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The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. [1] The White House, following recommendations from participating agencies, confers the awards annually. To be eligible for a Presidential Award, an individual must be a U.S. citizen, national, or permanent resident. Some of the winning scientists and engineers receive up to a five-year research grant.
In February 1996, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) was commissioned by President Bill Clinton to create an award program that would honor and support the achievements of young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers in the fields of science and technology. The stated aim of the award is to help maintain the leadership position of the United States in science. [2] [3]
Originally, 60 recipients received the PECASE award per year. In 2008, the number of awardees was increased to 100 annually. [1] The 2002 PECASE awards were not announced until May 2004 due to bureaucratic delays within the Bush administration. [4] The 2013 PECASE awards were announced in February 2016 after a 2-year delay.
The Trump administration announced the 2015, 2016, and 2017 awardees in 2019 with the awards presented by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The agencies participating in the PECASE Awards program are:
Following the creation of PECASE in February 1996, President Bill Clinton announced 60 recipients on December 16 of that year: [5] [6]
10 awardees:
20 awardees:
On October 23, 1997, President Bill Clinton announced 60 recipients of the PECASE for that year: [8] [9]
11 awardees:
20 awardees:
On February 10, 1999, President Bill Clinton announced the 60 recipients of the PECASE for 1998: [10]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
On April 11, 2000, President Bill Clinton announced 59 recipients of the PECASE for 1999: [11] [12]
13 awardees:
20 awardees:
On October 24, 2000, President Bill Clinton announced 58 recipients of the PECASE for 2000: [13] [2] [14]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
On June 26, 2002, President George W. Bush announced 60 PECASE recipients for 2001: [16]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
The 57 honorees in 2002: [19]
11 awardees:
20 awardees:
On September 9, 2004, President George W. Bush announced 57 honorees for 2003: [21]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
On June 13, 2005, President George W. Bush announced 58 awardees for 2004: [23]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
The 56 honorees for the year 2005: [29] [30] [31]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
The 58 honorees for 2006: [35] [36]
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
The 67 honorees for 2007: [37]
15 awardees:
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
The 100 honorees for 2008: [39]
41 awardees: [1]
12 awardees:
12 awardees:
20 awardees:
The 89 honorees for 2009: [40]
15 awardees:
13 awardees:
20 awardees:
19 awardees:
On September 26, 2011, President Obama honored 94 scientists: [41]
16 awardees:
13 awardees:
20 awardees:
21 awardees:
On July 23, 2012, President Obama presented 97 scientists with the award for 2011: [42]
16 awardees:
13 awardees:
22 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 2 by the CDC: [2] [43]
21 awardees:
On December 23, 2013, President Obama presented 102 scientists with the award for 2012: [44]
16 awardees:
13 awardees:
23 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 3 by the CDC: [2] [43]
19 awardees:
On February 18, 2016, President Obama presented 105 researchers with the award for 2013: [46] [47]
17 awardees:
13 awardees:
23 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 3 by the CDC: [2] [43]
21 awardees:
On January 9, 2017, President Obama presented the 99 scientists with the award for 2014: [48]
16 awardees:
13 awardees:
23 awardees, 20 nominated by the NIH and 3 by the CDC: [2] [43]
19 awardees:
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In February 2016, President Obama today named 105** researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. [49]
The recipients for 2016 were*:
Department of Agriculture
Renee Arias, National Peanut Research Laboratory
Matthew Thompson, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Kenong Xu, Cornell University
Department of Commerce
Nathan Bacheler, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Adam Creuziger, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gijs de Boer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Colorado-Boulder
Tara Lovestead, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Andrew Ludlow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
James Thorson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Department of Defense
Pieter Abbeel, University of California-Berkeley
Deji Akinwande, University of Texas-Austin
Jin-Hee Cho, US Army Research Laboratory
Sarah Cowie, University of Nevada-Reno
Dino Di Carlo, University of California-Los Angeles
Alon Gorodetsky, University of California-Irvine
Elad Harel, Northwestern University
Patrick Hopkins, University of Virginia
Anya Jones, University of Maryland
Colin Joye, Naval Research Laboratory
Lena Kourkoutis, Cornell University
Jennifer Miksis-Olds, Pennsylvania State University
Timothy Ombrello, Air Force Research Laboratory
Heather Pidcoke, US Army Institute of Surgical Research
James Rondinelli, Drexel University
Bozhi Tian, University of Chicago
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington
Department of Education
Christopher Lemons, Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Cynthia Puranik, University of Pittsburgh
Department of Energy
Tonio Buonassisi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Milind Kulkarni, Purdue University
Keji Lai, University of Texas-Austin
Paul Ohodnicki, Jr., National Energy Technology Laboratory
Michelle O'Malley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Matthias Schindler, University of South Carolina
Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
Michael Stadler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Melissa Teague, Idaho National Laboratory
William Tisdale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan Hopkins, University of California, Los Angeles
Tammy Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
David Mascareñas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Department of Health and Human Services
Hillel Adesnik, University of California, Berkeley
Cheryl Broussard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Samantha Brugmann, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Namandje Bumpus, Johns Hopkins University
Jacob Carr, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Kafui Dzirasa, Duke University
Camilla Forsberg, University of California, Santa Cruz
Tina Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
Viviana Gradinaru, California Institute of Technology
Jordan Green, Johns Hopkins University
Katie Kindt, National Institutes of Health
Andre Larochelle, National Institutes of Health
Jennifer Lorvick, RTI International
Courtney Miller, The Scripps Research Institute
Kiran Musunuru, Harvard University
David Pagliarini, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Sachin Patel, Vanderbilt University
Amy Ralston, University of California Santa Cruz
Carrie Reed, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ervin Sejdic, University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Skidmore, University of Pittsburgh
Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Muhammad Walji, The University of Texas School of Dentistry at Houston
Department of Interior
Richard Briggs, U.S. Geological Survey
Jeffrey Pigati, U.S. Geological Survey
Maureen Purcell, U.S. Geological Survey
Department of Veterans Affairs
Paul Marasco, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Panagiotis Roussos, James J. Peters VA Medical Center
Erika Wolf, VA Boston Healthcare System
Environmental Protection Agency
Rebecca Dodder, EPA
Alex Marten, EPA
Intelligence Community
Kregg Arms, National Security Agency
Nicole Bohannon, Central Intelligence Agency
Ashley Holt, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Jon Kosloski, National Security Agency
David Loveall, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Whitney Nelson, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
James Benardini, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jin-Woo Han, NASA Ames Research Center
Michele Manuel, University of Florida
Andrew Molthan, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Colleen Mouw, Michigan Technological University
Vikram Shyam, NASA Glenn Research Center
National Science Foundation
Adam Abate, University of California at San Francisco
Marcel Agueros, Columbia University
Arezoo Ardekani, University of Notre Dame
Cullen Buie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erin Carlson, Indiana University
Antonius Dieker, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Erika Edwards, Brown University
Julia Grigsby, Boston College
Todd Gureckis, New York University
Tessa Hill, University of California - Davis
Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia
Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania
David Masiello, University of Washington
Daniel McCloskey, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Shwetak Patel, University of Washington
Aaron Roth, University of Pennsylvania
Sayeef Salahuddin, University of California, Berkeley
Jakita Thomas, Spelman College
Joachim Walther, University of Georgia
Kristen Wendell, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Benjamin Williams, University of California-Los Angeles
On July 2, 2019, President Trump announced 315 recipients of the award, for the 2017 class: [50]
18 awardees:
47 awardees, including 12 nominated by the Army Research Office (ARO) and 12 nominated by the Office of Naval Research (ONR): (to-do: further organize)
12 awardees, [51] 4 per year: [52]
12 awardees: [53]
39 awardees:
67 awardees, 60 nominated through the NIH and 7 nominated through the CDC: [2] [43]
17 awardees:
18 awardees:
In 2015–2017, the NSF had the following 80 awardees.
26 awardees:
27 awardees:
27 awardees:
4 awardees: [52]
4 awardees: [54]
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is a US nonprofit consortium of more than 100 colleges and universities providing research and training in the atmospheric and related sciences. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and provides additional services to strengthen and support research and education through its community programs. Its headquarters, in Boulder, Colorado, include NCAR's Mesa Laboratory, designed by I.M. Pei.
NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of 72 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.
National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award is a research initiative first announced in 2004 designed to support individual scientists' biomedical research. The focus is specifically on "pioneering" research that is highly innovative and has a potential to produce paradigm shifting results. The awards, made annually from the National Institutes of Health common fund, are each worth $500,000 per year, or $2,500,000 for five years.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council, chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30, 2001, by George W. Bush, was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21, 2010, Executive Order 13539, by Donald Trump's October 22, 2019, Executive Order 13895, and by Joe Biden's February 1, 2021, Executive Order 14007.
The Universities Research Association (URA) is a non-profit association of more than 90 research universities, primarily but not exclusively in the United States. It has members also in Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1965 at the behest of the President's Science Advisory Committee and the National Academy of Sciences to build and operate Fermilab, a National Accelerator Laboratory.
The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to support 15 young faculty in biomedical research and chemistry at US universities and research centers. The goal of the award is to support to exceptional young scientists who are at the beginning of their independent research careers and are working in the fields of medicine, chemistry, and/or biological sciences.
Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) is a type of U.S. federal grant administered by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health. The CTSA program began in October 2006 under the auspices of the National Center for Research Resources with a consortium of 12 academic health centers. The program was fully implemented in 2012, comprising 60 grantee institutions and their partners.
The Richtmyer Memorial Award is an award for physics education, named for physicist Floyd K. Richtmyer and given annually by the American Association of Physics Teachers. Its recipients include over 15 Nobel Prize winners.
Leon Pape was a medical physicist who received his BSc, MSc (1953) and PhD (1965) in Physics from the University of Southern California. He became certified in radiological physics by the American Board of Radiology and from 1955 to 1962 he worked as a radiological physicist at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. He served at the California State University Los Angeles as radiation safety officer and as professor of physics until 1971, and worked on the development of studies in biophysics, radiological health physics, and electron microscopy. He was elevated to departmental head of physics at Cal State Los Angeles, and advocated with the California legislature to secure adequate funding for the 4-MeV Van de Graaf Laboratory, unique to CSU system. From 1971 until his death he worked at the August Krogh Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the zoophysiological laboratory. His central research area was membrane biophysics.
The Physical Sciences in Oncology Network (PS-ON) is a network of centers and projects set up by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) to link the physical sciences with the study of cancer. The program was launched in 2009 with Physical Sciences in Oncology Centers (PS-OCs) investigating complex and challenging questions in cancer research from a physical sciences perspective. To explore how the NCI could continue to support the integration of physical sciences and cancer research, a Think Tank and series of Strategic Workshops were held in 2012. These meetings served to update opportunities at the interface of physical sciences and cancer research and guided the development of the second phase including Physical Sciences in Oncology Projects (PS-OPs).
The Ralph and Helen Oesper Award or Oesper Award was first given in 1981 by the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes "outstanding chemists for lifetime significant accomplishments in the field of chemistry with long-lasting impact on the chemical sciences". It was established with a bequest from Ralph E. Oesper and his wife, Helen Wilson Oesper.
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards are awards given to early-career researchers in chemistry by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. "to support the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences." The Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar program began in 1970. In 1994, the program was divided into two parallel awards: The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program, aimed at research universities, and the Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program, directed at primarily undergraduate institutions. This list compiles all the pre-1994 Teacher-Scholars, and the subsequent Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars.