Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell Scholar Awards

2009 Awardees

Lane Baker Department of Chemistry, Indiana University: Instrumentation and Development of New Techniques for Measuring Molecular Recognition with Ion Currents-$100,000

Penny Beuning Department of Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston: At the Interface of Chemistry and Biology: Integrating teaching and research on mutagenic DNA polymerases-$100,000

Michael David Gladders Department of Astronomy, University of Chicago: The Second Red-Sequence Cluster Survey:100 Million Galaxies for the Masses-$100,000

Duncan Lorimer Department of Physics, West Virginia University: Bursts, flickers and cosmic flashers -- exploring the transient radio sky-$100,000

Robert McDermott Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin: Noise and Cooperative Phenomena in Amorphous Dielectric and Magnetic Systems-$100,000

Maura McLaughlin Department of Physics, West Virginia University: Detecting Gravitational Waves Using Pulsar Timing: Drift-Scan Searches for Millisecond Pulsars-$100,000

Scott Alan Snyder Department of Chemistry, Columbia University: Achieving Synthetic Control When Nature Abandons Selectivity: Total Synthesis of Oligomeric Natural Products-$100,000

Snezana Stanimirovic Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison: The dynamic interstellar medium: confluence of observations and numerical simulations-$100,000

Rory Waterman Department of Chemistry, University of Vermont: Catalytic Methods to Low-Valent Phosphorus -$100,000

Yadong Yin Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside: Self-Assembly of Superparamagnetic Colloids to Field-Responsive Photonic Crystals-$100,000