It’s a Family Affair: The Resurgence of the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

AWARDEE: Jeff Walters

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

From Poop to Protection: Satellite Discoveries Help Save Antarctic Penguins and Advance Wildlife Monitoring

AWARDEES: Christian Che-Castaldo, Heather Joan Lynch, Mathew Schwaller

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation

How We Think: Brain-Inspired Models of Human Cognition Contribute to the Foundations of Today’s Artificial Intelligence

AWARDEES: Geoffrey Hinton, James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation

Sketch to Concept: Unraveling the Invention of Nanopore Sequencing

AWARDEES: David Deamer, Mark Akeson, and Daniel Branton

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Agrobacterium: Nature’s Genetic Engineer, Hidden Within Plant Tumors

AWARDEE: Mary-Dell Chilton

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation

Raising Chickens, Elevating Scientists

AWARDEE: Paul Siegel

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation

Foldscopes and Frugal Science: Paper Microscopes Make Science Globally Accessible

AWARDEES: Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Tiny Snail, Big Impact: Cone Snail Venom Eases Pain and Injects New Energy into Neuroscience

AWARDEES: Craig T. Clark, Lourdes J. Cruz, J. Michael McIntosh, and Baldomero Marquez Olivera

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health

How a Lab Incident Led to Better Eye Surgery for Millions of People

AWARDEES: Tibor Juhasz, Ron Kurtz, Detao Du, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

making mrna

AWARDEES: Dr. Katalin Karikó, Dr. Drew Weissman

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health

The fast and the curious

AWARDEES: Stephen Checkoway, Tadayoshi Kohno, Karl Koscher, and Stefan Savage

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation

the secrets of serms

AWARDEE: V. Craig Jordan

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health, U.S Department of Defense

A llama named winter

AWARDEES: Jason McLellan and Daniel Wrapp

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy

The Human Immunome: Small Moves Become a Movement

AWARDEES: James Crowe

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health

A Spike in momentum

AWARDEES: Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham, Emmie de Wit, and Vincent Munster

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health

Implicit bias, explicit science

AWARDEES: Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony Greenwald, Brian Nosek

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Chickens, cells, and cytokines

AWARDEE: Stanley Cohen

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health

The goose gland: discoveries in immunology

AWARDEE: Bruce Glick

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

2017 Awardees

Fuzzy logic, clear impact

AWARDEE: Lotfi A. Zadeh

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

The silence of the frogs

AWARDEES: Joyce Longcore, Elaine Lamirande, Don Nichols, Allan Pessier

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, The Smithsonian Institution

The Sea soY solution

AWARDEE: Kaichang Li

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: U.S. Department of Agriculture

2016 Awardees

The sex life of the screwworm fly

AWARDEES: Edward F. Knipling and Raymond C. Bushland

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service

The Honey Bee Algorithm

AWARDEES: John J. Bartholdi III, Sunil Nakrani, Thomas D. Seeley, Craig A. Tovey, and John Hagood Vande Vate

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

A tale of two studies: the adolescent health story

AWARDEES: Peter Bearman, Barbara Entwisle, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Ronald Rindfuss, and Richard Udry

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: National Institutes of Health

2015 Awardees

Of maps and men

AWARDEES: Joel E. Cohen & Christopher Small

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: National Science Foundation

out of sight: neuroplasticity and vision

AWARDEES: Torsten Wiesel & David Hubel

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Trick or treat: the marshmallow test

AWARDEES: Walter Mischel, Yuichi Shoda, Philip Peake

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation

2014 Awardees

Rat and infant massage

AWARDEES: Tiffany Field, Gary Evoniuk, Cynthia Kuhn, and Saul Schanberg

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: National Institutes of Health

Auction design

AWARDEES: Preston McAfee, Paul Milgrom, and Robert Wilson

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: Atomic Energy Commission, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

black holes and supercomputing

AWARDEE: Larry Smarr

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: National Science Foundation

2013 Awardees

Market design

AWARDEES: Alvin Roth, David Gale, Lloyd Shapley

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation

thermus aquatiucs

AWARDEES: Thomas Brock and Hudson Freeze

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: National Science Foundation

diabetes medication

AWARDEE: John Eng

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs

2012 Awardees

green fluorescent protein

AWARDEES: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

The MASER

AWARDEE: Charles Townes

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCIES: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

coralline ceramics

AWARDEES: Jon Weber, Eugene White, Rodney White and Della Roy

FEDERAL FUNDING AGENCY: National Institutes of Health