Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA)

The OYRA Award is given annually to a physicist of Chinese ethnicity working in North America, Europe, or other regions outside Asia to encourage and to recognize the young researcher's contributions in physics. The Award carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,500.

Nomination

An OYRA candidate should be nominated by the Department Chair/Head of his/her institution (university, national and industrial labs) and should have received the Ph.D. degree within the past ten years. The following materials should be submitted to support the nomination:

1. A brief statement by the nominator describing the research work for which the candidate is nominated.
A resume and a list of major publications of the candidate.
Three letters of recommendation.
Seven identical sets of reprints (no more than three reprints per set) of the research based on which the candidate is nominated.

The deadline for the receipt of the nomination material is Feb 15, 2008. The nomination material should be sent directly to the Chair of the OCPA Awards Committee

Dr. C.-P. Yuan	yuan@pa.msu.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy	Tel: 1-517-355-9200 (ext-2135)
Michigan State University	Fax: 1-517-355-6661
3213 Biomedical Physical Sciences
East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

Winner

2008	Ho Bun Chan	Univ. of Florida	Bio & Citation	Web
2008	Feng Wang	Univ. of California, Berkeley	Bio & Citation	Web
2008	Congjun Wu	Univ. of California, San Diego	Bio & Citation	Web
2007	W. Vincent Liu	Univ. of Pittsburgh	Bio & Citation	Web
2006	Cheng Chin	Univ of Chicago	Bio & Citation	Web
2005	Luming Duan	Univ of Michigan	Bio & Citation	Web
2003-2004	Jonathan Feng	UC Irvine	Bio & Citation	Web
2003-2004	Hui Cao	Northwestern Univ	Bio & Citation	Web
2002-2003	Kun Yang	Florida State Univ	Bio & Citation	Web
2002-2003	Hoi-Kwong Lo	Univ of Toronto	Bio & Citation	Web
2002-2003	Pengcheng Dai	Univ of Tennessee	Bio & Citation	Web
2001-2002	Zhen Yao	Univ of Texas		Web
2000-2001	Chung-Pei Ma	UC Berkeley		Web
1999-2000	Wayne Hu	Univ of Chicago		Web
1998	Nai-Chang Yeh	Caltech		Web
1997	Zi Qiang Qiu	UC Berkeley		Web
1997	Rui Rui Du	Rice Univ		Web
1996	Hong Wen Jiang	UCLA		Web
1995	Wai Mo Suen	Washington Univ	Bio & Citation	Web
1994	Xiao-Gang Wen	MIT	Bio & Citation	Web
1994	Gang Xiao	Brown Univ	Bio & Citation	Web
1993	Zhi-Xun Shen	Stanford Univ	Bio & Citation	Web
1993	Terence Tai-Li Hwa	UC San Diego	Bio & Citation	Web
1992	Shou-Cheng Zhang	Stanford Univ	Bio	Web