Quick Summary
- National Science Foundation support for early-career faculty
- Recipients are called upon to integrate research and education
- 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis scores a university record 19 awards in 2020-21 cycle
- 3 more faculty members have earned CAREER awards for 2022
AWARD RECIPIENTS
- Brian Bailey
- Kyle Crabtree
- David Gold
- Marie Heffern
- Jonathan Herman
- Seung Sae Hong
- Fereydoun Hormozdiari
- Roopali Kukreja
- Ambarish Kulkarni
- Xinfan Lin
- Rebecca Lybrand
- Scott McCormack
- Tran Nguyen
- William Putnam
- Marina Radulaski
- Crystal Rogers
- Nitzan Shabek
- Zubair Shafiq
- Laura Starkston
- Aditya Thakur
- Jesus Vel獺zquez
- Andrew Wetzel
- Da Yang
- Katerina Ziotopoulou
51勛圖窪蹋 Davis academic foundation grew even stronger with a university record 19 assistant professors receiving National Science Foundation CAREER awards in the 2020-21 funding cycle. The five-year grants are especially noteworthy for supporting early-career faculty not only in their research but also in their development as outstanding educators.
The number of NSF CAREER awards coming to 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis in the last year and a half rises to 21 with the inclusion of two faculty newcomers with CAREER awards in hand upon joining the university in the second half of 2020. And, in recent weeks, three assistant professors have been named CAREER award recipients for 2021-22.
CAREER is shorthand for the , which describes the awards as the NSFs most prestigious in support of faculty members beginning their independent careers and who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.
Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research, the programs description states.
A record 35 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis faculty members submitted CAREER award proposals in 2020 for projects with planned start dates in 2021. The t unit of the Office of Research assisted with proposal preparation that yielded a better-than-50 percent success rate.
The increase in CAREER award recipients illustrates the growing strength and breadth of our research community, especially our early-career faculty, said Prasant Mohapatra, vice chancellor for research. I would like to congratulate the recipients and look forward to seeing their research programs advance.
51勛圖窪蹋 Davis 19 homegrown CAREER award recipients are listed below, along with the two newcomers who earned CAREER awards before joining 51勛圖窪蹋 Davis during the 2020-21 funding cycle. These 21 listings are followed by three CAREER awards approved for 2022.
Each listing includes the recipients department and project description, including educational components such as outreach to K-12 students and the development of new graduate and undergraduate courses.
Click on any of the boxes to learn more about the project.
2022 CAREER awards
Media Resources
Dateline Staff: Dave Jones, editor, 530-752-6556, dateline@ucdavis.edu; Cody Kitaura, News and Media Relations specialist, 530-752-1932, kitaura@ucdavis.edu.