5 on Caltech Faculty Win Research Awards
Five Caltech faculty members have been selected Presidential Young Investigators for 1991 by the National Science Foundation.
They are Joel Burdick, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; S. George Djorgovski, associate professor of astronomy; G. Ravichandran, assistant professor of aeronautics; Yu-Chong Tai, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Stephen Taylor, assistant professor of computer science.
The Presidential Young Investigator Awards were established in 1984 to help universities attract researchers who might otherwise pursue careers outside academia. The awards carry a research stipend of up to $100,000 annually for five years through a combination of federal and matching private funds.
Since 1985, 32 Caltech faculty members have received the award.
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