Amy Wagoner Johnson received her Master of Science and Ph. D. in Engineering from Brown University. Now she is an assistant professor in the University of Illinois Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and an affiliate faculty in the Department of Bioengineering and the Institute for Genomic Biology. Since 2003 she has been an affiliate faculty member in the Beckman Institute and a member of the Autonomous Materials Systems Group.
Honors: Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, UIUC, 2009; Honorable Mention for the 2009 Early Career Faculty Fellow Award from The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society, 2009; Alice L. Jee Memorial Award, Sun Valley Workshop on Skeletal Tissue Biology, August 2008; Research featured in NCSA news magazine, ACCESS. “Bone Builder” Vol 21 No 2, Summer 2008; Research featured on front page of Daily Illini, “Professor Develops Bone Implant, Synthetic Scaffold Boosts Regrowth, Restores Function,” December 11, 2008; Paper listed at the Top 10 most downloaded Biomaterials (IF 5.196) papers, June 27, 2007;GANN Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1996-1998; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Xi; American Society for Materials (ASM) Scholar, 1995; Fontana Scholarship, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1993-1994; Society of Women Engineers/Central Intelligence Agency Scholarship, 1993-1994.
