News: Awards

2025

Apply for the JFI Trainee Travel Award

May 28, 2025

JFI Travel Award enables trainees to attend and present their research at a scientific conference between 2/1/2025-1/31/2026.  The award will be for $600 towards reimbursement of travel expenses (hotel & transportation).  Applications for the forthcoming year will be considered starting 6/1.

Eligibility & Selection Criteria: (1) Be a graduate student or post-doctoral trainee in the James Franck Institute at the time of application and travel. (2) Priority will be given to those who have not previously received an award. (3) Personal Statement, Budget and Note from Advisor will be the primary means of selection. (4) Consideration will be made to distribute awards equitably across JFI groups. No more than two applications per group per.


Margaret Gardel & Peter Littlewood Elected to NAS

May 1, 2025

Margaret Gardel & Peter Littlewood have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences


Vincenzo Vitelli Named CNRS Fellow-Ambassador

April 30, 2025

Vincenzo Vitelli was named a CNRS Fellow-Ambassador, which invites leading researchers to visit and mentor with French laboratories.


Greg Voth Receives 2025 ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry

March 31, 2025


Arvind Murugan Awarded 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize

March 12, 2025

Arvind Murugan was awarded the 2025 Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics for his "pivotal contributions to understanding the informatics of various biological processes, and specifically for leveraging molecular complexity of disordered systems for efficient physical computation and learning." The prize awards researchers for originality and excellence in the field of Biophysics.


2 JFI Faculty Receive Sloan Fellowships

February 28, 2025

Both Sarah King and Luca Delacrétaz were awarded 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships, which recognize faculty for their creativity and innovation as well as potential for leadership in their fields.


Laura Gagliardi Named to 2025 Solvay Chair in Chemistry

January 31, 2025

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2024

Paul Alivisatos awarded Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

December 30, 2024


Zoe Yan Awarded 2024 Packard Fellowship

October 31, 2024

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Paul Alivisatos awarded Kavli Prize in Nanoscience

July 31, 2024

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Steve Sibener gives annual Remsen Lecture

April 30, 2024

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Bozhi Tian elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows

April 30, 2024

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Greg Voth’s birthday honored with 4-day symposium by American Chemical Society

April 30, 2024

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Dmitri Talapin named a fellow the Martials Research Society

April 30, 2024

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JFI Grad Students Claire Jones, Noah Mason, Emma McNesby, & Andy Zhang Receive NSF Research Fellowships

April 29, 2024