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 STUDIES
2021: Career Enhancement Fellowship (Institute for Citizens & Scholars) - Allie Anderson • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Nausica Arnoult • MOLECULAR, CELLULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
2021: Outstanding Investigator Award (NIH)2021: Boettcher Investigator (Boettcher Foundation)2021: Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program (Boettcher Foundation) - Kyri A. Baker • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Agnès Beaudry • MATHEMATICS
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Zachory Berta-Thompson • ASTROPHYSICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Angela Bonino • SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND HEARING SCIENCES
2020: NIDCD Early Career Research Award (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/NIH/DHHS) - Cassandra Brooks • ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Jed Brubaker • INFORMATION SCIENCE
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Carson Bruns• MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Michael Calkins • PHYSICS
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) - GEO - Xudong Chen • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING
2020: 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 HISTORY
2022: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship (American Association of University Women) - Sherri Cook • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Joelle Cruz • COMMUNICATION
2021: Feminist and Gender Studies Division/Outstanding Article Award (National Communication Association) - Emiliano Dall'Anese • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Laura Devendorf • INFORMATION SCIENCE • INTERMEDIA ART, WRITING AND PERFORMANCE
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Jason A. Dexter • ASTROPHYSICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
2020: Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) - Daniel Dig • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Zoe Donaldson • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)2021: Editors’ Early Career Award (Neuropsychopharmacology) - Casey Fiesler • INFORMATION SCIENCE
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Samantha Fladd • ANTHROPOLOGY
2022: Research and Collections Grant (National Historical Publications and Records Commission) - Rafael Frongillo • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Kathryn Goldfarb• ANTHROPOLOGY
2022: Grant (NWA/NOAA) - Joshua Grochow • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - June Gruber • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
2020: NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation) - Ankur Gupta • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Eve-Lyn Hinckley • ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Laurel Hind • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
2022: Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (NIH) - Adam Holewinski • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Lauren Hosek• ANTHROPOLOGY
2022: Global Initiative Grant (Wenner-Gren Foundation ) - Loren Hough • PHYSICS
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Shu-Wei Huang • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Mija Hubler • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
2020: EMI Leonardo Da Vinci Award (Engineering Mechanics Institute)
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Joseph Izraelevitz • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING
2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Hilary Kalisman • HISTORY
2020: ACLS Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies)2020: NAEd/Spencer Fellowship (National Academy of Education, Spencer Foundation) - Adam Kaufman • PHYSICS
2020: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (Office of Naval Research/DOD) - Maria Kazachenko • ASTROPHYSICAL AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Sebastian Kopf • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Nicole Labbe • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Daniel Larremore • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2022: Alan T. Waterman Award (NSF) - Christine Larson • JOURNALISM
2021: ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship (ACLS/New York Public Library) - Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders • HISTORY
2023 (applied in 2022): ACLS Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies) - Katherine Lininger• GEOGRAPHY
2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Michael Litos • PHYSICS
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Henry Lovejoy • HISTORY
2021: New Directions Fellowship (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) - Andrew Lucas • PHYSICS
2020: Sloan Research Fellowship-Physics
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
2022: George E. Valley Jr. Prize (American Physical Society) - Maureen Lynch • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Robyn Macdonald • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
2022: Young Investigator Program (Air Force Office of Scientific Research/DOD) - Cresten Mansfeldt • CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
2021: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grant (Environmental Protection Agency) - Robert Marshall • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Jay McMahon • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
2020: Young Faculty Award, Defense Sciences Office (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) - Samira Mehta • WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES
2021: Religion and Theology Program (Luce Foundation) - Natalie Mendoza • HISTORY
2023 (applied in 2022): Summer Stipend (NEH) - Marco Nicotra • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
- Jessica Ordaz • ETHNIC STUDIES
2022: First Book Award (Immigration and Ethnic History Society) - Sean O'Rourke • MATHEMATICS
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Orit Peleg • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2022: Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation for Science Advancement)2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Dennis Perepelitsa • PHYSICS
2020: Cottrell Scholar Award (Research Corporation for Science Advancement) - Colette Perold • MEDIA STUDIES
2021: 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 ENGINEERING
2020: 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 STUDIES
2022: American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship (American Association of University Women) - Colleen Reid • GEOGRAPHY
2021: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grant (Environmental Protection Agency) - Sandra Ristovska • MEDIA STUDIES
2021: Scholars & Society Fellowship (Mellon/ACLS)
2022: Activism Communication and Social Justice Outstanding Book Award (International Communication Association) - Nancy Rodriguez-Bunn • APPLIED MATHEMATICS
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Alessandro Roncone • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2022: FY2021 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (Office of Naval Research/DOD) - David Root • PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
2020: NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation) - Julio Sepúlveda • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Maryam Shakiba • AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Sandeep Sharma • CHEMISTRY
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Josh Shepperd • MEDIA STUDIES
2020: Center for Humanities and Information Fellow (Pennsylvania State University) - C. Wyatt Shields IV • CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
2022: 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 SCIENCE
2020: 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 MUSIC
2021: Gaudeamus Award (Gaudeamus Foundation) - Wil V. Srubar• CIVIL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING
2020: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Christine Steeger • INSTITUTE OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
2020: Pilot Research Projects in Tobacco Regulatory Science for Early Career Researchers (University of Southern California/NIH/NCI) - Shuo Sun • PHYSICS
2021: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (Oak Ridge Associated Universities) - Ross Taylor • JOURNALISM
2020: Best Documentary Long (American Golden Picture International Film Festival)
2020: Faculty Award of Excellence (Festival of Media Arts, Broadcast Education Association) - William Taylor • ANTHROPOLOGY
2020: 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 EDUCATION
2023 (applied in 2022): NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - Ashutosh Trivedi • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Lizzy Trower • GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2022: Sloan Research Fellowship: Earth System Science (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation)
2023 (applied in 2022): Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Marina Vance • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
2021: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)
2021: Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grant (Environmental Protection Agency) - Tam Vu • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2020: Sloan Research Fellowship: Computer Science (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) - Aaron Whiteley • BIOCHEMISTRY
2022: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (NIH)
2022: Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Program (Boettcher Foundation) - Bethany Wilcox • PHYSICS
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Eric Wustrow • ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND ENERGY ENGINEERING
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) - Majid Zamani • COMPUTER SCIENCE
2022: Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER)