator Award

External links

• Department of Energy's PECASE Award winners
• NIH PECASE Award winners, recent years
• NIH PECASE Award winners, archive