Jose Onuchic, Professor
Department of Physics

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• Awarded $10M NSF grant to co-direct the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, 2002. Full story >>

• National Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
• Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award 2002

Michael Sailor, Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

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• Honored as Outstanding Mentor to UCSD Undergraduates (2004)

Barbara Sawrey, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• ACS Award for Student Affiliates Chapters, 2001-2002
  
  The committee is awarding 31 outstanding, 55 commendable, and 67 honorable mention awards. Barbara Sawrey (as advisor) and Ryan Clark (as president) were honored for one of the 31 outstanding American Chemical Society Student Affiliate Chapters in the country.

• ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, 2002.

Ivan K. Schuller, Professor of Physics
Department of Physics

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Awards:

• International Union of Materials Research Societies Sômiya Award for International Collaboration (2007)
  
  Along with Yvan Bruynseraede, Professor of Physics at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, earned the award for their investigation of the “Structure and Physical Properties of Superconducting Magnetic Nanostructures.”
  

  The International Union of Materials Research Societies presents the award biennially “for the most significant research on real materials conducted by an interactive group or team whose members are drawn from at least two continents.”

  The award is named in honor of Shigeyuki Sômiya, an emeritus professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.  In addition to an award commemorating the occasion, the recipients receive free registration to the IUMRS International Conference on Advanced Materials.  The winners also make a presentation at the conference.

• Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (2004)
• E.O. Lawrence Award (2004)
• Appointed to the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences (2004)
• Materials Research Society Medal (2003)
• APS David Adler Lectureship Award (2003)

Linda Rothschild, Professor
Department of Mathematics

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• Stefan Bergman Prize 2003

  "Awarded along with Salah Baonoudi for their joint and individual work in complex analysis. Their recent work is centered on the study of Cauchy-Riemann manifolds, to which they and their collaborators have made fundamental contributions."

Awards:

• 2005 National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Theodore Roosevelt Award, the highest honor the NCAA bestows on an individual.

Lu J. Sham, Professor of Physics
Department of Physics

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• Awarded honorary doctorate from Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University (2006)
  
  "Honored for his broad research contributions, including the quantum theory of molecules and solids, particularly, the co-founding of the Density Functional Theory, which has far reaching influence on computational physics and chemistry, and solid state quantum information and computation, particularly the optical control of spin interaction, which opens up another influential area.”

• 2008 Advanced Photon Source (APS) Users Organization Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award

Awards:

• Selected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2005

Frank H. Shu, Department of Physics
Department of Physics

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• (2008) Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
  
  The Centennial Medal was instituted in 1989 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary founding of the Graduate School. Shu was one of four medalists awarded the honor this year. Past medalists have included the economists James Tobin and Robert Solow, author Margaret Atwood, philosopher Susan Sontag, physicists Philip Anderson and Walter Kohn, chemist Richard Zare and writer Kevin Starr.

Sunil Sinha, Professor of Physics
Department of Physics

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Susan S. Taylor, Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• First Annual Vice Chancellor- Health Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award of Excellence, 2002.

• William C. Rose Award, given by the American Society for Biochemistry and
  Molecular Biology (2006)
  
  The award is given in recognition of "outstanding contributions to biochemical and molecular biological research and a demonstrated commitment to the training of younger scientists, as epitomized by the late Dr. Rose."

Douglas E. Smith, Assistant Professor
Department of Physics

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• Beckman Young Investigator Award, 2003

• Searle Scholar 2002-2005

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• National Academy of Sciences, 2007

Peter Teichner, Professor
Department of Mathematics

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• Invited Lecturer, International Congress of Mathematics, Beijing, China, 2002

  The International Congress of Mathematicians is a quadrennial congress held under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU).

Glenn Tesler, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics

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Awards:

• 2005-2006 Hellman Faculty Fellows Award

Mark H. Thiemens, Dean of Physical Sciences and Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• National Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2002)

• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2006)
  All 48 new AGU Fellows elected this year, according to the AGU, are Earth or space scientists who have "attained acknowledged eminence" in their respective fields, were nominated by colleagues and were then elected by an AGU committee. Only one-tenth of the current AGU membership of 48,000 can be elected as Fellows each year. The complete list of new fellows appears in the January 9, 2007 issue of EOS.
  
• Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association for Geochemistry (2007)
  The title is bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over the years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry.

  The number of fellows elected each year is limited to less than one percent of the membership of the combined societies and is typically significantly
  fewer. The new Fellows will be introduced and their certificates presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Cologne, Germany on August 19-24, 2007.

Awards:

• 35th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award (2006)
  Roger Tsien was chosen by a committee of distinguished scientists for his pioneering invention of molecular probes that allow cell biologists to measure and control calcium, cAMP, and nitric oxide in cells. The award consists of a medal and an equal share of a $10,000 cash prize. His co-recipient is Dr. Martin Chalfie of Biological Sciences, Columbia University.
• Fifth Annual Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize (2005)
  The $10,000 prize, presented to Tsien April 13, 2005 on the UNC campus, was given to recognize a seminal achievement in neuroscience. Tsien was cited by the committee that selected him for his development of molecular indicators that have revolutionized the optical monitoring of neurons. Tsien will give a lecture immediately following the ceremony.
  Edward R. Perl, for whom the prize is named, is a professor of cell and molecular physiology at UNC’s School of Medicine.
• UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in Science and Engineering (2003-04)
  For his varied and continued success as an unparalleled research scientist and innovator.
• Wolf Prize in Medicine (2004)
  For his "seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction."

  The prize, in the amount of $100,000, is shared with Robert A. Weinberg of MIT.

• Annual Porter Lecturer, American Society for Cell Biology (2003)
  Named for a pioneer of electron microscopy who was one of the founders of the ASCB, the Porter Lecture is a scientific highpoint in the Society's Annual Meeting, widely considered the largest and most influential gathering of biology researchers in the world.
• Heineken Prize for Biochemistry (2002)
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• ACS Award for Creative Invention (2002) Roger Y. Tsien has made extraordinary and unique contributions to biochemical research by developing an array of methods and techniques to study and manipulate cellular signaling. His major contributions include the invention of fluorescent reporters that make it possible to image calcium ions, protein complexes, and other signaling species in living cells and tissues. He has used organic synthesis and protein engineering in creative ways to produce these new reagents. Tsien has been a named inventor on more than four dozen US patents, and is extending his cellular signaling work today to develop new methods to study gene transcription and expression in living organisms.