
The Society presented Gold and Silver Graduate Student Awards at the 2007 MRS Spring Meeting to graduate students who authored or co-authored symposium papers that exemplified significant and timely research. The Graduate Student Award Finalists' Special Talk Sessions were held on Tuesday, April 10. On Wednesday evening during the Plenary Session/Award Ceremony, all finalists were presented with either Gold or Silver Awards.
Gold Award Winners

Left to right:
Jeffrey J. Peterson, University of Rochester
DD5.5: Parity-Forbidden Transitions in PbSe Nanocrystals
Yasuyuki Hikita, University of Tokyo
L5.6: Magnetic Field Dependence of the Schottky Barrier Height at Manganite/Titanate Heterointerfaces
Fang Qian, Harvard University
EE2.13/DD3.13: Multicolor Nanolasers from Individual Multi-Quantum-Well Nanowire Heterostructures
Peter R. Stone, University of California, Berkeley
K4.6: Compositional Tuning of Ferromagnetism in Ga1-xMnxP and Ga1-xMnxP-Based Quaternary Alloys
Kevin Sivula, University of California, Berkeley
Z1.4: Optimizing Materials for Bulk-Heterojunction Polymer:Fullerene Photovoltaics
| Silver Award Winners |
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Suresh K. Donthu, Northwestern University
DD11.11: Tailoring gInternalh Microstructure of Functional Inorganic Nanopatterns
Jing Zhao, Northwestern University
V7.8: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors for Substrate Binding to Cytochrome P450 Proteins
Carey M. Tanner, University of California, Los Angeles
H7.9: Engineering of Epitaxial ƒÁ-Al2O3 (111) Gate Dielectrics on 4H-SiC (0001)
Mohammad Reza Abidian, University of Michigan
U7.2: Aligned Conducting Polymer Nanotubes for the Controlled Release of Neurotrophins and Contact Guidance of Regenerating Neurons
Elon Terrell, Carnegie Mellon University
C6.4: An Approach to Modeling Particle-Based and Contact-Based Wear in CMP
Dipak Paramanik, Institute of Physics, India
GG4.4: Time Evolution of Nanodots Created on InP(111) Surfaces by keV Irradiation
Parijat P. Deb, Purdue University
DD13.8: Schottky, p-n Junction and Light-Emitting Diodes Employing (In,Ga)N Nanorod Heterostructures
Jason D. Clapper, The University of Iowa
Q6.9: Structure-Property Relationships of Biomaterials Photopolymerized within Nanostructured Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
Left to right -- Rear:
Yu Yang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
D3.6: Analysis and Simulation of CVD and Super-Conformal CVD on High-Aspect-Ratio Features
Nagarajan Kalyanasundaram, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
GG3.7: Atomistic Origins of Surface Evolution and Electronic Structure Modification Due to Ion Bombardment
Alexander D. Wissner-Gross, Harvard University
II1.6: Electrofreezing of Water by Ion-Modified Diamond Surfaces
Alejandro L. Briseno, University of Washington
N28.8: Squares, Lines, and Circles„ŸA Soft Lithography Approach for Patterning Organic Semiconductor Transistors
Shadi A. Dayeh, University of California, San Diego
EE10.28: Field-, Diameter-, and Surface State-Dependent Transport Behavior in Semiconductor Nanowires
Matthew T. Lloyd, Cornell University
Photovoltaic Performance of Solution-Processed Oligoacene:Fullerene Bulk Heterojunctions
Manu Shamsa, University of California, Riverside
II5.2: Thermal Conductivity of Nanocrystalline and Microcrystalline Diamond Films„ŸEffects of the Nitrogen Doping and Boundary Scattering
Evan L. Williams, Arizona State University
O6.46: Highly Efficient Excimer-Based Phosphorescent White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes