| McConnell, Nicholas James | Black hole masses in nearby brightest cluster galaxies | 2012 | University of California, Berkeley | GMOS-N | USA |
| Steele, Matthew M. | The nature of the [O III] emission line system in the black hole hosting globular cluster RZ2109 | 2012 | Michigan State University | GMOS-S | USA |
| Tang, Sumin | Exploring the Long-Term and Extreme Variability of Stars | 2012 | Harvard University | GMOS-N | USA |
| Barentine, John Caleb | The role of gas in galaxy evolution : infall, star formation, and internal structure | 2013 | The University of Texas at Austin | TEXES | USA |
| Berg, Danielle Amanda | True chemical abundances of galaxies in the nearby universe: a comparison of abundance methods, interstellar processes, and galaxy types | 2013 | University of Minnesota | GMOS-N | USA |
| Bian, Fuyan | Bright Z ~ 3 Lyman Break Galaxies in Deep Wide Field Surveys | 2013 | The University of Arizona | GMOS-N | USA |
| Bowler, Brendan Peter | Direct imaging search for planets around low-mass stars and spectroscopic characterization of young exoplanets | 2013 | University of Hawaii | NIFS+ALTAIR | USA |
| Graham, John F. | A study of Gamma-ray burst host galaxies | 2013 | The Johns Hopkins University | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Grier, Catherine J. | Active galactic nuclei: Masses and dynamics | 2013 | The Ohio State University | NIFS+ALTAIR | USA |
| Hermes, James Joseph, Jr. | Gravitational waves, pulsations, and more : high-speed photometry of low-mass, He-core white dwarfs | 2013 | The University of Texas at Austin | GMOS-N/GMOS-S | USA |
| Hoffmann, Samantha L. | Cepheid variables and their application | 2013 | Texas A&M University | GMOS-N | USA |
| Krug, Hannah Bowen | Neutral gas outflows and inflows in local AGN & high-z Lyman-alpha emitters in COSMOS | 2013 | University of Maryland | GNIRS | USA |
| 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 |
