Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award

Recognizing Early Career Excellence

The Provost’s Office oversees the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award program. The program recognized and rewarded tenure-track assistant professors who demonstrated early productivity in STEM or STEM education research and innovation.

Approximately 25 awards were made annually in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Faculty members selected as Goodnight Early Career Innovators received $22,000 annually for three years to support their scholarship and research endeavors.

Goodnight Early Career Innovators Awardees
Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award – Prior Years

Selected Innovators

Since the Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award program began in 2021, 74 faculty have received this honor. Here’s the most recent class of innovators.

• Robin Anderson, assistant professor of STEM education
• Amro Awad, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Rongmon Bordoloi, assistant professor of physics
• Jie Cao, assistant professor of applied ecology
• Jeffrey Dunne, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences
• Ayse Ercumen, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources
• Alon Greenbaum, assistant professor of biomedical engineering
• Angela Harris, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering
• Mark Hoffmann, assistant professor of horticultural science
• Timothy Horn, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
• Alejandra Huerta, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology
• Caroline Laplante, assistant professor of molecular biomedical sciences
• Nathalie Lavoine, assistant professor of forest biomaterials
• R. Bryan Ormond, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science
• Caroline Proulx, assistant professor of chemistry
• David Rasmussen, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology
• Rubén Rellán Álvarez, assistant professor of molecular and structural biochemistry
• Deepti Salvi, assistant professor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences
• Adriana San Miguel, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Seema Sheth, assistant professor of plant and microbial biology
• Virginia Stage, assistant professor of agricultural and human sciences
• Wenyuan Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Laurianne Van Landeghem, assistant professor of molecular biomedical sciences
• Qingshan Wei, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Alex Woodley, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences