Nine Young Faculty Win NFS Honors

Nine Young Faculty

Win NSF Honors

Nine MIT assistant professors are among the 211 academic scientists and 
engineers selected to receive Presidential Young Investigator Awards by 
the National Science Foundation, it was announced last week.

They are:

Richard P. Binzel, EAPS.

Katherine Freese, physics.

Karen K. Gleason,  the Herman P. Meissner Assistant Professor, chemical 
engineering.

John P. Grotzinger, EAPS.

Mark J. Jakiela, mechanical engineering.

Peter T. Lansbury Jr., chemistry.

Eric W. McFarland, nuclear gneineering.

Steven H. Strogatz, mathematics.

Lawrence M. Wein, management.

The awards are intended to help universities attract and retain 
outstanding young PhD scientists and engineers who might otherwise 
pursue nonteaching careers, the NSF said. Each young investigator can 
receive up to $100,000 per year for five years in a combination of 
federal and matching private funds.