English: At the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama bestowed on 100 men and women the United States government's highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers--the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Among the awardees, twenty were nominated by the National Science Foundation.
NSF-nominated PECASE awardees along with family, friends and National Science Foundation's director, deputy director and staff, gathered to be honored at NSF the day before PECASE awardees were honored by President Obama at the White House.
This year's NSF recipients are:
Maria M. Calbi, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Amy B. Cerato, University of Oklahoma
Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monica F. Cox, Purdue University
Cameron R. Currie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joel L. Dawson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jimmy de la Torre, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Roland G. Fryer Jr., Harvard University
Sean Hallgren, The Pennsylvania State University
John M. Herbert, The Ohio State University
Steven D. Jacobsen, Northwestern University
Charles R. Keeton II, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chun Ning Lau, University of California, Riverside
Hao Lin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Harmit S. Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Rada F. Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Scott R. Sheffield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine
Adam D. Smith, The Pennsylvania State University
Joy K. Ward, University of Kansas