Prashant Jain, a member of the Nanoelectronics and Nanomaterials Group and professor of chemistry, is one of seven recipients of the Beckman Young Investigator Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. This highly competitive award of $750,000 over four years is "intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science." Jain received the award for his work on nanoscale imaging of catalysts in action.