Squire J. Booker, Pennsylvania State University, is at the forefront of research on enzyme reactions, focusing particularly on an enzyme involved in fatty acid synthesis. He uses interdisciplinary approaches at the interface of physical sciences and biology. His leadership in education includes distinguished teaching and mentoring of undergraduates and underserved minority students, and fostering diversity within and beyond the academic community.

John R. Wakeley, Harvard University, has developed new methods for analyzing the voluminous and rapidly growing DNA-sequencing data, expected to be extremely valuable to both population biologists and mathematicians in developing theories about the genetic histories of populations. He shares this wider understanding of genetics through development of textbooks and web-based software.

Amy Greenwald, Brown University, advanced a theory about how automated software agents can make decisions in uncertain environments such as online auctions. She recruits many young women into computer science and effectively advises graduates and undergraduates. She also serves an advisor to a summer outreach program for ninth-grade students who gain hands-on computer experience.

Babak Hassibi, California Institute of Technology, has made fundamental contributions to the theory and design of data transmission and reception schemes that will have a major impact on new generations of high-performance wireless communications systems. He has nurtured creativity in his undergraduate and graduate students by involving them in research and inspiring them to apply new approaches to communications problems.

George J. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania, has made fundamental contributions to hybrid systems theory. His work is leading to new understanding in the control of complex systems, such as those found in avionics, automotive electronics, robotics and medicine. His introduction of hybrid control concepts is part of new curriculum that allows students to learn embedded systems concepts at a renowned robotics lab.

Ion Stoica, University of California at Berkeley, has been addressing difficult questions and formulating novel network architectures to address quality of service and traffic management on the Internet. By interweaving analytical and experimental aspects of networking into unique hands-on opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, he helps enhance their understanding of novel concepts and encourages careers in networking.

N. Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University, studies how undergraduate students learn to develop and test "mental models" of how real world devices work and then determines how these models evolve from instruction through testing of ideas, including their transfer to other contexts. He is developing and pilot-testing instruction materials for an application-based introductory undergraduate physics course for architecture and engineering students.

Jennifer G. Becker, University of Maryland, College Park, researches how certain types of microbial interactions occur in chlorinated solvents, such as tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene, considered the most common contaminants of groundwater. Her research may contribute to new tools to help predict effectiveness of bioaugmentation strategies. Her education program includes a diverse hands-on learning experience for pre-college students and mentoring activities for student summertime research projects.

Susmita Bose, Washington State University, is working on innovative and multidisciplinary research on bioactive bone implants, addressing critical issues from the synthesis of materials (nanopowders) to the processing of various composites. Her extensive hands-on activities for high school students, involvement of undergraduates in the research effort and interactions among various industries, undergraduates, high school teachers and minority students highlight her education program.

J. Christian Gerdes, Stanford University, is developing a framework for revolutionary collision avoidance systems, with broad potential impact on highway driving safety. The research has received significant interest from several automotive companies. Gerdes has actively involved undergraduate students, including outreach to underrepresented groups and involving them in real-world research experiences and experiments.

Jason M. Haugh, North Carolina State University, is researching the fundamental property that helps modulate cell function. Potential implications of the research include creation of new therapeutic strategies. His education program covers a range of new graduate-level course materials, undergraduate lab modules and a hands-on workshop for seventh-grade students - all relate to cell functions in a research environment.

Jionghua (Judy) Jin, University of Arizona, is a leading researcher in analytically based methods that identify root causes for and reduce variation in multi-stage manufacturing at all stages of production. Her work could lead to a shift in manufacturing process and quality control. Her education program includes strong collaborations formed across disciplines, and with industrial and international colleagues.

Mark Lewis, University of Michigan, has led research into decision and queuing models of parallel processing in manufacturing. His work may impact a host of manufacturing and service enterprises where the scheduling of parallel resources is needed over time. Lewis has worked to attract and retain minority students in graduate engineering research programs, including a graduate-level Minority Forum. He also serves as an advisor for a campus undergraduate minority student support and service organization.

Jia G. Lu, University of California - Irvine, has advanced the frontiers of knowledge in spin electronics, considered to be the defining concept of 21st-century electronics, by her work on ultra-fast non-volatile electronics. Her work combines concepts in faster, more reliable electronics with nanotechnology. She transfers her research knowledge through education programs emphasizing outreach to underrepresented groups and by involving graduate, undergraduate and high-school students in physics, materials science and nanoscience.

Julia Kubanek, Georgia Institute of Technology, works at the interface of chemistry and ecology to investigate algal toxins and the responses of the ocean's zooplankton to those chemicals. She creatively applies and teaches the use of state-of-the-art analytical tools in marine ecology. Her students receive valuable training in interdisciplinary science and communication methods, aimed at non-scientists, which bridge fields of science and intersect research and policy.

Robert W. Ghrist, University of Illinois, is a leading research mathematician whose work has contributed to understanding relationships between knot theory and dynamics. His research is also opening new research areas in topological hydrodynamics, the qualitative study of geometric patterns in fluid flow. He combines mentoring across the graduate and undergraduate student populations with an innovative "Mathematics Ambassador Lectures" outreach program within the Atlanta city public school system.

Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, University of California at Berkeley, is creating and applying new quantum states of matter to a variety of problems in atomic and condensed matter physics. His work is considered important to the demonstration of quantum phenomena in general, and as potential tools for technological applications. He is developing a collection of resources for in-class and web- based inquiry in upper-division physics courses that will be tested and available for broad distribution.

Brian M. Stoltz, California Institute of Technology, is stimulating creative new research in synthetic organic chemistry and he has led studies in the development of new stereoselective organic reactions. He has established an innovative outreach program with tutoring for middle-school students. He is developing modular science kits for CalTech's Precollege Science Initiative. His award-winning teaching is enhanced by his development of undergraduate- and graduate-level courses.

Thomas McDade, Northwestern University, is undertaking important research that may ultimately improve child health through a better understanding of the social and environmental factors that affect the development of the human immune system. Students from high school through graduate school will be able to obtain an international experience in physical anthropology research through McDade's research program in Bolivia.