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The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the
United States federal government The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the Federation#Federal governments, national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 ...
on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. The
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, 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
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(NSTC) was commissioned by President
Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...
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. In 2008, the number of awardees was increased to 100 annually. The 2002 PECASE awards were not announced until May 2004 due to bureaucratic delays within the Bush administration. The 2013 PECASE awards were announced in February 2016 after a 2-year delay. The Trump administration announced the 2015, 2016, and 2017 awardees in 2019 with the awards presented by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.


Agencies

The agencies participating in the PECASE Awards program are: *
Department of Agriculture An agriculture ministry (also called an) agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture. The ministry is often headed by a minister f ...
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Department of Commerce The United States Department of Commerce is an executive department of the U.S. federal government concerned with creating the conditions for economic growth and opportunity. Among its tasks are gathering economic and demographic data for bu ...
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Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to: Current departments of defence * Department of Defence (Australia) * Department of National Defence (Canada) * Department of Defence (Ireland) * Department of National Defense (Philippin ...
* Department of Energy * Department of Education * Department of Health and Human Services:
National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
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Department of the Interior The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government headquartered at the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street NW in Washington, D.C. It is responsible for the mana ...
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United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, ...
* Department of Transportation * Department of Veterans Affairs *
Environmental Protection Agency A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding th ...
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National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...
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Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...
* United States Intelligence Community


Recipients


1996

Following the creation of PECASE in February 1996, President Bill Clinton announced 60 recipients on December 16 of that year:


Department of Agriculture

* Pina Fratamico, Agricultural Research Service *
Barbara Gartner Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as ...
, Oregon State University *
Kenton Rodgers Kenton may refer to: Places Canada *Kenton, Manitoba South Africa *Kenton-on-Sea United Kingdom *Kenton, Devon *Kenton, London **Kenton station, Kenton Road, Kenton, London *Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear *Kenton, Suffolk ** Kenton r ...
, North Dakota State University


Department of Commerce

*
Eric Cornell Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is an American physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose–Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel ...
, NIST Physics Laboratory * John Daniel, NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories *
Roland Pozo Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...
, NIST Computing and Applied Mathematics Laboratory *
David Stensrud David Jonathan Stensrud (born 1961) is an American meteorologist recognized for numerical modeling and forecasting of hazardous Synoptic scale meteorology, synoptic and Mesoscale meteorology, mesoscale weather and for incorporating new data into m ...
, NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories


Department of Defense

*
Andrea Bertozzi Andrea Louise Bertozzi (born 1965) is an American mathematician. Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics. Education and career She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton ...
, Duke University *
Nesbitt Hagood Nesbitt may refer to: Places * Nesbitt, County Durham, mentioned in the List of civil parishes in County Durham, England * Nesbitt, Manitoba, Canada * Nesbit, Northumberland, a hamlet and former civil parish near Wooler, in Northumberland, England ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Gail Kineke Gail may refer to: People *Gail (given name), list of notable people with the given name Surname * Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), French Hellenist scholar * Max Gail (born 1943), American actor * Sophie Gail (1775–1819), French singer and ...
, University of South Carolina *
Paul Laibinis Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Venkatakrishnan Selvamanickam, Intermagnetics General Corporation * Peter Sercel, University of Oregon


Department of Energy

* Shenda M. Baker, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Richard A. Cairncross, Sandia National Laboratories * Christine Hartmann, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * John P. Hill, Brookhaven National Laboratory * Philip M. Jardine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Michael Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Department of Veterans Affairs

*
Melissa Clark Melissa Clark is an American food writer, cookbook author and ''New York Times'' columnist. She is the author of over 40 cookbooks and has received multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation and IACP (International Association of Culinary ...
, VA Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee and Vanderbilt University * Joseph Cubells, VA Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut and Yale University


Environmental Protection Agency

* David Barnes, University of Arkansas * Keith Grasman, Wright State University * Qing-Huo Liu, New Mexico State University


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* Dora Angelaki, University of Mississippi Medical Center * Christopher Chyba, Princeton University *
Andrea Donnellan Andrea Donnellan is a principal investigator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She studies earthquakes using geodetic imaging. Biography She studied at Ohio State University, University of Southern California, and California Institute of Tech ...
, Jet Propulsion Laboratory *
Heidi Sosik Heidi Sosik is an American biologist, oceanographer, and inventor based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Career She is a senior scientist in the Stanley W. Watson Chair for Excellence in Oceanography; Director of WHOI's Center for Oc ...
, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * Ellen Stofan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Kimberly Weaver, Johns Hopkins University


National Institutes of Health

10 awardees: * Allison Doupe, University of California, San Francisco * Ali Hemmati-Brivanlou, Rockefeller University * Paul Khavari, Stanford University * Aron Lukacher, Emory University * Deirdre Meldrum, University of Washington * Lee Ann Niswander, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute for Cancer Research *
David Self David Christopher Self (born January 8, 1970) is an American screenwriter best known as the author of the screenplays for the films '' The Haunting'', ''Road to Perdition'', and '' The Wolfman''. Early life David Self was born in Texas City, Tex ...
, Yale University * Morgan Sheng, Massachusetts General Hospital *
Mark Walter Mark Walter is an American businessman and the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, a privately held global financial services firm with more than $325 billion in assets under management and headquarters in Chicago and New York. H ...
, University of Alabama, Birmingham * Keith Woerpel, University of California, Irvine


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * David T. Burke, University of Michigan * Erick M. Carreira, California Institute of Technology * Fengshan Frank Chen, Florida International University * Peter J. Delfyett, University of Central Florida * Juan J. de Pablo, University of Wisconsin at Madison *
Bonnie J. Dorr Bonnie Jean Dorr is an American computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and machine translation. She is a professor emerita of computer science and linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park, an associate direct ...
, University of Maryland *
Weinan E Weinan E (; born September 1963) is a Chinese mathematician. He is known for his pathbreaking work in applied mathematics and machine learning. His academic contributions include novel mathematical and computational results in stochastic differe ...
, New York University * Marc A. Edwards, University of Colorado *
Mark A. Gluck Mark A. Gluck is a professor of neuroscience at Rutgers–Newark in New Jersey, director of the Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, and publisher of the public health newsletter, ''Memory Loss and the Brain''. He works at the interface between n ...
, Rutgers University * Marilyn R. Gunner, City College of the City University of New York * Daniel P. Hess, University of South Florida * Robert T. Kennedy, University of Florida * Michael R. Kremer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Charles M. Marcus, Stanford University *
Massoud Pedram Massoud Pedram ( fa, مسعود پدرام) (born in babolsar) is an Iranian American computer engineer noted for his research in green computing, energy storage systems, low-power electronics and design, electronic design automation and quantum c ...
, University of Southern California * Ruey-Jen Hwu Sadwick, University of Utah * John W. Sutherland, Michigan Technical University * Todd A. Verdoorn, Vanderbilt University Medical Center * Michael E. Wysession, Washington University * John Yin, Dartmouth College


1997

On October 23, 1997, President Bill Clinton announced 60 recipients of the PECASE for that year:


Department of Agriculture

* Eric J. Gustafson, North Central Forest Experiment Station * Laura Lee McConnell, Environmental Chemistry Laboratory * Sara L. F. Sunden, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign


Department of Commerce

*
Gregory T. Linteris Gregory Thomas Linteris (born October 4, 1957 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American scientist who flew as a payload specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1997. Education Linteris grew up in Demarest, New Jersey, where he attended No ...
, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST * Christopher R. Monroe, Physics Laboratory, NIST * Erik N. Rasmussen, University of Oklahoma * Thomas J. Silva, Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory, NIST


Department of Defense

* Nicholas L. Abbott, University of California, Davis * David S. Citrin, Washington State University * Robert L. Clark Jr., Duke University * Elliot Douglas, University of Florida * Joel T. Johnson, Ohio State University * Ying-Cheng Lai, University of Kansas * Peter Schiffer, University of Notre Dame


Department of Energy

* Bruno S. Bauer, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Andrew Brandt, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory * David J. Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Lori A. Freitag, Argonne National Laboratory * Thomas J. Matula, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * David E. Newman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * John Shanklin, Brookhaven National Laboratory


Department of Veterans Affairs

* J. Michael Gaziano, VA Medical Center * Martin R. Gluck, VA Medical Center


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* Elfatih A. B. Eltahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Jonathan A. Foley, University of Wisconsin at Madison * Cila Herman, Johns Hopkins University *
Mark V. Hurwitz Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finn ...
, University of California at Berkeley * Todd T. Schlegel, Johnson Space Center * Eun-Suk Seo, University of Maryland at College Park


National Institutes of Health

11 awardees: * Russ B. Altman, Stanford University *
Anirvan Ghosh Anirvan Ghosh ( bn, অনির্বাণ ঘোষ) is an American neuroscientist and Biotech executive. He served as the Global Head of Neuroscience Discovery at F. Hoffmann-La Roche from 2011 to 2016 and as founding CSO of E-Scape Bio fr ...
, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine *
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte (born December 12, 1960, in Hellín, Albacete) is a Spanish biochemist and developmental biologist. He is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Cal ...
, Salk Institute * Macrae F. Linton, Vanderbilt University * Peter Mombaerts, Rockefeller University * Michael K. Rosen, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute for Cancer Research * Patrick J. Stover, Cornell University * Michele S. Swanson, University of Michigan Medical School * Roland M. Tisch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Sharon L. Walsh, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center * David A. Wassarman, National Institute of Child Health and Development


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: *
Jill Bargonetti Jill Bargonetti is an American professor at the City University of New York with dual appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. Her research is focused on tumor suppressor protein p53 and its role as an oncogene when it is mutated ...
, Hunter College of City University of New York *
Peter N. Belhumeur Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...
, Yale University * Geoffrey E. Hill, Auburn University * Daniel P. Lathrop, Emory University * Jon P. Longtin, State University of New York at Stony Brook * Timothy A. McKay, University of Michigan * Ann M. Sastry, University of Michigan * Steven W. McLaughlin, Georgia Institute of Technology *
Renée J. Miller Renée (without the accent in non-French speaking countries) is a French/Latin feminine given name. Renée is the female form of René, with the extra –e making it feminine according to French grammar. The name Renée is the French form of th ...
, Ohio State University * David P. Morton, University of Texas at Austin * Linda K. Nozick, Cornell University * Kate Okikiolu, University of California at San Diego * Lori A. Setton, Duke University * Jaswinder P. Singh, Princeton University * Eileen M. Spain, Occidental College * Florence I. Thomas, Dauphin Island Sea Lab * Lonny L. Thompson, Clemson University * Daniel W. van der Weide, University of Delaware * Patricia A. Van Zandt, Johns Hopkins University * Miguel Velez-Reyes, University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez


1998

On February 10, 1999, President Bill Clinton announced the 60 recipients of the PECASE for 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 Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...
, University of California, Santa Barbara * Elizabeth C. Dickey, University of Kentucky *
Miroslav Krstic Miroslav may refer to: * Miroslav (given name), a Slavic masculine given name * ''Young America'' (clipper) or ''Miroslav'', an Austrian clipper ship in the Transatlantic case oil trade * Miroslav (Znojmo District), a town in the Czech Republic S ...
, 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 *
Tonya L. Kuhl Tonya may refer to: * Tonya (name), the given name, and people by that name * Tonya, Turkey, a town and district of Trabzon Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey * Tonya, Uganda * Ton'ya (問屋) trade brokers of ancient Japan See also * I, ...
, 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 and 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 Andrew Westphal (born 28 July 1994) is an English cricketer who plays for the Mexico national cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium fast bowler. He made his first-class debut for Cardiff MCCU against Glamorgan on ...
, Space Science Laboratory, University of California


National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

12 awardees: * Angelika B. Amon, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research * Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University *
Mark E. Brezinski Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finn ...
, Massachusetts General Hospital *
David D. Chang David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, University of California, Los Angeles * Brian D. Dynlacht, Harvard University * Ulrike A. Heberlein, San Francisco General Hospital *
Linda A. Hicke Linda may refer to: As a name * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake i ...
, 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


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Mario Affatigato, Coe College * Eric I. Altman, Yale University *
Nalini Ambady Nalini Ambady (March 20, 1959 – October 28, 2013) was an Indian-American social psychologist and a leading expert on nonverbal behavior and interpersonal perception. She was born in Calcutta, India and earned her bachelor’s degree at Lady S ...
, Harvard University *
Alexander Barvinok Alexander I. Barvinok (born March 27, 1963) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan. Barvinok received his Ph.D. from St. Petersburg State University in 1988 under the supervision of Anatoly Moiseevich Vershik. In 1999 Barvi ...
, University of Michigan * Pei Cao, University of Wisconsin–Madison *
Janet Conrad Janet Marie Conrad (born 1963) is an American experimental physicist, researcher, and professor at MIT studying elementary particle physics. Her work focuses on neutrino properties and the techniques for studying them. In recognition of her effor ...
, Columbia University *
Christopher J. Diorio Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει ...
, University of Washington * Shirley J. Dyke, Washington University * Rhonda F. Drayton, University of Illinois, Chicago * Cassandra L. Fraser, University of Virginia *
Julie A. Jacko Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhav ...
, University of Wisconsin–Madison * Robert B. Jackson, University of Texas Austin * Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan *
Elizabeth Lada Elizabeth Lada is an American astronomer whose self-described research interests include "understanding the origin, properties, evolution and fate of young embedded clusters within molecular clouds". Life Lada received her Bachelor of Science in ...
, 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


1999

On April 11, 2000, President Bill Clinton announced 59 recipients of the PECASE for 1999:


Department of Agriculture

* Ann M. Donoghue, Livestock and Poultry Sciences Institute (Beltsville, Maryland) * Emile S. Gardiner, U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station * Smita Mohanty, State University of New York at Stony Brook


Department of Commerce

* Pamela M. Chu, National Institute of Standards and Technology * John G. W. Kelley, NOAA/National Ocean Service *
Nathan J. Mantua Nathan or Natan may refer to: People * Nathan (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name * Nathan (surname) *Nathan (prophet), a person in the Hebrew Bible *Nathan (son of David), biblical figure, son of King David a ...
, University of Washington * Eric L. Shirley, National Institute of Standards and Technology


Department of Defense

* Jeffrey Todd Borggaard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * Gert Cauwenberghs, Johns Hopkins University * Aaron W. Harper, Texas A&M University *
Daphne Koller Daphne Koller ( he, דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one o ...
, Stanford University * Kathryn Moler, Stanford University * Kimberly M. Wasserman, University of Michigan


Department of Energy

* Xian Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Ken R. Czerwinski, Los Alamos National Laboratory *
David M. Ford David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
, Sandia National Laboratories * Kenneth M. Kemner, Argonne National Laboratory * John F. Mitchell, Argonne National Laboratory * Lynne E. Parker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Department of Veterans Affairs

* Mary C. Nakamura, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco * Peter A. Ubel, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

*
Waleed Abdalati Waleed Abdalati held the position of NASA Chief Scientist from 3 January 2011 through December 2012. Abdalati was named to this position on 13 December 2010 by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Abdalati previously served NASA as Head of Cryospher ...
, Goddard Space Flight Center * Gregory P. Asner, University of Colorado * Michael Loewenberg, Yale University School of Medicine * Fiona Anne Harrison, California Institute of Technology * Preete Verghese, Smith Kettewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco


National Institutes of Health

13 awardees: * Linda Barlow, University of Denver * Annelise Barron, Northwestern University * Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley * Janean Holden, University of Illinois, Chicago * Judith James, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation * Celia Moens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center *
Marina Picciotto Marina Rachel Picciotto (born June 22, 1963) is an American neuroscientist known for her work on the role of nicotine in addiction, memory, and reward behaviors. She is the Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and professor in the Child St ...
, Yale University School of Medicine * David Russel, University of Washington * Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine * Ida Sim, University of California, San Francisco * Ronald Summers, Clinical Center, NIH * Weidong Wang, National Institute on Aging, NIH * Xiaoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Linnea M. Avallone, University of Colorado Boulder * John Chapin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Donald DeVoe, University of Maryland, College Park * Brenda L. Dingus, University of Wisconsin–Madison * Dennis E. Discher, University of Pennsylvania * Richard J. Elston, University of Florida * Steven C. George, University of California, Irvine * Lori L. Graham, University of Virginia * Victoria L. Interrante, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * Predrag Jelekovic, Columbia University * Yishi Jin, University of California, Santa Cruz * Felicia Keesing, Siena College *
Steven D. Levitt Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book ''Freakonomics'' and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Dubner). Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the ...
, University of Chicago * Todd L. Lowary, Ohio State University * Ken Ono, Pennsylvania State University, University Park * Feniosky Pena-Mora, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Sanjay Raman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
Richard W. Roberts Richard Warren Roberts (born 1953) is an inactive United States federal judge, Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Early life Roberts was born in New York City, New York (state), ...
, California Institute of Technology * Jeffrey S. Urbach, Georgetown University * Zhuomin Zhang, University of Florida


2000

On October 24, 2000, President Bill Clinton announced 58 recipients of the PECASE for 2000:


Department of Agriculture

* Randall S. Singer, University of Illinois * Cindy D. Davis, USDA, Agricultural Research Service


Department of Commerce

* Mark William Keller, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Deborah Shiu-Lan Jin, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Robert Paul Dziak, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, PacificMarine Environmental Laboratory * Shawn Marie McLaughlin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service


Department of Defense

* John Gregory Morrisett, Cornell University * Angela M. Belcher, University of Texas at Austin * Barbara Spang Minsker, University of Illinois * Carol A. Clayson, Purdue University * Naoki Saito, University of California, Davis


=AFOSR

= * SonBinh T. Nguyen, Northwestern University


Department of Energy

* Richard B. Lehoucq, Sandia National Laboratories * Zhihong Lin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory *
Zheng-Tian Lu The Francis M. Pipkin Award is a physics prize given by the American Physical Society (APS) every two years since 1999. The award was established in 1997 by the American Physical Society's the Topical Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental ...
, Argonne National Laboratory * Aaron L. Odom, Los Alamos National Laboratory *
Jonas C. Peters Jonas C. Peters (born 1971 in Chicago, Illinois) is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology and Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute. He has contributed to the development of catalysts and photocatal ...
, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Andrey Zheludev, Brookhaven National Laboratory


Department of Veterans Affairs

*
Eric J. Huang The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ai ...
, San Francisco VA Medical Center * Margot S. Damaser, Hines VA Medical Center


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

*
Michael E. Brown Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including ...
, California Institute of Technology * Dana Warfield Longcope, Montana State University * Michael J. Turmon, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Janice M. Yelle, NASA Johnson Space Center * Paul Houser, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center * Yeqiao Wang, University of Rhode Island


National Institutes of Health

12 awardees: * Philip Ashton-Rickardt, University of Chicago * S. Barak Caine, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital * Geoffrey A. Chang, Scripps Research Institute *
Christopher S. Chen Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει ...
, Johns Hopkins University *
Orna Cohen-Fix Orna may refer to: Dress * Orna (garment), an garment item from South Asia, commonly worn with shalwar kameez People * Orna Angel (born 1962), Israeli politician * Orna Banai (born 1969), Israeli actress, comedian, and entertainer * Orna Barbivai ...
, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health *
Jeffrey S. Diamond Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Jeffrey'' (1995 film), a 1995 film by Paul Rudnick, based on Rudnick's play of the same name * ''Jeffrey'' (2016 film), a 2016 Dominican Republic documentary film ...
, NINDS, National Institutes of Health * Michael L. Dustin, Washington University School of Medicine * Karl Kandler, University of Pittsburgh * Monica Kraft, National Jewish Medical and Research Center *
Charles E. Murry Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...
, University of Washington * Leslie S. Ritter, University of Arizona at Tucson * Henrique von Gersdorff, Oregon Health Sciences University


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Sara C. Billey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Reinhold Blumel, Wesleyan University * Wilfredo Colón, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute * John N. DuPont, Lehigh University * Carl T. Friedrichs, College of William and Mary * Theresa Gaasterland, Rockefeller University *
Susan C. Hagness Susan Carol Hagness is an American electrical engineer and applied electromagnetics researcher. She is the Philip Dunham Reed Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Early l ...
, University of Wisconsin-Madison *
Youssef Hashash Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning "God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew name ...
, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign *
Scott M. Husson Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskat ...
, Clemson University * Edwin C. Kan, Cornell University * John David Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley * Alon Y. Levy, University of Washington *
Garrick E. Louis Garrick may refer to: * Garrick (name), for the name's origin and people with either the surname or given name, the most famous being: ** David Garrick (1717–1779), English actor * Garrick Club, a London gentlemen's club named in honour of David ...
, University of Virginia * Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California-Davis * David L. Patrick, Western Washington University * Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Anne S. Robinson, University of Delaware * Jenny R. Saffran, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Arthur R. Smith, Ohio University * Kim Venn, Macalester College


2001

On June 26, 2002, President George W. Bush announced 60 PECASE recipients for 2001:


Department of Defense

* Douglas Edward Adams, Purdue University * Raffaello D'Andrea, Cornell University * Ronald Paul Fedkiw, Stanford University * Scott Robert Manalis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Jeffrey Dean Niemann, Pennsylvania State University * Peter Alexander Traykovski, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution


Department of Agriculture

* Morgan Grove, Forest Service, Burlington, Vermont * Daniel Strawn, University of Idaho * David L. Suarez, Agricultural Research Service, Athens, Georgia


Department of Commerce

* Steven S. Brown, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado * John M. Butler, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, Colorado * Eric K. Lin, National Institute of Standards and Technology


Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

12 awardees: * Andrew E. Arai, National Institutes of Health * Kelly N. Botteron, Washington University School of Medicine * Regina M. Carelli, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *
Marshall S. Horwitz Marshall may refer to: Places Australia * Marshall, Victoria, a suburb of Geelong, Victoria Canada * Marshall, Saskatchewan * The Marshall, a mountain in British Columbia Liberia * Marshall, Liberia Marshall Islands * Marshall Islands, an ...
, University of Washington Medical School * Jack J. Jiang, University of Wisconsin *
John A. Klingensmith John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...
, Duke University *
Michael P. Rout Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
, The Rockefeller University * William R. Schafer, University of California, San Diego *
Melissa J. Spencer Melissa is a female given name. The name comes from the Greek word μέλισσα (''mélissa''), "bee", which in turn comes from μέλι (''meli''), "honey". In Hittite, ''melit'' signifies "honey". ''Melissa'' also refers to the plant ''M ...
, University of California, Los Angeles * William Martin Usrey, University of California, Davis *
Leslie B. Vosshall Leslie Birgit Vosshall (born July 5, 1965) is an American neurobiologist and currently an Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator and the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University. ...
, The Rockefeller University *
David Wotton David Charles Wotton AM (born 14 August 1942) is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly between 1975 and 2002, representing the electorates of Murray and Heysen. Aside from the ...
,
University of Virginia School of Medicine The University of Virginia School of Medicine (UVA SoM) is the graduate medical school of the University of Virginia. The school's facilities are on the University of Virginia grounds adjacent to Academical Village in Charlottesville, Virginia. ...


Department of Energy

* Ian M. Anderson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * T. Vince Cianciolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Kenneth A. Gall, University of Colorado at Boulder * Mark C. Herrmann, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Paul M. Ricker, University of Chicago * Z. John Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology * Jizhong Zhou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Department of Veterans Affairs

* Jeffrey R. Smith, VA Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee * James A. Tulsky, VA Health Services Research and Development Service Center of Excellence in Durham, North Carolina


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

*
James J. Bock James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguati ...
, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory * Stephane Coutu, Pennsylvania State University * James H. Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center *
William Mell William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...
, University of Utah * Mark A. Moline, California Polytechnic State University *
Cheryl A. Nickerson Cheryl is a female given name common in English speaking countries. There are several prevailing theories about its etymology. The most common is that it has Italo-Celtic roots and is an Anglicised version of either the French name Cherie (from ...
, Tulane University Health Sciences Center


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Philip John Bart, Louisiana State University * Karen Jane Burg, Clemson University * Brian David Conrad, University of Michigan * Steven Andrew Cummer, Duke University * Elizabeth Anna Davis, University of Michigan * Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology * Douglas John Emlen, University of Montana *
Michael C. Fitzgerald Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953) is a professor of fine arts and director of the program in art history at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. After his A.B. in 1976 from Stanford University, FitzGerald obtained both his MBA and Ph. ...
, Duke University *
Charles Forbes Gammie Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...
, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign * Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware * Richard Brent Gillespie, University of Michigan * Satyandra Kumar Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park * C. Allan Guymon, University of Southern Mississippi * Sheena Sethi Iyengar, Columbia University *
Veena Misra Veena Misra is an engineer from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for her contributions to metal electrodes and high-K dielectrics for CMOS ...
, North Carolina State University * Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Mona Singh, Princeton University * Linda K. Weavers, Ohio State University *
Erik Winfree Erik Winfree (born September 26, 1969) is an American applied computer scientist, bioengineer, and professor at California Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher into DNA computing and DNA nanotechnology. In 1998, Winfree in col ...
, California Institute of Technology * Jorge Gabriel Zornberg, University of Colorado Boulder


2002

The 57 honorees in 2002:


Department of Agriculture

* Tara H. McHugh, Western Regional Research Center * Mahfuzur Sarker, Oregon State University * Therese M. Poland, Forest Service North Central Research Station


Department of Commerce

* Andrew W. Bruckner, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * Gabriel A. Vecchi, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration *
Jun Ye Jun Ye (; born 1967) is a Chinese-American physicist at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the University of Colorado Boulder, working primarily in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Education & career ...
, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Sae Woo Nam, National Institute of Standards and Technology


Department of Defense

* David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford University * Hari C. Manoharan, Stanford University * Michelle L. Pantoya, Texas Tech University * Bridget Rogers, Vanderbilt University * Venkatesh R. Saligrama, Boston University * Gregory Neil Tew, University of Massachusetts


Department of Energy

* Jeffrey C. Blackmon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Edmond Chow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory * Jonathan E. Menard, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory * Christine Orme, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Krishnakumar Garikipati, University of Michigan *
Carl Boehlert Carl may refer to: *Carl, Georgia, city in USA *Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name *Carl², a TV series * "Carl", an episode of tel ...
, Alfred University


Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

11 awardees: * Dana Boatman, Johns Hopkins University * Susan K. Buchanan, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases * William Carlezon, Harvard Medical School * David Cummings, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco * Kirk Deitsch, Weill Medical College, Cornell University *
Abby Dernburg Abby F. Dernburg is a Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a Faculty Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Educati ...
, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Marilyn Diaz, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences * Catherine Drennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Andrew Griffin, National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders * Valery I. Shestapalov, University of Miami School of Medicine *
Richard Walker Richard Walker, Rick, Ricky, or Dick Walker may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Richard Walker (baritone) (1897–1989), English singer and actor Law and politics * Richard Walker (MP) (1784–1855), British Member of Parliament for Bury, 1832 ...
, Oregon Health and Science University


Department of Veterans Affairs

* Gary E. Bryson, West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center * Richard Z. Lin, State University of New York at Stony Brook


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* J. Marshall Shepherd, Goddard Space Flight Center *
Mark Simons Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finn ...
, California Institute of Technology * Eric R. Weeks, Emory University *
Thomas Zurbuchen Thomas Hansueli Zurbuchen (born 1968) is a Swiss-American astrophysicist. From October 2016 until the end of 2022, he was the longest continually running Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA. Prior to this, he was ...
, University of Michigan


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Jennifer G. Becker, University of Maryland * Squire J. Booker, Pennsylvania State University * Susmita Bose, Washington State University * Ian Dell'Antonio, Brown University * J. Christian Gerdes, Stanford University *
Robert Ghrist Robert W. Ghrist (born 1969) is an American mathematician, known for his work on topological methods in applied mathematics. Life and Work Ghrist received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo in 1991, and ...
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Amy Greenwald, Brown University * Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology * Jason M. Haugh, North Carolina State University * Jionghua (Judy) Jin, University of Arizona * Julia Kubanek, Georgia Institute of Technology * Mark E. Lewis, University of Michigan * Jia G. Lu, University of California at Irvine * Thomas McDade, Northwestern University * George J. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania * N. Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University * Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, University of California at Berkeley * Ion Stoica, University of California at Berkeley * Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology * John R. Wakeley, Harvard University


2003

On September 9, 2004, President George W. Bush announced 57 honorees for 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 Rustem F. Ismagilov is a Russian-American chemist. He is the John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Early life and education Ismagilov was born in 1973 in Ufa, Russi ...
, University of Chicago * Lyon B. King, Michigan Technological University *
Christopher Schuh Christopher A. Schuh (born August 4, 1975) is an American metallurgist. He is the Danae and Vasilis Salapatas Professor in Metallurgy in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Schuh was e ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Moe Z. Win Moe Z. Win ( my, မိုးဇော်ဝင်း, ) is a Burmese-American mathematician and electrical engineer known for his work in wireless communications. He is currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His cur ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Department of Energy

* Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories *
Saskia Mioduszewski Saskia Mioduszewski is a nuclear physicist and professor at Texas A&M University. Education Mioduszewski completed an undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics in 1994 at North Carolina State University. In 2000, she obtained her PhD i ...
, Brookhaven National Laboratory * Jian Shen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Catherine M. Snelson, University of Nevada * Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *
Donald P. Visco Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is partly derived from a misinterpretation of the ...
, Jr., Tennessee Technological University * Brian D. Wirth, University of California, Berkeley


Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

12 awardees: * 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 Michael Bruce Eisen (born April 13, 1967) is an American computational biologist and the editor-in-chief of the journal eLife. He is a professor of genetics, genomics and Developmental biology, development at University of California, Berkeley. He ...
, 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 Sean J. Morrison is a Canadian-American stem cell biologist and cancer researcher. Morrison is the director of Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, a nonprofit research institute established in 2011 as a joint venture ...
, 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 Carlos may refer to: Places ;Canada * Carlos, Alberta, a locality ;United States * Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County * Carlos, Minnesota, a small city * Carlos, West Virginia ;Elsewhere ...
, Stennis Space Center *
Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is an American Planetary science, planetary scientist known for studying Nebular hypothesis, planet formation, planetary geology, and materials science. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis in th ...
, Harvard University


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Treena L. Arinzeh, New Jersey Institute of Technology *
Paola Barbara Paola Barbara (22 July 1912 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1978. She was sometimes credited as Pauline Baards. Life and career Born in Rome as Paola Proto, after her fi ...
, Georgetown University * Carla E. Cáceres, 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 Joseph Henrich (born 1968) is an American professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Prior to arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia. He is interested i ...
, Emory University * Jennifer S. Lerner, Carnegie Mellon University *
Yoky Matsuoka Yoky Matsuoka (松岡陽子 Matsuoka Yōko, born c. 1972 in Japan) is the CEO and Founder of Yohana (an independent subsidiary of Panasonic). She was the CTO of Google Nest, a co-founder of Google X and previously held roles as VP of Technolog ...
, Carnegie Mellon University * Roxana A. Moreno, University of New Mexico * Kara L. Nelson, University of California, Berkeley * Erica L. Plambeck, Stanford University *
Carla Mattos Carla is the feminized version of Carl, Carlos or Charles, from ''ceorl'' in Old English, which means "free man". Notable people with the name include: * Carla, French singer and former member of the children's music group Kids United * Carla Ab ...
, North Carolina State University * Juan G. Santiago, Stanford University *
Cyrus Shahabi Cyrus Shahabi is an Iranian-American computer scientist and a 2003 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Biography Shahabi received his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Sharif University o ...
, 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


2004

On June 13, 2005, President
George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...
announced 58 awardees for 2004:


Department of Agriculture

* Edward S. Buckler IV, Agricultural Research Service * Devin G. Peterson, Pennsylvania State University * Michael K. Schwartz, USDA Forest Service


Department of Commerce

* Daniel J. Cziczo, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * Michael J. Fasolka, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Philip Roni, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * Joel N. Ullom, National Institute of Standards and Technology


Department of Defense

*
Ali Adibi ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
, Georgia Institute of Technology * Marija Drndic, University of Pennsylvania * David S. Ginger, University of Washington *
John C. Howell John Cummings Howell (November 24, 1819 – September 12, 1892) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of rear admiral and late in his career was commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic Squad ...
, University of Rochester * Raadhakrishnan Poovendran, University of Washington *
Mark J. Schnitzer Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finn ...
, Stanford University


Department of Energy

* John R. Arrington, Argonne National Laboratory * William J. Ashmanskas, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory *
Wei Cai Wei Cai is a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Early life and career In 1995, Cai received his Bachelor of Science degree in optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Hubei province, China. I ...
, Stanford University * William P. King, Georgia Institute of Technology * Yunfeng Lu, Tulane University * Hong Qin, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory * Robert B. Ross, Argonne National Laboratory * Paul Vaska, Brookhaven National Laboratory * Zhangbu Xu, Brookhaven National Laboratory


Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

12 awardees: * Luis R. Garcia, Texas A&M University * Catherine M. Gordon, Boston Children's Hospital * Joanna C. Jen, University of California, Los Angeles * Yuhong Jiang, Harvard University *
Neil Kelleher (scientist)Neil L. Kelleher Cornelius "Neil" W. Kelleher (May 9, 1923 – September 4, 2008) was an American politician from New York. Life Kelleher was born on May 9, 1923, in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, the son of Cornelius J. Kelleher and Helen Fleming Kelleh ...
, University of Illinois * Tejvir S. Khurana, University of Pennsylvania * Robin F. Krimm, University of Louisville * Suneeta Krishnan, University of California, San Francisco *
Kenneth D. Mandl Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a by ...
, Children's Hospital of Boston * Marisela Morales, National Institute on Drug Abuse * Teresa A. Nicolson, Oregon Health and Science University * Brenda A. Schulman, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital


Department of Veterans Affairs

* William M. Grady, University of Washington *
Kevin G. Volpp Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ). The variant '' Kevan'' is anglicized from , a ...
, University of Pennsylvania


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* David Alexander, Rice University *
Michael G. Bosilovich Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
, National Aeronautics and Space Administration


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: *
David V. Anderson David Verner Anderson (September 4, 1899 – September 3, 1979) was a Vermont politician who served as Auditor of Accounts. Biography Anderson was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1899, and his family relocated to Montpelier, Vermo ...
, Georgia Institute of Technology * Paul H. Barber, Boston University *
Michael A. Bevan Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
, Texas A&M University * Derrick T. Brazill, City University of New York, Hunter College * Frank L. H. Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara * Marianella Casasola, Cornell University *
Elaine Chew Elaine Chew is an operations researcher and pianist focused on the study of musical structures as they apply to musical performance, composition and cognition, the analysis of electrocardiographic traces of Heart arrhythmia, arrhythmia, and digita ...
, University of Southern California * Martin L. Culpepper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Oscar D. Dubon Jr., University of California, Berkeley * Michael J. Garvin II, Columbia University * Sean Gavin, Wayne State University * Jennifer A. Jay, University of California, Los Angeles * Jun Jiao, Portland State University * Shalinee Kishore, Lehigh University * Wei Li, University of Washington * Donna L. Maney, Emory University * Daniel J. Mindiola, Indiana University * Becky W. Packard, Mount Holyoke College * Russell S. Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University *
Chengxiang Zhai ChengXiang Zhai is a computer scientist. He is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Biography Zhai received the BS (1984), MS (1987, under Guo ...
, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


2005

The 56 honorees for the year 2005:


Department of Agriculture

* Christopher John Fettig, USDA Forest Service * Joseph Martin Jez, USDA Donald Danforth Plant Science Center * David Brian Johnston, USDA Agricultural Research Service


Department of Commerce

* Arlene Fiore Field, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * Katherine Ann Lefebvre, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * James Vincent Porto III, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Christopher Lloyd Soles, National Institute of Standards and Technology


Department of Education

* Laura M. Justice, University of Virginia


Department of Energy

*
Daniel Wayne Bardayan Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...
, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Todd Munson, Argonne National Laboratory * Christopher John Roy, Auburn University *
Wynne Katherine Schiffer Wynne is a surname of Welsh origin. This is a list of notable people with the surname, sorted by profession: Art, literature, and music * Bill Wynne (1922–2021), American photographer and writer *David Wynne (composer) (1900–83), Welsh ...
, Brookhaven National Laboratory * Wendelin Jane Wright, Stanford University * Yanwen Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Michael Anthony Zingale, University of California, Santa Cruz


Department of Defense

* Randy Alan Bartels, Colorado State University * Kelly Jo Benoit Bird, Oregon State University * Mark Christopher Hersam, Northwestern University * Jennifer Eve Hoffman, Harvard University *
Ju Li Ju Li (; born 1975) is an American scientist, engineer, and currently the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A highly cited expert ...
, Ohio State University * Kenneth Martin O'Hara, Pennsylvania State University


Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

12 awardees: * Sohyun Ahn, National Institutes of Health *
Daniel Howard Appella Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...
, National Institutes of Health * Karl Alexander Deisseroth, Stanford University * Kathryn Pitkin Derose, RAND Corporation *
Carolyn Debra Michelle Furr Holden Carolyn is a female given name, a variant of Caroline. Other spellings include Karolyn, Carolyne, Carolynn or Carolynne. Caroline itself is one of the feminine forms of Charles. List of Notable People * Carolyn Bennett (born 1950), Canadian po ...
, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation * Nace Leon Golding, University of Texas, Austin * Isabel Beatriz Luna Herrera, University of Pittsburgh *
Tannishtha Reya Tannishtha Reya is an Indian-born American cell and developmental biologist working in cancer research at the University of California San Diego. She has received numerous awards, including an NIH Director's Pioneer Award in 2009 and an NCI Outs ...
, Duke University * Karissa Sanbonmatsu, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Melanie Sarah Sanford, University of Michigan * Yihua (Bruce) Yu, University of Utah * Neal Scott Silverman, University of Massachusetts


Department of Veterans Affairs

* David Jonathan Casarett, University of Pennsylvania * Jennifer Louise Gooch, Emory University


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* Jianli Chen, University of Texas, Austin


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * Marina Umaschi Bers, Tufts University * Eugene Joseph Billiot, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi *
Rachel Melissa Brewster Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt ...
, University of Maryland, Baltimore County * Silvia Ferrari, Duke University * Shelly Lyne Gable Nayak, University of California, Los Angeles * Julia Eve Hammer, University of Hawaii * Ashley Jean James, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * Tracy Lanise Johnson, University of California, San Diego *
Scott David Kelly Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskat ...
, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *
Anna Kathryn Mapp Anna Kathryn Mapp (born 1970) is an American chemist and the Edwin Vedejs collegiate professor of Chemistry. In 2013, Mapp joined the Michigan Life Sciences Institute as a research professor. Mapp served as the Director of the Program in Chemic ...
, University of Michigan * Thomas Leonard Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
Jonathan Christopher Mattingly Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media * ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer * ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski * ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...
, Duke University * Benjamin John McCall, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Suzie Hwang Pun, University of Washington * Rebeca Bat-Sheba Rosengaus-Nurko, Northeastern University, Boston *
Aravinthan Daniel Thevapirian Samuel ''Aravindhan'' is a 1997 Indian Tamil-language film written and directed by newcomer T. Nagarajan, starring Sarath Kumar, Parthiban, Nagma, Oorvasi, Prakash Raj and Visu in lead and pivotal roles. The film marks the debut of noted music compose ...
, Harvard University * William Edward Schuler, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities * James Earl Smay, Oklahoma State University * Michael Steven Strano, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Meiling (Janet) Wang, University of Arizona, Tucson


2006

The 58 honorees for 2006:


Department of Agriculture

* Douglas D. Bannerman, USDA Agricultural Research Service *
Sarah D. Brooks Sarah (born Sarai) is a Patriarchs (Bible)#Matriarchs, biblical matriarch and Prophet, prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her ...
, Texas A&M University * Samuel A. Cushman, USDA Forest Service


Department of Commerce

*
Casey Brown Casey may refer to: Places Antarctica *Casey Station *Casey Range Australia * Casey, Australian Capital Territory * City of Casey, Melbourne * Division of Casey, electoral district for the House of Representatives Canada * Casey, Ontario * Ca ...
, 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 Vučković Jelena Vučković is a Serbian-born American professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and a courtesy faculty member in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Vučković leads the ...
, Stanford University * Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University


Department of Education

*
Carol McDonald Connor Carol McDonald Connor (February 21, 1953 – May 14, 2020) was an educational psychologist known for her research contributions to the field of early literacy development in diverse learners, in particular for work on individualized student instruc ...
, Florida State University


Department of Energy

*
Kyle Cranmer Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and a professor at New York University at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and Affiliated Faculty member at /cds.nyu.edu/ NYU's Center for Data Science He is an experimental particle physici ...
, Brookhaven National Laboratory * Brian J. Kirby, Cornell University *
Jeffrey W. Kysar Jeffrey may refer to: * Jeffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * ''Jeffrey'' (1995 film), a 1995 film by Paul Rudnick, based on Rudnick's play of the same name * ''Jeffrey'' (2016 film), a 2016 Dominican Republic documentary film ...
, Columbia University *
Julia Laskin Julia Laskin is the William F. and Patty J. Miller Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue University. Her research is focused on the fundamental understanding of ion-surface collisions, understanding of phenomena underlying chemical analysis ...
, 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

12 awardees: * 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. Singhbr>*
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 Olivier Guyon (born 1975) is a French-American astronomer. He is an astronomer at the Steward Observatory of the college of science and professor in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, both of The University of Arizona. He is the SCEx ...
, Subaru Telescope * Matthew Rodell, Goddard Space Flight Center


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: * 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 Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya (; born July 1974) is an Indian American mathematician. He currently is a Professor of Mathematics and the Stefan E. Warschawski Chair in Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. Biography Kiran Kedlaya was ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *
Edward Kohler Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...
, University of California, Los Angeles *
J. Nicholas Laneman ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...
, University of Notre Dame * Chekesha M. Liddell, Cornell University *
Elliot Moore II Elliot (also spelled Eliot, Elliotte, Elliott, Eliott and Elyot) is a personal name which can serve as either a surname or a given name. Although the given name has historically been given to males, females have increasingly been given the name ...
, Georgia Institute of Technology * Amy J. Pruden-Bagchi, Colorado State University *
Carlos Rinaldi Carlos Rinaldi (February 5, 1915 – 1995 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentina, Argentine film director, film editor and screenwriter. Rinaldi began as a film editor in 1937 but in 1949 he became a film director and directed some 30 pictures w ...
, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez * James P. Schmiedeler, Ohio State University * Ahna Skop, University of Wisconsin *
Yi Tang Tang Yi (; born 8 January 1993) is a Chinese competitive swimmer. Specializing in the freestyle, she swam for China at the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She was born in Shangh ...
, University of California, Los Angeles * Joseph W. Thornton, University of Oregon, Eugene *
Lisa M. Zurk Lisa or LISA may refer to: People People with the mononym * Lisa Lisa (born 1967), American actress and lead singer of the Cult Jam * Lisa (Japanese musician, born 1974), stylized "LISA", Japanese singer and producer * Lisa Komine (born 1978), ...
, Portland State University


2007

The 67 honorees for 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

15 awardees: *
Mung Chiang Mung Chiang (born 1977) is a Chinese-American engineering researcher, educator, technology entrepreneur, foreign policy official, and 13th President of Purdue University. Starting January 1, 2023, Chiang is President of Purdue University. He i ...
, Princeton University *
Stefano Curtarolo Stefano is the Italian form of the masculine given name Στέφανος (Stefanos, Stephen). The name is of Greek origin, Στέφανος, meaning a person who made a significant achievement and has been crowned. In Orthodox Christianity the ach ...
, 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 Timothy Avelin Roughgarden is an American computer scientist and a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Roughgarden's work deals primarily with game theoretic questions in computer science. Roughgarden received his Ph.D. from C ...
, Stanford University *
Rachel A. Segalman Rachel A. Segalman is the Edward Noble Kramer Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Her laboratory works on semiconducting block polymers, polymeric ionic liquids, and hybrid the ...
, 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 Haiyan Wang is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering at Purdue University's School of Materials Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Wang conducts research in the areas of high-temperature superconductors, coat ...
, Texas A&M University * Shengli Zhou, University of Connecticut


Department of Education

* Gregory A. Fabiano, University of Buffalo *
Nicole M. McNeil Nicole may refer to: People * Nicole (name) * Nicole (American singer) (born 1958), a contestant in season 3 of the American ''The X Factor'' * Nicole (Chilean singer) (born 1977) * Nicole (German singer) (born 1964), winner of the 1982 Euro ...
, University of Notre Dame


Department of Energy

*
Mickey G. Chiu Mickey is a given name and nickname, almost always masculine and often a short form (hypocorism) of Michael, and occasionally a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Given name or nickname Men * Mickey Andrews (bor ...
, 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

12 awardees: * 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 Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
, 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 Merav Opher is a professor of Astronomy at Boston University known for her work on the heliosphere, the cloud around the sun. In 2021 she was named a William Bentinck-Smith Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Education and career Opher was ...
, George Mason University


National Science Foundation

20 awardees: *
Monica Medina Monica P. Medina (born 1962) is an American attorney and government official who previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the Department of State. Medina served as ...
, University of California, Merced *
Michael Elowitz Michael B. Elowitz is a biologist and professor of Biology, Bioengineering, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Genius gran ...
, California Institute of Technology * Sonia Altizer, University of Georgia * Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University * Stergios Roumeliotis, University of Minnesota *
Sanjit Seshia Sanjit may refer to: *Sanjit Biswas, Co-founder of Meraki, Inc *Sanjit Narwekar (born 1952), Documentary filmmaker and author *Sanjit De Silva (born 1976), Sri Lankan actor and director *Sanjit Roy (Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy), Indian social activist and ...
, University of California, Berkeley * Nick Feamster, Georgia Institute of Technology *
Jeremy Gray Jeremy John Gray (born 25 April 1947) is an English mathematician primarily interested in the history of mathematics. Biography Gray studied mathematics at Oxford University from 1966 to 1969, and then at Warwick University, obtaining his Ph.D ...
, Yale University * Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
Xi Chen Xi Chen (Chinese: 陈汐) is a computer scientist. He is an associate professor of computer science at Columbia University. Chen won the 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize for his co-authored paper "Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weigh ...
, Columbia University * Sanjay Lall, Stanford University * Andre W. Marshall, University of Maryland, College Park *
Aaron M. Thomas According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...
, University of Idaho * Joan L. Walker, Boston University *
Kim Cobb Kim M. Cobb (born 1974) is an American climate scientist. She is Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, where she directs the Institute at Brown for Environment and ...
, Georgia Institute of Technology * Michael Yu, Johns Hopkins University * Alexander Gamburd, University of California, Santa Cruz *
Anastasia Volovich Anastasia Volovich (born July 22, 1976) is a professor of physics at Brown University. She works on theoretical physics: quantum field theory, general relativity, string theory and related areas in mathematics. Early life and education Volovi ...
, Brown University * Katrina Miranda, University of Arizona * Paul Torrens, Arizona State University


2008

The 100 honorees for 2008:


Department of Agriculture

* David H. McNear Jr., University of Kentucky * Dean E. Pearson, Rocky Mt. Res. Station *
Erica Spackman Erica or ERICA may refer to: * Erica (given name) * ''Erica'' (plant), a flowering plant genus * Erica (chatbot), a service of Bank of America * ''Erica'' (video game), a 2019 FMV video game * ''Erica'' (spider), a jumping spider genus * Eric ...
, Poultry Res. Lab/USDA


Department of Commerce

* Craig Brown, National Institute of Standards and Technology *
Michael C. Coniglio Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
, 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

41 awardees: * David P. Arnold, University of Florida * Seth R. Bank, University of Texas, Austin * Christopher W. Bielawski, University of Texas, Austin * Elizabeth M. Boon, Stony Brook University *
Markus J. Buehler Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he holds the endowed McAfee Professorship of Engineering chair. He is a member of the faculty at MIT's Department of Civi ...
, 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 (scientist), Yu Huang, University of California, Los Angeles * Gregory H. Huff, Texas A&M University * Jacob L. Jones, University of Florida * Sanjay Kumar (scientist), 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 Stiff-Roberts, Duke University * Benjamin R. tenOever, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine * Joel Tropp, California Institute of Technology * Derek H. Warner, Cornell University * Sharon M. Weiss, Vanderbilt University * Patrick J. Wolfe, Harvard University * Robert Wood (roboticist), 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

12 awardees: * 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 (scientist), 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 (scientist), Benjamin E. Smith, University of Washington * Joshua K. Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory


National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

12 awardees: * 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

20 awardees: * Maria M. Calbi, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale * Amy B. Cerato, University of Oklahoma * Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois * Monica 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 Mihalcea, 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


2009

The 89 honorees for 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

15 awardees: * 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 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

13 awardees: * 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 (scientist), Juan Estrada, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory * Dillon D. Fong, Argonne National Laboratory * Jacob Hooker, 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. , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Elena V. Shevchenko, Argonne National Laboratory * Jacob G. Wacker, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory


Department of the 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

20 awardees: * 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

19 awardees: * Scott Aaronson, 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


2010

On September 26, 2011, President Obama honored 94 scientists:


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

16 awardees: * 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 (scientist), Lan Yang, Washington University in St. Louis


Department of Education

* Roy Levy (scientist), Roy Levy, Arizona State University


Department of Energy

13 awardees: * 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 (scientist), 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 Orphan, California Institute of Technology * Wei-Jun Qian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Evgenya I. Simakov, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Feng Wang (scientist), Feng Wang, University of California, Berkeley


Department of the 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 Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

20 awardees: * 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 Brownstein, Children's Hospital Boston * Brian Caffo, 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 Pugh, 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


National Science Foundation

21 awardees: * Katherine Aidala, Mount Holyoke College * Hatice Altug, Boston University * Salman A. Avestimehr, Cornell University * Josh Bongard, 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 Litchman, Elena G. Litchman, Michigan State University * Yasamin 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


2011

On July 23, 2012, President Obama presented 97 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

16 awardees: * 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 (scientist), 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 (psychometrician), Li Cai, University of California, Los Angeles


Department of Energy

13 awardees: * 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 (scientist), 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

22 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 2 by the CDC: * 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 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

21 awardees: * 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 Sánchez, 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 Waters, University of Texas, Austin * Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, University of California, Los Angeles * Salman A. Avestimehr, University of Southern California


2012

On December 23, 2013, President Obama presented 102 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 (meteorologist), Adam Clark, University of Oklahoma / NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory * Alan Haynie, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration * R. Joseph Kline, National Institute of Standards and Technology * Ana Maria Rey, Ana Rey, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado at Boulder * Scott Weaver (scientist), Scott Weaver, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Department of Defense

16 awardees: * 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 (scientist), 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 UniversityJeffrey Karpicke was nominated by both the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation * Young-Suk Kim, Florida State University


Department of Energy

13 awardees: * Brian Anderson (scientist), Brian Anderson, West Virginia University * Theodore Betley, Harvard University * Matthew Brake, Sandia National Laboratories * Adrian Chavez (scientist), 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 (scientist), Miguel Morales, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Jennifer Reed, University of Wisconsin at Madison * Seth Root, Sandia National Laboratories * Adam Weber (scientist), Adam Weber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


Department of Health and Human Services

23 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 3 by the CDC: * Debra Auguste, City College of New York * Jessica Belser, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention * Jeremy Clark (scientist), 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 (scientist), Jessica Gill, National Institutes of Health * Andrew Goodman (scientist), Andrew Goodman, Yale University School of Medicine * Aron Hall, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention * Xue Han (scientist), Xue Han, Boston University * Susan Harbison, National Institutes of Health * Richard Ho (scientist), Richard Ho, Vanderbilt University Medical Center * Shingo Kajimura, University of California at San Francisco * Young-Shin Kim, Yale University School of Medicine * Todd Macfarlan, National Institutes of Health * Gaby Maimon, Rockefeller University * Sandra McAllister, Harvard Medical School * Quyen Nguyen (scientist), 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 the Interior

* Anna Chalfoun, U.S. Geological Survey * Gavin Hayes (scientist), 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 (scientist), Brian Head, VA San Diego Healthcare System * Katherine Iverson, VA Boston Healthcare System * Hardeep Singh (scientist), 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 (scientist), Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center


National Science Foundation

19 awardees: * 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 I Goldman, 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 (scientist), 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 (scientist), 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


2013

On February 18, 2016, President Obama presented 105 researchers 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

17 awardees: *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

13 awardees: *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

23 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 3 by the CDC: *Hillel Adesnik, University of California, Berkeley *Cheryl Broussard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *Samantha A. Brugmann, 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, Harvard University *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

21 awardees: *Adam Abate, University of California at San Francisco *Marcel Agueros, Columbia University *Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame *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 O. Thomas, Jakita Thomas, Spelman College *Joachim Walther, University of Georgia *Kristen Wendell, University of Massachusetts-Boston *Benjamin Williams, University of California-Los Angeles


2014

On January 9, 2017, President Obama presented the 99 scientists with the award for 2014:


Department of Agriculture

* Michelle Cilia, USDA Agricultural Research Service * Pankaj Lal, Montclair State University * Michael Ulyshen, USDA Forest Service


Department of Commerce

* Nicholas Butch, NIST Center for Neutron Research * Mandy Karnauskas, NOAA Fisheries * Anne Perring, University of Colorado, Boulder * Corey Potvin, University of Oklahoma * John Teufel, NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory * Justin Zook (scientist), Justin Zook, NIST Material Measurement Laboratory


Department of Defense

16 awardees: * Michael Bell (scientist), Michael Bell, Colorado State University * Nurcin Celik, University of Miami * Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University * Shawn Douglas, University of California, San Francisco * Christopher Dyer (scientist), Christopher Dyer, DeepMind and Carnegie Mellon University * Aaron Esser-Kahn, University of California, Irvine * Sinan Keten, Northwestern University * Jonathan Fan, Stanford University * Danna Freedman, Northwestern University * Thomas Harris (scientist), Thomas Harris, Northwestern University * David Hsieh (scientist), David Hsieh, California Institute of Technology * Osama Nayfeh, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center-Pacific * Olukayode Okusaga, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory * Joseph Parker (scientist), Joseph Parker, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory * Adam Pilchak, Air Force Research Laboratory * Harris Wang, Columbia University


Department of Education

* Daphna Bassok, University of Virginia * Shayne Piasta, The Ohio State University


Department of Energy

13 awardees: * Jonathan Belof, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Carl Dahl (scientist), Carl Dahl, Northwestern University * Eric Duoss, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Anna Grassellino, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory * Jacqueline Hakala, National Energy Technology Laboratory * Stephanie Hansen (scientist), Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories * Kory Hedman, Arizona State University * Alan Kruizenga, Sandia National Laboratories * Wei Li (scientist), Wei Li, Rice University * Guglielmo Scovazzi, Duke University * Michael Tonks, Penn State University * Jenny Yang (scientist), Jenny Yang, University of California, Irvine * John Yeager (scientist), John Yeager, Los Alamos National Laboratory


Department of Health and Human Services

23 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 3 by the CDC: * Gregory Alushin, Rockefeller University * Manish Arora (scientist), Manish Arora, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai * Dawn Cornelison, University of Missouri * Kashmira Date, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention * Craig Duvall, Vanderbilt University * Nicholas Gilpin, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center * Anna Greka, Brigham and Women's Hospital * Pamela Guerrerio, National Institutes of Health * Gery Guy, Jr., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention * Christine P. Hendon, Christine Hendon, Columbia University * Catherine Karr, University of Washington * Maria Lehtinen, Boston Children's Hospital * Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles * Mary Kay Lobo, University of Maryland School of Medicine * Michael McAlpine, University of Minnesota * Eric Morrow, Brown University * Daniel O'Connor (neuroscientist), Daniel O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University * Aimee Shen, Tufts University * Cui Tao, University of Texas * Jacquelyn Taylor, Yale School of Nursing * Benjamin Voight, University of Pennsylvania * Matthew Wheeler (scientist), Matthew Wheeler, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention * Blake Wiedenheft, Montana State University


Department of the Interior

* Nathaniel Hitt, U.S. Geological Survey * Sarah Minson, U.S. Geological Survey * Diann Prosser, U.S. Geological Survey


Department of Veterans Affairs

* Adam Rose (scientist), Adam Rose, RAND Corporation and Boston Medical Center * Nasia Safdar, Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital * Joshua Yarrow, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs


Environmental Protection Agency

* Havala Pye, Environmental Protection Agency * Sala Senkayi, Environmental Protection Agency


Intelligence Community

* Matthew Dicken (scientist), Matthew Dicken, U.S. Army * Josiah Dykstra, National Security Agency * James Kang, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency * Jason Matheny, Office of the Director of National Intelligence * David Moehring, IonQ, Inc. * R. Jacob Vogelstein, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* Jeremy Bassis, University of Michigan * Othmane Benafan, NASA Glenn Research Center * Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center * Marco Pavone, Stanford University * Miguel Roman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center


National Science Foundation

19 awardees: * Alicia Alonzo (scientist), Alicia Alonzo, Michigan State University * Randy Ewoldt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Emily Fox (scientist), Emily Fox, University of Washington * Jacob Fox, Stanford University * Eric Hudson (scientist), Eric Hudson, University of California, Los Angeles * Shawn Jordan (scientist), Shawn Jordan, Arizona State University * Ahmad Khalil (scientist), Ahmad Khalil, Boston University * Oleg Komogortsev, Texas State University, San Marcos * John Kovac, Harvard University * Bérénice Mettler, University of Minnesota and icuemotion, LLC * Jelani Nelson, Harvard University * Elizabeth Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Michael Rotkowitz, University of Maryland, College Park * Andrea Sweigart, University of Georgia * Chuanbing Tang, University of South Carolina * Aradhna Tripati, University of California, Los Angeles * Franck Vernerey, University of Colorado, Boulder * Juan Pablo Vielma Centeno, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Makeba Wilbourn, Duke University


Smithsonian Institution

* Nicholas Pyenson, Smithsonian Institution


2015–2017

On July 2, 2019, President Trump announced 315 recipients of the award, completing awards for the 2015, 2016, and 2017 classes:


Department of Agriculture

*Sean Parks, Rocky Mountain Research Station *Heather K. Allen, National Animal Disease Center *Jo Anne Crouch, Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory *Jennifer Kao-Kniffin, Cornell University *Sara Lupton, Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center *David Bell (research forester), David Bell, Pacific Northwest Research Station *Megan O'Rourke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


Department of Commerce

18 awardees: *Elizabeth Siddon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Fisheries Science Center *Andrew Hoell, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Earth System Research Laboratory *Brian McDonald (atmospheric scientist), Brian McDonald, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences *Andrew Rollins, University of Colorado – Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science *Melissa Soldevilla, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center *Michelle Barbieri, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center *Edwin Chan, National Institute of Standards and Technology Material Measurement Laboratory *Alexey Gorshkov, National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory *Behrang Hamadani, National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory *Stephen Jordan (computer scientist), Stephen Jordan, National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory *Kathryn Keenan, National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory *David Long (atmosphere scientist), David Long, National Institute of Standards and Technology Material Measurement Laboratory *Elijah Petersen, National Institute of Standards and Technology Material Measurement Laboratory *Franklyn Quinlan, National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory *Laura Sinclair (physicist), Laura Sinclair, National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory *Varun Verma, National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory *Eric Anderson (physical scientist), Eric Anderson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory *Jeffrey Snyder, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorology


Department of Defense

47 awardees, including 12 nominated by the Army Research Office (ARO) and 12 nominated by the Office of Naval Research (ONR): (to-do: further organize) *Martin Heimbeck, Army Materiel Command, Research Development and Engineering Command, Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Command *Hugh Churchill, University of Arkansas *Nathaniel Gabor, University of California – Riverside *Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University *Andrea Young, University of California – Santa Barbara *Timothy Berkelbach, University of Chicago *Pinshane Huang, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign *Nathan Lazarus, U.S. Army Research Laboratory *Ashley Ruth, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center *Yogesh Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Bharat Jalan, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities *William Heard (engineer), William Heard, United States Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center *James Hing, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division *James LeBeau (materials scientist), James LeBeau, North Carolina State University *Reginald Cooper (electrical engineer), Reginald Cooper, Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate *Daniel Garmann, Air Force Research Laboratory *Griffin Romigh, Air Force Research Lab 711th HPW/RHCB *Kin Fai Mak, Pennsylvania State University *Robert Hernandez (engineer), Robert Hernandez, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division – Newport *Jiun-Haw Chu, University of Washington *Brandon Cochenour, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division *Adam Dunkelberger, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory *Volker Sorger, George Washington University


=Army Research Office (ARO)

= 12 awardees, 4 per year:


ARO (2015)

*Dhruv Batra, Georgia Institute of Technology *Joseph Checkelsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Phillip Christopher, University of California – Riverside *Jinglin Fu, Rutgers University – Camden


ARO (2016)

*Steven Brunton, University of Washington *Domenic Forte, University of Florida *Jeff Thompson (electrical engineer), Jeff Thompson, Princeton University *Katharine Tibbetts, Virginia Commonwealth University


ARO (2017)

*Percy Liang, Stanford University *Jenny Suckale, Stanford University *Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University *Yuji Zhao, Arizona State University


=Office of Naval Research

= 12 awardees: *Gaurav Bahl, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign *Yuejie Chi, Carnegie Mellon University *Blair Johnson, University at Buffalo *Javad Lavaei, University of California – Berkeley *Benedetto Marelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Matthew McDowell (materials scientist), Matthew McDowell, Georgia Institute of Technology *Austin Minnich, California Institute of Technology *Piya Pal, University of California – San Diego *Padmini Rangamani, University of California – San Diego *Anita Shukla, Brown University *Conor Walsh, Harvard University *Roseanna Zia, Cornell University


Department of Education

*Karen Thompson (educationalist), Karen Thompson, Oregon State University *Suzanne Adlof, University of South Carolina *Sarah Powell (educationalist), Sarah Powell, University of Texas – Austin *Candace Walkington, Southern Methodist University *Tricia Zucker, University of Texas Medical School – Houston *Benjamin L. Castleman, Benjamin Castleman, University of Virginia


Department of Energy

39 awardees: *Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Daniel Casey (physicist), Daniel Casey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Jim Ciston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Jacklyn Gates, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Richard Kraus (physicist), Richard Kraus, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Shiwoo Lee, National Energy Technology Laboratory *Lin Lin (mathematician), Lin Lin, University of California – Berkeley *Arthur Pak, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Timothy Silverman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory *Michael Wagner (solar power researcher), Michael Wagner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory *Stephanie Law (materials scientist), Stephanie Law, University of Delaware – Newark *Vivek Agarwal (physicist), Vivek Agarwal, Idaho National Laboratory *Krzysztof Gofryk, Idaho National Laboratory *Christopher Zarzana, Idaho National Laboratory *Matthew Dietrich, Argonne National Laboratory *Henry Hoffmann, University of Chicago *Julia Shelton, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign *Rebecca Schulman, Johns Hopkins University *Yen-Jie Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Tracy Slatyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Erik Grumstrup, Montana State University *Marylesa Howard, Nevada National Security Site *Salvatore Campione, Sandia National Laboratories *Matthew Gomez, Sandia National Laboratories *Abigail Hunter, Los Alamos National Laboratory *Shea Mosby, Los Alamos National Laboratory *Paul Schmit, Sandia National Laboratories *Irina Tezaur, Sandia National Laboratories *Thomas Hartman (quantum gravity researcher), Thomas Hartman, Cornell University *Kelly Wrighton, Ohio State University – Columbus *Douglas Kauffman, National Energy Technology Laboratory *Jordan Musser, National Energy Technology Laboratory *David Cullen (materials scientist), David Cullen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Katharine Page, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Justin Stevens, College of William and Mary *Alvin Cheung, University of Washington *Kevin Schneider (electrical engineer), Kevin Schneider, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Jonathan Engle, University of Wisconsin – Madison *Victor Zavala, University of Wisconsin – Madison


Department of Health and Human Services

67 awardees, 60 nominated through the NIH and 7 nominated through the CDC: *Eiman Azim, Salk Institute for Biological Studies *Sanjay Basu, Stanford University *Scott Boyd (biochemist), Scott Boyd, Stanford University School of Medicine *Adriana Galván, University of California – Los Angeles *Shafali Jeste, University of California – Los Angeles *Zachary Knight, University of California – San Francisco School of Medicine *Darren Lipomi, University of California – San Diego *Michelle Monje, Stanford University *James Olzmann, University of California – Berkeley *Carolyn I. Rodriguez, Stanford University *Wenjun Zhang (biochemist), Wenjun Zhang, University of California – Berkeley *Elena Gracheva, Yale University School of Medicine *Anne Marie France, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *Emily Haas (behavioral scientist), Emily Haas, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *Matthew Maenner, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *Lucy McNamara, National Center for Infectious Diseases *Subbian Panayampalli, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases *Oduyebo Titilope, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion *Binnian Wei, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention *Lana Garmire, University of Hawaii at Manoa *Daniel Llano, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign *Joel Voss, Northwestern University *Jeremy Greenlee, University of Iowa *John Brognard, National Institutes of Health *Darrell Gaskin, Johns Hopkins University *Donna Gogerdchi, University of Maryland School of Medicine *Silvana Goldszmid, National Institutes of Health *Christopher Hourigan, National Institutes of Health *Katherine McJunkin, National Institutes of Health *Adam Phillippy, National Institutes of Health *Anish Thomas, National Institutes of Health *Catherine Weisz, National Institutes of Health *Kwanghun Chung, Massachusetts Institute of Technology *Sarah Collins Rossetti, Sarah Collins, Brigham and Women's Hospital *Felipe Fregni, Harvard Medical School *Eric Greer, Harvard Medical School *John Harris (dermatologist), John Harris, University of Massachusetts Medical School *Amy Janes, Harvard Medical School *Steve Ramirez, Harvard University *Conor Walsh, Harvard Medical School *Jessica Whited, Harvard Medical School *Joanne Kahlenberg, University of Michigan Medical School *Colter Mitchell, University of Michigan *Moriah Thomason, Wayne State University *Melena Bellin, University of Minnesota *Angela Pannier, University of Nebraska – Lincoln *Jennifer Gillette, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center *Sandeep Mallipattu, Stony Brook School of Medicine *Ian Maze, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai *Priya Rajasethupathy, Rockefeller University *Neville Sanjana, New York Genome Center *Jason Sheltzer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory *Ron Alterovitz, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill *Michael Boyce (biochemist), Michael Boyce, Duke University School of Medicine *Chandra Jackson, National Institutes of Health *Jennifer Martinez (physician), Jennifer Martinez, National Institutes of Health *Spencer Smith (engineer), Spencer Smith, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill *Tracey Yap, Duke University *Sohini Ramachandran, Brown University *Meenakshi Madhur, Vanderbilt University *Namkee Choi, University of Texas – Austin *Katherine King (physician), Katherine King, Baylor College of Medicine *David Zhang, Rice University *Kory Lavine, Washington University School of Medicine *Sara Lindstroem, University of Washington *Elizabeth Nance, University of Washington *Xudong Wang, University of Wisconsin – Madison


Department of the Interior

*Annemarie Baltay, Earthquake Science Center *Aaron Wech, Volcano Science Center *Heather Wright (vulcanologist), Heather Wright, Volcano Science Center *Brian Ebel, National Research Program *Celestine Mercer, Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center *Patricia Dalyander, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center *Nedal Nassar, National Minerals Information Center *Jeffrey Lorch, National Wildlife Health Center


Department of Veterans Affairs

*Eric Chang (physician), Eric Chang, San Diego VA Healthcare System *David Clark (physician), David Clark, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center *Jason Wertheim, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center *Walid Gellad, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System


Environmental Protection Agency

*Carlie LaLone, Environmental Protection Agency *Jon Sobus, Environmental Protection Agency


Intelligence Community

17 awardees: *Rodney Blakestad, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity *Christopher Boehnen, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity *Sean Carrick, National Security Agency *Kristin DeWitt, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity *Candice Gerstner, National Security Agency *Seth Goldstein (scientist), Seth Goldstein, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity *Alexis Jeannotte, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity *Jonas Kibelbek, National Security Agency *David A. Markowitz, David Markowitz, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity *Katelyn Meixner, National Security Agency *Sean Weaver, National Security Agency *Timothy Burchfield, University of Texas – Dallas *Elizabeth Bernstein (geoscientist), Elizabeth Bernstein, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency *Hak Jae Kim, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency *Matthew Klaric, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency *Frances Lacagnina, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency *Alexis Truitt, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

18 awardees: *Jennifer Barrila, Arizona State University *Lynn Carter (physicist), Lynn Carter, University of Arizona *Laura Barge, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory *Erika Hamden, California Institute of Technology *John Reager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory *Jonathan Sauder, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory *David Smith (microbiologist), David Smith, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center *Gioia Massa, Kennedy Space Center *Kelly Stephani, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign *Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago *Rebecca Kramer, Purdue University *Giada Arney, Goddard Space Flight Center *Shawn Domagal-Goldman, Goddard Space Flight Center *Jennifer Stern, Goddard Space Flight Center *Evan Pineda, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn Research Center *Mark Blenner, Clemson University *Richard Moore (atmospheric scientist), Richard Moore, Langley Research Center *Yolanda Shea, Langley Research Center


National Science Foundation

In 2015–2017, the NSF had the following 80 awardees.


=NSF (2015)

= 26 awardees: *Christine Aidala, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor *Luis Campos (chemist), Luis Campos, Columbia University *Nicolas Cassar, Duke University *Lynette Cegelski, Stanford University *Mark Davenport, Georgia Institute of Technology *Cory Dean, Columbia University *Amanda Hummon, University of Notre Dame *Todd Humphreys, University of Texas – Austin *Prashant Jain, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign *Christopher Jewell, University of Maryland – College Park *Paula Lemons, University of Georgia *Qiang Lin, University of Rochester *Han Liu, Princeton University *Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin *Karolina Mukhtar, University of Alabama – Birmingham *Mary Murphy (social psychologist), Mary Murphy, Indiana University *Kristin Myers, Columbia University *Aaron Parsons, University of California – Berkeley *Cara Stepp, Boston University *Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University *Linwei Wang, Rochester Institute of Technology *Jessica Ware, Rutgers University – Newark *Tak-Sing Wong, Pennsylvania State University *Roseanna Zia, Cornell University *Saman Zonouz, Rutgers University


=NSF (2016)

= 27 awardees: *Whitney Behr, University of Texas – Austin *Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State University *Jennifer Carter, Case Western Reserve University *Jeff Clune, University of Wyoming *Philip Feng, Case Western Reserve University *Danna Freedman, Northwestern University *Aysegul Gunduz, University of Florida *James Howison, University of Texas – Austin *Tara Hudiburg, University of Idaho *Nitya Kallivayalil, University of Virginia *Chunlei Liang, George Washington University *Percy Liang, Stanford University *Christian Linder, Stanford University *Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie-Mellon University *Thomas Maimone, University of California – Berkeley *John McCutcheon (astrobiologist), John McCutcheon, University of Montana *Erinn Muller, Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium *Edward O'Brien (biochemist), Edward O'Brien, Pennsylvania State University *Christina Payne, University of Kentucky Research Foundation *Mar Reguant, Northwestern University *Alejandro Rodriguez (electrical engineer), Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton University *Marilyne Stains, University of Nebraska – Lincoln *Eric Toberer, Colorado School of Mines *Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology *Megan Wawro, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University *Jamil Zaki, Stanford University *Xia Zhou, Dartmouth College


=NSF (2017)

= 27 awardees: *Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University *Marie Coppola, University of Connecticut *Anca Dragan, University of California – Berkeley *Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University *Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang, North Carolina State University *Christopher Jett, University of West Georgia *Matthew Kirwan, College of William and Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science *Joanna Kiryluk, Stony Brook University *Heather Knutson, California Institute of Technology *Suveen Mathaudhu, University of California – Riverside *Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University *Maitane Olabarrieta, University of Florida *Lillian Pierce, Duke University *Laura Prugh, University of Washington *Barna Saha, University of Massachusetts – Amherst *Dominik Schillinger, University of Minnesota *Corinna Schindler, University of Michigan *Alexandre Shvartsburg, Wichita State University *Rebecca Slayton, Cornell University *Megan Thielges, Indiana University – Bloomington *Sefaattin Tongay, Arizona State University *Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University *Matthew Walsh (biologist), Matthew Walsh, University of Texas – Arlington *Christopher Wright (education researcher), Christopher Wright, Drexel University *Fengnian Xia, Yale University *Chuan Xue, Ohio State University *Matei Zaharia, Stanford University *Pinar Zorlutuna, University of Notre Dame


Smithsonian Institution

*Kristina Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution


2018


Department of Defense


=Army Research Office

= 4 awardees: *Jerome Fox, University of Colorado – Boulder *Ehsan Hoque, University of Rochester *Lauren Zarzar, Pennsylvania State University *Bo Zhen, University of Pennsylvania


2019


Department of Defense


=Army Research Office

=


2021


Department of Defense


=Army Research Office

= 4 awardees: *Mohit Bansal, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill *Arthur Prindle, Northwestern University *Han Wang (scientist), Han Wang, University of Southern California *Norman Yao, University of California – Berkeley


See also

* Presidential Young Investigator Award


Notes


References


External links

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