Recipients

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

Jiahui Li, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Gold Winners

  • Yun Bai, Duke University
  • Ziqi Guo, Purdue University
  • Wenzheng Heng, California Institute of Technology
  • Jiahui Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Sreejith Nair, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  • Weichen Wang, Stanford University
  • Zihao Ye, Northwestern University

Silver Winners

  • Shubhanshu Agarwal, Purdue University
  • Somayajulu Dhulipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Julian Feijoo, University of California, Berkeley
  • Lillian Hughes, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Dong-Hyeok Kim, Seoul National University
  • Shunran Li, Yale University
  • Ryotaro Okabe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Varun Shreyas, University of Louisville
  • Dawei Xi, Harvard University
  • Hengrui Zhang, Northwestern University

2024 MRS Fall Meeting

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Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

Zihao Lin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Gold Winners

  • Gal Finkelstein-Zuta, Tel Aviv University
  • Anna Gonzalez Rosell, University of California, Irvine
  • Luis Kitsu Iglesias, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Pengju Li, The University of Chicago
  • Kang Rui Garrick Lim, Harvard University
  • Zihao Lin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Junyi Zhao, Washington University in St. Louis

Silver Winners

  • Yifan Cao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Evan Z. Carlson, Stanford University
  • Yi Cui , Stanford University
  • Bowen Deng, University of California, Berkeley
  • Thomas Y. George, Harvard University
  • Yu Han, The University of Chicago
  • Ye Ji Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sofia Kuperman, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Zhengxing Li, University of California, San Diego
  • Koki Nozawa, University of Tsukuba
  • Moritz Ploner, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
  • Yujie Quan, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ying Xia, University of Washington
  • Yue Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2024 MRS Spring Meeting

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Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Brian Wyatt, Purdue University

Gold Winners

  • Joonsoo Kim, University of Michigan
  • Zainab Patel, University of Washington
  • Brian Wyatt, Purdue University
  • Xintong Yuan, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Wenbo Zhang, Stanford University
  • Jie Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Silver Winners

  • Maximillian Buchmüller, University of Wuppertal
  • Mario Ulises Gonzalez Rivas, University of British Columbia
  • Sichao Li, National University of Singapore
  • Peifen Lyu, University of California, Davis
  • Shahriar Muhammad Nahid, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  • Nirmaan Shanker, University of California, Berkeley
  • Xingyu Shen, University of Chicago
  • Kateryna Shevchuk, Drexel University
  • Jiuyun Shi, The University of Chicago
  • Seungju Yu, Seoul National University 

2023 MRS Fall Meeting

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Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Nabojit Kar, Indiana University Bloomington

Gold Winners

  • Nan Li, University of Chicago
  • Yukun Liu, Northwestern University
  • Katelyn Randazzo, Princeton University
  • Jiaobing Tu, California Institute of Technology

Silver Winners

  • Fabia Farlin Athena, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Suvo Banik, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Rishi Gurnani, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Nabojit Kar, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Jingxian Li, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Liang Li, Columbia University
  • Jihong Min, California Institute of Technology
  • Jinhong Min, University of Michigan
  • Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Aamir Shah, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Di Wang, University of Chicago

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Guorui Chen, University of California, Los Angeles

Gold Winners

  • Guorui Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Rachel Z. Huang, Stanford University
  • Seán R. Kavanagh, University College London and Imperial College London
  • Sang Cheol Kim, Stanford University
  • Kate Reidy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Albert Velasco Abadia, University of Colorado Boulder
  • David Xu, Northwestern University
  • Gangbin Yan, University of Chicago

Silver Winners

  • Christopher B. Cooper, Stanford University
  • Joo Sung Kim, Seoul National University
  • Jin Myung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Woojung Lee, Columbia University
  • Shao-Xiong Lennon Luo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jinyoung Seo, Harvard University
  • Chenxi Sui, University of Chicago
  • Julian A. Vigil, Stanford University
  • Gal Yosefi, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  • Xun Zhao, University of California, Los Angeles

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Solomon T. Oyakhire, Stanford University

Gold Winners

  • Kai Oliver Brinkmann, University of Wuppertal
  • Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Universidad de Cantabria
  • Asir Intisar Khan, Stanford University
  • Stephanie M. Ribet, Northwestern University
  • Sarah J. Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Xiang Wu, Stanford University

Silver Winners

  • Zhenwei Ma, McGill University
  • Solomon T. Oyakhire, Stanford University
  • Sarah H. Park, Rutgers University
  • Thomas G. Parton, University of Cambridge
  • William M. Strickland, New York University
  • Lu Yin, University of California, San Diego
  • Boyu Zhang, Rice University
  • Fangyu Zhang, University of California, San Diego
  • Huanyu Zhou, Seoul National University
  • Yirui Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

  • Giovanni Bovone, ETH Zürich
  • Priscila Cavassin, University of Bern
  • Tina J. Chen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yahao Dai, University of Chicago
  • Donggun Eum, Seoul National University
  • Abigail K. Grosskopf, Stanford University
  • KyuJung Jun, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jimin Kim, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yuanwei Li, Northwestern University

2022 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Jakob Dahl, University of California, Berkeley

Gold Winners

  • Souvik Biswas, California Institute of Technology
  • Shiekh Zia Uddin, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jack Lewis, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Jessie Posar, University of Wollongong
  • Rebekah Wells, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Wenjie Zhou, Northwestern University

Silver Winners

  • Kaustav Chatterjee, Indiana University
  • Terry Ching, Singapore University of Technology and Design
  • Jakob Dahl, University of California, Berkeley
  • Berit Goodge, Cornell University
  • Seán R. Kavanagh, University College London and Imperial College London
  • Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Robert Oliver, University of Oxford
  • Jimin Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Abhinav Parakh, Stanford University
  • Max Saccone, California Insitute of Technology
  • Siew Ting Melissa Tan, Stanford University
  • Yu-Ming Tu, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Lauren Walters, Northwestern University

2021 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Cecile Chazot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gold Winners

  • Chenru Duan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Paul C. Le Floch, Harvard University
  • Daniel Schwalbe-Koda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Georgios Varnavides, Harvard University
  • Xiao Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin

Silver Winners

  • Cecile Chazot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Liang-Hsun Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Rebecca Gallivan, California Institute of Technology
  • Mengyu Gao, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yong Hu, University at Buffalo
  • Byunghoon Kim, Seoul National University
  • Jingang Li, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Chang Liu, University of Virginia
  • Jiayu Peng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Huiqin Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
  • Ye Zhang, University of California, Berkeley

2021 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Nikita Dutta, Princeton University

Gold Winners

  • Chullhee Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ahyoung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Joeson Wong, California Institute of Technology
  • Guomin Zhu, University of Washington

Silver Winners

  • Jingshan S. Du, Northwestern University
  • Nikita Dutta, Princeton University
  • Zhiwei Fang, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Hansen Wang, Stanford University
  • Jiayue Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Wanghuai Xu, City University of Hong Kong

2020 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Austin Graham, University of Texas at Austin

Gold Winners

  • Suraj Cheema, University of California, Berkeley
  • Tiarnan Doherty, University of Cambridge
  • Sebastian Kube, Yale University
  • Bin Yao, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Chuanzhen Zhao, University of California, Los Angeles

Silver Winners

  • Dimitrios Fraggedakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Austin Graham, University of Texas at Austin
  • Youhong Guo, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Sechan Lee, Seoul National University
  • Qitong Li, Stanford University
  • Tommaso Magrini, ETH Zurich
  • Xinyue Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Zhengyan Lun, University of California, Berkeley
  • Zhe Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Qi Zhu, Zhejiang University

2020 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Vivian Rachel Feig, Stanford University

Gold Winners

  • Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, University of Minnesota
  • Edmund Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Rifat Kamarudheen, Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research
  • Nicholas Rolston, Stanford University
  • Bo Wang, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Yujun Xie, Yale University
  • Duo Xu, University of California, Los Angeles

Silver Winners

  • Justin Lee Andrews, Texas A&M University
  • Hsin-Yun Chao, University of Maryland
  • Herman Duim, University of Groningen
  • Vivian Rachel Feig, Stanford University
  • Liang Feng, Texas A&M University
  • Lucia Gan, Stanford University
  • Katherine R. Jinkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Scott Tom Keene, Stanford University
  • Kan-Heng Lee, Cornell University
  • Albert Tianxiang Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Li Xiang, Peking University
  • Leyuan Zhang, The University of Texas at Austin

2019 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Juyoung Leem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gold Winners

  • Ilaria Abdel Aziz, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia @ Politechnico di Milano
  • Matthias T. Agne, Northwestern University
  • Yoonho Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Juyoung Leem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Yin Liu, University of California, Berkeley
  • David Mackanic, Stanford University
  • Lucie Ries, Université de Montpellier
  • Andrey Vyatskikh, California Institute of Technology
  • Yan Wang, University of Cambridge
  • Zhijie Zhu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Silver Winners

  • Naila Al Hasan, University of Maryland
  • David Russell Barton, Stanford University
  • Chunhui Dai, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Martin H. Dehn, The University of British Columbia
  • Chengcheng Fang, University of California, San Diego
  • William Fitzhugh, Harvard University
  • Tatsuya Higaki, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Megan O. Hill, Northwestern University
  • Jieun Kim, University of California, Berkeley
  • Arda Kotikian, Harvard University
  • Siddharth Krishnan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Minliang Lai, University of California, Berkeley
  • Xiaotong Li, Northwestern University
  • Yongtao Liu, The University of Tennessee
  • Junzhe Lou, Stanford University
  • Xuezeng Lu, Northwestern University
  • Peter Benjamin Meisenheimer, University of Michigan
  • Jaba Mitra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Amirali Nojoomi, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • Nicholas Rolston, Stanford University
  • Yiren Zhong, Yale University
  • Hua Zhu, Brown University
  • Jia Zhuang, University of California, San Diego

2019 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Aristide Gumyusenge, Purdue University

Gold Winners

  • Zhaoqianqi Feng, Brandeis University
  • Aristide Gumyusenge, Purdue University
  • Joon Sang Kang, University of California Los Angeles
  • Lichen Liu, Universitat Politècnica de València
  • Hyunwoo Yuk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Silver Winners

  • Peter Attia, Stanford University
  • Amitava Banerjee, Uppsala University
  • Jennifer Boothby, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Wen-Hui Cheng, California Institute of Technology
  • Hyunjoong Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Rohit John, Nanyang Technological University
  • Andrew Meng, Stanford University
  • Aashutosh Mistry, Purdue University
  • Rainie Nelson, Iowa State University
  • Subhajit Roychowdhury, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
  • Arashdeep Thind, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Yixiu Wang, Purdue University
  • Xiaoxing Xia, California Institute of Technology

2018 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Hariom Jani, National University of Singapore

Gold Winners

  • Hyeon Seok An, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
  • Megan E. Beck, Northwestern University
  • Lucas M Caretta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Janna Domenico, Drexel University
  • Mihai Duduta, Harvard University
  • William Gent, Stanford University
  • Seokhyoung KimUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Zhe LiIowa State University
  • Yayuan Liu, Stanford University
  • Kelly W. Mauser, California Institute of Technology
  • Jing Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Wenjie Yang, The Australian National University 

Silver Winners

  • Ankita Bhutani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Snehashis Choudhury, Cornell University
  • Mohammad Faqrul Alam Chowdhury, McGill University
  • Mohamed Elhebeary, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
  • Victor Fung, University of California, Riverside
  • Yue Gao, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Jianhe Guo, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Jiuk Jang, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
  • Hariom Jani, National University of Singapore
  • Ivan Lemesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lu Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Meng Li, Tufts University
  • Qi Li, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Wenjie Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Yanbin Li, Stanford University
  • Yongtao Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Nathan Nakamura, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Xinchen Ni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Khalil Ramadi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Xinjian Shi, Stanford University
  • Ruitao Su, University of Minnesota
  • Atsunori Tanaka, University of California, San Diego
  • Danqing Wang, Northwestern University
  • Kehao Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University

2018 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Ottman TertulianoCalifornia Institute of Technology

Gold Winners

  • Alex Ganose, University College London
  • Zachary Hood, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Zhiyua Liu, Nanyang Technological University
  • Seongjun Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ottman Tertuliano, California Institute of Technology
  • Hsinhan Tsai, Rice University
  • Ying Wang, University of California, Berkeley
  • Saien Xie, Cornell University

Silver Winners

  • Renjie Chen, University of California, San Diego
  • Jonghyun Choi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Zeyu Deng, University of Cambridge
  • Sreetosh Goswami, National University of Singapore
  • Bumjin Jang, ETH Zurich
  • Dohyung Kim, University of California, Berkeley
  • Shankar Lalitha Sridhar, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Dingchang Lin, Stanford University
  • Xiaolong Liu, Northwestern University
  • Erfan Mohammadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Hongjie Peng, Tsinghua University
  • Sean Rodrigues, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Michael Cai Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Xiaoxue Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Shuai Yuan, Texas A&M University
  • Hyunwoo Yuk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2017 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Birgitt StoginThe Pennsylvania State University

Gold Winners

  • Longji Cui, University of Michigan
  • Yuzhang Li, Stanford University
  • Naveen Mahenderkar, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Patrick Pietsch, ETH Zürich
  • Michelle Sherrott, California Institute of Technology
  • Birgitt Stogin, The Pennsylvania State University
  • John Sypek, University of Connecticut
  • Sirimuvva Tadepalli, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ryan Truby, Harvard University

Silver Winners

  • Arif Abdullah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Dennis Christensen, Technical University of Denmark
  • Maher Damak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David Frazer, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yongping Fu, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Alex Ganose, University College London
  • Grace Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yuanwen Jiang, The University of Chicago
  • Kang Hee Ku, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Prashant Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Albert Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Akanksha Menon, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Akinola Oyedele, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jessica Swallow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Elizabeth Tennyson, University of Maryland
  • Yu Tian, University of Delaware
  • Chen Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Wennie Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Yiping Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Shuya Wei, Cornell University
  • Rong Ye, University of California, Berkeley
  • Hyojin Yoon, Pohang University of Science and Technology

2017 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • Birgitt StoginThe Pennsylvania State University

Gold Winners

  • Longji Cui, University of Michigan
  • Yuzhang Li, Stanford University
  • Naveen Mahenderkar, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Patrick Pietsch, ETH Zürich
  • Michelle Sherrott, California Institute of Technology
  • Birgitt Stogin, The Pennsylvania State University
  • John Sypek, University of Connecticut
  • Sirimuvva Tadepalli, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Ryan Truby, Harvard University

Silver Winners

  • Arif Abdullah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Dennis Christensen, Technical University of Denmark
  • Maher Damak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David Frazer, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yongping Fu, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • Alex Ganose, University College London
  • Grace Gu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yuanwen Jiang, The University of Chicago
  • Kang Hee Ku, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Prashant Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Albert Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Akanksha Menon, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Akinola Oyedele, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • Jessica Swallow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Elizabeth Tennyson, University of Maryland
  • Yu Tian, University of Delaware
  • Chen Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Wennie Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Yiping Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Shuya Wei, Cornell University
  • Rong Ye, University of California, Berkeley
  • Hyojin Yoon, Pohang University of Science and Technology

2017 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award Recipient

  • YunHui Lin, Princeton University

Gold Winners

  • Pengcheng Chen, Northwestern University
  • Gerald Brady, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Fudong Han, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Won-Kyu Lee, Northwestern University
  • Qiyang Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ye Shi, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Aditya Sood, Stanford University
  • Ye Zhang, Fudan University

Silver Winners

  • Swetha Barkam, University of Central Florida
  • Nigel Becknell, University of California, Berkeley  
  • Michael Christiansen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sujay Desai, University of California, Berkeley
  • Arko Graf, Universität Heidelberg
  • Won Jun Jo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jinxing Li, University of California, San Diego
  • Yanxi Li, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • YunHui Lin, Princeton University
  • Siying Peng, California Institute of Technology
  • Tyler Schon, University of Toronto
  • Yude Su, University of California, Berkeley
  • Lixin Sun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Katalin Szendrei, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Achim Woessner, ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences
  • Shuozhi Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Zichao Ye, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Zhengshan Yu, Arizona State University
  • Jie Zhao, Stanford University

2016 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award

  • Claire McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara

Gold Winners

  • Zakaria Al Balushi, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Dane deQuilettes, University of Washington
  • Peijun Guo, Northwestern University
  • Hyeon-Ho Jeong, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
  • Jing Li, City University of Hong Kong
  • Lin Ma, Cornell University

  • Claire McLellan, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Shilpa Raja, University of California, Berkeley
  • Christopher Rodell, University of Pennsylvania
  • Hao Sun, Fudan University
  • Xue-Li Zheng, University of Toronto

Silver Winners

  • Muharrem Acerce, Rutgers University
  • Matin Amani, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yu Ding, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Joohoon Kang, Northwestern University
  • Wonho Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Jin Li, Texas A&M University
  • Yu-Chuan Lin, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Tianyu Liu, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Arun Kumar Mannodi Kanakkithodi, University of Connecticut
  • Osamudiamen Omoigiade, Imperial College of London

  • Li Na Quan, Ewha Womans University
  • Mansa Rajagopalan, Arizona State University
  • Apoorv Shanker, University of Michigan
  • Zeqing Shen, Rutgers University
  • Joshua Taillon, University of Maryland
  • Kun Wang, University of Georgia
  • William Wong, The Australian National University
  • Guoqing Xin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Mervin Zhao, University of California, Berkeley

2016 MRS Spring Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award

  • Steven Naleway, University of California, San Diego

Gold Winners

  • Chia-Hao Chuang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Peter Diemer, Wake Forest University
  • Mathieu Grisolia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Thales
  • Qianqian Lin, The University of Queensland

  • Yuchuan Shao, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Hanze Ying, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Lei Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University

Silver Winners

  • Hamed Arami, University of Washington
  • Amay Bandodkar, University of California, San Diego
  • Ryan Hufschmid, University of Washington
  • Won Jun Jo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yoonseob Kim, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Kwon-Hyeon Kim, Seoul National University
  • Jinxing Li, University of California, San Diego
  • Elena Liang, University of California, Irvine

  • Thomas Lonjaret, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
  • Steven Naleway, University of California, San Diego
  • Simiao Niu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Nuri Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Abdon Pena-Francesch,The Pennsylvania State University
  • Kasra Sardashti, University of California, San Diego
  • Yifei Yu, North Carolina State University

2015 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award

  • Stacy Copp, University of California, Santa Barbara

Gold Awards

  • Yen-Hung Lin, Imperial College London
  • Che-Ning Yeh, Northwestern University
  • Siyuan Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Tyler Dill, University of California, San Diego
  • Andrew Scheuermann, Stanford University
  • Xiaofei Ye, Stanford University
  • Sumeet Mishra, North Carolina State University

Silver Awards

  • Haotian Wang, Stanford University
  • Pengzhan Sun, Tsinghua University
  • Kelsey Stoerzinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Deblina Sarkar, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Steven Madsen, Stanford University
  • Lan Shoufeng, Georgia Institute of Technology
  •  Li Zhong, University of Pittsburgh
  • Poya Yasaei, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Zhengguo Xiao, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
  • Tian-Ming Fu, Harvard University
  • Youngeun Kim, Northwestern University

  • Yin Fang, University of Florida 
  • Alireza Kargar, University of California, San Diego
  • Shuo Diao, Stanford University
  • Nicholas Jackson, Northwestern University
  • Stacy Copp, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Robert Ireland, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Ritchie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Scott Grindy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jun Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ankun Yang, Northwestern University
  • Zhitao Zhang, Fudan University

2015 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Neelkanth Bardhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Valerio D'Innocenzo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia 
  • Yiyang Li, Stanford University 
  • Maria Lukatskaya, Drexel University 
  • Edward Sachet, North Carolina State University 
  • Jorik van de Groep, FOM Institute AMOLF 
  • Zi Jing Wong, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Jihyeon Yeom, University of Michigan 
  • Chenjie Zeng, Carnegie Mellon University 

Silver Awards

  • Hadiseh Alaeian, Stanford University
  • Assaf Ben-Moshe, Tel Aviv University
  • Matteo Bianchini, Institut Laue-Langevin
  • Jairo Diaz, Purdue University
  • Duc Duong, Stanford University
  • Jihyun Hong, Seoul National University
  • Po-Chun Hsu, Stanford University
  • Deep Jariwala, Northwestern University
  • Yong Lin Kong, Princeton University
  • Priyank Kumar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jinxing Li, University of California, San Diego

  • Yahua Liu, City University of Hong Kong
  • Yiding Liu, University of California, Riverside
  • Simiao Niu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Hongjie Peng, Tsinghua University
  • Suchol Savagatrup,University of California, San Diego
  • Zhi Wei Seh, Stanford University
  • Anshul Sharma, Kent State University
  • Chenghao Wu, University of California, Berkeley
  • Xi Yin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Yingjie Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
  • Nanjia Zhou, Northwestern University

2014 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award

  • Kelsey Hatzell, Drexel University

Gold Awards

  • Junghoon Jahng, University of California, Irvine 
  • Rajesh Kappera, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 
  • Max Kory, ETH Zürich 
  • Jinhyuk Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Linsen Li, University of Wisconsin–Madison 
  • Evgeny Mikheev, University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • Huiliang Wang, Stanford University 

Silver Awards

  • Canan Dagdeviren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • Anthony DiLauro, The Pennsylvania State University 
  • Kelsey Hatzell, Drexel University 
  • Sara Kadkhodaei, Brown University 
  • Nan K. Li, North Carolina State University 
  • Junhao Lin, Vanderbilt University 
  • Ian McCue, The Johns Hopkins University 
  • Christopher Proctor, University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • Zachary Bryan, North Carolina State University 

Silver Awards

  • Peixuan Chen, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 
  • Ming Gong, Stanford University 
  • Kwan Wee Tan, Cornell University 
  • I-Cheng Tung, Northwestern University 
  • Qiming Wang, Duke University 
  • Xiaonan Wen, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Wei-Chen Wu, North Carolina State University 
  • Wesley Guangyuan Zheng, Stanford University

2014 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Jeffrey Bosco, California Institute of Technology 
  • Liam Collins, University College Dublin 
  • Martin Ebner, ETH Zurich 
  • Emily Kosten, California Institute of Technology 
  • Jarad Mason, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Michael Naguib, Drexel University 
  • Jonathan Scholl, Stanford University 
  • Feng Xiong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Silver Awards

  • Andrew Akbashev, Drexel University 
  • Shawn Coleman, University of Arkansas 
  • Canan Dagdeviren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • Anoop Rama Damodaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • Letian Dou, University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Samuel Felton, Harvard University 
  • Wei Gao, University of California, San Diego 
  • Michael Grapes, Johns Hopkins University 
  • Guosong Hong, Stanford University 
  • Michael Layani, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 
  • Ping-Chun Li, University of Texas at Austin 

Silver Awards

  • Chong Liu, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Yiding Liu, University of California, Riverside
  • Simin Mehrabani, University of Southern California
  • Soong Ju Oh, University of Pennsylvania 
  • Wei Qin, University of Chicago 
  • Daniel Schauries, Australian National University 
  • Jiangwei Wang, University of Pittsburgh 
  • Sihong Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Xiaobin Xu, University of Texas at Austin 
  • Andrew Yankovich, University of Wisconsin–Madison

2013 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award

  • Nicholas Schneider, University of Pennsylvania

Gold Awards

Silver Awards

  • Phillip Barton, University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • Richard Baumer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Mostafa Bedewy, University of Michigan 
  • Daniel Bufford, Texas A&M University 
  • Aristi Christofi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 
  • Su-Wen Hsu, University of California, San Diego 
  • Melissa Johnson, University of Minnesota 
  • Yi Ke, Colorado School of Mines 
  • Desheng Kong, Stanford University 
  • Gibum Kwon, University of Michigan 
  • Chi Hwan Lee, Stanford University 
  • Ziliang Lin, Stanford University 

Silver Awards

  • Long Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Fei Meng, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
  • Sina Najmaei, Rice University 
  • Dahyun Oh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Tuncay Ozel, Northwestern University 
  • Adam Paxson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Nicholas Schneider, University of Pennsylvania 
  • Nisarg Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Limei Tian, Washington University in St. Louis 
  • Shuai Wei, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
  • David Yancey, University of Texas at Austin 
  • Zhibin Yang, Fudan University, China 

2013 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Sriharsha Aradhya, Columbia University 
  • Wei Bao, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Matthew McDowell, Stanford University 
  • Benjamin Chee Keong Tee, Stanford University 
  • William Woodford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
  • Ziliang Ye, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Jingqing Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Silver Awards

  • Ryan Comes, University of Virginia 
  • Juanjuan Du, University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Xiaofeng Feng, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Wei Gao, University of California, San Diego 
  • Le He, University of California, Riverside 
  • Kedar Hippalgaonkar, University of California, Berkeley 
  • Jongwoo Lim, University of California, Berkeley 

Silver Awards

  • Lito de la Rama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
  • Aaron Rathmell, Duke University 
  • Runzhe Tao, University of Illinois at Chicago 
  • Woon Teck Yap, Northwestern University 
  • You Zhou, Harvard University 
  • Guang Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology

2012 MRS Fall Meeting

Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award

  • Kristy Jost, Drexel University

Gold Awards

  • Seung Sae Hong, Stanford University
  • Katharine Jensen, Harvard University
  • Seunghyun Lee, University of Michigan
  • Jiayan Luo, Northwestern University
  • Manu Sebastian Mannoor, Princeton University
  • Xingchen Ye, University of Pennsylvania
  • Yingchao Yu, Cornell University

Silver Awards

  • Eric Appel, University of Cambridge
  • Jennifer Choy, Harvard University
  • Jian Cui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Karthik Jambunathan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Jimmy John, Cornell University
  • Kristy Jost, Drexel University
  • Minu Kim, The University of Tokyo
  • Oh Seok Kwon, Seoul National University
  • Yuerui Lu, Cornell University

Silver Awards

  • Timothy Miller, Stanford University
  • Changhyun Pang, Seoul National University
  • Riju Singhal, Drexel University
  • John Thomas, University of Michigan
  • Andrew Thron, University of California at Davis
  • Wenzhuo Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Kaylie Young, Northwestern University
  • Xueyi Zhang, University of Minnesota

2012 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Kara Evanoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Sanghan Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Gaurav Giri, Stanford University
  • Tevis Jacobs, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jason Kawasaki, University of California, Santa Barbra
  • Nichole Miller, Stanford University
  • Alia Schoen, Stanford University
  • Emily Warren, California Institute of Technology

Silver Awards

  • Zheng Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Zi Chen, Princeton University
  • Diego Gomez-Gualdron, Texas A&M University
  • Zhenda Lu, University of California, Riverside
  • Rutvik J. Mehta, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Nour Nijem, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Seung Soo Oh, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Andreina Parisi-Amon, Stanford University
  • Junsuk Rho, University of California, Berkeley
  • Afsoon Soudi, Washington State University
  • Magdalena Swierczewska, Stony Brook University
  • Neil Treat, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • David Tsivion, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Nan Yi, Tufts University
  • Qiao Zhang, University of California, Riverside

2011 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Jiamian Hu, Tsinghua University/Pennsylvania State University
  • Shu Hu, Stanford University
  • Matthew Jones, Northwestern University
  • Sung Kang, Harvard University
  • Robert Macfarlane, Northwestern University
  • Luisa Whittaker, State University of New York at Buffalo

Silver Awards

  • Muge Acik, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Mehmet Baykara, Yale University
  • Laura Dickinson, Johns Hopkins University
  • Akhilesh Gaharwar, Purdue University
  • Kian Kerman, Harvard University
  • Illan Kramer, University of Toronto
  • Xiaoyan Li, Brown University
  • Rameshwori Loukrakpam, State University of New York at Binghamton
  • Amy Marconnet, Stanford University
  • Hassan Masoud, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Elad Mentovich, Tel Aviv University
  • Pratap Rao, Stanford University
  • Jian Shi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Charles Sing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jonathan Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jin Suntivich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Hailiang Wang, Stanford University
  • Chong Xie, Stanford University
  • Sa Zhou, Boston College

2011 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Edward Barnard, Stanford University
  • Charina Choi, University of California, Berkeley
  • Vivian Ferry, California Institute of Technology
  • Nathaniel Huebsch, Harvard University
  • June Hyuk Lee, Pennsylvania State University
  • SungWoo Nam, Harvard University
  • Imogen Pryce, California Institute of Technology
  • Jonathan Rivnay, Stanford University
  • Volker Sorger, University of California, Berkeley

Silver Awards

  • Victor Acosta, University of California, Berkeley
  • Joel Grim, Wake Forest University
  • Xi He, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  • Teng He, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
  • Hyungsoon Im, University of Minnesota
  • Yijin Kang, University of Pennsylvania
  • Thomas Kempa, Harvard University
  • Dong Rip Kim, Stanford University
  • Jaemyung Kim, Northwestern University
  • Justin Koepsel, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Ingrid Koslow, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Sung Keun Lim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Francisco Lopez, Northwestern University
  • Vismadeb Mazumder, Brown University
  • Laura Povlich, University of Michigan
  • Desalegne Teweldebrhan, University of California, Riverside
  • Takeaki Yajima, The University of Tokyo
  • Qiao Zhang, University of California, Riverside
  • Wu Zhou, Lehigh University

2010 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Benjamin Almquist, Stanford University
  • Andrew Bonifas, The Ohio State University
  • Xiaoting Jia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stephen Morin, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Daniel Shoemaker, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Lieven Verslegers, Stanford University
  • Nhon Vo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
  • Lei Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Silver Awards

  • Thomas Babinec, Harvard University
  • Seung Hyub Baek, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Jingwei Bai, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Edward Barry, Brandeis University
  • Noemie Chocat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Lei Lang, Brown University
  • James Neilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Daniel Recht, Harvard University
  • Marco Righettoni, ETH Zurich
  • Michel Risser, INSA Strasbourg
  • Rouzbeh Shahsavari, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Guang Sheng, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Ravi Shankar Sundarum, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
  • John Tumbleston, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Wenzhuo Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology  
  • Pu Yu, University of California, Berkeley 

2010 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards  

  • Vincent Holmberg, University of Texas, Austin,
  • Bharat Jalan, University of California, Santa Barbara 
  • Dominic Lencer, RWTH Aachen University
  • Morgan Putnam, California Institute of Technolopgy
  • James Rondinelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Jason Valentine, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jia Zhu, Stanford University

Silver Awards

  • Kamal Asadi, University of Groningen
  • Noy Bassik, Johns Hopkins University
  • Claire Cobley, Washington University
  • Laura Cote, Northwestern University
  • Bianca Haberl, Australian National University 
  • Vivek Kalihari, University of Minnesota
  • Hanying Li, Cornell University
  • Yanguang Li, Ohio State University
  • Yongye Liang, University of Chicago
  • Ho Cheung (Anderson) Shum, Harvard University
  • Tejinder Singh, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Jun Wang, Iowa State University
  • Xinran Wang, Stanford University

2009 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Mary M. Caruso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Harvard University
  • Cole A. DeForest, University of Colorado
  • Dae-Hyeong Kim, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Prashant Nagpal, University of Minnesota

Silver Awards

  • Vivekananda P. Adiga, University of Pennsylvania
  • Carlee E. Ashley, University of New Mexico
  • Pierre-Luc T. Boudreault, Université Laval
  • Linyou Cao, Stanford University
  • Daniel Heller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Michael D. Kelzenberg, California Institute of Technology
  • Xin Li, Pennsylvania State University
  • Xiaoying Liu, Harvard University
  • Yang Liu, Purdue University
  • Charbel Madi, Harvard University
  • Dennis Meier, Universität Bonn
  • Alfonso Reina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, Case Western Reserve University
  • Cary A. Supalo, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Sheng Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Yue Bing Zheng, Pennsylvania State University

2009 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Ayse Asatekin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Matthew J. Bierman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Erik C. Garnett, University of California, Berkeley
  • Magnus P. Jonsson, Chalmers University of Technology
  • Bishnu P. Khanal, Rice University 

Silver Awards

  • Kelly A. Burke, Case Western Reserve University
  • Candace K. Chan, Stanford University
  • Bahman Hekmatshoar, Princeton University
  • Sinan Keten, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Purushottam Kumar, University of Florida
  • Darren J. Lipomi, Harvard University
  • Xiaolong Luo, University of Maryland
  • Jian Shen, University of California, San Diego

2008 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Dirk R. Englund, Stanford University
  • Zekeriyya Gemici, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Srikanth Singamaneni, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Brian P. Timko, Harvard University

Silver Awards

  • Peter M. Allen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jessica E. Bickel, University of Michigan
  • Eric Bousquet, Liege University
  • Qing Cao, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Michael Currie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Tal G. David, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
  • Irene A. Goldthorpe, Stanford University
  • I. Sedat Gunes, University of Akron
  • Yeonwoong Jung, University of Pennsylvania
  • Choongik Kim, Northwestern University
  • Philseok Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Kedarnath Kolluri, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Zhuang Liu, Stanford University
  • Mark D. Losego, North Carolina State University
  • Nikhil Medhekar, Brown University
  • William D. Pyrz, University of Delaware
  • Chunguang Tang, University of Connecticut
  • Bozhi Tian, Harvard University
  • Masaru Tsuchiya, Harvard University
  • Thomas Z. Ward, University of Tennessee
  • Vanessa Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ke Xu, California Institute of Technology
  • Xin Xu, Princeton University

2008 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Akram I. Boukai, California Institute of Technology
  • Jennifer A. Dionne, California Institute of Technology
  • David A. Giljohann, Northwestern University

Silver Awards

  • Muralidhar Ambati, University of California, Berkeley
  • Melissa J. Archer, California Institute of Technology
  • Kalapi G. Biswas, Purdue University
  • Judy J. Cha, Cornell University
  • Susan E. Habas, University of California, Berkeley
  • Khalid M. Hattar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Feng Jiao, University of St. Andrews
  • Jun Lu, University of Utah
  • Nurxat Nuraje, The City University of New York
  • Brendan T. O'Connor, University of Michigan
  • Alexis D. Ostrowski, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ramanathaswamy Pandian, University of Groningen
  • Jeffrey Peet, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Eric D. Pressly, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Andrew L. Schmitt, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Jian Shen, University of California, San Diego
  • Ian Y. Wong, Stanford University
  • Shenyuan Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences and The University of Tennessee

2007 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Hylke B. Akkerman, University of Groningen
  • Prashant K. Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Marleen Kamperman, Cornell University
  • Timothy G. Leong, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jill E. Millstone, Northwestern University
  • Mona Zebarjadi, University of California, Santa Cruz

Silver Awards

  • Christopher E. Carlton, University of Texas, Austin
  • Deepayan Chakraborti, North Carolina State University
  • Calvin K. Chan, Princeton University
  • Ronny Costi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Darshan D. Gandhi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Patrick Görrn, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
  • Brendan M. Kayes, California Institute of Technology
  • Jaeyun Kim, Seoul National University
  • Haeshin Lee, Northwestern University
  • Fan Li, University of Minnesota
  • Ravi Shankar, North Carolina State University
  • Jinhui Song, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Charan Srinivasan, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Zuankai Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Guihua Yu, Harvard University
  • Hongbo Zeng, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Bo Zhang, Clemson University
  • Weian Zhao, McMaster University

2007 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Yasuyuki Hikita, University of Tokyo
  • Jeffrey J. Peterson, University of Rochester
  • Fang Qian, Harvard University
  • Kevin Sivula, University of California, Berkeley
  • Peter R. Stone, University of California, Berkeley

Silver Awards

  • Mohammad Reza Abidian, University of Michigan
  • Alejandro L. Briseno, University of Washington
  • Jason D. Clapper, The University of Iowa
  • Shadi A. Dayeh, University of California, San Diego
  • Parijat P. Deb, Purdue University
  • Suresh K. Donthu, Northwestern University
  • Nagarajan Kalyanasundaram, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Matthew T. Lloyd, Cornell University
  • Dipak Paramanik, Institute of Physics, India
  • Manu Shamsa, University of California, Riverside
  • Carey M. Tanner, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Elon Terrell, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Evan L. Williams, Arizona State University
  • Alexander D. Wissner-Gross, Harvard University
  • Yu Yang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Jing Zhao, Northwestern University

2006 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Xing Chen, University of California, Berkeley
  • Paul H. Erhart, Technische Universität Darmstadt
  • Daeyeon Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Peter J. Pauzauskie, University of California, Berkeley
  • Fabien Sorin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ming Tang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Jie Xiang, Harvard University

Silver Awards

  • Mikel E. Barry, University of California, Berkeley
  • Arief S. Budiman, Stanford University
  • Ludovico Cademartiri, University of Toronto
  • Jennifer I.-L. Chen, University of Toronto
  • Samrat Choudhury, The Pennsylvania State University
  • David C. Coffey, University of Washington
  • Friederike Fleischhaker, University of Toronto
  • Aaron D. Franklin, Purdue University
  • Aihua Fu, University of California, Berkeley
  • Beth S. Guiton, University of Pennsylvania
  • Jinsong Huang, University of California, Los Angeles 
  • Yi Li, Georgia Institute of Technology 
  • Zixiao Pan, Northwestern University
  • Boaz Pokroy, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Shivaraman Ramachandran, North Carolina State University
  • Jennifer J. Riesz, University of Queensland
  • Kuangshin Tai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Soong Ho Um, Cornell University
  • Hui Wang, Rice University
  • Scott C. Warren, Cornell University
  • Kris C. Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yangang A. Xi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Jing Zhou, University of California, Berkeley

2006 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Emory M. Chan, University of California, Berkeley
  • Rong Fan, University of California, Berkeley
  • Lane W. Martin, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jana Zaumseil, University of Cambridge
  • Gengfeng Zheng, Harvard University

Silver Awards

  • Chung-Yi Chiang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Julia Deneen, University of Minnesota
  • Lori E. Greene, University of California, Berkeley
  • Yongfeng Guan, Columbia University
  • Rashmi Jha, North Carolina State University
  • Yunseok Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • Czang-Ho Lee, University of Waterloo
  • Liam S. C. Pingree, Northwestern University
  • Lidong Qin, Northwestern University
  • Christine E. Richardson, California Institute of Technology
  • Andrea R. Tao, University of California, Berkeley
  • Robert J. Walters, California Institute of Technology
  • Arum A. Yu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2005 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Chad R. Barry, University of Minnesota
  • Blythe G. Clark, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Chiara Daraio, University of California, San Diego
  • Kisuk Kang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • John P. Mills, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yukio Sato, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Silver Awards

  • Julie S. Biteen, California Institute of Technology
  • Ludovico Cademartiri, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Wai Lun Chan, Brown University
  • Shin G. Chou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Hezy Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
  • Frank W. DelRio, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Kimberly A. Dick, Lund University, Sweden
  • Craig J. Fennie, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Alicia M. Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Youngjong Kang, University of Minnesota
  • Zayd C. Leseman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  
  • Krista L. Niece, Northwestern University
  • Jason D. Slinker, Cornell University
  • Husnu E. Unalan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Myung-Han Yoon, Northwestern University
  • Xiaoyu Zhang, Northwestern University

2005 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Daniel Abou-Ras, ETH Zürich
  • Joseph F. AuBuchon, University of California, San Diego
  • Helen K. Baca, University of New Mexico
  • Daniel S. Gianola, Johns Hopkins University
  • Yongqing Huang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Juan C. Idrobo, University of California, Davis
  • Raghuveer S. Makala, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Ammar M. Nayfeh, Stanford University
  • Robert P. Sebra, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Benjamin J. Wiley, University of Washington
  • Yue Wu, Harvard University
  • Chanda R. Yonzon, Northwestern University

Silver Awards

  • Igor M. P. Aarts, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Cinzia Casiraghi, Cambridge University
  • Sung Yeun Choi, University of Toronto
  • Bentao Cui, University of Minnesota
  • Robin S. Friedman, Harvard University
  • Patric Gruber, Universität Stuttgart
  • Michael J. Hetzer, The Ohio State University
  • R. Joseph Kline, Stanford University
  • Qiming Li, University of New Mexico
  • Erik J. Menke, University of California, Irvine
  • Krishanu Saha, University of California, Berkeley
  • Zhiwei (Steven) Shan, University of Pittsburgh
  • Oren Tal, Tel Aviv University
  • Feng Tao, Princeton University
  • Xiaowei Teng, University of Rochester
  • Mayur S. Valipa, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Shabnam Virji, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Sehoon Yoo, The Ohio State University
  • Paul Zaslansky, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Jie Zheng, Georgia Institute of Technology

2004 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Andrew Armstrong, The Ohio State University
  • Teresa M. Barnes, Colorado School of Mines
  • Delphine Dean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Julia R. Greer, Stanford University
  • Jifeng Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stefano Piscanec, Cambridge University
  • Ingrid A. Rousseau, University of Connecticut
  • Donghai Wang, Tulane University
  • Tao Xu, Clemson University

Silver Awards

  • Zuruzi Abu Samah, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Anders Ballestad, University of British Columbia
  • Ion Bita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brian H. Clare, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Matthew R. Dreher, Duke University
  • Trevor Hoskins, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Matthew H. Kane, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Evgenia M. Kim, Moscow State University
  • Svetlana M. Mitrovski, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Doinita Neiner, University of New Orleans
  • Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, Brown University
  • Jefferson E. Rose, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Daniel J. Solis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Yong Xiang, Harvard University
  • David Guangjun Xu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Jingsi Yang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  • Homan Yuen, Stanford University
  • Jian Zhang, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  • Wenguang Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2004 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Markus J. Buehler, Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research
  • Adamos Dalis, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Manish Deopura, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ali Javey, Stanford University
  • Kenji Nomura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Rajaram A. Pai, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Ragesh Puthenkovilakam, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Laura Vogelaar, University of Twente
  • Sascha Welz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Yuanjia Zhang, Cornell University

Silver Awards

  • Maria Aboy, University of Valladolid
  • Julie Casperson, California Institute of Technology
  • Hyo Sik Chang, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology
  • Philip Costanzo, University of California, Davis
  • Yusuke Daiko, Nagoya Institute of Technology
  • Harald Jacobsen, Fraunhofer ISIT
  • Hyoungsub Kim, Stanford University
  • Yi Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Byron McCaughey, Tulane University
  • Megan Pattison, Purdue University
  • Ulrich Rant, Technical University Munich
  • Eli Rothenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Hannah Storrie, Northwestern University
  • Ming Su, Northwestern University
  • Mitra Taheri, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Sander F. Wuister, Utrecht University
  • Wensha Yang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Benjamin B. Yellen, Drexel University
  • Rachel Yotter, University of Washington
  • James M. Zahler, California Institute of Technology
  • Nanfeng Zheng, University of California, Riverside
  • Zhaohui Zhong, Harvard University

2003 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Ilke Arslan, University of California, Davis
  • Daniel B. Aubertine, Stanford University
  • Sarah M. Estrada, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Olaf Gelhausen, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Gregory M. Gratson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Egon Gross, Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Amanda J. Haes, Northwestern University
  • Francesca Iacopi, IMEC, Belgium
  • Rongchao Jin, Northwestern University
  • Garry R. Maskaly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Suniti Moudgil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David M. Pustai, University of Delaware
  • Congjun Wang, University of Chicago
  • Jessica Winter, University of Texas, Austin
  • Haimei Zheng, University of Maryland

Silver Awards

  • Alexander B. Artyukhin, University of California, Davis
  • Tommaso Baldacchini, Boston College
  • Maria M. F. Cortalezzi, Rice University
  • Manuel Garcia-Leiner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
  • Joshua Goldberger, University of California, Berkeley
  • Olivier Guise, University of Pittsburgh
  • James Zachary Hilt, University of Texas, Austin
  • Ho Won Jang, Pohang University of Science & Technology
  • Miri Kazes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Evgenia Kim, Moscow State University
  • Sungjee Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Weidong Li, University of Delaware
  • Shirley Ying Meng, Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance
  • Cynthia A. Mitchell, University of Houston
  • Aditi S. Risbud, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Brandon L. Seal, Arizona State University
  • Aleksandar Spasic, Boston College
  • Thomas E. Vandervelde, University of Virginia
  • Junling Wang, University of Maryland
  • Ting Xu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2003 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Jason B. Baxter, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Seth Coe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Cindi L. Dennis, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Minjoo L. Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Liang-shi Li, University of California, Berkeley
  • Sen Liu, University of Washington
  • Iris Visoly-Fisher, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Erich C. Walter, University of California, Irvine

Silver Awards

  • Ruxandra Costescu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Ana Filipa Nogueira Fixe, INESC-MN, Portugal
  • Chee Lip Gan, Singapore-MIT Alliance, Singapore
  • Eric P. Guyer, Stanford University
  • Terri L. Haskins, University of Rochester
  • Robin L. Hayes, University of California-Los Angeles
  • Jiaxing Huang, University of California-Los Angeles
  • James F. Hulvat, Northwestern University
  • Matthew Law, University of California-Berkeley
  • Ki-Bum Lee, Northwestern University
  • Tae-Hee Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Olivier Noel, Université Haute Alsace, France
  • Prita Pant, Cornell University
  • Alexandra E. Porter, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Pavle Radovanovic, University of Washington
  • Brandon Seal, Arizona State University
  • Yulong Shen, Cornell University
  • Eli D. Sone, Northwestern University

2002 MRS Fall Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Sarbajit Banerjee, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Jodie E. Bradby, Australian National University
  • Eric N. Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • James P. Buban, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Rainer J. Hebert, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Seung-Wuk Lee, University of Texas, Austin
  • Yu-Ming Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Mathew M. Maye, State University of New York, Binghamton
  • Rahul Panat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Gianni Taraschi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Silver Awards

  • Ariya Akthakul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Marcie R. Black, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Albina Y. Borisevich, University of Pennsylvania
  • Kai-Chieh Chang, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Dean M. DeLongchamp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Zachary Donhauser, Pennsylvania State University
  • Jennifer L. Gray, University of Virginia
  • Maxim B. Kelman, Stanford University
  • Marko Loncar, California Institute of Technology
  • Yu Lu, University of Washington
  • Anupama Mallikarjunan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Wangyang Ni, Michigan State University
  • Ahmet S. Ozcan, Boston University
  • Yulia S. Petronyuk, Institute of Biochemical Physics-RAS
  • Ricardo Ruiz, Vanderbilt University
  • Erik L. Waldron, Boston University
  • Yinmin Wang, Johns Hopkins University
  • Guangwen Zhou, University of Pittsburgh

2002 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Sumit Agarwal, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Michael E. Groenert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Christy L. Haynes, Northwestern University
  • Michael Lufaso, Ohio State University
  • Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford University
  • Job Rijssenbeek, Northwestern University
  • Matthew Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Erik D. Spoerke, Northwestern University
  • Saravanapriyan Sriraman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Silver Awards

  • Vadim Adamovich, University of Southern California
  • Rhett Brewer, California Institute of Technology
  • Mark E. Byrne, Purdue University
  • Stefano Curtarolo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Melik C. Demirel, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  •  Lara A. Estroff, Yale University
  • Amanda J. Haes, Northwestern University
  • Yu Huang, Harvard University
  • Jason Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Xiaogang Liu, Northwestern University
  • Hong Meng, University of California, Los Angeles
  • So-Jung Park, Northwestern University
  • Leila Rezaee, University of Tehran, Iran
  • Eric W. Seelig, Northwestern University
  • Eli D. Sone, Northwestern University
  • Yayoi Takamura, Stanford University
  • Guofeng Wang, California Institute of Technology
  • Haoquan Yan, University of California, Berkeley

2001 MRS Spring Meeting

Gold Awards

  • Jonathan Baugh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Ning Cheng, University of California, Berkeley
  • Christine E. Flynn, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Brian Hubert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Emily Jarvis, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Maura Jenkins, Stanford University
  • Daniel Kammler, Northwestern University
  • Suneel Kumar Kodambaka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • J. Tobias Lau, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Shriram Ramanathan, Stanford University

Silver Awards

  • Ageeth A. Bol, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  • Camelia Borca, University of Nebraska
  • Colin Bulthaup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Natasha Erdman, Northwestern University
  • Susan Gillmor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Ching-yin Hong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Hyun-Chul Jin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Greg Kusinski, University of California, Berkeley
  • Cora Lind, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Robert W. Meulenberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Mark E. Overberg, University of Florida
  • Alessandro Romeo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
  • Satoshi Shimizu, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
  • Ming Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Jie Zou, University of California, Riverside