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2009 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows 

 

Graham Candler

University of Minnesota
Hypersonics

Multi-Physics Simulations of Hypersonic Flows

Steve Elgar

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Oceanography/Remote Sensing

Manipulating Nearshore Morphology
to Determine the Coupling and
Feedback Between Waves, Currents,
and Bathymetric Change

Sharon Glotzer

University of Michigan
Nanomaterials

Smart, Autonomous, Adaptive
Phenomena in Self Organizing,
Reconfigurable Materials


 

 Naomi Halas

Rice University
Plasmonics

3D Nanophotonics: Bending Light
in New Directions

Mark Kasevich

Stanford University
Quantum Sensing

Atomic de Broglie Wave
Navigation Sensors

Charles Lieber

Harvard University
Nanomaterials

One-Dimensional Nanostructures as Building
Blocks for Functional Electronic
and Bioelectronic Materials

Christine Ortiz

MIT
Biomaterials

Natural Armor: An Untapped Encyclopedia
of Engineering Designs for Protective
Defense Applications

 John Rogers

Northwestern University
Nanomaterials

Materials and Mechanics for Stretchable
Electronics/Optoelectronics

Scott Strobel

Yale University
Biofuels

Investigation of Diesel Producing
Fungi as a Renewable
Source of Fuel

Andrew Weiner

Purdue University
Hybrid Photonic Systems

Novel Ultrabroadband Photonic and
Radio Frequency (RF) Systems