Below is a list of our Miller members who have recently received awards or who have been highlighted in the media. Also, the Miller Newsletters is another way to find out what is currently happening in our Miller Community.
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The 2025 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded to Ken Ribet (Miller Senior Fellow 2022-2025) for his 1976 Inventiones Mathematicae paper, "A modular construction of unramified p-extensions of Q(μp)." "Ribet's method," as it is called today, has since been applied repeatedly in major advances in Iwasawa theory, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture and Stark's conjectures. Its far-reaching impact continues to grow with time.
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Rohil Prasad (Miller Fellow 2023-2026) was awarded the 2024 Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians "for his contributions to symplectic topology and applications to the dynamics of area preserving maps, contact flows and Hamiltonian systems."
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David Britt (Visiting Miller Professor 2023) was recognized by the NC State University College of Sciences with the Distinguished Alumnus Award for his exceptional achievements and service that brought honor and distinction to the college.
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Aditi Lahiri (Visiting Miller Professor 2014) has been awarded a prestigious Synergy Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This comes in addition to her three Advanced Investigator Grants, already unprecedented at Oxford.
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Gabriel Orebi Gann (Miller Professor 2021-2022) recently won an Early Career award from the ICFA (International Committee for Future Accelerators).
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Jonathan Wolf (Miller Fellow 2024-2027) is a 2024 recipient of the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research from the AGU!
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Roland Burgmann (Miller Professor 2014, Executive Committee 2016-2020) is a 2024 recipient William Bowie Lecture from the AGU!
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Gibor Basri (Miller Professor 1997-1998) honored with the 2024 Arthur B.C. Walker II Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding achievements in astronomy and education by an African-American scientist.
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John Hartwig (Visiting Miller Professor 2009) and his team created a new laboratory process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products. The method that expalins how to break the plastics down much further to the level of essentially molecular puzzle pieces, which can be reconstructed into new plastics, was published in the journal Science.
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Next-generation CRISPR-based gene-editing therapies tested in clinical trials. “I'm hopeful that gene-editing therapies can start to become a new standard of care, transforming the landscape of modern medicine and improving countless lives," said Jennifer Doudna (Miller Senior Fellow 2017).
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Omar Yaghi (Visiting Miller Professor Fall 2009) pioneered materials that can harvest water from air.pioneered materials that can harvest water from air.
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Iwnetim Abate (Miller Fellow 2021-2024) won ISSI Young Scientist Award for energy materials. He is recognized for pioneering work on advanced materials in renewable energy technologies.
Abate was named Talented 12 by Chemical & Engineering News for engineering new electrode materials for energy applications.
Iwnetim Abate’s research group was awarded the Department of Energy, ARPA-E Award for extracting hydrogen from rocks.
Also, Abate was awarded the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant to support bold research projects across diverse areas of study, including a way to generate clean hydrogen from deep in the Earth.