Bush Honors Winners of Early Career Awards

At the White House in July, President Bush honored the 60 recipients of the 2001 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. He delivered an address at the ceremony, marking the first time a US president has attended the presentation. The PECASE awards are the nation’s highest honor for young researchers at the outset of their professional careers.

Among the winners, the following 26 are involved in physics or physics-related work: Douglas E. Adams of Purdue University, Ian M. Anderson of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Philip J. Bart of Louisiana State University, James J. Bock of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Steven Brown of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Aeronomy Laboratory and the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and Vince Cianciolo of ORNL.

Also honored were Stephane Coutu of Pennsylvania State University, James H. Crawford of NASA’s Langley Research Center, Steven A. Cummer of Duke University, Ronald P. Fedkiw of Stanford University, Kenneth A. Gall of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Charles F. Gammie of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and C. Allan Guymon of the University of Iowa.

Also recognized were Eric K. Lin of NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Thomas M. Hamill of NOAA’s Climate Diagnostics Center and the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Mark C. Herrmann of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Scott R. Manalis of MIT.

The award also acknowledged William “Ruddy” Mell of the University of Utah, Mark A. Moline of California Polytechnic State University, Veena Misra of North Carolina State University, Jeffrey D. Niemann of Penn State, Christine Ortiz of MIT, Paul M. Ricker of the University of Chicago, Peter Traykovski of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Erik Winfree of Caltech, and Z. John Zhang of Georgia Tech.