2008–2009

Joanna Aizenberg
Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Radcliffe
Harvard University
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Connecting Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Architecture Through Biomimetics

Katharina Al-Shamery

Carl von Ossietzky University (Germany)
Materials Science
Using Light for Chemical Reactions

Carol Espy-Wilson
Sargent-Faull Fellow
University of Maryland at College Park
Electrical Engineering
Robust Speech Recognition

David Fisher

Indiana University
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Quasi-isometry Classification of Groups and Graphs

Paul Ginsparg
Benjamin White Whitney Scholar
Cornell University
Physics
Applied Open Access

James Haber
Helen Putnam Fellow
Brandeis University
Genetics
DNA Repair by Recombination

Tsevi Mazeh

Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Astronomy
Discovery of Transiting Extrasolar Planets

Thrishantha Nanayakkara
Cosponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
Independent Scholar (Sri Lanka)
Mechanical Engineering
Ground Contact, Force Constrained Robot Locomotion on Soft-Terrain Conditions for Humanitarian Demining

Priyamvada Natarajan
Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow and Bunting Fellow
Yale University
Astronomy
Probing the Nature of Dark Energy with Gravitational Lensing

Rachel Ollivier

École Normale Supérieure (France)
Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Representations of p-adic Reductive Groups in Characteristic p

Sheila Patek
Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow
University of California at Berkeley
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Acoustic Communication in Ancient and Living Seas

Daven Presgraves
Grass Fellow
University of Rochester
Evolutionary and Organismic Biology
Sex Chromosomes and the Origin of Species

Linda Dairiki Shortliffe
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow
Stanford University
Medical Sciences
Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Background in Urology

Kathleen Siwicki

Swarthmore College
Neuroscience
Flirt or Flight: The Neuroscience of Social Behavior in Fruit Flies