AWARDS
The Eastern State Section offers three awards:
Irvin Glassman Young Investigator Lecture
This award recognizes a young investigator within seven years of their Ph.D. (and before tenure if in a tenure-track faculty appointment). The awardee gives an invited lecture at the Eastern States Technical Meeting.

Nominations open for 2020!
Nominations for the 6th Irvin Glassman Young Investigator Award and Lecture are requested by January 15, 2020 for the 2020 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute to be held March 8-11, 2020 on the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, SC. Additional information on the meeting is available at https://www.essci.org/conferences/.
At the time of the nomination due date, nominees must be a young investigator within seven years (degree received after Jan. 15th 2013) of their Ph.D. and, for tenure-track faculty appointments, the nominee must be untenured by the time of application. Nominations and/or self-nominations should consist of a nomination letter and CV for the nominee highlighting their contributions, including publications, in the combustion field. The nominee should be affiliated with an institution in the Eastern States at the time of the nomination. The awardee will receive waived registration, a travel award of up to $1000 to attend the ESS meeting, and a $500 honorarium to give the Irvin Glassman Lecture as one of the plenary or invited topical talks.
Please send nominations no later than January 15th, 2020 to the awards committee at c/o Wenting Sun.
Due January 15, 2020

Wenting Sun
The Effect of Ozone Addition on Combustion: What We Know and What We Don’t
2018

Jacqueline O'Connor
Use of Advanced Fuel Injection Strategies for Emissions Reduction in Diesel Engines
Pennsylvania State University
2016

Tanvir Farouk
Droplet Combustion: "Cool Flames" in Space?
University of South Carolina
2013

Tianfeng Lu
Chemical Explosive Mode Analysis for Computational Flame Diagnostics with Detailed Chemical Kinetics
University of Connecticut
2011
George H. Markstein Best Paper Award
This award recognizes the best paper based on the final extended abstracts submitted to the Eastern States Technical Meeting.
2018
Miad Karimi, Bradley Ochs, Wenting Sun, and Devesh Ranjan
Georgia Institute of Technology
Measurement of Methane Autoignition Delays in a Shock Tube under Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Conditions
2016
Sheng Yang, Abhishek Saha, Wenkai Liang, Fujia Wu and Chung K. Law
Princeton University
Extreme facilitation of flame propagation by turbulence through differential diffusion
2013
Kathryn R. Gosselin, William F. Carnell, Jr., and Michael W. Renfro
University of Connecticut
Formaldehyde fluorescence as a marker for scalar dissipation through local extinction
2011
Fujia Wu, Andrew P. Kelley and Chung K. Law
Princeton University
Laminar flame speeds of cyclohexane and mono-alkylated cyclohexanes at elevated pressures
Charles P. Fenimore Best Student Presentation
This award recognizes the best student presentation at the Eastern States Technical meeting based on nominations from session chairs.
2018
Jay A. Lefkowitz
Rowan University
Fuel Distillation Affects Spray Flame Blowout Thresholds
Advisor: Francis M. Haas
2016
Lara Backer
Cornell University
Numerical investigation into the auto-ignition of a multicomponent fuel spray
Advisor: Perrine Pepiot
2013
Jeffrey Santner
Princeton University
Evaluation of thermal radiation effects on apparent propagation rates of high pressure spherical flames
Advisor: Yiguang Ju
2011
Nicole J. Labbe
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reaction kinetics for TMEDA combustion with red fuming nitric acid
Advisor: Phillip R. Westmoreland, North Carolina State University