Dr. Nelson Max has been awarded the Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, the ACM/SIGGRAPH lifetime achievement award. He was honored in recognition of his work in pioneering scientific visualization, his deep technical contributions, and of his generous participation in the encouragement and stimulation of ideas and intellectual exchange in computer graphics.

Aaron Lefohn (Ph.D. in June 2006) has been awarded the "Best Doctoral Thesis" from the Computer Science Department at UC Davis. His thesis, entitled "Glift: Generic Data Structures for Graphics Hardware" has had significant impact throughout the computer graphics community. He is a student of John Owens

Researchers in IDAV receive prestigious Department of Energy SciDAC II Awards. Kwan-Liu Ma is the Principal Investigator for the SciDAC Institute for Ultrascale Visualization, and Ken Joy is co-PI of the Visualization and Analysis Center for Emerging Technologies (VACET), both supported through the SciDAC Program. Professor's John Owens, Nelson Max, and Bernd Hamann are also supported through these awards.