2020–2022 Early Career Awardees
The following awards recognize significant early-career research contributions and impact by faculty members and rising scholars across several academic fields.
- Maisam Alomar • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES2021: Career Enhancement Fellowship (Institute for Citizens & Scholars)
- Allie Anderson • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Nausica Arnoult • MOLECULAR, CELLULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY2021: Outstanding Investigator Award (NIH)2021: Boettcher Investigator (Boettcher Foundation)2021: Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program (Boettcher Foundation)
- Kyri A. Baker • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Agnès Beaudry • MATHEMATICS2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Zachory Berta-Thompson • ASTROPHYSICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Angela Bonino • SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING SCIENCES2020: NIDCD Early Career Research Award (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/NIH/DHHS)
- Cassandra Brooks • ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Jed Brubaker • INFORMATION SCIENCE2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Carson Bruns• MECHANICAL ENGINEERING2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Michael Calkins • PHYSICS2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) - GEO
- Xudong Chen • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2020: Young Investigator Program (Air Force Office of Scientific Research/DOD)2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Edward Boyi Chuong • MOLECULAR, CELLULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (MCDB)2020: Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering (David and Lucile Packard Foundation)
- Brianne Cohen • ART AND ART HISTORY2022: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship (American Association of University Women)
- Sherri Cook • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Joelle Cruz • COMMUNICATION2021: Feminist and Gender Studies Division/Outstanding Article Award (National Communication Association)
- Emiliano Dall'Anese • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Laura Devendorf • INFORMATION SCIENCE • INTERMEDIA ART, WRITING AND PERFORMANCE2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Jason A. Dexter • ASTROPHYSICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES2020: Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
- Daniel Dig • COMPUTER SCIENCE2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Zoe Donaldson • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)2021: Editors’ Early Career Award (Neuropsychopharmacology)
- Casey Fiesler • INFORMATION SCIENCE2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Samantha Fladd• ANTHROPOLOGY2022: Research and Collections Grant (National Historical Publications and Records Commission)
- Rafael Frongillo • COMPUTER SCIENCE2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Kathryn Goldfarb• ANTHROPOLOGY2022: Grant (NWA/NOAA)
- Joshua Grochow • COMPUTER SCIENCE2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- June Gruber • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE2020: NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation)
- Ankur Gupta • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Eve-Lyn Hinckley • ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Laurel Hind • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 2022: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (NIH)
- Adam Holewinski • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Lauren Hosek• ANTHROPOLOGY2022: Global Initiative Grant (Wenner-Gren Foundation )
- Loren Hough • PHYSICS2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Shu-Wei Huang • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Mija Hubler • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING2020: EMI Leonardo Da Vinci Award (Engineering Mechanics Institute)2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Joseph Izraelevitz • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Hilary Kalisman • HISTORY2020: ACLS Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies)2020: NAEd/Spencer Fellowship (National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation)
- Adam Kaufman • PHYSICS2020: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (Office of Naval Research/DOD)
- Maria Kazachenko • ASTROPHYSICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Sebastian Kopf • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Nicole Labbe • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Daniel Larremore • COMPUTER SCIENCE2022: Alan T. Waterman Award (NSF)
- Christine Larson • JOURNALISM2021: ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship (ACLS/New York Public Library)
- Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders • HISTORY2023 (applied in 2022): ACLS Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Katherine Lininger• GEOGRAPHY2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Michael Litos • PHYSICS2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Henry Lovejoy • HISTORY2021: New Directions Fellowship (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
- Andrew Lucas • PHYSICS2020: Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)2022: George E. Valley Jr. Prize (American Physical Society)
- Maureen Lynch • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Robyn Macdonald • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING2022: Young Investigator Program (Air Force Office of Scientific Research/DOD)
- Cresten Mansfeldt • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING2021: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grant (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Robert Marshall • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Jay McMahon • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING2020: Young Faculty Award, Defense Sciences Office (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
- Samira Mehta • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES2021: Religion and Theology Program (Luce Foundation)
- Natalie Mendoza • HISTORY2023 (applied in 2022): Summer Stipend (NEH)
- Marco Nicotra • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Jessica Ordaz • ETHNIC STUDIES2022: First Book Award (Immigration and Ethnic History Society)
- Sean O'Rourke • MATHEMATICS2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Orit Peleg • COMPUTER SCIENCE2022: Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation for Science Advancement)2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Dennis Perepelitsa • PHYSICS2020: Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation for Science Advancement)
- Colette Perold • MEDIA STUDIES2021: Brooke Hindle Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship (Society for the History of Technology)2023 (applied in 2022): NEH Digital Humanities Advancement grant
- Fatemeh Pourahmadian • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Tracy Quan• SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE 2021: Best Articles Award (Modern Languages Journal)
- A. Marie Ranjbar • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES2022: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship (American Association of University Women)
- Colleen Reid • GEOGRAPHY2021: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grant (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Sandra Ristovska • MEDIA STUDIES2021: Scholars & Society Fellowship (Mellon/ACLS)2022: Activism Communication and Social Justice Outstanding Book Award (International Communication Association)
- Nancy Rodriguez-Bunn • APPLIED MATHEMATICS2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Alessandro Roncone • COMPUTER SCIENCE2022: FY2021 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (Office of Naval Research/DOD)
- David Root • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE2020: NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation)
- Julio Sepúlveda • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Maryam Shakiba • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Sandeep Sharma • CHEMISTRY2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Josh Shepperd • MEDIA STUDIES2020: Center for Humanities and Information Fellow (Pennsylvania State University)
- C. Wyatt Shields IV • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)2022: Young Investigator Program (Office of Naval Research / DOD)2022: Pew Biomedical Scholars (Pew Charitable Trusts)2022: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (NIH)2022: Fellowship (Packard Foundation)
- Alexandra Siegel • POLITICAL SCIENCE2020: Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award (Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation)2020: Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grant (Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation)
- Annika Socolofsky• COMPOSITION, COLLEGE OF MUSIC2021: Gaudeamus Award (Gaudeamus Foundation)
- Wil V. Srubar• CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Christine Steeger • INSTITUTE OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE2020: Pilot Research Projects in Tobacco Regulatory Science for Early Career Researchers (University of Southern California/NIH/NCI)
- Shuo Sun • PHYSICS2021: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (Oak Ridge Associated Universities)
- Ross Taylor • JOURNALISM2020: Best Documentary Long (American Golden Picture International Film Festival)2020: Faculty Award of Excellence (Festival of Media Arts, Broadcast Education Association)
- William Taylor • ANTHROPOLOGY2020: Franklin Grant (American Philosophical Society)2021: Multi-Country Research Fellowship (Council of American Overseas Research Centers)2022: High-Risk Research Grant (NSF)
- Stephanie Toliver • SCHOOL OF EDUCATION2023 (applied in 2022): NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- Ashutosh Trivedi • COMPUTER SCIENCE2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Lizzy Trower • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES2022: Sloan Research Fellowship: Earth System Science (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Marina Vance • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)2021: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grant (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Tam Vu • COMPUTER SCIENCE2020: Sloan Research Fellowship: Computer Science (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
- Aaron Whiteley • BIOCHEMISTRY2022: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (NIH)2022: Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program (Boettcher Foundation)
- Bethany Wilcox • PHYSICS2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Eric Wustrow • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Majid Zamani • COMPUTER SCIENCE2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)