Each year, the editor and associate editors of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics recognize the three best papers among those published in the Transactions during the preceding calendar year. This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the multidisciplinary field of power electronics. This year, the paper "Performance Evaluation of Bridgeless PFC Boost Rectifiers" coauthored by Laszlo Huber, Yungtaek Jang, and Milan M. Jovanovic was selected for the best paper award among 313 papers published in the Transactions on Power Electronics during year 2008. On behalf of DPEL, Milan M. Jovanovic received the award at the First IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) held from September 20 to 24, 2009, in San Jose, CA.