AWARDS AND HONORS National awards and honors National Institutes of Health, 2008 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award: American Academy of Arts Bruce A. Hay, Associate Professor and Sciences, Fellow: of Biology Michael H. Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem Professor of National Science Foundation, Bioengineering American Competitiveness Thomas R. Palfrey III, Flintridge and Innovation Fellowship: Foundation Professor of Economics Sossina M. Haile, Professor of and Political Science Materials Science and Chemical Engineering American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section CAREER Award: on Engineering, Fellow: Azita Emami-Neyestanak, Assistant Nai-Chang Yeh, Professor of Physics Professor of Electrical Engineering National Academy of Engineering, Research!America, Builders Member: of Science Award: David A. Tirrell, Ross McCollum– David Baltimore, Robert Andrews William H. Corcoran Professor Millikan Professor of Biology and Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Chair Sigma Xi, 2008 William Procter of the Division of Chemistry and Prize for Scientific Achievement: Chemical Engineering Charles Elachi, Vice President; Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; National Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Electrical Member: Engineering and Planetary Science Frances H. Arnold, Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical U.S. News Media Group and the Engineering and Biochemistry Center for Public Leadership, America’s Best Leaders 2008: National Aeronautics and Space David Baltimore, Robert Andrews Administration, Distinguished Millikan Professor of Biology Service Medal: Fiona A. Harrison, Professor of Physics Thomas A. Prince, Professor of and Astronomy Physics; Senior Research Scien- tist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Director, W. M. Keck Institute for Space Studies 1 California Institute of Technology Awards and Honors 2007–2008 International awards and honors Local honors American Physical Society, Fellow: Albert J. Lazzarini, Member of the Commander of the British Empire, Twelfth Annual Griffith Observer Professional Staff, Laser Interfero- Recipient: Writing Contest, First Prize: meter Gravitational-Wave Richard S. Ellis, Steele Family S. George Djorgovski, Professor of Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory Professor of Astronomy Astronomy Thomas A. Prince, Professor of Physics; Senior Research Scientist, European Mathematical Society, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and EMS Prize: Awards and honors from Director, W. M. Keck Institute for Alexei Borodin, Professor of professional societies Space Studies Mathematics American Chemical Society, Outstanding Referee: Alexander von Humboldt Award in Theoretical Chemistry: Stanley Deser, Visiting Associate in Foundation, Humboldt Research William A. Goddard III, Charles Theoretical Physics Award: and Mary Ferkel Professor of Petr Vogel, Senior Research Associate Hiroshi Oguri, Fred Kavli Professor Chemistry, Materials Science, in Physics, Emeritus of Theoretical Physics and Applied Physics Kerry J. Vahala, Ted and Ginger 2009 Tom W. Bonner Prize: Jenkins Professor of Information American Economic Association, Robert D. McKeown, Professor of Science and Technology and 2008 Distinguished Fellow: Physics Professor of Applied Physics Charles R. Plott, Edward S. Harkness Professor of Economics and 2009 James C. McGroddy Prize International Union of Theoretical Political Science for New Materials, Corecipient: and Applied Mechanics, Rodney William L. Johnson, Ruben F. and Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics: American Geophysical Union, Donna Mettler Professor of Michael Ortiz, Dotty and Dick Hayman Charles William Bowie Medal: Engineering and Applied Science Professor of Aeronautics and Gerald J. Wasserburg, John D. Mechanical Engineering MacArthur Professor of Geology Geological Society of America, and Geophysics, Emeritus 2008 Arthur L. Day Medal: King Abdullah University of American Institute of Aeronautics Kenneth A. Farley, W. M. Keck Science and Technology, and Astronautics, Fellow: Foundation Professor of Geochem- Global Research Partnership Josette Bellan, Visiting Associate istry, and Chair of the Division of Investigator: in Mechanical Engineering, and Geological and Planetary Sciences Brian M. Stoltz, Ethel Wilson Bowles Member of the Technical Staff, and Robert Bowles Professor of Jet Propulsion Laboratory Institute of Electrical and Chemistry Sergio Pellegrino, Professor of Aero- Electronics Engineers, Fellow: nautics and Civil Engineering Steven Low, Professor of Computer Mathematical Society of Japan, Science and Electrical Engineering Takagi Lecturer: 2008 Foundation Award Hiroshi Oguri, Fred Kavli Professor of for Excellence: David Sarnoff Award, Corecipient: Theoretical Physics Jet Propulsion Laboratory Kerry J. Vahala, Ted and Ginger Jenkins Professor of Information Norwegian Academy of 2008 Goddard Astronautics Award: Science and Technology and Science and Letters, Kavli Prize Charles Elachi, Vice President; Direc- Professor of Applied Physics in Astrophysics, Corecipient: tor, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; and Maarten Schmidt, Francis L. Moseley Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus and Planetary Science Templeton Xiangshan Conference, American Mathematical Society, Honoree: Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Thomas G. Phillips, Altair Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Physics, and Director of the Caltech Corecipient: Submillimeter Observatory Hiroshi Oguri, Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics 2 California Institute of Technology Awards and Honors 2007–2008 Foundation awards Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Institute honors Research Fellow: Clay Mathematics Institute, Christopher M. Hirata, Assistant Endowed Professorships: Clay Research Fellowship in Professor of Astrophysics Michael E. Brown, Richard and Mathematics: Christina D. Smolke, Assistant Barbara Rosenberg Professor Adrian Ioana, Olga Taussky and John Professor of Chemical Engineering Danny Calegari, Richard Merkin Todd Instructor in Mathematics Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Camille and Henry Dreyfus Corporate awards Colin F. Camerer, Robert Kirby Foundation, 2008 New Faculty Professor of Behavioral Economics Award: Corporation for Education Network William G. Dunphy, Grace C. Steele Thomas F. Miller III, Assistant Professor Initiatives in California (CENIC), Professor of Biology of Chemistry CENIC 2008 Annual Innovations John M. Eiler, Robert P. Sharp in Networking Award for Professor of Geology Gotham Prize Foundation, Experimental/Developmental Philip T. Hoffman, Rea A. and Lela Gotham Prize for Cancer Applications: G. Axline Professor of Business Research: Julian Bunn, Member of the Economics Alexander J. Varshavsky, Howard and Professional Staff Pietro Perona, Allen E. Puckett Gwen Laurie Smits Professor of Harvey Newman, Professor of Physics Professor of Electrical Engineering Cell Biology Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Peter and Patricia Gruber University honors Economics Foundation, 2008 Gruber George R. Rossman, Eleanor and John Cosmology Prize: Universities Research Association, R. McMillan Professor of Mineralogy J. Richard Bond, Visiting Associate in Fermilab/URA Graduate Thesis Joseph E. Shepherd, C. L. “Kelly” Theoretical Astrophysics Award: Johnson Professor of Aeronautics Ryan B. Patterson, Richard Chace Brian M. Stoltz, Ethel Wilson Bowles Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar in and Robert Bowles Professor of Hertz Fellow: Experimental Physics Chemistry Todd R. Gingrich, Undergraduate in Chemistry, Class of ’08 University of Toronto, 2009 Welsh Associated Students of the Lecturer: California Institute of Technology Howard Hughes Medical Institute, John P. Preskill, John D. MacArthur (ASCIT), 2007 Teaching Awards: Investigator: Professor of Theoretical Physics K. Mani Chandy, Simon Ramo David C. Chan, Associate Professor Professor and Professor of of Biology Computer Science Michael Elowitz, Assistant Professor Mathieu Desbrun, Associate Professor of Biology and Applied Physics, of Computer Science and Bren Scholar Sarkis Mazmanian, Assistant Professor Grant J. Jensen, Associate Professor of Biology of Biology Hugh David Politzer, Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Physics Foundation, Fellow: Joel A. Tropp, Assistant Professor Alexei Kitaev, Professor of Theoretical of Applied and Computational Physics and Computer Science Mathematics Research Corporation, Teaching Award for Research Cottrell Scholar: Mentor: Gil Refael, Associate Professor of John M. Eiler, Professor of Theoretical Physics Geochemistry California Institute of Technology Awards and Honors 2007–2008 3 California Institute of Technology Awards and Honors 2007–2008 Teaching Assistant Awards: Student awards National Science Foundation Aadel A. Chaudhuri, Graduate Student (members of the class of 2008, Fellowship in Biology unless otherwise noted) Alumni Kristin R. Gleitsman, Graduate Student Rebecca Adler in Chemistry Amasa Bishop Summer Stephen Bannerman Po-Ling Loh, Undergraduate in Math- Study Abroad Prize Stanley Burgos (also a graduate ematics, Class of ’08 Christina Theodoris (class of 2009) student) Nahid Walji, Graduate Student in Math- Tania Banerji (class of 2009) Regina Cheung ematics Meghan Crowley Churchill Scholarship Christopher George Staff Awards: Vivek Narsimhan Kenneth Heafield Peter Daily, Senior Director, Campus Priya Kollipara Dining Hertz Fellowship Kimberly Popendorf Kathryn Finigan, Administrative Todd Gingrich John Sadowski Assistant, Basic Applied