Christopher W. 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 Deiters, 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-$100,000

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 T 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 Putman, 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

George Mason University
Joseph C. Weingartner, Department of Physics and Astronomy: The alignment of grains with the interstellar magnetic field—$ 100,000

Indiana University at Bloomington
Mu-Hyun Baik, Department of Chemistry: Towards a quantitative understanding of diastereoselective carbocyclizations through quantum chemical modeling—$ 100,000

Johns Hopkins University
Justine P. Roth, Department of Chemistry: How do intra-protein redox reactions control the activities of enzymes involved in oxidative stress?—$ 100,000

Purdue University
Erica W. Carlson, Department of Physics: Quantum soft matter—$ 100,000

Texas A&M University
Jairo Sinova, Department of Physics: Spin-Hall effect in semiconductors and related phenomena in nano-spintronics—$ 100,000

University of California, Irvine
Thorsten Ritz, Department of Physics and Astronomy: Weak magnetic field effects on blue-light signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana: A model system for geomagnetic field detection—$ 100,000

University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeffrey W. Bode, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: New ligation reactions for the synthesis of biomolecules and biomaterials—$ 100,000

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Melanie S. Sanford, Department of Chemistry: Transition metal-catalyzed carbon-fluorine bond-forming reactions—$ 100,000

University of Notre Dame
Masaru K. Kuno, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Disorder induced optical heterogeneity in solution-based straight/branched semiconductor nanowires—$ 100,000

University of Oregon
Darren W. Johnson. Department of Chemistry: Supramolecular arsenic coordination chemistry—$ 100,000

University of Pittsburgh
Adam Leibovich, Department of Physics: Particle physics calculations using effective field theories—$ 100,000

University of Washington
David S. Ginger, Department of Chemistry: Probing optoelectronic processes in conjugated polymer blends—$ 100,000

Vanderbilt University
Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Department of Physics and Astronomy: A systemic approach to problems in star formation and minority representation—$ 100,000

Paramjit S. Arora, Department of Chemistry, New York University: Control of protein-protein interactions with artificial alpha helics and innovations in the teaching and implementation of organic chemistry-$100,000

Pierre Bergeron, Department of Physics, University of Montreal: White dwarf stars as cosmochronometers and distance indicators-$ 100,000

Helen E. Blackwell, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Regulation of bacterial communication pathways with synthetic ligands-$100,000

Keith Fagnou, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa: Preventing catalyst decomposition and achieving reactivity in the direct arylation and amination of C-H bonds-$100,000

Boyd M. Goodson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale: Enhancing NMR signals from biomolecular, organic, and polymer thin films using optical nuclear polarization-$100,000

Chuan He, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago: A chemical crosslinking method to study DNA repair/modification proteins-$100,000

Eric W. Hudson, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Searching for hidden order in exotic superconductors by scanning tunneling microscopy-$100,000

Zhiqiang Mao, Department of Physics, Tulane University: Studies of metamagnetic quantum critical phenomena in ruthenates-$100,000

Teri W. Odom, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University: Nanoscaffolds for the growth and manipulation of chemical and biological structures at the single component-level-$100,000

Chad M. Rienstra, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Science beyond the limits of diffraction and disciplinary borders: 3D magic-angle spinning NMR and the liberal arts-$100,000

Gary Shiu, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Connecting string theory to experiment-$100,000

Thomas Vojta, Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla: Disordered electronic quantum phase transitions and an interactive approach to teaching computational physics-$100,000

Hongcai Zhou, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University: Hydrogen storage in novel C-N based porous materials-$100,000

John Cerne, Department of Physics, SUNY at Buffalo: Infrared hall effect in strange magnetic metals-$75,000

Paul J. Chirik, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University: Nitrogen fixation with group 4 transition metals-$75,000

Seth M. Cohen, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California , San Diego: A bioinorganic approach for designing improved matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors-$75,000

Anthony D. Dinsmore, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts , Amherst: Photonic glasses: Influence of the topology of random media on light propagation-$75,000

Rustem F. Ismagilov, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago: Using minimal chemical model to understand complex biochemical networks and to create biomimetic functional systems-$75,000

Bhuvnesh Jain, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania: Gravitational lensing as a probe of dark energy and cosmology-$75,000

Vassiliki Kalogera, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University: Genetic algorithms in gravitational wave astrophysics-$75,000

Rosa Alejandra Lukaszew, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Toledo: Investigating the structural and magnetic properties of nano-magnets-$75,000

Christian E. Schafmeister, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh: The development of rigid bivalent inhibitors of influenza hemagglutinin-$75,000

Garth J. Simpson, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University: Nonlinear optical probes of structure and function in biological systems; anatomy of a green laser pointer-$75,000

Carsten A. Ullrich, Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Rolla: New approaches for electron dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures and for teaching modern condensed-matter physics-$75,000

T. Daniel Crawford, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Quantum mechanical studies of chirality: Local correlation methods for optical rotation in large molecules-$75,000

J. Steven Dodge, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University: Terahertz measurements of quasiparticle lifetimes-$75,000

David Andrew Egolf, Department of Physics, Georgetown University: Computational science in the heart and in the classroom-$75,000

Daniel R. Gamelin, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington: Synthetic, magnetic, and spectroscopic approaches to understanding and controlling the magnetism of doped inorganic nanocrystals-$75,000

Taekjip Ha, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Structural dynamics of Holliday junction: Single molecule studies of conformer transitions and branch migration-$75,000

Michael D. Hildreth, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame: Enhancing the potential for Higgs discovery at the Fermilab Tevatron-$75,000

Sarah L. Keller, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington: Specialized domains in lipid bilayers and monolayers-$75,000

Michael R. Meyer, Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona: A whole greater than the sum of its parts: Understanding the origins of stellar masses and mentoring tomorrow's scholars-$75,000

Nicola L. Pohl, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University: Chemical biology of glycopolymer and deoxysugar biosynthesis using mass spectrometry-$75,000

Brian M. Stoltz, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology: New innovations in the teaching and implementation of synthetic chemistry-$75,000

Richard Taylor, Department of Physics, University of Oregon: Fractal conductance fluctuations in ballistic nanostructures-$75,000

Mark Trodden, Department of Physics, Syracuse University: Geometry, topology and Kaluza-Klein cosmology-$75,00

David M. Adams, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University: Single molecule spectroscopy of interfacial electron transfer—$75,000

Antonella Badia, Department of Chemistry, University of Montreal: Atomic force microscopy studies of the phase behavior and lipid/protein interactions in supported phospholipid membranes—$75,000

Patrick R. Brady, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: Towards the detection of gravitational waves from black hole binaries—$75,000

Andrew L. Feig, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University at Bloomington: Thermodynamics of RNA cold denaturation and its relationship to the cold shock response—$75,000

Eric L. Hegg, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah: Heme A synthase: Elucidating the mechanism of this novel heme-containing monooxygenase and identifying its physiological partners—$75,000

Neil L. Kelleher, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Solution phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange of proteins with a novel mass spectrometric readout—$75,000

Jane Kondev, Department of Physics, Brandeis University: Theoretical studies of dense polymer systems—$75,000

Michael J. Krische, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin: Enantioselective catalysis via chiral (beta-diketonato)metal templates—$75,000

Edmund R. Nowak, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware: Experimental studies of dense granular media: Towards a thermodynamic description of powders—$75,000

Hanadi F. Sleiman, Department of Chemistry, McGill University: Transition metal-linked branched oligonucleotides: Synthesis and applications—$75,000

Max Tegmark, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania: Beyond cosmological parameters—$75,000

John J. G. Tesmer, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin: The structure and function of RGS homology domains: X-ray crystallographic studies powered by undergraduate research—$75,000

Sankaran Thayumanavan, Department of Chemistry, Tulane University: Globular macromolecules with functionalized interiors—$75,000

Barrett O. Wells, Department of Physics, University of Connecticut: Interactive classroom for physics majors and interactive electrons in functional oxide films—$75,000