Five Caltech faculty members have been selected to receive the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award starting this year. CAREER awards, the NSF’s most prestigious awards for junior faculty members, are designed to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding teacher-scholars. Awardees are chosen because they “exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations,” according to the NSF.