| Levitan, David B. | Finding needles in the haystack: a search for AM CVn systems using the Palomar Transient Factory | 2013 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Li, Dan | High-angular resolution mid-infrared study of disks and environments of young stars | 2013 | University of Florida | MICHELLE/TRECS | USA |
| Lopez Rodriguez, Enrique | A total and polarized infrared flux view of the AGN clumpy torus | 2013 | University of Florida | NIRI/MICHELLE/TRECS | USA |
| Chilcote, Jeffrey Kaplan | Direct observation of extrasolar planets and the development of the gemini planet imager integral field spectrograph | 2014 | University of California, Los Angeles | GPI | USA |
| Fong, Wen-fai | Unveiling the progenitors of short-duration Gamma-ray bursts | 2014 | Harvard University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S/NIRI | USA |
| Mace, Gregory Nathan | Investigating low-mass binary stars and brown dwarfs with near-infrared spectroscopy | 2014 | University of California Los Angeles | GNIRS | USA |
| Merlo, Matthew John | Investigation of MIR properties and tori of radio loud AGN | 2014 | Florida Institute of Technology | MICHELLE/TRECS | USA |
| Morgan, Adam Nolan | Classification, follow-up, and analysis of Gamma-ray bursts and their early-time near-infrared/optical afterglows | 2014 | University of California, Berkeley | GMOS-N/GMOS-S/NIRI | USA |
| Sanders, Nathan Edward | Core-collapse Supernova Progenitors in the Era of Untargeted Transient Searches | 2014 | Harvard University | GMOS-N | USA |
| Secrest, Nathan J. | Supermassive black holes in bulgeless and dwarf galaxies: a multi-wavelength investigation | 2014 | George Mason University | GMOS-N | USA |
| Shih, Hsin-Yi | Radio jet driven outflows: an investigation of extended emission line regions around radio loud AGNs | 2014 | University of Hawaii | GMOS-N | USA |
| Bailey, Vanessa Perry | Adaptive optics for directly imaging planetary systems | 2015 | The University of Arizona | NICI | USA |
| Barber, Sara D. | Planetary remnants around white dwarf stars | 2015 | University of Oklahoma | NIRI | USA |
| Diamond, Tiara R. | Imprints of explosion conditions on late-time spectra of type Ia supernovae | 2015 | Florida State University | GNIRS | USA |
| Esposito, Thomas Matthew | Exploring planetary system evolution through high-contrast imaging | 2015 | University of California Los Angeles | GPI | USA |
| Lena, Davide | Aspects of supermassive black hole growth in nearby active galactic nuclei | 2015 | Rochester Institute of Technology | GMOS-S | USA |
| Mooley, Kunal P. | Exploring the dynamic radio sky: the search for slow transients with the VLA | 2015 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Patel, Brandon | Type Ia supernovae: their progenitors and use as cosmological probes | 2015 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | GMOS-N | USA |
| Rapson, Valerie Ann | Infrared investigations of the composition and structure of nearby protoplanetary disks | 2015 | Rochester Institute of Technology | GPI | USA |
| Reiter, Megan Ruth | Measuring the Physical Properties of Protostellar Outflows from Intermediate-Mass Stars in Feedback-Dominated Regions | 2015 | The University of Arizona | GeMS+GSAOI | USA |
