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, 99 faculty have received this honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024-25<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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• Katherine Anarde, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Michael Bradshaw, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Sunghwan Byun, assistant professor of STEM Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Nathan Crook, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Catherine Davis, assistant professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Basheerah Enahora, assistant professor of agricultural and human sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Joseph Gage, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Jessica Gluck, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Lucie Guertault, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Christophe Guilluy, assistant professor of molecular biomedical sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Emily Hector, assistant professor of statistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Jordan Kern, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Sebastian K\u00f6nig, assistant professor of physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Ravi Kulkarni, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Xiaojing Liu,  assistant professor of molecular and structural biochemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Samantha Marshall, assistant professor of teacher education and learning sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Erin McKenney, assistant professor of applied ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Jun Ohata, assistant professor of chemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Kelly Oten, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Kasie Raymann, assistant professor of plant and microbial biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Sara Shashaani, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Sara Villani, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Justin Whitehill, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Lirong Xiang, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
• Rong Yin, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

  2022-23<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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  • Robin Anderson, assistant professor of STEM education<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Amro Awad, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Rongmon Bordoloi, assistant professor of physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jie Cao, assistant professor of applied ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Jeffrey Dunne, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Ayse Ercumen, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alon Greenbaum, assistant professor of biomedical engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Angela Harris, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Mark Hoffmann, assistant professor of horticultural science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Timothy Horn, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alejandra Huerta, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Caroline Laplante, assistant professor of molecular biomedical sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nathalie Lavoine, assistant professor of forest biomaterials<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • R. Bryan Ormond, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Caroline Proulx, assistant professor of chemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • David Rasmussen, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Rub\u00e9n Rell\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez, assistant professor of molecular and structural biochemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Deepti Salvi, assistant professor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Adriana San Miguel, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Seema Sheth, assistant professor of plant and microbial biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Virginia Stage, assistant professor of agricultural and human sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Wenyuan Tang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Laurianne Van Landeghem, assistant professor of molecular biomedical sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Qingshan Wei, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alex Woodley, assistant professor of crop and soil sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    2021-22<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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

      2020-21<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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      • Milad Abolhasani, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Veronica Augustyn, assistant professor of materials science and engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Ashley Brown, assistant professor of biomedical engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Benjamin Callahan, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Ericka Ford, assistant professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Donald Freytes, assistant professor of biomedical engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Liara Gonzalez, assistant professor of clinical sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Khara Grieger, assistant professor of applied ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Ricardo Hern\u00e1ndez, assistant professor of horticultural science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Anders Huseth, assistant professor of entomology and plant pathology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Tobias Kaeser, assistant professor of population health and pathobiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Manuel Kleiner, assistant professor of plant and microbial biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Arun Kota, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Erin Krupa, assistant professor of STEM education<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Katie Mack, assistant professor of physics<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Kurt Marsden, assistant professor of biological sciences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Stefano Menegatti, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Natalie Nelson, assistant professor of biological and agricultural engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Kathryn Stevenson, assistant professor of parks, recreation and tourism management<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Thomas Theis, assistant professor of chemistry<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Jack Wang, assistant professor of forestry and environmental resources<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Xu Xu, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Ge Yang, assistant professor of nuclear engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Shu Yang, assistant professor of statistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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