Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award
Purpose
To recognize and encourage excellence by women in graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS.
Eligibility
The nominee must be a registered female graduate student in an accredited academic institution at the time when the applications are due. Applicants are normally expected not to graduate before the award selection. The award may be given to a particular individual only once. Following the Awards Committee Meeting in the Spring/Summer, the top eight (8) student nominees are notified and invited to present talks on their research to the Awards Committee in a virtual interview in late summer. After the interview, one of the top three (3) students of the eight (8) finalists will receive the Whetten Award. The finalists not selected will receive either the Hoffman Award, Varian Award, or Dorothy M or Earl S. Hoffman Scholarships. Criteria for selection of the awardee are excellence in research and academic record.
Nature of the Award
The award consists of a cash award, a certificate, and reimbursed travel support to attend the International Symposium.
Establishment and Support
The Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award was established in 1989, in the spirit of Nellie Yeoh Whetten, to recognize and encourage excellence by women in graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS. A fund to support the award was established by Timothy J. Whetten, friends and family of Nellie Yeoh Whetten, and AVS. The award consists of a cash award, a certificate, and reimbursed travel support to attend the International Symposium.
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Recipients
2024 - Sarah Willson, University of Chicago
2023 - Yanjun Yang, University of Georgia
2022 - Julia Murphy, University of Chicago
2021 - Minh Nhat Tran, New York University
2020 - Natalie Seitzman, Colorado School of Mines
2019 - Rebecca Thompson, University of Chicago
2018 - Ann Lii-Rosales,
Iowa State University
2017 - Rachael Farber, Loyola University Chicago
2016 - Debalaya Sarker, Indian Institute of Technology
2015 - Leeya Engel, Tel Aviv University
2014 - Jiechang Hou, University of Pennsylvania
2013 - Indira Seshadri, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2012 - Nour Nijem, University of Texas, Dallas
2011 - Sondra Hellstrom, Stanford University
2010 - Xiaoyu Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2009 - Sarah Bishop, University of California, San Diego
2008 - Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, University of California, Berkeley
2007 - Andrea Munro, University of Washington
2006 - Jessica Hilton, University of Minnesota
2005 - Natalia Farkas, University of Akron
2004 - Wensha Yang, University of Wisconsin at Madison
2003 - Meredith L. Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University
2002 - Lyudmila Goncharova, Rutgers University
2001 - Tanhong Cai, Iowa State University
2000 - Jennifer E. Gerbi, University of Illinois
1999 - Nerissa Taylor,
University of Illinois
1998 - Jennifer Hovis, University of Wisconsin
1997 - Catherine Labelle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996 - Tracy E. Caldwell,
University of California, Davis
1995 - Cynthia Kelchner, Iowa State University
1994 - Monica Katiyar, University of Illinois
1993 - Laura Tedder, University of California, San Diego
1992 - Hope Michelson, IBM Almaden Research Center
1991 - Lucia Markert,
University of Illinois
1990 - Jani C. Ingram, University of Arizona