All names are highlitened. as follows
Faculty
People with a Ph.D (postdocs, lecturers, etc)
Students and people I could not find evidence of having a Ph.D on google.

Number of winners
Faculty   37                                                                                                                            
Postdocs 15                                                
Students  2     

The most senior autors of the awarded papers were
Faculty   28                                                       
Postdocs 5            
Students 1         [That's me]

Papers by academic afiliation of the autors

Single Faculty Papers       14                                                        
Single postdoc                    5          
Single Student                    1    [That's me]
Faculty and student            1  
Faculty and postdoc           6           
Several Faculty and more  7              
Student and postdoc           0
Several students                 0

1.$3,500 -The String Coupling Accelerates the Expansion of the Universe by
 John Ellis*,
Nikolaos E. Mavromatos+,
Dimitri V. Nanopoulos#;
 *TH Division, Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; +Theoretical
Physics, Physics Department, Kingâ~@~Ys College London, Strand WC2R 2LS, UK; #George P.
and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX 77843, Astroparticle Physics Group, (HARC), Mitchell
Campus, Woodlands, TX 77381, Academy of Athens, Division of Natural Sciences, 28
Panepistimiou Avenue, Athens 10679, Greece.

2.$1,000 -Does Inflation Provide Natural Initial Conditions for the Universe? by
Sean M. Carroll
Jennifer Chen
 Enrico Fermi Institute, Department of
Physics, and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago,
5640 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637.

3.$750 -Gravity from Local Lorentz Violation by
V. Alan Kostelecký*
Robertus Potting+,
*Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405;
+CENTRA, Physics Department, FCT, Universidade do Algarve, 8000 Faro, Portugal.

4.$500 -Gravity-Wave Detectors as Probes of Extra Dimensions by
Chris Clarkson [Lecturer]
Roy Maartens

Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of
Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, UK.

5.$250 -Classical and Quantum General Relativity: A New Paradigm by
Rodolfo Gambini*
Jorge Pullin+
*Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Iguá
4225, esq. Mataojo, Montevideo, Uruguay; +Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001.

Selected for Honorable Mention this year were (listed in alphabetical order)

1)  D.V. Ahluwalia-Khalilova;

2)  Giovanni Amelino-Camelia;

3) Vijay Balasubramanian
Vishnu Jejjala
Joan Simon;

4) Mihai Bondarescu;

5) Xavier Calmet
 Michael Graesser
 Stephen D.H. Hsu;

6) Saulo Carneiro;

7) F.I. Cooperstock;

8) F. de Felice;

9)  Cedric Deffayet;

10) Alessandro Fabbri
Jose Navarro-Salas;

11) G.W. Gibbons
Don N. Page
C.N. Pope;

12) Yuan K. Ha;

13) Veronika E. Hubeny
 Mukund Rangamani
 Simon F. Ross;

14)  Viqar Husain
  Oliver Winkler;

15)  Mark  G. Jackson;

16)  David W. Kraft;

17) Jnanadeva Maharana;

18)  M.D. Maia;

19) Hrvoje NikoliÄ~G;

20) T. Padmanabhan
 Fabrizio Pinto [former faculty, now CEO]


21)  Sanjeev S. Seahra;

22)  M. P. Silverman;

23)  C. Sivaram;

24)  Dejan Stojkovic
Glenn D. Starkman
Fred C. Adams

25) John Swain

26)  Daniel R. Terno

27) Paul S. Wesson;

28) G.Z. Xie
 Hong-Tao Liu

29 Winfried Zimdahl.