Supporting Cottrell Scholars as they launch exceptionally creative, new research or educational activities with the potential for high impact.
 

2024

SEED Awards for New Research Directions

Erin Carlson, chemistry, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Bert Chandler, chemistry, Pennsylvania State University

Robert Gilliard, chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Darren Johnson, chemistry, University of Oregon

Ognjen Š. Miljanić, chemistry, University of Houston

Jill Millstone, chemistry, University of Pittsburgh

Eric Schelter, chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
 

SEED Awards for Exceptional Opportunities

Paulo Almeida, chemistry, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Aaron Leconte, chemistry, Scripps College

George Shields, chemistry, Furman University

Adam Urbach, chemistry, Trinity University

2023

Tamara Bogdanović, astronomy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Henriette Elvang, physics, University of Michigan

Mary Putman, astronomy, Columbia University

Sergei Urazhdin, physics, Emory University
 

2022

Stephen Bradforth, chemistry, University of Southern California

Luis Campos, chemistry, Columbia University

Nancy Makri, chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ken Mills, chemistry, College of the Holy Cross

Art Winter, chemistry, Iowa State University
 

2021

David DeMille, physics, University of Chicago

Jonathan Friedman, physics, Amherst College

Steven Majewski, astronomy, University of Virginia

John-David Smith, astronomy, University of Toledo

Ziqiang Wang, physics, Boston College
 

2020

Richard Brutchey, chemistry, University of Southern California

Mark Bussell, chemistry, Western Washington University

Seth Herzon, chemistry, Yale University

Hanadi Sleiman, chemistry, McGill University

Brian Stoltz, chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Ann West, chemistry, University of Oklahoma

2019

Erica W. Carlson, physics, Purdue University

Herbert A. Fertig, physics, Indiana University Bloomington

Boyd M. Goodson, physics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Thomas Vojita, physics, Missouri University of Science & Technology

2018

Julio C. de Paula, chemistry, Lewis and Clark College

Hai Lin, chemistry, University of Colorado Denver

David L. Patrick, chemistry, Western Washington University
 

2017

Rainer Grobe and Charles Su, physics, Illinois State University

Duncan R. Lorimer, astronomy, West Virginia University

Neepa T. Maitra, physics, CUNY - Hunter College

Keivan G. Stassun, astronomy, Vanderbilt University

Carsten A. Ullrich, physics, University of Missouri
 

2016

Stacey F. Bent, chemical engineering, Stanford University

Bert D. Chandler, chemistry, Trinity University

Martin Gruebele, chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teri W. Odom, chemistry, Northwestern University

Charles Sykes, chemistry, Tufts University