On October 23, 2000, President Clinton named Philip Ashton - Rickardt, PhD — assistant professor
of pathology, a member
of the Ben May Institute, and a researcher in the Gwen Knapp Center at the University
of Chicago — as one
of 59 young researchers to receive the fifth annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals at the
outset of their independent
research careers.
By making this
research visible we can identify interlopers, emerging artists at the
outset of well - recognized
careers, artists who have fallen away, and desktop design treatments we might rather forget.