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Graduate Student Awards

• 2013 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 1-5, 2013
• San Francisco, California
• Meeting Chairs: Mark L. Brongersma, Vladimir Matias, Rachel Segalman, Lonnie D. Shea, Heiji Watanabe

About the Award

MRS Graduate Student Awards honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. MRS seeks to recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research.

Award Package

Gold and Silver Awards are presented at the Award Session during the week of the MRS meeting and announced in the MRS Bulletin. The prizes consist of $400 and a presentation plaque for the Gold Awards and $200 and a certificate for the Silver Awards.

Questions should be directed to the Graduate Student Award Administrator.

2013 Gold Award Recipients

(L to R) First row: William Woodford, Jingqing Zhang, Sriharsha Aradhya, Wei Bao
Second row: Benhamin Chee Keong, Ziliang Ye, Matthew McDowell 

Sriharsha Aradhya, Columbia University (Y6.05)
Wei Bao, University of California, Berkeley (Y3.05)
Matthew McDowell, Stanford University (G3.01)
Benjamin Chee Keong Tee, Stanford University (TT1.02)
William Woodford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (G1.05)
Ziliang Ye, University of California, Berkeley (II7.09)
Jingqing Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (P12.03)

2013 Silver Award Recipients

(L to R) First row: Guang Zhu, Juanjuan Du, Runzhe Tao, Le He
Second row: Xiaofeng Feng, Woon Tech Yap, You Shou
Third row: Lito de la Rama, Kedar Hippalogaonkar, Wei Gao
Fourth row: Ryan Comes, Jongwoo Lim, Aaron Rathmell 

Ryan Comes, University of Virginia (XX8.14)
Juanjuan Du, University of California, Los Angeles (OO3.09)
Xiaofeng Feng, University of California, Berkeley (P5.62)
Wei Gao, University of California, San Diego (LL4.10)
Le He, University of California, Riverside (L8.07)
Kedar Hippalgaonkar, University of California, Berkeley (V3.05)
Jongwoo Lim, University of California, Berkeley (H1.05)
Lito de la Rama, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BBB4.03)
Aaron Rathmell, Duke University (T4.01)
Runzhe Tao, University of Illinois at Chicago (AAA8.05)
Woon Teck Yap, Northwestern University (OO3.02)
You Zhou, Harvard University (XX4.02)
Guang Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology (W2.06)