Department of Physics Annual Student Awardsupdated 10/12/2012

UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS

GRADUATE AWARDS

 

Undergraduate Awards

The following undergraduate award recipients for the 2011-12 academic year were announced in September 2012.

  • The Malcolm Cotton Brown Award
  • The Philip Morse Memorial Award
  • The Joel Matthew Orloff Award
  • The 2012 Sigma Pi Sigma Inductees
  • The 2012 Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

  •     Other Undergraduate Honors & Awards

    • P. Bryan Changala (SB '12, Physics & Chemistry) and Nityan L. Nair (SB '13) were named 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars, a premier distinction for mathematics, science, and engineering undergraduates nationwide. Each four-year U.S. institution is permitted only four nominees, with the award based on academic merit. The scholarship, given annually to several hundred students by the Goldwater Foundation, provides $7,500 for each remaining year of college.
    • Taylor Jay (SB '12, Thesis Supervisor: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano) was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship as of Fall 2012.
    • Lauren Kuntz (SB ’13, Thesis Supervisor: Martin Zwierlein) received the NCAA Elite 89 Award for Indoor Track and Field. The award is given to the student-athletes with the highest cumulative grade point average competing at the final site for each of the NCAA's 89 championships. Lauren also was named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Track & Field/Cross Country Team.
    • Cameron McCord (SB '13, Physics & Nuclear Engineering) was awarded a 2012 Harry S. Truman Scholarship by the U.S. Treasury Department. Created by Congress in 1975, the award provides $30,000 for graduate study in preparation for careers in government or the non-profit sector.
    • Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (SB '14, Thesis Supervisor: Markus Klute) was named a "Lindau Nobel Young Researcher" and invited to attend the July 2012 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany.
    • Stephen Serene (SB '12) was named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Track & Field/Cross Country Team.
    • P. Bryan Changala (SB '12, Physics & Chemistry) was named a 2012 Burchard Scholar for demonstrating excellence in some aspect of the humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as in science and engineering.
    • Anna Ho (SB '14) was named a 2012 Burchard Scholar for demonstrating excellence in some aspect of the humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as in science and engineering.
    • Elizabeth Toller (SB '14) was named a 2012 Burchard Scholar for demonstrating excellence in some aspect of the humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as in science and engineering.

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Graduate Awards

The following graduate award recipients for the 2010-11 academic year were announced in September 2011.

  • The Barrett Prize
  • The Buechner Student Teaching Prize
  • The Martin Deutsch Student Award
  • The Henry Kendall Teaching Award
  • The Andrew M. Lockett III Memorial Fund Award
  • The Sergio Vazquez Prize

  •     Other Graduate Honors & Awards

    • Francesco D'Eramo (Theoretical Physics. Thesis supervisors: Hong Liu, Krishna Rajagopal, Jesse Thaler) was selected by the University of California, Berkeley, for a 2012-2015 Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship.
    • Joshua Dillon (Astrophysics. Thesis supervisor: Max Tegmark) and Rebecca Levinson (Astrophysics. Thesis supervisor: Paul Schechter) received Graduate Student Awards to attend the July 2012 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany.
    • Georgia Karagiorgi (Experimental High Energy Physics. Thesis supervisor: Janet Conrad) received the American Physical Society's 2012 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics.
    • Mark Ku (Atomic Physics. Thesis supervisor: Martin Zwierlein) received the Best Experimental Paper Award from the DARPA Optical Lattice Emulator Program.
    • Daniel Roberts (Center for Theoretical Physics) received a Fall 2011 Graduate Fellowship Award from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. Given to students judged to be "exceptionally talented and creative young innovators," the fellowship provides an award of up to $250,000.
    • Leslie Rogers (Astrophysics, Thesis supervisor: Sara Seager) was one of 17 recipients nationwide to receive a 2012-2015 Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship. Leslie will study super-Earth and sub-Neptune exoplanets with Prof. John Johnson at the California Institute of Technology.
    • Monika Schleier-Smith (Atomic Physics, Thesis supervisor: Vladan Vuletic) was one of three Hertz Fellows awarded a 2011 Thesis Prize for "most outstanding doctoral dissertation... for overall excellence and potential impact for application in the real world."
    • Leo C. Stein (Astrophysics, Thesis supervisor: Scott Hughes) was one of 12 recipients nationwide to receive a 2012-2015 Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship. Leo will be based at Cornell University, where he'll continue his studies of black holes, the early Universe, and other systems that are potential probes of strong-field gravity.
    • Alex Zylstra (Plasma Physics, Thesis supervisor: Richard Petrasso) received a National Ignition Facility (NIF) Directorate Award from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for his work on proton spectroscopy of inertial confinement fusion implosions. Alex also earned the Best Student Poster Award at the 2012 NIF User Group Conference, February 2012.

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