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Marshall Cleland Junior Investigator Award

About the Award

The CIRMS recognizes the importance of supporting the careers of young investigators working in the fields of ionizing radiation measurements and standards—they are our future! As such, in 1999, CIRMS First Vice President X. George Xu initiated a Junior Investigator Award program to highlight the research accomplishments of young investigators. 

In 2024, this award was renamed in honor of Dr. Marshall Cleland, the first CIRMS President and whose company sponsored the award for over 20 years.  Dr. Cleland was a respected physicist whose contributions to particle accelerator development, radiation measurement science, mentorship of early-career researchers, and service to CIRMS left a profound legacy.  His passion for nurturing the next generation of scientists continues through this award, which honors both his technical excellence and his commitment to community.

The program is open to any student from high school through postgraduate (i.e. within one year of terminal master’s or doctoral degree). The young investigators submit an essay describing their work and its relevance to the CIRMS mission which are scored by members of the CIRMS Executive Committee and the Caswell Fellows. The top-scoring abstracts receive a monetary prize and may be invited to give an oral presentation at the annual meeting. This program is made possible in part by the gracious financial support received from our sponsors.

Applications for the Marshall Cleland Award competition are accepted each year for the upcoming CIRMS annual meeting. Please visit the meeting website for details.

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Marshall Cleland (1926 - 2019)

Marshall Cleland Award Winners

2024
  • Dilara Turkel Agacik, State University of New York
  • John Stasko, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Haven Searcy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2023
  • Ahtesham Ullah Khan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • John Stasko, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Fei Wei, University of Central Florida
2022
  • Islam El Gamal, Carleton University, Canada
  • Rodi Surensoy, Carleton University, Canada
  • Samuel Ward, Oakland University
2021
  • Alexandra Bourgouin, National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB), Germany
  • Drew Carlton, University of Kentucky
  • Emily King, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2020
  • Daniel Alexander, Dartmouth College
  • Jacob Lambeck, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Felix Mathew, McGill University, Canada
  • Autumn Walter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2019
  • Alexandra Bourgouin, Carleton University, Canada
  • Emily King, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Irwin Tendler, Dartmouth College
  • Xiaoya (Judy) Wang, McGill University, Canada
2018
  • Alexandra Bourgouin, Carleton University, Canada
  • Kevin Mecadon, University of Maryland
  • Mary Peters, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Natalie Viscariello, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017
  • Manik Aima, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Alexandra Bourgouin, Carleton University, Canada
  • Susannah Hickling, McGill University, Canada
  • James Renaud, McGill University, Canada
2016
  • Manik Aima, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Khalid Gameil, Carleton University, Canada
  • Yvonne Roed, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Blake Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Kejia Yang, The University of Texas at Dallas
2015
  • Mitchell Carroll, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Travis Dietz, University of Maryland, College Park
  • Jon Hansen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Sameer Taneja, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2014/2013
  • Mitchell Carroll, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Kuan-Chih Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Cameron Maher, Texas A&M University
  • Dwayne Riley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Séverine Rossomme, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Steven Shaffer, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Anjali Srivastava, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Samantha Steele, State University of New York
  • Angela Weier, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Bennett Williams, University of Illinois
  • Yana Zlateva, McGill University, Canada
2012
  • Kevin Casey, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • John Michael Briceno, UTexas Health Science Center at San Antonio
  • Olivia Huang, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Fahima Islam, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Lisa Meyers, University of Cincinnati
  • Joshua Reed, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • James Renaud, McGill University, Canada
  • Dwayne Riley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Vaibhav Sinha, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2011
  • Austin Faught, The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Adam Paxton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Gina Paek, Chapman University
2010
  • Keith Hearon, Texas A&M University
  • Steven Horne, LLNL Nuclear Forensics Internship Program
  • Regina Kennedy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Charlotte Rambo, Texas A&M University
2009
  • Marina K. Chumakov, University of Maryland
  • Ryan Grant, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Jessica R. Snow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Walter Voit, Georgia Institute of Technology
2008
  • Regina Kennedy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Matthew Mille, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2007
  • Jianwei Gu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Arman Sarfehnia, McGill University, Canada
  • Sarah Scarboro, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Zachary Whetstone, University of Michigan
2006
  • Kimberly Burns, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Maisha Murry, University of Cincinnati
  • Karl Benjamin Richter, University of Minnesota
  • Reed Selwyn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2005
  • Eric Burgett, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Mark Furler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Andrew Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2004
  • Jennifer R. Clark, University of Kentucky
  • Stephen D. Davis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Carlos Rolddan, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
2003
  • Sheridan L. Griffin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Malcolm P. Heard, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
  • Shannon Miller-Helfinstine, Kent State University
  • Baodong Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2002
  • Wes Culberson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Ramazan Kizil, Penn State University
  • Dickerson Moreno, University of Missouri
  • Michael Shannon, Georgia Institute of Technology
2001
  • Matt Buchholz, Oregon State University
  • Michael Czayka, Kent State University
  • Bridgette Reniers, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Kurt Stump, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2000
  • Lesley Buckley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Peter Caracappa, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Scott Larsen, State University of New York
1999
  • Ahmet Bozkurt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Ariel Drogin, University of Kentucky
  • Kurt Marlow, Idaho State University
  • Oleg Povetko, Oregon State University
  • Jennifer Smilowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison