Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Award Recipients
Six assistant professors at The University of Texas at Austin, College of Natural Sciences have won CAREER awards from the National Science Foundation since the beginning of the year. The awards are made in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.
They are:
Lara Mahal, chemistry and biochemistry
Christopher Bielawski, chemistry and biochemistry
Graeme Henkelman, chemistry and biochemistry
Maxim Tsoi, physics
Adam Klivans, computer sciences
Emmet Witchel, computer sciences
Helmut Koester and Lexing Ying have been named recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships for 2007.
J Strother Moore and Simon Lam among UT professors elected to the National Academy of Engineering, widely considered among the highest honors to be earned in the engineering and technology professions.
Mathematics Professor Michael Starbird received a 2007 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America.
Mathematics Professor Karen Uhlenbeck received the 2007 Leroy P. Steele Prize for her seminal contribution to mathematics research from the American Mathematical Society.
Physicist George Sudarshan will be presented with a university Presidential Citation award on Jan. 22 for his extraordinary contributions.
Four professors from the College of Natural Sciences have been elected as 2006 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Michael Krische, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has won the Elias J. Corey Award from the American Chemical Society for an outstanding original contribution to organic synthesis by a young investigator.
John Wallingford has received a grant from the Sandler Program for Asthma Research given to innovative scientists willing to step away from their area of research and tackle the riddle of asthma.
Nace Golding, assistant professor of neurobiology, was presented with a Presidential Early Career Award in a ceremony on July 26 at the White House, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists beginning their independent careers.
Doug Burger, associate professor in the Department of Computer Sciences, has received the 2006 Maurice Wilkes Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his contributions to spatially distributed processor and memory system architectures.
Paul Barbara, director of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
