The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presidential Faculty Fellows Program (PFF). The award gave minimum of $25,000 a year for five years from NSF, with the possibility of up to $100,000 annually if the PYI obtained matching funds from industry. The program was criticized in 1990 as not being the best use of NSF funds in an era of tight budgets.PYI award recipients include: Paul Alivisatos, chemistry Peter B. Armentrout, chemistry, 1984 David P. Anderson, computer science Prithviraj Banerjee, computer systems architecture, 1987 Mary Beckman, linguistics, 1988 Mladen Bestvina, mathematics, 1988 Rogers Brubaker, sociology, 1994 Stephen Z.D. Cheng, polymer science, 1991 Bruce Donald, computational biology, 1989 David L. Donoho, statistics, 1985 Lin Fanghua, mathematics, 1989 Eric Fossum, electrical engineering, 1986 Jennifer Freyd, psychology Elaine Fuchs, cell biology Gerald Fuller, chemical engineering Huajian Gao, materials science Leslie Greengard, advanced comp research program and computational mathematics, 1990 David Hillis, evolutionary biology, 1987 John M. Hollerbach, haptics and tactile perception, 1984 Kathleen Howell, astronomy, 1984 David B. Kaplan, physics, 1990 Mehran Kardar, physics, 1989 Karen Kavanagh, physics, 1991 Vijay Kumar (roboticist), 1991 James W. LaBelle, physics, 1990 Kevin K. Lehmann, chemistry, 1985 Charles E. Leiserson, computer science, 1985 John Edwin Luecke, mathematics, 1992 Eric Mazur, physics Mark McMenamin, geology, 1988 Fulvio Melia, astrophysics Carolyn Meyers, chemical engineering Robert F. Murphy (computational biologist), 1983 Randy Pausch, computer science Ken Perlin, computer graphics, 1991 Ronald T. Raines, chemical biology Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist, 1992 Ares J. Rosakis, 1985 Karl Rubin, mathematics Sunil Saigal, civil engineering, 1990 Peter Salovey, psychology Robert Sapolsky, neuroendocrinology Philip B. Stark, statistics, 1989 Michael Steer, electrical engineering, 1986 Steven Strogatz, mathematics, 1990 ?va Tardos, algorithm analysis Masaru Tomita, computational biology, 1988 Jeffrey Vitter, computer science, 1985 Martin Yarmush, biochemical engineering, 1988 Alex Zettl, physics, 1984 Steven Zimmerman, chemistry? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
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