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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 26, 2002

2001 Presidential Early Career Awards Announced

President George W. Bush today announced the recipients of the 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Sixty researchers will be honored July 12 in a White House ceremony.

The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, established in 1996, honors the most promising young researchers in the nation within their fields. Eight federal departments and agencies, which join together annually to nominate young scientists and engineers whose work is of greatest benefit to the nominating agency's mission, administer the awards. Participating agencies award these young scientists and engineers up to five years of funding to further their research in support of critical government missions.

The recipients of the 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, along with their nominating federal department or agency are:

Department of Defense

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

    Department of Agriculture

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

    Department of Commerce

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

    Department of Health and Human Services: National Institutes of Health

  • Dr. Andrew E. Arai, National Institutes of Health
  • Dr. Kelly N. Botteron, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Dr. Regina M. Carelli, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Dr. Marshall S. Horwitz, University of Washington Medical School
  • Dr. Jack J. Jiang, University of Wisconsin
  • Dr. John A. Klingensmith, Duke University
  • Dr. Michael P. Rout, The Rockefeller University
  • Dr. Willian R. Schafer, University of California, San Diego
  • Dr. Melissa J. Spencer, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Dr. William Martin Usrey, University of California, Davis
  • Dr. Leslie B. Vosshall, The Rockefeller University
  • Dr. David Wotton, University of Virginia School of Medicine

    Department of Energy

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

    Department of Veterans Affairs

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

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  • Dr. James J. Bock, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Dr. Stephane Coutu, Pennsylvania State University
  • Dr. James H. Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center
  • Dr. William Mell, University of Utah
  • Dr. Mark A. Moline, California Polytechnic State University
  • Dr. Cheryl A. Nickerson, Tulane University Health Sciences Center

    National Science Foundation

  • Dr. Philip John Bart, Louisiana State University
  • Dr. Karen Jane Burg, Clemson University
  • Dr. Brian David Conrad, University of Michigan
  • Dr. Steven Andrew Cummer, Duke University
  • Dr. Elizabeth Anna Davis, University of Michigan
  • Dr. Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Dr. Douglas John Emlen, University of Montana
  • Dr. Michael C. Fitzgerald, Duke University
  • Dr. Charles Forbes Gammie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Dr. Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware
  • Dr. Richard Brent Gillespie, University of Michigan
  • Dr. Satyandra Kumar Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Dr. C. Allan Guymon, University of Southern Mississippi
  • Dr. Sheena Sethi Iyengar, Columbia University
  • Dr. Veena Misra, North Carolina State University
  • Dr. Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Dr. Mona Singh, Princeton University
  • Dr. Linda K. Weavers, Ohio State University
  • Dr. Erik Winfree, California Institute of Technology
  • Dr. Jorge Gabriel Zornberg, University of Colorado at Boulder

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