NSF CAREER Awards

NSF CAREER Award recipients

The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the federal agency’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty serving as academic role models in research and education.

Faculty honored with a CAREER Award are recognized for their potential as outstanding leaders in their field of research. With five award winners in 2023, Rowan University now has a record 15 CAREER Award winners on faculty.

Nicholas Whiting

Using magnetic resonance to study carbon-based quantum dots opens the door to developing new chemical sensing capabilities and biomedical applications.

Yong Chen

An interdisciplinary approach to examining the behavior of chromatin will lead to a better understanding of basic biology and disease, pointing the way toward potential therapeutics.

Andra Garner

Understanding uncertainty in projections will help scientists and others make more informed decisions about sea-level rise and its sensitivity to climate change drivers.

Sebastian Vega

When stored in traditional petri dishes, the special properties of mesenchymal stem cells decline over time. Designing better storage materials that mimic the human body could rapidly advance research.

Jason Heindl

Studying how Agrobacterium genetically engineers plants for its own survival may lead to discovering new methods of increasing food production and crop yields.