Previous Awardees - Universities Research Association

2021

Spring

Carl Eric Dahl, Northwestern University
Clarke Esmerian, The University of Chicago
Austin Hinkel, University of Kentucky
Gourav Khullar, The University of Chicago
Shaun Lahert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ievgen Lavrukhin, University of Michigan
Yin Lin, The University of Chicago
Sophie Middleton, Fermilab
Christian Pedersen, University College London
Alexey A Petrov, Wayne State University
Matthew Portman, UC Irvine
Daniel R Simons, University of Iowa
Deheng Song, Virginia Tech
Matthew Strait, University of Minnesota
Samantha Anne Usman, The University of Chicago
Osmond Wen, California Institute of Technology
2020
Fall
2019
Fall
- Joshua L. Barrow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Aditya Harish Bhanderi, The University of Manchester
- Jianming Bian, University of California, Irvine
- Hannah Binney, University of Washington
- Ivan Caro Terrazas, Colorado State University
- Richard Diurba, University of Minnesota
- Abhilash Yallappa Dombara, Syracuse University
- Nicolò Foppiani, Harvard University
- Paul Grannis, Stony Brook University
- Joshua LaBounty, University of Washington
- Xiao Luo, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Brynn MacCoy, University of Washington
- Maria Martinez Casales, Iowa State University
- Andrew Mogan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Robert Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Justin James Mueller, Colorado State University
- Amanda Pagul, University of California, Riverside
- Jason Poh, University of Chicago
- Matthew Strait, University of Minnesota
- Wei Tang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Prudhvi Chintalapati, Northern Illinois University
- Bastiano Vitali, University of Pisa
- Zhuowen Zhang, University of Chicago
- Zhicai Zhang, California Institute of Technology
  Spring
  - Mohammad Alhusseini, The University of Iowa
  - Corey R Bathurst, University of Florida
  - Jacob Calcutt, Michigan State University
  - Jonathon Coleman, University of Liverpool
  - Jose Ignacio Crespo Anadon, Columbia University
  - Clarke Esmerian, University of Chicago
  - Reddy Pratap Gandrajula, Michigan State
  - Cindy Joe, Gavin Davies, Leo Aliaga, Fermilab
  - Matthew Kirby, The University of Arizona
  - Andrea Marini, Universita di Pisa
  - Marvin Marshak, University of Minnesota
  - Nicholas Glenn Mast, University of Minnesota
  - Sravan Munagavalasa, Stony Brook University
  - Bannanje Nitish Nayak, University of California, Irvine
  - Afroditi Papadopoulou, MIT
  - Nora Shipp, University of Chicago
  - Katelyn Meredith Stringer, Texas A&M
  - Oleksandr Tomalak, University of Kentucky
  - Yongyi Wu, University of Michigan
2018
Fall 2018
- Avinay Bhat, Syracuse University
- Jianming Bian, University of California, Irvine
- Elia Bottalico, Universita di Pisa
- Animesh Chatterjee, University of Texas Arlington
- Michael Eads, Northern Illinois University
- Martin Fertl, University of Washington
- Antigoni Georgiadou, Florida State University
- David Hertzog, University of Washington
- David Hertzog, University of Washington
- Austin Hinkel, University of Kentucky
- Chatura Kuruppu, University of South Carolina
- Owen Long, University of California, Riverside
- Luisa Lucie-Smith, University College London
- Gleb Lukicov, University College London
- Andrea Marini, Universita di Pisa
- Rachel Osofsky. University of Washington
- Dung Duc Phan, The University of Texas at Austin
- Ilsoo Seong, University of California, Irvine
- Matthew Strait, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Tanvi Wamorkar, Northeastern University
  Spring 2018
  - Yang Bai, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  - Vincent Basque, University of Manchester
  - Jean-Francois Caron, University of Houston
  - Grace Cummings, University of Virginia
  - Kim Cushman, Yale University
  - Sven Dildick, Texas A&M University
  - Estia J. Eichten and James F. Hirschauer, Fermilab
  - Martin Fertl, University of Washington
  - George Fleming, Yale University
  - Lawrence Gibbons, Cornell University
  - Jiyeon Han, Sowjanya Gollapinni and Tammy Walton, Fermilab
  - Jason Hempstead, University of Washington
  - Christopher Hilgenberg, Colorado State University
  - Colton Hill, University of Manchester
  - Kim Siang Khaw, University of Washington
  - Marjon Moulai, MIT
  - Rachel Elizabeth Osofsky, University of Washington
  - Nabin Poudyal, Wayne State University
  - Jonathan Richardson, California Institute of Technology
  - Nora Shipp, University of Chicago
  - Beatriz Tapia Oregui, University of Texas at Austin
  - Wouter Van De Pontseele, Harvard University
  - Christopher West, University of Alabama
  - Shiqi Yu, Illinois Institute of Technology
2017
Fall 2017
- Jianming Bian, University of California, Irvine
- Rachel Carr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jonathon Coleman, University of Liverpool
- Antigoni Georgiadou, Florida State University
- Yin Lin, University of Chicago
- Francesco Lucarelli, University of Pisa
- Cristina Mantilla Suarez, Johns Hopkins University
- Adam Martin, University of Notre Dame
- Jorge Morfin & Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab
- Afroditi Papadopoulou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Lee Robert, Boston University
- Matthew Strait, University of Minnesota
- Prakash Thapa, Wayne State University
- Hao-Yi Wu, Ohio State University
2016
Fall 2016
- Artur Ankowski, Virginia Tech
- Jianming Bian, University of California-Irvine
- David Caratelli, Columbia University
- Thomas Carroll, University of Texas at Austin
- Simone Donati, University of Pisa
- Martin Fertl, University of Washington
- Zecariah Gelzer, University of Iowa
- David Kaleko, Columbia University
- Graham Kribs, University of Oregon
- Greg Snow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Matthew Strait, University of Minnesota
- Christopher Tully, Princeton University
- Rachel Wolf, University of Pennsylvania
- Wanwei Wu, University of Mississippi
Spring 2016
- Jason Bono, Rice University
- Davio Cianci, University of Manchester
- Jessica Esquivel, Syracuse University
- Dodelson Estrada, Guitierrez & Cancelo, Fermilab
- Andre Frankenthal, Cornell University
- Diego Garcia-Gamez, University of Manchester
- Zecariah Gelzer, University of Iowa
- Richard Gran, University of Minnesota
- Ariana Hackenburg, Yale University
- Colton Hill, University of Manchester
- Harnik Jindariani, Fermilab
- Kim-Siang Khaw, University of Washington
- Rachel Osofsky, University of Washington
- Antonella Palmese, University College London
- Vassilio Papavassiliou, New Mexico State University
- Davide Porzio, University of Manchester
- Nihan Sipahi, Colorado State University
- Taylan Sipahi, Colorado State University
- Matthias Smith, University of Washington
- Louis & Strauss Sutter, Fermilab
- David Sweigart, Cornell University
- Kazuhiro Terao, Columbia University
- Samuel Witte, University of California-Los Angeles
- Shawn Zaleski, Wayne State University
- Joseph Zennamo, University of Chicago
2015
Fall 2015
- Christopher Backhouse, California Institute of Technology
- Jianming Bian, University of Minnesota
- Dillon Brout, University of Pennsylvania
- David Caratelli, Columbia University
- Anthony DiFranzo, University of California, Irvine
- Suleyman Durgut, University of Iowa
- Martin Christopher Fertl, University of Washington
- Kurt Francis, Northern Illinois University
- Garrett Funk, University of California, Davis
- Elena Gramellini, Yale University
- Maksat Haytmyradov, University of Iowa
- David E. Kaleko, Columbia University
- Jorge Morales, Texas A&M Univ
- Stephen Parke, Fermilab
- Gianantonio Pezzullo ,University of Pisa
- Jose Sepulveda-Quiroz, Iowa State University
- David Vanegas Forero, Virginia Tech
Spring 2015
- Corey Adams, Yale University
- Samuel Bein, Florida State University
- Robin Bjorkquist, Cornell University
- Marcela Carena, Bogdan Dobrescu, Elisabetta Furlan, Fermilab
- Rui Chen, University of Manchester
- Hongyue Duyang, University of South Carolina
- Andrew Furmanski, University of Manchester
- Sudeshna Ganguly, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Alejandro Garcia, University of Washington
- Zechariah Gelzer, University of Iowa
- James Gloudemans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Eva Halkiadakis, Rutgers University
- Leonidas Kalousis, Virginia Tech
- Chris Marshall, University of Rochester
- Adam Martin, University of Notre Dame
- Robert Murrells, University of Manchester
- Ryan Nichol, University College London
- Rachel Osofsky, University of Washington
- Daniele Pasciuto, University of Pisa
- Elena Pedreschi, University of Pisa
- Kevin Siehl, Wayne State University
- Nihan Sipahi, Colorado State University
- Taylan Sipahi, Colorado State University
- Matthias Smith, University of Washington
- Marcello Soares-Santos, William Charles Louis, William Lee, Fermilab
- Bradford Welliver, University of Florida
- Yuanyuan Zhang, University of Michigan
2014
Fall
- David Caratelli, Columbia University
- Simone Donati, University of Pisa
- Paul Grannis, Stony Brook University
- Maksat Haytmuradov, University of Iowa
- David Kaleko, Columbia University
- Owen Long, University of California-Riverside
- Yannick Meurice, University of Iowa
- Aaron Meyer, University of Chicago
- Daniel Mihalcea, Northern Illinois University
- Meenakshi Narain, Bogdan Dobrescu, John Stupak, Christophe Grojean, Fermilab
- Anne Norrick, College of William & Mary
- Arka Santra, Florida State University
- Tian Xin, Iowa State University
Spring
- Jordon Adams, Florida State University
- Brian Beaudoin, University of Maryland
- Sam Bein, Florida State University
- Michelle Brochmann, University of Washington
- Rob Calkins, Southern Methodist University
- John Campbell & Richard Cavanaugh, Fermilab
- Flavio Cavanna & Ornella Palamara, Yale University
- Chia Cheng Chang, University of Illinois U/C
- Vala Fathipour, Northwestern University
- Reddy Gandrajula, University of Iowa
- Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University
- Robert Group, Greg Snow & Lee Roberts, Fermilab
- Jeremy Hewes, University of Manchester
- Alex Himmel, Duke University
- Brittany Kamai, Vanderbilt University
- Sabato Leo, University of Illinois U/C
- Dawei Li, Northwestern University
- Po-Ju Lin, University of Colorado
- John LoSecco, University of Notre Dame
- Joe Lykken, Prateek Agrawal & Felix Yu, Fermilab
- Karie Melconian, Texas A&M University
- Alexy Petrov, Wayne State University
- Gianantonio Pezzullo, University of Pisa
- Junko Shigemitsu, Ohio State University
- Ion Stancu & Alex Laminak, University of Alabama
- Igor Volobouev, Texas Tech University
- Jon Wilson, Texas A&M University
2013
Fall
- Cavanna & Ornella, Yale University
- Yu Chen, Syracuse University
- Gabriel Collin, MIT
- Craig Dukes, University of Virginia
- Hongyue Duyang, University of South Carolina
- Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Eric Flumerfelt, University of Tennessee
- Elliot Hughes, Rutgers University
- Natalie Kautz, University of Chicago
- Edward Kearns, Boston University
- Ben Loseth, Michigan State University
- Sarah Malik, Rockefeller University
- Brian Mercurio, University of South Carolina
- Seongtae Park, University of Texas-Arlington
- Stephen Parke, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Kate Scholberg, Duke University
- Ritoban Basu Thakur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Spring
- Brian Batell, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Ben Carlson, Carnegie Mellon University
- Mary Anne Cummings, Northern Illinois University
- Zechariah Gelzer, University of Iowa
- Robert Hirowsky, University of Virginia
- Jim Kraus, University of Mississippi
- Alex Mott, California institute of Technology
- Chris Tully, Princeton University
- Anthony Villano, University of Minnesota
- Guoying Wu, Southern Methodist University
- Zhengyun You, University of California at Irvine
2012
Fall
- Phillip Dudero, Texas Tech University
- Alexey Ferapontov, Brown University
- Robert Hirowsky, University of Virginia
- Junting Huang, University of Texas – Austin
- Ioannis Katsanos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Pramod Lamichhane, Wayne State University
- Qiuguang Liu, Purdue University
- Yuzhi Liu, University of Iowa
- Chris Quigg, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Carl Rosenfeld, University of South Carolina
- Willis Sakumoto, University of Rochester
- Paul Slattery, University of Rochester
- Rick Van Kooten, Indiana University
- Zukai Wang, University of Virginia
- Wenbo Xia, Southern Methodist University
Spring
- Cavanna & Palamara Yale University
- Eric Church, Yale University
- Ranjan Dharmapalan, University of Alabama
- Patrick Fox, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Steve Geer, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Richard Gran, University of Minnesota
- Rahul Khanna, University of IL-Chicago
- Graham Kribs, University of Oregon
- Yuzhi Liu, University of Iowa
- Sanjib Mishra, University of South Carolina
- Ron Moore, Harvard University
- Robert Orr, University of Toronto
- Sertac Ozturk, University of Iowa
- Prabhakar Palni, University of New Mexico
- Eric Prebys, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Lee Roberts, Boston University
- Paul Slattery, University of Rochester
- Molly Swanson, Harvard University
- Runzhe Tao, University of IL-Chicago
- Robert Tschirhart, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- William Wester, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Jonathon Wilson, University of Michigan
- Wie Xue, McGill University
2011
Fall
- Huajie Cao, Princeton University
- Jordan Damgov, Texas Tech University
- Wade Fisher, Michigan State University
- Heather Gerberich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Herold Gustafson, University of Michigan
- Ying Lu, University of Maryland
- Daniel Mihalcea, Northern Illinois University
- Masao Sako, University of Pennsylvania
- Tai Sakuma, Texas A&M University
- Silvia Scorza, Southern Methodist University
- Vaikunth Thukral, Texas A&M University
- Yu Zeng, Duke University
Spring
- Adrian Buzatu, McGill University
- Eric Church, Yale University
- Simone Donati, University of Pisa
- Daping Du, University of Iowa
- Brandon Eberly, University of Pittsburgh
- Sowjanya Gollapinni, Wayne State University
- Ben Jones, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ashutosh Kotwal & Yu Zeng, Duke University
- Keith Mattera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Yuri Oksuzian, University of Virginia
- Venkatesh Veeraraghavan, Florida State University
- Leah Welty-Rieger, Northwestern University
- William Wester & Todd Adams, Fermilab (group award organized for
  selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Thomas Wright, University of Michigan
- Mohammed Zakaria, University of Florida
- Chen Zhou, Duke Universit
2010
Fall
- Minerba Betancourt, University of Minnesota
- Saptaparna Bhattacharya, Brown University
- Suvadeep Bose, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Daping Du, University of Iowa
- Thomas Ferbel, University of Rochester
- Davide Gerbaudo, Princeton University
- Herold Gustafson, University of Michigan
- Timothy Harrington-Taber, University of Iowa
- Ulrich Heintz, Brown University
- Zeynep Isvan, University of Pittsburgh
- William Link, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Ying Lu, University of Maryland
- Ryan Patterson, California Institute of Technology
- Harrison Prosper, Florida State University
- Michael Spannowsky, University of Oregon
- Marcello Vogel, University of New Mexico
- Sam Waldman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spring
- John BackusMayes, University of Washington
- Durdana Balakishiyeva, University of Florida
- Christopher Bouchard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Brandon Eberly, University of Pittsburgh
- Andrew Eppig, University of Michigan
- Matthew Feickert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Wolfgang Lorenzon, University of Michigan
- Mark Matson, Wayne State University
- Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester
- Peter Meszaros, Pennsylvania State University
- Heather Ray, University of Florida
- Edwin Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Halil Saka, Princeton University
- Federico Sforza, University of Pisa
- Dimitri Smirnov, University of Notre Dame
- Jon Thaler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Patricia Vahle, College of William and Mary
- Kai Yi, University of Iowa
- Yu Zeng, Duke University
2009
Fall
- Elif Albayrak, University of Iowa
- Thomas Ferbel, University of Rochester
- Davide Gerbaudo, Princeton University
- Herold Gustafson, University of Michigan
- Andreas Kronfeld & Douglas Glenzinski, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Sabine Lammers, Indiana University
- Jiajie Ling, University of South Carolina
- Stephen Mrenna, Thomas Junk, & Wade Fischer, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Mehmet Oktay, University of Utah
- Thomas Phillips, Duke University
- Karolos Potamianos, Purdue University
- Paul Sheldon, Vanderbilt University
- John Strologas, University of New Mexico
- Xinchun Tian, University of South Carolina
- Nhan Tran, Johns Hopkins University
- Jianchun Wang, Syracuse University
- Peter Wittich, Cornell University
- Benjamin Ziemer, University of California, Irviney
Spring
- Todd Adams, Florida State University
- Chris Bouchard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Steve Brice, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Warren Clarida, University of Iowa
- Bonnie Fleming, Yale University
- George Fleming, Yale University
- Cristiano Galbiati, Princeton University
- Joseph Haley, Princeton University
- Carley Kopecky, University of California, Davis
- Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester
- Heather Ray, University of Florida
- Bryon Roe, University of Michigan
- Alexei Safonov and James Pivarski, Texas A&M University
- Shalhout Zaki Shalhout, Wayne State University
- Pavel Snopok, University of California, Riverside
- Hongbo Zou, Illinois Institute of Technology
2008
Fall
- Dante Amidei, University of Michigan
- Durdana Balakishiyeva, University of Florida
- Patrick Fox, Peter Skands, and Benjamin Kilminster, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Cecilia Gerber, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Joseph Grange, University of Florida
- Zijn Guo, Johns Hopkins University
- Kristian Hahn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Klaus Honscheid, Ohio State University
- Kevin McFarland, University of Rochester
- Kevin Pitts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Charles Plager, University of California, Los Angeles
- Michelle Prewitt, Rice University
- Aron Soha, University of California, Davis
- Igor Volobouev, Texas Tech University
- Jianchun Wang, Syracuse University
- Benjamin Ziemer, University of California, Irviney
Spring
- Emanuela Barberis, Northeastern University
- Marcela Carena and Harry Cheung, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Benjamin Carls, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Charles Cox and David Cox, University of California, Davis
- Andre De Gouvea, Northwestern University
- Richard Evans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Patrick Fox and Graham Kribs, University of Oregon, Fermilab (group award organized for selected participants from URA member Universities)
- Elvira Gamiz Sanchez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Davide Gerbaudo, Princeton University
- Igor Gorelov and Sally Seidel, University of New Mexico
- Michael Kordosky, College of William and Mary
- Marek Szymon Kos, Syracuse University
- Jeffrey Nelson, College of William and Mary
- Robert Shrock, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Pavel Snopok, University of California, Riverside
- Marco Trovato, University of Pisa
- Shannon Zelitch, University of Virginia
- Guo Quan (Jack) Zhang, University of New Mexicoy