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| Year | Name | Fellowship institution | Current (or last known) position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Or Graur | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) |
| 2014 | Julia Kamenetzky | University of Arizona | Assistant Professor of Physics, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT |
| 2012 | Kat Barger | University of Notre Dame | Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Texas Christian University |
| 2012 | Gail Zasowski | The Ohio State University and Johns Hopkins University | Assistant Professor at the University of Utah |
| 2010 | Kathy Cooksey | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Associate Professor, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawai`i at Hilo |
| 2010 | Zachariah Burke Etienne | University of Illinois | Assistant Professor of Mathematics, West Virginia University |
| 2010 | Joseph Gelfand | New York University | Assistant Professor of Physics at NYU AD |
| 2010 | Christian Johnson | University of California, Los Angeles | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences |
| 2010 | Carl Melis | University of California San Diego | Associate Research Scientist, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego |
| 2010 | Meg Schwamb | Yale University | Academia Sinica Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics at Acadmia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2009 | Benjamin Brown | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Assistant Professor at University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2009 | Catherine Espaillat | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Boston University |
| 2009 | Eilat Glikman | Yale University | Assistant Professor Physics, Middlebury College |
| 2009 | Sarah Hansen | University of California Santa Cruz | Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group |
| 2009 | Ilya Mandel | Northwestern University/MIT | Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Birmingham |
| 2009 | Stella Offner | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor of Astronomy |
| 2008 | Bethany Cobb | University of California, Berkeley | Assistant Professor of Honors and Physics, George Washington University |
| 2008 | David Lai | UC Santa Cruz | Analytic Scientist, FICO |
| 2008 | Makenzie Lystrup | Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder | Director of Space Sciences, Ball Aerospace |
| 2008 | Karín Menéndez-Delmestre | Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, California | Professor of Astronomy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| 2008 | Jeremiah Murphy | University of Washington | Assistant Professor, Florida State University |
| 2008 | John Wisniewski | University of Washington | Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma |
| 2007 | Gaspar Bakos | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, Princeton University |
| 2007 | Joseph Gelfand | New York University | Assistant Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi |
| 2007 | Eric Hallman | University of Colorado | Research Scientist, Tech-X Corporation |
| 2007 | Joseph Hennawi | University of California, Berkeley | Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy |
| 2007 | John Asher Johnson | University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy | Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University |
| 2007 | Rachel Kuzio de Naray | University of California, Irvine | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Georgia State University |
| 2007 | Marshall Perrin | UCLA | Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute |
| 2006 | Marcel Agüeros | Columbia University | Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University |
| 2006 | Peter Frinchaboy | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Texas Christian Univ. (TCU) |
| 2006 | Christopher Groppi | University of Arizona | Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University |
| 2006 | DeWayne Halfen | University of Arizona | Assistant Astronomer, University of Arizona |
| 2006 | Thomas Renbarger | University of California San Diego | Physics Instructor, Foothill College |
| 2006 | Tamara Rogers | High Altitude Observatory | Lecturer, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University |
| 2006 | David Rothstein | Cornell University | Open-Source Web Developer and Drupal 7 Core Co-Maintainer |
| 2006 | Kurtis A. Williams | University of Texas at Austin | Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University Commerce |
| 2006 | Andrew Zentner | Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago | Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2005 | Jeffrey Bary | University of Virginia | Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University |
| 2005 | Matthew Browning | University of California, Berkeley | Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Exeter |
| 2005 | Sukanya Chakrabarti | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 2005 | Scott Dahm | California Institute of Technology | Support Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory |
| 2005 | Daniel Kocevski | University of California, Berkeley | Astrophysics Research Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 2005 | Nate McCrady | UCLA | Associate Professor, University of Montana |
| 2005 | Erik Rosolowsky | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Alberta |
| 2005 | Kim-Vy Tran | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Professor, University of Zürich |
| 2004 | Héctor G. Arce | American Museum of Natural History | |
| 2004 | Kelle Cruz | American Museum of Natural History | Spitzer Fellow, California Institute of Technology |
| 2004 | Joshua Faber | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Associate Professor of Mathematics, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 2004 | Dragan Huterer | University of Chicago | Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Michigan |
| 2004 | Sheila Kannappan | University of Texas at Austin | Associate Professor, University of North Carolina |
| 2004 | Douglas C. Leonard | California Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, San Diego State University |
| 2004 | M. Virginia McSwain | Yale University | Associate Professor, Lehigh University |
| 2004 | Travis Metcalfe | High Altitude Observatory, NCAR | |
| 2004 | Henry Roe | California Institute of Technology | |
| 2004 | Henry Roe | California Institute of Technology | Deputy Director, Gemini Observatory |
| 2003 | Joseph Barranco | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB) & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, San Francisco State University |
| 2003 | John Feldmeier | Case Western Reserve University and NOAO | Assistant Professor, Youngstown State |
| 2003 | Rose Finn | University of Massachusetts | Assistant Professor, Siena College |
| 2003 | Jennifer L. Hoffman | University of California at Berkeley | Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Denver |
| 2003 | Anne Metevier | University of California, Santa Cruz | Lecturer, Sonoma State University, and Consultant, Center for Adaptive Optics Professional Development Program |
| 2003 | Katherine Rhode | Wesleyan University and Yale University | Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Indiana University |
| 2003 | Jessica Rosenberg | University of Colorado and Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, George Mason University |
| 2003 | Jennifer Sokoloski | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Columbia University | |
| 2002 | Philip Arras | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (UCSB) | Assistant Professor, U. Virginia |
| 2002 | Christopher J. Conselice | Caltech | Lecturer, University of Nottingham |
| 2002 | Eric Gawiser | Yale University | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University |
| 2002 | Anthony Gonzalez | University of Florida | Assistant Professor, University of Florida |
| 2002 | Sera Markoff | MIT | Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam |
| 2002 | Jon M. Miller | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan |
| 2002 | Andrew Sheinis | University of California at Santa Cruz | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin |
| 2002 | Aparna Venkatesan | University of Colorado, Boulder | Assistant Professor, U. San Francisco |
| 2001 | Kim Coble | University of Chicago and Adler Planetarium | Assistant professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Physics, Chicago State University |
| 2001 | Kristy Dyer | National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro | |
| 2001 | Brenda Frye | Princeton University | Lecturer, Dublin City University (Ireland) |
| 2001 | Eric Hooper | University of Texas, Austin | Asst. Professor, U. Wisconsin |
| 2001 | Denise Hurley-Keller | Case Western Reserve University | Case Western Reserve University |
| 2001 | Kelsey Johnson | University of Wisconsin and NRAO, Socorro | Hubble Fellow, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia |
| 2001 | Brian Keating | Caltech | Assistant Professor, Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego |
| 2001 | Dara Norman | Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory | NOAO Asst. Scientist |
| 2001 | Don Smith | University of Michigan | Assistant Professor, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC |
| 2001 | Josh Winn | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | Assistant Professor, MIT |