Russell & Sigurd Varian Award
Purpose
To recognize and encourage excellence in continuing graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS.
Eligibility
The nominee must be a registered 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 Varian Award. The finalists not selected will receive either the Hoffman Award, Whetten 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
This award was established in 1982 to commemorate the pioneering work of Russell and Sigurd Varian in the field of vacuum science and technology. The award is supported by Agilent Technologies, which acquired Varian, Inc., in 2010.
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Recipients
2023 - Asir Intisar Khan, Stanford University
2022 - Tzu-Ling Liu, Stanford University
2021 - Sayantan Mahapatra, University of Illinois at Chicago
2020 - Ryan Hannagan, Tufts University
2019 - Dipna Patel, Tufts University
2018 - William DeBenedetti, Cornell University
2017 - Tania E. Sandoval, Stanford University
2016 - Thomas Winkler, University of Maryland, College Park
2015 - Andrada-Oana Mandru, Ohio University
2014 - Deep Jariwala, Northwestern University
2013 - Jason Kawasaki, University of California, Santa Barbara
2012 - April Jewell, Tufts University
2011 - David A. Siegel, University of California, Berkeley
2010 - Christine Tan, Cornell University
2009 - Sudhakar Shet, New Jersey Institute of Technology/NREL
2008 - Erik Wallen, Linkoping University
2007 - H. Lee Mosbacker, Ohio State University
2006 - Gregory Ten Eyck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2005 - Liam Pingree, Northwestern University
2004 - Vassil Antonov, Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2003 - John R. Kitchin, University of Delaware
2002 - Wei Tan, University of Illinois
2001 - Jianwei Dong, University of Minnesota
2000 - Michelle L. Steen, Colorado State University
1999 - Sanjit Singh Dang, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
1998 - John S. Lewis, III, University of Florida
1997 - Kimberly S. Turner, Cornell University
1996 - Kevin Robbie, University of Alberta
1995 - Robert Carpick, Univ. of California, Berkeley
1994 - Britt Turkot, University of Illinois
1993 - Daniel Kelly, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1992 - Rex Ramsier, University of Pittsburgh
1991 - Michael Flatte, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
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990 - Guangquan Lu, Univ. of California, San Diego
1989 - Brian S. Swartzentruber, Univ. of Wisconsin
1988 - Christopher E. Aumann, Univ. of Wisconsin
1987 - Joanne R. Levine, Northwestern University
1986 - Jingguang G. Chen, University of Pittsburgh
1985 - Anne L. Testoni, Northwestern University
1984 - Kenneth T.Y. Kung, MIT
1983 - J.S. Villaruba, Cornell University