Presidential Young Investigator Award
The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presidential Faculty Fellows Program (PFF).[1]
Applicants could not directly apply for the award, but were nominated by others including their own institutions based on their previous record of scientific achievement. The award, a certificate from the White House signed by the President of the United States, included a minimum grant of $25,000 a year for five years from NSF to be used for any scientific research project the awardee wished to pursue, with the possibility of additional funding up to $100,000 annually if the PYI obtained matching funds from industry. Considered to be one of the highest honors granted by the National Science Foundation, the award program was criticized in 1990 as not being the best use of NSF funds in an era of tight budgets.[2][3]
Recipients[]
PYI award recipients include:
- Narendra Ahuja, computer science, 1984
- Alice Agogino, engineering, 1985[4]
- Paul Alivisatos, chemistry, 1991[5]
- Peter B. Armentrout, chemistry, 1984
- David P. Anderson, computer science
- Kenneth Balkus, chemistry, 1991
- Prithviraj Banerjee, computer systems architecture, 1987[6]
- Paul F. Barbara, chemistry, 1984[7]
- , industrial and systems engineering, 1985
- Mary Beckman, linguistics, 1988
- Mladen Bestvina, mathematics, 1988
- Sanjay Banerjee, electrical engineering, 1988
- , mathematics, 1993[8]
- Rogers Brubaker, sociology, 1994
- Robert Bryant, mathematics, 1984
- Stephen Z. D. Cheng, polymer science, 1991
- Paul Alan Cox, evolutionary ecology and ethnobotany, 1985
- Judith Curry, climate science, 1988[9]
- Supriyo Datta, electrical engineering, 1984
- Rina Dechter, computer science, 1991[10]
- Chris Q. Doe, Biology, 1990
- Bruce Donald, computational biology, 1989
- David L. Donoho, statistics, 1985
- Lin Fanghua, mathematics, 1989
- Juli Feigon, biochemistry, 1989[11]
- Eric Fossum, electrical engineering, 1986
- Jennifer Freyd, psychology
- Elaine Fuchs, cell biology, 1984-1989
- Gerald Fuller, chemical engineering
- Huajian Gao, materials science
- Mark S. Ghiorso, geological sciences, 1985[12]
- Leslie Greengard, advanced comp research program and computational mathematics, 1990[13]
- Mark Henderson, mechanical engineering, 1987
- Bruce Hajek, 1984[14]
- John L. Hennessy, computer science, 1984
- Jacqueline Hewitt, physics, 1991
- David Hillis, evolutionary biology, 1987
- , economics, 1991
- John M. Hollerbach, haptics and tactile perception, 1984[15]
- Kathleen Howell, astronomy, 1984
- Ellen Hildreth, computer vision, 1987
- Paul Hudak, computer science, 1985[16]
- Christopher R. Johnson, computer graphics and visualization, 1994
- Nan Marie Jokerst, electrical engineering, 1990
- Moshe Kam, electrical engineering, 1990
- David B. Kaplan, physics, 1990[17]
- Mehran Kardar, physics, 1989
- Karen Kavanagh, physics, 1991
- Susan Kidwell, geology, 1986
- , astrophysics, 1988
- Ron R. Kopito, cell biology, 1989
- Vijay Kumar (roboticist), 1991
- Jacqueline Krim, materials research, 1986[18][19]
- James W. LaBelle, physics, 1990
- Robert L. Last, plant biology, 1990
- Edward A. Lee, electrical engineering, 1997[20]
- Kevin K. Lehmann, chemistry, 1985
- Charles E. Leiserson, computer science, 1985
- John H. Lienhard V, mechanical engineering, 1988
- John Edwin Luecke, mathematics, 1992
- Udi Manber, computer science, 1985
- Eric Mazur, physics
- Mark McMenamin, geology, 1988
- Eckart Meiburg, mechanical engineering, 1990
- Fulvio Melia, astrophysics
- Carolyn Meyers, chemical engineering
- Michael I. Miller, biomedical engineering[21]
- Robert F. Murphy (computational biologist),[22] 1983
- Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Materials Physics, 1989
- Jon Orloff, physics, 1984
- Randy Pausch, computer science
- Gregory A. Voth, Chemistry, 1991
- Joseph R. Pawlik, biological oceanography, 1991
- Ken Perlin, computer graphics, 1991
- Ronald T. Raines, chemical biology
- Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist, 1992[23]
- , artificial intelligence, 1992[24]
- Mark O. Robbins, Materials Research, 1985[25]
- Ares J. Rosakis, 1985
- Karl Rubin, mathematics
- Rob A. Rutenbar, computer engineering, 1987
- Sunil Saigal, civil engineering, 1990
- Peter Salovey, psychology
- Aziz Sancar, molecular biophysics, 1984
- Robert Sapolsky, neuroendocrinology
- Terrence Sejnowski, neuroscience, 1984
- , civil engineering, 1986
- , statistics, 1989
- Michael Steer, electrical engineering, 1986
- Joann Stock, earth science, 1990[26][27]
- Howard A. Stone, chemical, bioengineering, environmental, and transport systems, 1989[28]
- Steven Strogatz, mathematics, 1990
- , mechanical engineering, 1991
- Éva Tardos, algorithm analysis
- Patricia Thiel, chemistry, 1985[29]
- Masaru Tomita, computational biology, 1988
- , operations research, 1986
- Mary K. Vernon, computer science, 1985
- Jeffrey Vitter, computer science, 1985
- Margaret Werner-Washburne, molecular biology, 1990
- Ellen D. Williams (scientist), materials research, 1984[30]
- Martin Yarmush, biochemical engineering, 1988
- Todd Yeates, biochemistry, 1991
- Alex Zettl, physics, 1984
- Steven Zimmerman, chemistry
- Munther A. Dahleh, 1991.[31][32]
NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship[]
The NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship (PFF) program was launched by President George H.W. Bush to honor 30 young engineering and science professors. The awards were up to $100,000 per year for 5 years.[33]
PFF recipients[]
- David Culler, Computer Science, 1992
- Theodore (Ted) Rappaport, Wireless Communications, 1992
- Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Electrical/Bioengineering, 1992
- Louise H. Kellogg, Geophysics, 1992
See also[]
- PECASE
References[]
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