Flygare Awards
To be eligible, nominees must have received their PhD between five and ten years ago, must have presented at least one previous talk at the Symposium, and must be available to deliver a lecture during a plenary session in the year they apply. Candidates will be evaluated based on their independent contributions relative to the time that has elapsed since their PhD.
The next Flygare Award Lectures will be presented at the 77th ISMS meeting (in 2024).
Nominations must include a CV, a one-page summary of the nominee's independent research contributions, three letters of recommendation (submitted separately). Self-nominations are encouraged, but nominations by senior molecular spectroscopists are equally welcome.
Past Flygare Award Winners
| Year | Winners | University |
| 2022 | Joseph Fournier | Washington University |
| 2022 | Brett McGuire | MIT |
| 2022 | Ha Vinh Lam Nguyen | University Paris-Est Créteil |
| 2019 | Chris Johnson | Stony Brook University |
| 2019 | Garry "Smitty" Grubbs, II | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| 2017 | Etienne Garand | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2017 | Jinjun Liu | University of Louisville |
| 2015 | Emilio J. Cocinero | Universidad del PaíVasco (UPV-EHU) |
| 2015 | Richard Dawes | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| 2015 | Susanna Widicus Weaver | Emory University |
| 2015 | Shanshan Yu | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |