Professional Society and External Organization Awards
The work and accomplishments of many JPL researchers has been recognized by many external organizations. Awards, fellowships, and other recognitions have been bestowed on researchers across multiple fields of research. Here we highlight major awards made to JPLers by external organizations.
2025
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Nacer Chahat | The White House | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
| Mark Maimone | IEEE Aerospace Conference | M. Charles Fogg Best Paper award for Robotic Operations During Perseverance’s First Extended Mission |
| Ahmed Soliman | California Institute of Technology: https://kiss.caltech.edu/impact/2025_programs.html | Caltech Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS) Team Study Fund Award |
| Adrian Tang | - | IEEE Fellow (2025). "For contributions to system-on-chip for space science insturments" |
2024
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Davidoff | Nested Fusion: A Method for Learning High Resolution Latent Structure of Multi-Scale Measurement Data on Mars | Best paper runner-up, ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (KDD) |
| Dan M. Goebel | UCLA | Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award |
| Paul F. Goldsmith | American Astronomical Society (AAS) | Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation |
| Seungbum Kim | Korean Society of Remote Sensing, Distinguished Achievement | - |
| Duane E. Waliser | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | Losey Atmospheric Science Award |
| Longtao Wu | - | AMS Banner I. Miller Award |
2023
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Nacer Chahat | WAMS | Life Fellow |
| Nacer Chahat | AIAA | Associate Fellow |
| Steve A. Chien | United States Department of Defense | Army Science Board |
| Niyati K Desai | Zonta International | Amelia Earhart Fellow |
| Shailen Desai | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | Associate Fellow |
| Al Emran | International Astronomical Union (IAU) | Asteroid (28646) Alemran |
| Laura Fackrell | - | Collaborator for Selected STEP Grant Planetary Institute |
| Eric Fielding | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Fellow |
| Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz | - | Smead Aerospace Graduate Teaching Award |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS) | Quantum Devices Award for contributions to the III-V quantum structure infrared detectors and focal plane arrays |
| Ahmed Mohamed | Caltech | Everhart Distinguished PhD Graduate Lecture Series |
| Angelyn Moore | Association for Women Geoscientists | Professional Excellence Award, Government/Regulatory |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of the first award for the best doctoral thesis in XVth National Competition "Young Innovators", Łukasiewicz Research Network - PIAP Institute, Poland, |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of the XXX Edition of the Polish Prime Minister's Award for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of the ABB Prize Competition, 20th Edition, for Doctoral Dissertation, |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | UCLA | Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | UCLA | Center for Diverse Leadership in Science Early Career Fellow and Leadership Facilitator |
| Kathryn A Plant | Caltech | Everhart Distinguished Graduate Student Lecture Award |
| Sachin Alexander Reddy | UCL | Alan Johnstone Prize for Outstanding Scientific Achievement |
| Ahmed Soliman | Caltech | Everhart Distinguished PhD Graduate Lecture Award |
| Ahmed Soliman | California Institute of Technology | Caltech Graduate leadership and International Impact Award |
| Adrian Tang | US Engineer's Council | US Engineer's Council Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award |
| Adrian Tang | IEEE | IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Engineer Award |
| Robert Tjoelker | IEEE | Fellow |
| Hiroyasu Tsukamoto | Caltech | William F. Ballhaus Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Space Engineering, GALCIT |
2022
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Nacer Chahat | - | Mars Helicopter team awards: National Space Society (NSS) Awards , IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award , Robert J. Collier Trophy , and National Air & Space Museum Collins Award for Current Achievement |
| Nacer Chahat | IEEE | Fellow |
| Dan M. Goebel | - | Electric Rocket Propulsion Society Stuhlinger Life Achievement Medal |
| Ashkan Jasour | IEEE Outstanding Planning Paper Award | IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| Aditya Khuller | ASU | ASU Outstanding Graduate Research Award |
| Aditya Khuller | IPSL | IPSL Early Career Scientist Award |
| Saesun Kim | University of Oklahoma | Neilson Award |
| Justin Mansell | Purdue Aeronautics and Astronautics Elmer F. Bruhn | Purdue Aeronautics and Astronautics Elmer F. Bruhn Teaching Award |
| Camille Martire | Institute of Navigation | ION GNSS+ Best Presentation Award (GUARDIAN: A Near Real-Time Ionospheric Monitoring System for Natural Hazards Early Warnings) |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Honorable mention for the best conference paper in robotics, awarded by the Polish Branch of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Poland, |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of the ABB Prize Competition, 20th Edition 2022/2023, for Doctoral Dissertation, |
| Sachin Alexander Reddy | Mullard Space Science Laboratory | Team Achievement Award (CIRCE and SOAR Missions) |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Recipient of Ericsson Research Scholarship, LM Ericsson research foundation of SEK 140 000 |
| Jonathan Sauder | Illinois Central College | Distinguished Alumnus Award |
| Joana Voigt | FINESST | Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) |
| Joana Voigt | Department of Planetary Science, University of Arizona | Gerard P. Kuiper Memorial Award |
| Joana Voigt | UA College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarships | Galileo Circle Scholarship |
| Nathan R. Williams | National Aeronautic Association | Robert J. Collier Trophy, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Nathan R. Williams | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | IEEE Spectrum Emerging Technology Award, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Nathan R. Williams | Vertical Flight Society | Howard Hughes Award, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Nathan R. Williams | National Space Club & Foundation | Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Nathan R. Williams | Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum | Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
2021
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Niklas Bohn | DAAD | PhD Scholarship USA (3 months) |
| Nacer Chahat | - | IET Dr. Sudhalar Rao Award |
| Saesun Kim | University of Oklahoma | Startup Innovation Fund Winner |
| Saesun Kim | - | 1st place in Quantum hackathon - Creative Destruction Lab |
| Ioannis (Yiangos) Mikellides | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | Fellowship |
| Kevin Nelson | Texas A&M University | Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi: Student Research Grant |
| Shouleh Nikzad | SPIE | Aden and Marjorie Meinel Technology Achievement Award |
| Shouleh Nikzad | SPIE | Luminary |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Distinction in the national competition of engineering theses SuperStar 4 Science. in the category "Supervisor of the thesis of the highest substantive value", Polish Section of the IEEE and GovTech Poland, |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | Journal of Geophysical Research | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences Top Cited Article |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Recipient of Ericsson Research Scholarship, LM Ericsson research foundation of SEK 200 000 |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Grant: Alice och Lars Erik Landahls stipendiefond of SEK 31 190 |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Research Scholarship The Osher Endowment of SEK 150 000 |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Grant: Göran Wallbergs minnesfond of SEK 50 000 |
| Adrian Tang | IEEE | Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Outstanding Young Engineer Award |
| Michelle Tran | 37th International Symposium on Microscale Analysis Separation and Bioanalysis | Best Poster Award |
| Nathan R. Williams | Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) | Special Achievements in GIS Award |
| Nathan R. Williams | The Space Foundation | John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr. Award for Space Exploration, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Nathan R. Williams | Aviation Week Network | 2021 Laureate Award, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Nathan R. Williams | Royal Institute of Navigation | Duke of Edinburgh’s Navigation Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team |
| Peter Willis | - | SCIEX Innovation Medal for breakthrough research in the field of Electrodriven Separations |
| Firat Yasar | Global Foundries | Spotlight Award |
2020
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Argus | - | John P. Woollard Award |
| Niklas Bohn | DAAD | PhD Scholarship USA (7 months) |
| Amy Braverman | UCLA | Physical Science Centennial Luminary Alumni Award |
| Kamak Ebadi | DARPA | Subterranean Challenge, Urban Circuit, Member of the perception team, 1st place |
| Laura Fackrell | - | Sigma Xi Research Grant |
| Farzad Faramarzi | Department of Physics, Arizona State University | William J. and Carol M. Motil Scholarship for Experimental Research. Department of Physics, Arizona State University The award is provided to graduate students who show excellence in the field of experimental physics as evidenced by prior lab work/research in the field. |
| Paul F. Goldsmith | International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Infrared Waves | Kenneth J. Button Prize |
| Douglas Hofmann | The Metals Minerals and Materials Society | Young Investigator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing Award |
| Mark Maimone | IEEE Aerospace Conference | M. Charles Fogg Best Paper award for Driving Curiosity: Mars Rover Mobility Trends during the First Seven Years |
| Shouleh Nikzad | IEEE | Photonics Distinguished Lecturer Award |
| Mary S. Park | KIST | Best Research center award |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | AGU | Outstanding Student Presentation Award, AGU Fall meeting |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | National Science Foundation | Graduate Research Fellow Program |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | IEEE | Chair of the MEMS Technical Committee for IEEE Electron Devices Society |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Editor of JMEMS Issue for Hilton Head, General Chair for the Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Hilton Head) Workshop, 2020-Canceled: COVID 19 Pandemic |
| Eric J. Rignot | University of California Irvine | Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Diploma in Applied Project Management |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Travel Grant for Women in Graphene-event, Bologna, Italy |
| Ahmed Soliman | The National Science Foundation and Department of Defense | The Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America (2020), |
| Michelle Tran | NASA | Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity awardee |
| Joana Voigt | UA College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarships | Galileo Circle Scholarship |
2019
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Bush | - | Open University Three Minute Thesis - Best Presentation |
| Corey Cochrane | PSU ESM | PSU ESM Early Career Recognition Alumni Award: awarded by Penn State Engineering Science and Mechanics department |
| Luis Costa | Universidad de Alcala | Science Outreach Award |
| Kamak Ebadi | Santa Clara University | Best Doctoral Research Award - 1st Place - School of Engineering |
| Kamak Ebadi | DARPA | Subterranean Challenge, Tunnel Circuit, Member of the perception team, 2nd place |
| Regina Eckert | U.C. Berkeley EECS Department | U.C. Berkeley EECS Department Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award |
| Al Emran | Lunar and Planetary Institute | LPI Career Development Award |
| Laura Fackrell | University of Georgia | Watts-Wheeler Geology Department Research and Travel Grants |
| Farzad Faramarzi | Department of Physics, Arizona State University | William J. and Carol M. Motil Scholarship for Experimental Research. Department of Physics, Arizona State University The award is provided to graduate students who show excellence in the field of experimental physics as evidenced by prior lab work/research in the field. |
| Jean-Pierre Fleurial | - | International Thermoelectric Society's Outstanding Achievement Award |
| Cathleen Jones | - | Kevin J. Neese Award, Groundwater Resources Association of California, team award to the NASA-JPL Land Subsidence Monitoring Team |
| Saesun Kim | Optics Society of America | Editor's Pick Optics Letter |
| Attila Komjathy | - | Group Achievement Award "for Global Ionospheric Maps Development Team," |
| Yashwanth Kumar Nakka | Keck Institute of Space Studies | Keck Institute of Space Studies Affiliate |
| Son Nghiem | American Geophysical Union (AGU) | Earth science and applications |
| Benjamin Nuernberger | IEEE CVPR | Outstanding Reviewer |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of the competition under the PROM PW 2 project regarding participation in short forms of international education, The Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA), Poland |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | UCLA | Brian Bosart Award |
| Sachin Alexander Reddy | University College London | Class Valedictorian (MSc program) |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences |
| Jonathan Sauder | National Academy of Engineering | Frontiers of Engineering |
| Adrian Tang | UCLA | Rising Professional Alumni Achievement Award |
| Kyle Uckert | - | LEMUR Group Achievement Award |
| Michele Vallisneri | U. Paris Saclay, France | Jean D'Alembert Research Chair, U. Paris Saclay, France |
| Lincoln J. Wood | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Member, 1974; Senior Member, 1984; Life Senior Member |
2018
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Argus | Geological Society of America (GSA) | Fellow |
| Morgan Leigh Cable | American Chemical Society (ACS) | Named by the American Chemical Society (ACS) as one of the 'Talented Twelve' rising stars in chemistry |
| Nacer Chahat | - | George Herzl Award |
| Nacer Chahat | - | The Future Technology Leader Award, Engineers' Council |
| Atul Chander | - | NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)- Scholarship and Travel award |
| Steve A. Chien | United States Government | National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence |
| Daniel Cunnane | - | Invited to give a talk at a Young Scientist Plenary Session at Applied Superconductivity Conference |
| Laura Fackrell | University of Georgia | Watts-Wheeler Geology Department Research and Travel Grants |
| Laura Fackrell | Clay Minerals Society | Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | SPIE | George W. Goddard Award for development of quantum structures based infrared detector and focal plane array technologies for aerospace applications |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | - | MSS Herschel Award for development of High Operating Temperature Barrier Infrared Detector |
| Shashank Srinivas Joshil | - | Certificate of Appreciation from the Korean Meteorological Administration for dedicated efforts and contributions to the ICE-POP project. |
| Shashank Srinivas Joshil | - | Certificate of Appreciation from the World Meteorological Organization for outstanding contributions to the WMO ICE-POP RDP/FDP project. |
| Aditya Khuller | - | R. Greeley Planetary Geology Scholarship |
| Attila Komjathy | - | Group Achievement Award - Group Leader "for innovation in conducting the first successful balloon-based infrasound experiment using an artificial seismic source, with planned applications to planetary seismology," |
| Benjamin Nuernberger | Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) | Human Factors Prize |
| Ceth Parker | - | I won the award for best oral presentation by a young scientist at the 24th International Conference on Subterranean Biology held in Aveiro, Portugal. The talk was entitled Brazilian Iron Formation Caves Reveal a Novel Mechanism of Microbially Driven Cave Formation. |
| Ceth Parker | - | I was selected as the recipient of the James G. Mitchell Award for best scientific paper presented by a young scientist during the annual National Speleology Society meeting held in Helena, MT. The talk was entitled Exothenic Speleogenesis: A New Mechanism Of Microbially Driven Cave Formation. |
| Athina Peidou | International Association of Geodesy | International Association of Geodesy- Young authors award (important contribution from a young scientist in the JoGeodesy) |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | International Steering Committee, Transducers Conference |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Technical Program Committee Chair for Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Hilton Head) Workshop |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Member of New Voices in Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (a network of National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) |
| Eric J. Rignot | UC San Diego | James Arnold Lecture |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences |
| Eric J. Rignot | National Academy of Sciences | Elected Member |
| Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues | - | Diploma in Visualize your science |
| Adrian Tang | IEEE CAS Society | International Symposium on Circuits & Systems, Distinguished Paper Award |
| Robert Tjoelker | Institute of Navigation (ION) Precise Time & Time Interval (PTTI) | Distinguished Service Award |
| Joana Voigt | UA College of Science Galileo Circle Scholarships | Galileo Circle Scholarship |
| Firat Yasar | University of Wisconsin Madison | Teaching Academy, Future Faculty Partner Award |
2017
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Argus | American Geophysical Union | Fellow |
| Nacer Chahat | IEEE | The IEEE Sergei A. Schelkunoff award |
| Atul Chander | - | NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)- Scholarship and Travel award |
| Alexandra Christensen | Louisiana Center of Excellence | Louisiana Center of Excellence Graduate Studentship |
| Emmanuel Decrossas | - | Charles Elachi award for outstanding Early Career Achievement in the development of innovative antenna designs making missions successful, |
| Laura Fackrell | University of Georgia | Watts-Wheeler Department Research and Travel Grants |
| Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz | - | Balsells Mobility Program |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | - | Sri Lanka Ranjana, Presidential Honours, Sri Lanka |
| Hannes Kraus | - | Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR) Funding Programme for the Initiation of International Projects (BayIntAn) cooperation intensification grant (Germany-Japan) in May |
| Son Nghiem | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | Geoscience and Applications |
| Cassandra Nickles | Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Seaver College of Science and Engineering | Jerome K. Doolan Award |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU Seaver College of Science and Engineering | College Scholar |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Program Scholar Civil Engineering |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Presidential Citation |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Outstanding Engineering Student |
| Ceth Parker | - | Was selected as a top ten finalist in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) 10 year anniversary "Film Your Research Contest", with the submission of a video demonstrating (and titled) "How to Isolate Magnetotactic Bacteria". |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of Erasmus Mundus Action 2 PANTHER (Pacific Atlantic Network for Technical Higher Education and Research), |
| Eng Maksym Figat Ph.D. | - | Laureate of science scholarship Preludium 13, National Science Center, Poland |
| Zoe Amie Pierrat | Colorado College | Barbara Whitten Prize for Women in the Natural Sciences, Colorado College |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences |
| Jonathan Sauder | White House, Office of Science and Technology Policy | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for demonstrating innovative mechanical technologies to enable a new class of space missions |
| Markus Scheucher | - | Best Project Proposal, DLR Early Career Scientists Week, Gemrany |
| Markus Scheucher | German Physics Society(DPG) | Best Poster Award, Spring Conference 2017 |
| Ahmed Soliman | California Institute of Technology | Caltech Graduate Research Assistantship |
| Adrian Tang | SPIE | Society Rising Researcher Award |
| Lena Vincent | - | Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Scholarship |
| Lena Vincent | - | Sally Casanova Graduate Scholarship |
| Duane E. Waliser | California Department of Water Resources | Climate Science Service Award |
2016
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Atul Chander | - | DST-Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) Travel award scholarship |
| Atul Chander | - | NextGen Genomics, Biology, Bioinformatics and Technologies (NGBT)- Scholarship and Travel award |
| Farzad Faramarzi | College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University | Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship. College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University The award is provided to outstanding students in the College of Science and Engineering. |
| Dan M. Goebel | UCLA | Engineering Alumni Professional Achievement Award |
| Aditya Khuller | - | Bidstrup Research Award |
| Hannes Kraus | - | DAAD P.R.I.M.E. postdoc scholarship (Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Action COFUND) |
| Ioannis (Yiangos) Mikellides | Ohio State University | Rudolph Edse Award in Space Engineering |
| Mary Morris | University of Michigan | Honorable Mention, Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Outstanding Engineering Student |
| Shouleh Nikzad | - | OSA and WISTEE Global Women of Light |
| Benjamin Nuernberger | IEEE 3D User Interfaces | Honorable Mention, Best Paper |
| Mary S. Park | - | Kwanjeong Educational Scholarship |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | University of Michigan | EECS Outstanding Achievement Award |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Board Member, Transducers Research Foundation |
| Eric J. Rignot | - | Seng T. Lee Lecture in Antarctic Studies, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences |
| Eric J. Rignot | - | Louis Agassiz Medal for the Cryosphere Division of the European Geosciences Union |
| Adriana Parra Ruiz | - | Colciencias-Fulbright Scholarship grantee |
| Jose V. Siles | National Science Foundation (NSF) | U.S. Antarctic Service Medal, National Science Foundation |
| Robert Treuhaft | - | Terrestrial Ecology Program Grant (Co-I): Time-Series Measurements of Biomass Change from InSAR (TanDEM-X), MODIS, and LiDAR Observations |
| Kyle Uckert | NMSU | Fall Outstanding Graduate Award for Graduate School, PhD |
| Kyle Uckert | - | Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology |
| Michele Vallisneri | - | Special Breakthrough Prize; Gruber Cosmology Prize (with LIGO-Virgo coauthors) |
| Joana Voigt | Geological Society of America | Lipman Research Award: Research Grant |
| Joana Voigt | - | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholorship for Graduate and PhD students |
2015
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Argus | AGU | AGU Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, Geophysical Research Letters |
| Nacer Chahat | - | Prix Bretagne Jeune Chercheur (French Early Career Award for Researcher) for his significant scientific contribution in his early career, Britanny, France |
| Corey Cochrane | PSU EE | PSU EE Early Career Recognition Alumni Award: awarded by Penn State Electrical Engineering department |
| Regina Eckert | UNM College of Engineering | UNM College of Engineering George E. Breece Memorial Prize |
| Farzad Faramarzi | College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University | Robert W. Maxwell Memorial Scholarship. College of Science and Engineering, San Francisco State University The award is provided to outstanding students in the College of Science and Engineering. |
| Dan M. Goebel | Rotary | National Award for Space Achievement |
| Ashish Goel | - | 2nd place at the student research poster competition during the Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) workshop |
| Cathleen Jones | California Dept. of Water Resources | Remote Sensing and Drought Science Service Award, California Dept. of Water Resources |
| Saesun Kim | University of Minnesota Morris | Outstanding Leadership Award |
| Attila Komjathy | - | Institute of Navigation Fellow elected for contributions to remote sensing of Earth's ionosphere using GNSS signals. <a href="http://www.ion.org/awards/ion-fellows.cfm">http://www.ion.org/awards/ion-fellows.cfm</a> |
| Hannes Kraus | - | DAAD conference travel grant for the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials. (Giardini Naxos,Italy) |
| Hannes Kraus | - | DAAD P.R.I.M.E. postdoc scholarship (Marie-Skłodowska-Curie-Action COFUND) |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Outstanding Engineering Student |
| Benjamin Nuernberger | IEEE ISMAR | Best Short Paper Award |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | IEEE | EDS Distinguished Lecturer |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | IEEE | Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the area of Sensors Systems and Networks (Early Career) |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 1st place, Engineering Graduate Symposium, Integrated Circuits, VLSI & Microsystems Track, U. of Michigan, A. Peczalski and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | U. of Michigan | Best Poster Award, WIMS IAB Meeting, U. of Michigan, A. Ansari and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Eric J. Rignot | American Geophysical Union | John F. Nye Lecture |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher, Geosciences |
| Matteo Sbroscia | - | Full EPSRC studentship for PhD tuition fees and stipend |
| Markus Scheucher | - | Competition Winner, 3D Printed Habitat Challenge for Mars, NASA and America Makes |
| Kyle Uckert | NMSU Department of Astronomy | Barry Neil Rappaport Endowed Memorial Scholarship Award, NMSU Department of Astronomy |
| Joana Voigt | - | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholorship for Graduate and PhD students |
2014
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Goutam Chattopadhyay | IETE | IETE Prof. S. N. Mitra Memorial Award |
| Goutam Chattopadhyay | IEEE | IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer Award |
| Max Coleman | - | Prestwich Medal of the Geological Society of London |
| Max Coleman | - | Polk-Ralls Medal |
| Laura Fackrell | - | Clay Minerals Society Graduate Student Research and Travel Grants |
| Laura Fackrell | GSA | Graduate Student Research Grant |
| Laura Fackrell | University of Georgia | Watts-Wheeler Geology Department Research and Travel Grants |
| Raymond Francis | Western University | Selected as one of Western University's Newsmakers of the Year |
| Dan M. Goebel | AIAA | Outstanding Technical Achievement Award |
| Dan M. Goebel | IEEE | John R. Pierce Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics |
| Richard Hofer | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | Electric Propulsion Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, "For the identification, development, and demonstration of Magnetic Shielding in Hall Thrusters" |
| Chris Mattmann | - | Ticke's Notable Scientists List |
| Ioannis (Yiangos) Mikellides | AIAA Electric Propulsion Outstanding Technical Achievement Award | Electric Propulsion Magnetic Shielding |
| Hani Nejadriahi | - | Buntrock's (Science and Math) Scholarship, St. Olaf College |
| Hani Nejadriahi | - | Music Scholarship, St. Olaf College |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Outstanding Engineering Student |
| Richard Otis | - | ACerS Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Sapphire Award |
| Jeff Megivern, P.E. | Johnson Outdoors Group (JOG) | Sustainable Community |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | Office of Naval Research | Young Investigator Award (ONR YIP) |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 1st place, Engineering Graduate Symposium, Integrated Circuits, VLSI, and Microsystems Track, U. of Michigan, A. Ansari and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Leader of RF & AMS Passive Technology Working Group of ITRS |
| Eric J. Rignot | Thomson Reuters | Highly Cited Researcher |
| Matteo Sbroscia | - | MIT study exchange scholarship |
| Markus Scheucher | European Space Agency (ESA) | Tuition Grants for Space Studies Program 2014 in Montréal, European Space Agency (ESA), Austrian Research Funding Agency (FFG), and Austrospace |
| Markus Scheucher | Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria | Merit-based Research Scholarship for master's thesis |
| Kyle Uckert | NMSU Department of Astronomy | A. Scott Murrell Memorial Endowed Scholarship |
| Kyle Uckert | NMSU College of Arts & Sciences | 3 Minute Thesis Competition: 1st Place |
| Duane E. Waliser | American Meteorological Society | Fellow |
2013
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Karen An | UCI | UCI Dean's Honor List |
| Karen An | UCI | UCI Undergraduate Research/Departmental Service Award in Earth System Science |
| Karen An | UCI | UCI Earth System Science Departmental Honors |
| Virginia Brancato | - | Master Thesis Scholarship at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Nacer Chahat | Airbus | The Airbus Group Foundation's Best Thesis Prize in France |
| Nacer Chahat | - | Best Ph.D. thesis in FRANCE in Electrical Engineering, club EEA (Enseignants et des chercheurs en Electronique, Electrotechnique et Automatique) |
| Nacer Chahat | - | Best Ph.D. thesis of the University of Rennes 1, Fondation Rennes 1 |
| Alexandra Christensen | Coastal Studies Institute | Coastal Studies Institute Flagship Scholarship |
| Corey Cochrane | Penn State | Penn State Dr. Paul A. Lester Memorial Award: for outstanding research by an ESM graduate student |
| Melanie Delapierre | - | Kalam Prize for Aerospace Engineering, Caltech |
| Kamak Ebadi | - | Ranked 1st & winner of $2K Prize, Space Design Challenge Award, SCU and NASA Ames |
| Davide Farnocchia | - | Celestial Mechanics and Innovation Prize awarded to an original research leading to innovative astrodynamical applications |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | IEEE Aron Kressel Award | Photonics Society for the development of photonics devices |
| Attila Komjathy | GPS | GPS World Leadership Award in Services, Sept |
| Hannes Kraus | - | DAAD conference travel grant for the International Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (Miyazaki, Japan) |
| Hannes Kraus | - | Energy & Environmental Science Poster Prize 2013 at the Solar Energy Conversion Meeting, Kloster Banz, Germany |
| Anthony J. Mannucci | NASA | Space Act Awards (Standard Category, Major, Exceptional) |
| Kathryn M. Stack Morgan | Forbes | 30 under 30: Science and Healthcare |
| Hani Nejadriahi | - | Best Presentation among three REU programs, University of Maryland, College Park |
| Cassandra Nickles | LMU | Slattery-Burns Engineering Full Scholarship |
| Jeff Megivern, P.E. | Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) | Stellar Early Career Award |
| Sai Prasanth | Imperial College London | President's PhD scholarship |
| Sai Prasanth | Imperial College London | President's Ambassador |
| Sofia Rahiminejad | - | Best Posteraward at MME 2013 Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | University of Michigan | Elizabeth C. Crosby Award |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | National Academy of Engineering | Frontiers of Engineering |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 1st place, Engineering Graduate Symposium, Integrated Circuits, VLSI, MEMS, & Microsystems Track, U. of Michigan, A. Ansari and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers), Z. Wu, V. Thakar, A. Peczalski, and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mauro Ferreira Santos | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil | Honorable mention (3rd Quality Award in Publication in Chemistry ), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| David Z. Ting | SPIE | Fellow |
2012
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Amy Braverman | American Statistical Association | Wilcoxon Award |
| Nacer Chahat | IEEE | Antennas and Propagation Society Doctoral Research Award |
| Scott Davidoff | A Fieldwork of the Future with User Enactments | Best Paper, ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (ACM DIS) |
| Melanie Delapierre | - | Research Internship Award, Ecole Polytechnique |
| Maged Elaasar | IBM | IBM, Master Inventor Award" (Third Plateau - 12 Filed U.S. Patents) |
| Laura Fackrell | University of Kansas | Bill and Holland Scholarship Recipient |
| Douglas Hofmann | The White House | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Presented by President Obama in April |
| Hannes Kraus | - | DAAD conference travel grant for Materials Research Society Spring Meeting (San Francisco, USA) |
| Hannes Kraus | - | Upgrade to invited talk at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2012 by Prof. Alejandro Briseño |
| Christine Lee | - | Switzer Foundation Grant |
| Shouleh Nikzad | SPIE | Women in Optics and featured as a role model |
| Shouleh Nikzad | SBMT | Pioneer in Medicine - Technology and Leadership |
| Mary S. Park | - | Scripta Materialia Top Citated Article Award |
| Mary S. Park | KIST | Best Research Team Award |
| Ceth Parker | - | Fulbright Finalist (but not selected) for the division of Sub-Saharan Africa. Analyzing an HIV detection method for use in Botswana. |
| Sai Prasanth | Imperial College London | President's Ambassador |
| Sai Prasanth | SASTRA University | Dean's List |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 2nd place, WIMS IAB Meeting, U. of Michigan, A. Peczalski and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 3rd place, Engineering Graduate Symposium, MEMS Track, U. of Michigan, V. A. Thakar, Z. Wu, A. Peczalski, and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 1st place, Engineering Graduate Symposium, MEMS Track, A. Ansari and M. Rais-Zadeh, U. of Michigan |
| Eric J. Rignot | UC Irvine | Exceptional Impact on UC Irvine ESS Honor Student |
| Mauro Ferreira Santos | State Technical School, Brazil | Honored Teacher (Graduate Students of the Technical Course in Chemistry), State Technical School, Brazil |
| Mauro Ferreira Santos | CNPq, Brazil | Ph.D. Scholarship, National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development - CNPq, Brazil |
| Jose V. Siles | Fulbright Program CIES/IEE - U.S Department of State | Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Award (Sep. 2010 - Sep. 2012), Fulbright Scholar Program, CIES/IEE, U. S. Department of State, U.S.A |
| Adrian Tang | Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles | Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation |
| Adrian Tang | Circuits and Systems | Broadcom University Research Award |
| Robert Treuhaft | - | GNSS Remote Sensing Science Team grant (CoI): Critical Issues for GNSS-Reflections Remote Sensing |
| Robert Treuhaft | - | Remote Sensing Theory grant (PI) Theory for DESDynI Fusion: Estimating Forest Biomass by Combining Fourier Components of Lidar and Interferometric SAR |
2011
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Leigh Cable | Florida Atlantic University (FAU) | Distinguished Alumnus |
| Nacer Chahat | CST | University Publication Award |
| Steve A. Chien | AIAA | Intelligent Systems Award, To recognize important fundamental contributions to intelligent systems technologies and applications that advance the capabilities of aerospace systems. Presented to Steve Chien for pioneering achievement in deploying AI-based planners on spacecraft to enable event detection and response and sensorweb capabilities for earth-observing and planetary missions.American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Laura Fackrell | University of Kansas | Bill and Holland Scholarship Recipient |
| Ashish Goel | Caltech | Member of the winning team at the Caltech Space Challenge |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | - | Career Award, U.S. Army/RDECOM/CERDEC, Night Vision & Electronic Sensor Directorate |
| Douglas Hofmann | Materials Research Society | Presentation Award |
| Hannes Kraus | - | Energy & Environmental Science Poster Prize 2011 at the SPP 1355 summer school together with Andreas Sperlich. Veitshöchheim, Germany |
| Chris Mattmann | - | West Federal Labs Consortium Outstanding Partnership Award, NASA ARRA Water Resource Management Project |
| Chris Mattmann | - | SoftArtisans 30 Hadoop and Big Data Spelunkers Worth Following List |
| Shouleh Nikzad | IEEE | Selected by IEEE Women in Eng., featured as a Pioneer Electrical Engineer & role model |
| Mary S. Park | - | Materials Science and Engineering A Top Hottest Articles |
| Mary S. Park | - | Intermetallics Top 25 Hottest Articles |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, 1st place, Engineering Graduate Symposium, MEMS/Mechatronics Session, U. of Michigan, V. J. Gokhale and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Best Poster Award, WIMS IAB Meeting, U. of Michigan, Y. Shim and M. Rais-Zadeh |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | IEEE | Electron Devices Society (EDS) Early Career Award |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | National Science Foundation | Faculty Early Career Development (NSF CAREER) Award |
| David Z. Ting | - | NVESD Citation for contributions in the advancement of infrared detector technology (Individual Award) |
| David Z. Ting | - | NVESD Citation for contributions in the advancement of III-V infrared focal plane array technology (Team Award) |
| Robert Treuhaft | - | Carbon Monitoring System Science Definition Team (PI): Data Fusion, Error Analytsis, and a Global Biomass Product |
| Robert Treuhaft | - | Estimating Vegetation Structure from SRTM Correlation Data grant |
2010
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Leigh Cable | Caltech | Herbert Newby McCoy Award for outstanding achievement in chemistry |
| Raymond Francis | - | CIC Officer Award of Excellence for duties as a flight instructor |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | IEEE | Distinguish Lecturer Award |
| Hani Nejadriahi | - | National Merit Scholarship (Illinois) |
| Sai Prasanth | Indian Academy of Sciences | Research Fellowship |
| Markus Scheucher | Karl-Franzens University Graz, Austria | Merit-Based Scholarship from the Dean of Natural Sciences "Top Student" |
| Ant Sibthorpe | - | Tech Brief Initial Award - Geodetic Strain Analysis Tool. |
| Ant Sibthorpe | - | Group Achievement Award - Precise Orbit Determination Team for OSTM. |
2009
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron Curtis | National Speleological Society | James Mitchell Award |
| Kamak Ebadi | - | International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics. - Member of the panel of jury |
| Ashish Goel | - | Institute Silver Medal at the 49th Commencement of IIT Bombay |
| Christine Lee | - | EPA People, Planet and Prosperity (P3) Award |
| Sai Prasanth | Indian Academy of Sciences | Research Fellowship |
| Eric J. Rignot | National Science Foundation | Antarctic Service Medal with Warm Ice Sounding Explorer |
| Mauro Ferreira Santos | Sao Paulo Regional Chemistry Council, Brazil | Lavoisier Award (Best Student of the Undergraduate Chemistry Course), Sao Paulo Regional Chemistry Council, Brazil |
| Robert Treuhaft | - | The Performance of Structure and Biomass Estimation from InSAR 3-D Vegetation Missions over Tropical Forests |
2008
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Steve A. Chien | - | Team member, Sensorweb 2.0, R&D 100 Award |
| Douglas Hofmann | Department of Defense | NDSEG Fellowship |
| Felix W. Landerer | - | Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for outstanding scientific achievements |
| Kathryn M. Stack Morgan | Mineralogical Society of America | American Mineralogist Undergraduate Award |
| Sai Prasanth | SASTRA University | Dean's List |
| Eric J. Rignot | American Geophysical Union | Bowie Lecture |
| Michele Vallisneri | Italian Society of Gravitation | Italian Society of Gravitation Young Scientist Prize |
2007
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Erik S. Bailey | Mars Phoenix Project | Award for "Radar Tiger Team Efforts" |
| Erik S. Bailey | Mars Phoenix Project | Award for "Terminal Descent Radar Team" |
| Erik S. Bailey | Mars Phoenix Project | Award for "Assuring a Robust EDL System" |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | - | Keerthi Sri Felicitation, Nalanda Collage, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Angelyn Moore | International Association of Geodesy | Fellow |
| Angelyn Moore | GPS World Magazine | GPS World 50+ Leaders to Watch |
| Scott Perl | - | Seventh International Conference on Mars Student Award Grant |
2006
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| David S. Bayard | American Automatic Control Council (AACC) | Control Engineering Practice Award |
| Scott Davidoff | Smart Home, Familiers & Control | Best Paper, Design and Emotion Society Conference |
| Andrea Donnellan | - | MUSES California Science Center Foundation, Woman of the Year |
| Andrea Donnellan | Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names | Donnellan Glacier |
| Robert A. Jacobson | - | Cassini Certificate of Appreciation |
| Anthony J. Mannucci | NASA | Space Act Awards (Standard Category, Major, Exceptional) |
| Scott N Roberts | ASM Past Chairperson's Award | - |
| James G. Williams | AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy | Brouwer Award |
2005
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Leigh Cable | Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University | Valedictorian |
| James G. Williams | AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy | Brouwer Award |
2004
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Donnellan | - | Women at Work Medal of Excellence |
| Andrea Donnellan | - | Team bonus award for QuakeSim Parallel GeoFest development |
| Dan M. Goebel | IEEE | William Dunbar High Voltage Achievement Award |
| Anthony J. Mannucci | NASA | Space Act Awards (Standard Category, Major, Exceptional) |
2003
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Donnellan | - | Women in Aerospace Award for Outstanding Achievement |
| Robert O. Green | University of Extremadura, Spain | Doctor Honoris Causa |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | - | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Douglas Hofmann | - | John E. Starrett Jr. Memorial Scholarship |
| Douglas Hofmann | UC San Diego | Vice Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete Award |
| Eric J. Rignot | U. S. Board Geogr. Names | Nomination of "Rignot Glacier, Antarctica" |
2002
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan M. Goebel | Boeing | Satellite Systems President’s Honor Award and Technical Achievement |
| Shouleh Nikzad | - | Space Act Award, Hybrid Advanced Particle Detector |
2001
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Argus | - | Editor's Choice, Highlight of Recent Literature, Tolerant to a Fault [Science v. 294, p. 2431] |
| Dan M. Goebel | Boeing | Satellite Systems President’s Honor Award and Technical Achievement |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | US Space Foundation | Induction to United States Space Foundation Technology Hall of Fame, US Space Foundation |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Gold Medalist (multiple times), National Swimming Competition (Olympiad) |
| Olga Verkhoglyadova | - | Plasma Physics Fellowship from the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy |
2000
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Donald Argus | Institute for Scientific Information | Highly Cited Researcher |
| Dan M. Goebel | - | Hughes Electronics Chairman’s Award |
| Dan M. Goebel | Hughes Space and Communications | Technical Achievement Award |
| Susan Owen | USC | Zumberge Fellow |
1998
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Donnellan | Southern California Earthquake Center | Outreach Award for Education |
| Todd Gaier | Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Conference | 10th Anniversary Paper Award, Indium Phosphide and Related Materials Conference |
| Dan M. Goebel | Hughes Space and Hughes EDD | Outstanding Patent Awards |
| Robert A. Jacobson | - | Numerous Galileo Group Achievement Awards |
| Mina Rais-Zadeh | - | Ranked 9th in Iran National University Entrance Examination for Undergraduate Studies (among ~400,000 participants) |
1997
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan M. Goebel | Hughes Space and Hughes EDD | Outstanding Patent Awards |
| Susan Owen | Stanford University | Lieberman Fellowship |
1996
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Donnellan | - | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers |
| Dan M. Goebel | HRL | Outstanding Published Paper Awards |
1995
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Henry G. LeDuc | - | Kukkonen Terahertz Prize for developing the first mixer to operate above 1THz with a noise temperature bellow 1000K |
| Lincoln J. Wood | American Astronautical Society | Senior Member, 1980; Member, Space Flight Mechanics Committee, 1980-97, and Chairman, 1993 to |
1993
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan M. Goebel | HRL | Outstanding Published Paper Awards |
1992
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan M. Goebel | - | Hughes Electronics Achievement Awards |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | AT&T Bell Laboratories | - |
| Olga Verkhoglyadova | American Physical Society | The Soros Foundation Grant for Young Scientists awarded by American Physical Society, (one of the first recipients in Ukraine) |
1991
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Day | Caltech | John Stemple Award for outstanding oral candidacy presentation |
| Paul F. Goldsmith | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Fellow |
| Sarath D. Gunapala | AT&T Bell Laboratories | - |
1990
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| L. Douglas Bell | - | Research and Development 100 Award for Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy |
| Dan M. Goebel | - | Hughes Electronics Achievement Awards |
| Robert Tjoelker | NIST | National Research Council NIST Fellowship |
1989
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Henry G. LeDuc | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Director's Research Achievement Award for NbN Josephson junction technology development |
1988
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Lincoln J. Wood | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Member, 1972; Associate Fellow, 1984; Member, Technical Committee on Astrodynamics, 1985-86, and Chairman, 1986 to |
1986
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Donnellan | Ohio State University | Undergraduate Research Scholarship |
1985
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Donnellan | Ohio State University | Field Camp Scholarship |
| Andrea Donnellan | - | Antarctic Service Medal |
| Andrea Donnellan | - | Amoco Scholarship |
| Andrea Donnellan | Ohio State University Field Camp | Outstanding Student Award |
1984
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Tjoelker | University of Washington | Paul M. Higgs-Frederick A. Osborn Prize |
1981
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| John W. Armstrong | International Scientific Radio Union (URSI) | Henry G. Booker Fellow |
| Dan M. Goebel | UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science | Outstanding Ph.D. Candidate |
1980
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan M. Goebel | IEEE | Nuclear and Plasma Society National Graduate Student Award |
| David Z. Ting | California Institute of Technology | Spalding Scholar |
1978
| Name | Organization | Area of Achievement |
|---|---|---|
| Dan M. Goebel | Associated Western Universities | Associated Western Universities Research Scholarship |