The awards recognize the accomplishments and future promise of the most talented faculty-rank early-career scientists and engineers at America’s top academic and research institutions.
Dmitri Basov will use the award to develop experimental techniques that could lead to revolutionary applications in electronics, computing energy technology, and medical devices.
Dmitri Basov, Angela M. Christiano, Andrew Millis, Molly Przeworski, and Lorraine S. Symington were elected by their peers in recognition of their outstanding achievements in research.
The Columbia professors join some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts in one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
The National Science Foundation awards $75 million to a Columbia-led team to support major improvements necessary to advance high-energy physics.