MRS Honors 2012 Spring Meeting Graduate Student Award Winners

April 18, 2012 « View all Releases

WARRENDALE, PA  – [April 19, 2012] – The Materials Research Society (MRS) announced the winners of the Graduate Student Awards on Wednesday, April 11, during the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. Twenty-three graduate students were recognized for their academic achievements and current materials research, which exhibit a high level of excellence and distinction. Of the 105 applications processed this year, the 23 finalists were chosen on the merits of exceptional abilities and promise for significant future achievement in materials research. Gold or Silver Awards were decided based on oral presentations given on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 10.

The Graduate Student Awards were presented at the awards ceremony Wednesday evening in the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Prizes consisted of $400 and a presentation plaque for the Gold Award winners and $200 and a certificate for the Silver Award winners. For more information, visit www.mrs.org/s12-gsa.

 

Gold Awards 

Kara Evanoff
Georgia Institute of Technology 

Sanghan Lee
University of Wisconsin, Madison 

 

Gaurav Giri
Stanford University  

Nichole Miller
Stanford University  

 

Tevis Jacobs
University of Pennsylvania  

Alia Schoen
Stanford University  

 

Jason Kawasaki
University of California, Santa Barbara  

Emily Warren
California Institute of Technology  



Silver Awards 

Zheng Chen
University of California, Los Angeles  

Junsuk Rho
University of California, Berkeley  

 

Zi Chen
Princeton University  

Afsoon Soudi
Washington State University  

 

Diego Gomez-Gualdron
Texas A&M University  

Magdalena Swierczewska
Stony Brook University  

 

Zhenda Lu
University of California, Riverside  

Neil Treat
University of California, Santa Barbara  

 

Rutvik J. Mehta
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  

David Tsivion
Weizmann Institute of Science  

 

Nour Nijem
University of Texas, Dallas  

Nan Yi
Tufts University  

 

Seung Soo Oh
University of California, Santa Barbara  

Qiao Zhang
University of California, Riverside  

 

Andreina Parisi-Amon
Stanford University  

 

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Photos of Graduate Student Award winners available upon request at fornataro@mrs.org.

About The Materials Research Society

The Materials Research Society MRS is an international organization of almost 16,000 materials researchers from academia, industry and government, and a recognized leader in promoting the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research to improve the quality of life. MRS members are engaged and enthusiastic professionals hailing from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and engineering—the full spectrum of materials research. Headquartered in Warrendale, Pennsylvania (USA), MRS membership now spans over 80 countries, with more than 40% of members residing outside the United States. In addition to its communications and publications portfolio, MRS organizes high-quality scientific meetings, attracting over 13,000 attendees annually and facilitating interactions among a wide range of experts from the cutting edge of the global materials community. MRS is also a recognized leader in education outreach and advocacy for scientific research.

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