| Troutman, Matthew R. | Observing carbon monoxide in circumstellar disks | 2010 | Clemson University | PHOENIX | USA |
| Andrews, Jennifer Erin | A Comprehensive Study of Dust Formation and Evolution in Core Collapse Supernovae | 2011 | Louisiana State University | GMOS-S | USA |
| Bayliss, Matthew | Broadband photometry of 105 Giant Arcs: redshift distribution constraints and implications for giant arc statistics | 2011 | University of Chicago | GMOS-N | USA |
| D'Andrea, Christopher Brian | Testing supernova cosmology and progenitor effects with the SDSS-II supernova survey | 2011 | University of Pensylvania | GMOS-S | USA |
| Guha Niyogi, Suklima | Using infrared observations of circumstellar dust around evolved stars to test dust formation hypotheses | 2011 | University of Missouri - Columbia | MICHELLE | USA |
| Indriolo, Nicholas | Investigating the cosmic-ray ionization rate in the galactic interstellar medium through observations of H3+ | 2011 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | PHOENIX | USA |
| Kasliwal, Mansi M. | Bridging the gap: elusive explosions in the local universe | 2011 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N/GMOS-S/NIRI | USA |
| Kennedy, Catherine R. | The history of chemical enrichment and the sites of early nucleosynthesis: CNO abundances of galactic carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars | 2011 | Michigan State University | GMOS-S/GMOS-N | USA |
| Kruger, Andrew James | Infrared Spectroscopy and Young Stellar Objects: Characterizing the Dust and Gas in Circumstellar Disks | 2011 | University of California Davis | PHOENIX/TRECS | USA |
| Mehner, Andrea | Exploring and Modeling High-excitation Emission in the Ejecta and the Wind of Eta Carinae | 2011 | University of Minnesota | GMOS-S | USA |
| Nielsen, Eric Ludwig | On the road to imaging extrasolar planets: | 2011 | The University of Arizona | NIRI+ALTAIR/NICI | USA |
| Perley, Daniel Alan | The diverse environments of Gamma-ray bursts | 2011 | University of California, Berkeley | GMOS-N/GMOS-S/NIRI | USA |
| Schlieder, Joshua Edward | New low-mass members of nearby young moving groups | 2011 | State University of New York at Stony Brook | PHOENIX | USA |
| Schwamb, Megan E. | Beyond Sedna: probing the distant solar systems | 2011 | California Institute of Technology | GMOS-N | USA |
| Skemer, Andrew | High spatial resolution mid-infrared studies of planetary systems | 2011 | The University of Arizona | MICHELLE/TRECS | USA |
| Tobin, John J. | Morphologically complex protostellar envelopes: structure and kinematics | 2011 | The University of Michigan | NIRI | USA |
| Bilikova, Jana | Dust disks around hot white dwarfs and central stars of planetary nebulae | 2012 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | NIRI/MICHELLE | USA |
| Caballero-nieves, Saida | A tale of two telescopes: Taking a closer look at the multiplicity properties of massive stars in Cygnus | 2012 | Georgia State University | NIRI+ALTAIR | USA |
| Crabtree, Kyle Nicholas | Chemical physics and astrochemistry of H+3 and sub Doppler mid infrared spectroscopy of molecular ions | 2012 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | PHOENIX | USA |
| Liskowsky, Joseph Paul | Planet formation in transition disks: modeling, spectroscopy, and theory | 2012 | Clemson University | PHOENIX | USA |
