Goodnight Early Career Innovators Awardees

Faculty members selected as Goodnight Early Career Innovators receive $22,000 annually for three years to support their scholarship. Since the program began in 2021, 74 faculty have received this honor.

2022-23

• 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

2021-22

• Aydin Aysu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Yevgeny Brudno, assistant professor of biomedical engineering
• Wei-chen Chang, assistant professor of chemistry
• Karen Chen, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering
• Glenn Cruse, assistant professor molecular biomedical sciences
• Kevin Garcia, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences
• Landon Grace, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
• Margaret Gruen, assistant professor of clinical sciences
• Ali Hajbabaie, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering
• Lilian Hsiao, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Ethan Hyland, assistant professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences
• Shiyan Jiang, assistant professor of teacher education and learning sciences
• Arion Kennedy, assistant professor of molecular and structural biochemistry
• Albert Keung, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Zakiya Leggett, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources
• Gustavo Machado, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology
• Kelly Ann Meiklejohn, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology
• Santosh Mishra, assistant professor of molecular biomedical science
• Rajan Parajuli, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources
• William Sagues, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering
• Mahmoud Sharara, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering
• Eunkyoung Shim, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science
• Katharina Stapelmann, assistant professor of nuclear engineering
• Xiaoqiu Wang, assistant professor of animal science
• Tianfu Wu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering

2020-21

• Milad Abolhasani, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Veronica Augustyn, assistant professor of materials science and engineering
• Ashley Brown, assistant professor of biomedical engineering
• Benjamin Callahan, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology
• Ericka Ford, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science
• Donald Freytes, assistant professor of biomedical engineering
• Liara Gonzalez, assistant professor of clinical sciences
• Khara Grieger, assistant professor of applied ecology
• Ricardo Hernández, assistant professor of horticultural science
• Anders Huseth, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology
• Tobias Kaeser, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology
• Manuel Kleiner, assistant professor of plant and microbial biology
• Arun Kota, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering
• Erin Krupa, assistant professor of STEM education
• Katie Mack, assistant professor of physics
• Kurt Marsden, assistant professor of biological sciences
• Stefano Menegatti, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Natalie Nelson, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering
• Kathryn Stevenson, assistant professor of parks, recreation and tourism management
• Thomas Theis, assistant professor of chemistry
• Jack Wang, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources
• Xu Xu, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering
• Ge Yang, assistant professor of nuclear engineering
• Shu Yang, assistant professor of statistics