Cottrell Scholar Awards
Past Awardees
Spring 2008
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Rachel Bean Department of Astronomy, Cornell University: Signatures of Fundamental Physics in the Cosmos-$100,000 Kirill Belashchenko Department of Physics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Electronic theory of magnetism and magnetotransport-$100,000 Matthew David Disney Department of Chemistry, SUNY at Buffalo: Towards the Rational Design of Small Molecules Targeting RNA-$100,000 Jeanne Ann Hardy Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: Controlling Protein Function with Designed Allosteric Switches-$100,000 |
Nils Kroger School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology: Diatom Bio-Nanotechnology: A New Paradigm for the Synthesis of Functional 3D Nanomaterials-$100,000 Franklin Wayne Outten Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina-Columbia: Characterization of a novel Fe-S scaffold system used by pathogenic bacteria under oxidative stress and iron starvation-$100,000 Gil Refael Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology: Breakdown of superfluidity in low-dimensional disordered systems-$100,000 Charles Sykes Department of Chemistry, Tufts University: Single-Molecule Studies of Ferroelectric Self-Assembly-$100,000 |
Sergei Urazhdin Department of Physics, West Virginia University: Magnetoelectronic Phenomena in Nanostructures-$100,000 Yiying Wu Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus: Searching for New Electrode Materials and Nanostructured Architectures for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells-$100,000 Tehshik Peter Yoon Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Oxidative Functionalization of Hydrocarbons Using Oxaziridines-$100,000 |
Spring 2007
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Christopher Bielawski Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Dynamic polymers as recyclable catalysts: An intergrated teaching, mentoring and research program in macromolecular chemisty-$100,000 Alexander Dieter Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University: A Library Approach to Cellular Light Receptors-$100,000 Nancy Forde Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University: New directions in Biological Physics at Simon Fraser University: From single-molecule research to the teaching laboratory-$100,00 Jordan Mitchell Gerton Department of Physics, University of Utah: Toward Nanoscale Microscopy and Manipulation of Functional Biomolecular Networks-$100,000 |
Song Jin Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Nanoscale Magnetic Semiconductor Materials for Spintronics-$100,000 Neepa Maitra Department of Physics and Astronomy, CUNY, Hunter College: Strong-Field Dynamics of Atoms and Molecules in Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: A Phase Space Exploration-$100,000 Benjamin J. McCall Department of Chemistry (also Astronomy), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: New Approaches to Research and Teaching in Astrochemistry: Carbocation Spectroscopy and a Novel Laboratory Course-$100,000 Carlos Andres Meriles Department of Physics, CUNY, City College: Generation and control of nuclear spin magnetization in semiconductor nanostructures-$100,000 |
Mary Elaine Putnam Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Mapping the Galaxy's Gaseous Halo-$100,000 Diego Troya Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Cottrell Scholar Award 2006: Making progress toward the theoretical description of the dynamics of gas-organic surface chemical reactions-$100,000 |