FPA Distinguished Career Awards have been given annually since 1987 to recognize individuals who have made distinguished lifelong career contributions that have benefited fusion energy development.

2017 Distinguished Career Awards will be presented to Steve Cowley (UKAEA), Farrokh Najmabadi (UCSD), and Stewart Prager (Princeton U.)

Steve Cowley is recognized for "your many years of dedication to advancing the prospects for fusion power" and especially "for your decades of outstanding career contributions as a scientist and your role as an effective spokesperson bringing the fusion message to other scientists, to lay audiences and to politicians worldwide".

Farrokh Najmabadi is recognized for "your many years of dedication to advancing the prospects for fusion power" and especially "for your decades of outstanding career contributions as a scientist and leader of fusion power plant studies that have provided perspective on the requirements for future commercial fusion electrical power plants".

Stewart Prager is recognized for "your many years of dedication to advancing the prospects for fusion power" and especially "for your decades of outstanding career contributions as a scientist, educator, manager, and advisor on all aspects of plasma physics, fusion energy and fusion policy".

FPA Leadership Awards have been given annually since 1980 to recognize persons who have shown outstanding leadership qualities in accelerating the development of fusion as a commercial power source.

2017 Leadership Awards will be presented to Bernard Bigot (ITER Organization) and (jointly) to Valeri Goncharov and Craig Sangster (U. Rochester).

Bernard Bigot is recognized for "the leadership you are providing to ITER, the most challenging project in the history of the world fusion effort" and especially for "the management and political skills you are bringing to this historic international venture".

Valeri Goncharov and Craig Sangster are recognized (jointly) for 'the leadership you are providing for direct-drive inertial fusion, including your pioneering work on the hydro-equivalent implosion campaign on OMEGA" and especially for "the leadership you have been providing to efforts to ensure a close collaboration between experiments and design/theory".

FPA Excellence in Fusion Engineering Awards have been given annually since 1987, in memory of MIT Professor David J. Rose, to recognize persons in the relatively early part of their careers who have shown both technical accomplishment and potential to become exceptionally influential leaders in the fusion field.

2017 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Awards will be presented to Chris Holcomb (LLNL, assigned to General Atomics) and to Adam Sefkow (U. Rochester).

Chris Holcomb is recognized for "your scientific contributions to a range of topics, including diagnostics for plasma current profile measurements and external heating options for controlling tokamak current profiles; and the leadership you are providing to national and international efforts directed toward developing the physics basis for achieving steady-state tokamak operations".

Adam Sefkow is recognized for "your many scientific contributions on a range of topics, including magneto-inertial fusion, short-pulse and long-pulse laser-plasma interaction physics, and intense charged-particle beam transport; and the leadership you are providing toward establishing predictive capability through your collaborations with experiments at all three of the nation's flagship high-energy-density facilities."

It is planned to present the awards at Fusion Power Associated 38th annual meeting and symposium, December 6-7 in Washington, DC. A list of previous recipients and information on the annual meeting is posted at http://fusionpower.org .