The first Scialog Awards were made in 2010 to ten investigators.
The October 2010 Scialog conference was held at Biosphere2 near Tucson, Arizona. The meeting focused on solar energy conversion. It was co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with in-kind contributions from University of Arizona.
“Scialog: Solar Energy Conversion” brought together 50 newly tenured professors doing high-risk/high-reward solar-energy research, as well as top national authorities in photovoltaics and solar fuels.
Scialog keynote speaker was Arun Majumdar, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (D.O.E.) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Other speakers included Nate Lewis of Caltech, head of the D.O.E.’s new, $122-million solar fuels research center; Eric Mazur, who leads a vigorous research program in optical physics at Harvard University and is internationally recognized for his work in education, science policy, outreach, and the public perception of science; Roger Angel, the University of Arizona Kavli Prize winner and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” awardee; and Arizona State University Professor Tom Moore, a national figure in photosynthesis and solar energy.
RCSA Vice President Martha Gilliland noted: “We are planning more Scialogs on other complex global issues.”