English: At the White House yesterday, President Barack Obama bestowed on 100 men and women the United States government's highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers--the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Among the awardees, twenty were nominated by the National Science Foundation.

NSF-nominated PECASE awardees along with family, friends and National Science Foundation's director, deputy director and staff, gathered to be honored at NSF the day before PECASE awardees were honored by President Obama at the White House.

This year's NSF recipients are: Maria M. Calbi, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Amy B. Cerato, University of Oklahoma Ioannis Chasiotis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Monica F. Cox, Purdue University Cameron R. Currie, University of Wisconsin-Madison Joel L. Dawson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jimmy de la Torre, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Roland G. Fryer Jr., Harvard University Sean Hallgren, The Pennsylvania State University John M. Herbert, The Ohio State University Steven D. Jacobsen, Northwestern University Charles R. Keeton II, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Chun Ning Lau, University of California, Riverside Hao Lin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Harmit S. Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Rada F. Mihalcea, University of North Texas Scott R. Sheffield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zuzanna S. Siwy, University of California, Irvine Adam D. Smith, The Pennsylvania State University

Joy K. Ward, University of Kansas