Justin Edmondson- Accepts NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship - 1 Jun 2009 -- On June 1, 2009, Justin Edmondson accepted a NASA Postdoctoral Program fellowship with the Space and Astrophysical Plasmas research group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Beginning in late September 2009, he will work with Dr. Marco Velli at JPL and the University of Florence, Italy, on magnetic reconnection theory and astrophysical plasma thermodynamics

Meredith Brenner- NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant for 2009-2011.

Mr. Franklin Dollar- becomes 2009 NSF Fellow

Ms. Laura Spencer- becomes 2009 NSF Fellow

Johnhenri Richardson- 2008 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

Mark Haynes- 2008-2010 Predoctoral Traineeship Award, DoD Breast Cancer Research Program, Student Paper Competition Finalist, Antennas and Propagation Symposium 2009

Paivo Kinnunen and Brandon McNaughton- Finalist in the Collegiate Inventors Competition National Inventors Hall of Fame, Nov 2008, Top ten finalist in the 1000 Pitches Competition MPowered Entrepreneurship, Dec 2008, Bay Area Entrepreneurship Trip –pitch competition winner Center for Entrepreneurship,  Feb 2009 Image

Robert Wilson- Received the Incubic/Milton Chang travel grant to present four talks at the Optical Society of America (OSA) Frontiers in Optics meeting

Jane Wang- Received the NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant for 2007-2009, and received the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for 2009-2010

Naji Husseini- 05/2009 Winner of the student invited talk at the Argonne Users Week meeting., Received a 2009 "Michigan Outstanding Student Leader Award" for his work with the Tae Kwon Do Club

Shanna Shaked- 3/2009: Received the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, 1/2008: Received a 'Best Poster' award at the Alliance for Global Sustainability conference at MIT - Cambridge, MA for a poster entitled "Local and long-range health impacts of global trade: a textile case study using Life Cycle Assessment",Received first place in the U of M 'Climate Change Forum 2006-07 Best Student Paper or Project on Environmental Issues and Climate Change', for a paper entitled "Meeting the Growth in Energy Demand in Texas"

Nicole L. Campbell-

• University of Michigan-PhD Candidate in Applied Physics
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-Climate Physics Technical Group
• 2009 NSBE Golden Torch Award for Graduate Student of the Year
• 2008 Martin L. King Spirit Award
• 2008 University of Michigan Distinguished Leadership Award
• 2007 National Consortium for Graduate Degrees Most Promising PhD
Science Fellow
• 2007 Radiation and Climate Carl Storm Research Fellow
• 2006 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship-HM
• 2006 The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees GEM Fellow
• 2006 The National Academies Ford Fellowship-HM
• 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship-HM
• 2005 Rackham Science Fellow

Louise Hecker- presenting talks for Saturday Morning Physics
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/seminars/smp/
11/10/07 " Muscling in on Tissue Engineering"
11/17/07 "How Do You Mend a Broken Heart? Current Treatments and Novel Strategies for Cardiovascular Disease"

Shawn Grannel- and the Ammonia powered engine drives cross-country

Michael McDonald- becomes 2007 NSF Fellow

Katherine Smirl- was awarded an 2006 Honorable Mention by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Applied Physics Faculty

Professor Mark Kushner- 2008 winner of the Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award.

Professor Max Shtein- in Fall 2008 received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the Air Force.

Professor Paul Drake- Major Research Grant: Director, Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics, 17 M$, April 2008 through April 2013, received the AOSS Departmental Research Excellence Award, 2009

Professor Sharon Glotzer- Received the Charles M.A. Stine Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Materials Engineering & Sciences Division, 2008.  Citation: “For her pioneering simulations of glass-forming liquids and self-assembled nanomaterials, and for her leadership and service to the materials community.”

Professor Brad Orr- Citation: For contributions to the fundamental understanding of heteroepitaxial and homoepitaxial thin film growth.
Nominated By: Materials Physics (DMP)

Professor Roberto Merlin- 2006 recipient of the Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids

Professor Franco Nori- chosen as AAAS Fellow for theoretical contributions in condensed matter physics, particularly for studies of vortex dynamics in superconductors, quantum information, dynamical instabilities, Josephson-junction arrays and quantum interference

Professor Katsuyo Thornton- NSF CAREER Award, 2008. & TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award, 2008.

Professor Jay Guo- 2008 EECS departmental outstanding achievement award

Professor Rachel S. Goldman- was elected member of Sigma Xi, the International Honors Society of Science and Engineering & was elected member of Sigma Xi, the International Honors Society of Science and Engineering.

Professor Ron Larson- David Mason Lectures, Chemical Engineering Department, Stanford University,  May 11-13, 2009

Professor Roberto Merlin- 2009 Peter A. Franken Collegiate Professor of Physics & 2008 Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society

Professor Anthony Grbic-

• 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). I will receive the award at a ceremony this fall.
• 2008 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award.
• 2008 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award.

Professor Paul L. Carson- July 2008- William D. Coolidge Award, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, for an eminent career in medical physics.

Professor Ron Larson- Barnett Lecture,  Dept of Chemical Engineering, Yale University, Dec. 3, 2008

Professor Vanessa Sih- July 2009, National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award

Professor Oliver Kripfgans- Cardiovascular Center McKay & the Heart of a Champion Award

Professor R Paul Drake-

• Named   Henry Smith Carhart Collegiate Professor of Space Science
• AOSS    Departmental Award for Research Excellence

Professor Pallab Bhattacharya-

• 2008:  Was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
• 2008:  Received the TMS John Bardeen Award