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Four faculty receive presidential career awards

Congratulations to four CU-Boulder faculty members who are among 96 U.S. researchers chosen by the White House as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE.
The recipients are, from left, assistant professors Cindy Regal, physics department, and Erin Furtak, School of Education; David Noone associate professor in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences department; and Rebecca Washenfelder, a scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).The PECASE awards are the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers.

CU-Boulder ranked second in the nation for universities receiving PECASE awards in 2012, behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which had five recipients this year.