Graduate Student Sarah Willson wins 2024 Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award from the American Vacuum Society
Sarah Wilson, a graduate student from the Steven Sibener lab, has won the 2024 Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award from the American Vacuum Society for her thesis research on superconducting materials. The award is one of the highest honors given to a female graduate student for their doctoral research.
AVS is an international community of scientists, engineers and instrument manufacturers, which strives to promote research and communicate knowledge in the important areas of surface, interface, vacuum, and thin film science and technology for the advancement of humankind.
The Nellie Yeoh Whetten Award was established in 1989 to recognize and encourage excellence by women in graduate studies in the sciences and technologies of interest to AVS.
The award consists of a cash award and a certificate awarded at the National Meeting of the AVS this fall.
Wilson’s award completes a “hat trick” for the Sibener Group: the 2022 Whetten Award was won by Julia Murphy for her work in polymer dynamics and Rebecca Thompson won also won the award in 2019 for her work on the chemistry of condensed ices.