2016

Carlos Meriles received RCSA’s first FRED Award.

RCSA named Carlos Meriles, physics, CCNY, the first recipient of a $250,000 Frontiers in Research Excellence and Discovery (FRED) Award, the largest of the new awards within the Cottrell Scholar program. His award funded intensive study of the spin and electrical behavior of an impurity in the otherwise uniform crystal-lattice structure of diamond. Further recipients of the FRED Award were: 2017 Sara Skrabalak, chemistry, Indiana University; 2018 Will Dichtel, chemistry, Northwestern University; 2019 Sarah Reisman, chemistry, California Institute of Technology; and 2020 Cindy Regal, physics, University of Colorado Boulder.