Five Physics & Astronomy Researchers Win 2021 SEED Awards
Research Corporation for Science Advancement has chosen five winners of its competitive Cottrell Plus SEED (Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery) Awards for 2021.
SEED Awards offer Cottrell Scholars the opportunity to start creative new research or educational activities, granting $50,000 for research projects or $25,000 for educational projects. All of the 2021 awards are for research.
“We received an array of high-quality proposals from excellent researchers in a variety of physics fields,” said Senior Program Director Silvia Ronco. “We’re looking forward to seeing these high-risk, high- reward ideas developed into competitive programs of research.”
SEED accepts physics and astronomy proposals from Cottrell Scholars in odd-numbered years, and chemistry proposals in even-numbered years.
Since 1994, the Cottrell Scholar program has honored and helped to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their potential for academic leadership.
The SEED Award is one of the suite of Cottrell Plus awards given to support Cottrell Scholars throughout their careers.
2021 SEED Award recipients are:
David DeMille, CS 2000, University of Chicago
Developing a New Tabletop-scale Approach to Detect Particles One Million Times More Massive than the Higgs Boson
Jonathan Friedman, CS 2002, Amherst College
Spin-Clock Transitions in Silica Defects
Steven Majewski, CS 1998, University of Virginia
Optical Fibers for Astronomical Imaging: Development and Use of the DIstributed Field Fiber Imaging Testbed (DIFFIT)
John-David Smith, CS 2012, University of Toledo
Tiny Grains Across the Cosmos — The First Physical Models of PAH Emission in Cosmological Simulations
Ziqiang Wang, CS 1996, Boston College
Correlated and Topological Quantum States in Transition-metal Kagome Lattice Materials
