NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Ben Lev receives Best Presentation Award, NIST 2007 postdoctoral poster session.

Benjamin Safdi wins both a 2007-2008 Astronaut Scholarship, given to undergraduate students who exhibit motivation, imagination, and exceptional performance in their science or engineering major, and a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, given to outstanding undergraduates in mathematics, science, engineering, and computer science.

Jun Ye receives a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of lifetime achievements in research. As part of this award, Ye has been invited to spend up to a year working with colleagues at a research institution in Germany.

Jun Ye wins the 2007 Carl Zeiss Award for his outstanding applications of femtosecond frequency combs.

Jun Ye is awarded the American Physical Society's I. I. Rabi Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics for "advances in precision measurement, including techniques for stabilizing and measuring optical frequencies, controlling the phase of femtosecond laser pulses, and measuring molecular transitions."

Jun Ye is named Henri Sack Memorial Lecturer of Cornell University.

Jun Ye receives the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Samuel W. Stratton Award in recognition of his work on femtosecond comb technology, which merges time- and frequency-domain spectroscopic techniques. This new technology has laid the foundation for a new generation of optical atomic clocks.

Jun Ye receives William F. Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America for developing innovative spectroscopic techniques based on femtosecond optical frequency combs.

Jun Ye is elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Tanya Zelevinsky receives the Best Presentation Award, NIST 2006 postdoctoral poster session.

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Lewandowski receives Best Presentation Award, NIST 2005 postdoctoral poster session.

Jun Ye wins first prize in the Technological Innovations category of the Young Scholars Competition at the October 2005 Amazing Light Symposium in Berkeley, California.

Jun Ye is elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Jun Ye receives Arthur S. Flemming Award (Scientific Category, US Federal Government).

Jun Ye is named as a Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Jun Ye receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Jun Ye is selected as a Technology Review Magazine's TR100 Young Innovator.

Jun Ye receives a Gold Medal (Group) from the U.S. Department of Commerce for the co-development of the optical frequency comb.

Jun Ye receives the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America.