Department of Physics Annual Student Awardsupdated 02/29/2012

UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS

GRADUATE AWARDS

 

Undergraduate Awards

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

  • The Barrett Prize
  • The Malcolm Cotton Brown Award
  • The Philip Morse Memorial Award
  • The Joel Matthew Orloff Award
  • The 2011 Sigma Pi Sigma Inductees
  • The 2011 Phi Beta Kappa Inductees

  •     Other Undergraduate Honors & Awards

    • Christopher Boyce (SB '11, Chemical Engineering & Physics) was named a 2011 Gates Cambridge Scholar to support graduate study at the University of Cambridge.
    • Linda Xinlin Chen (SB '12, Physics & Philosophy) was named a 2011 Burchard Scholar for demonstrating excellence in some aspect of the humanities, arts, and social sciences, as well as in science and engineering.
    • Raghu Mahajan (SB ’11, Physics & Mathematics) was named a 2011 Gates Cambridge Scholar to support graduate study at the University of Cambridge.
    • Nathaniel Thomas (SB '11, Physics & Mathematics) won a Marshall Scholarship to pursue graduate study in mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
    • Aditi Verma (SB '12, Nuclear Engineering & Physics) was named a 2011 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 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

    • Alexei Bylinskii (Atomic Physics. Thesis supervisor: Vladan Vuletic) was awarded a National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship.
    • Christopher Chudzicki (Condensed Matter Theory. Thesis supervisor: not yet determined) received the Leroy Apker Award of the American Physical Society.
    • Katherine Deck (Astrophysics. Thesis supervisor: Matthew Holman) was awarded a 2011 National Science Foundation Fellowship.
    • Benjamin Jones (Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics. Thesis supervisor: Janet Conrad) received a 2011 URA (Universities Research Association) Visiting Scholar Award from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
    • Matthew Landreman (Plasma Physics. Thesis supervisor: Peter Catto) received the Graduate Student Poster Award at the 2010 Sherwood Fusion Theory Conference.
    • Brian Munroe (Plasma Physics. Thesis supervisor: Richard Temkin) was the first-place Student Poster Award winner at the 2011 Particle Accelerator Conference.
    • Eric Oelker (Astrophysics. Thesis supervisor: Nergis Mavalvala) was awarded a U. S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellowship.
    • John Rutherford (Astrophysics. Thesis supervisor: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano) was awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship.
    • Kazuhiro Terao (Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics. Thesis supervisor: Janet Conrad) was awarded a Chateaubriand Fellowship.
    • Sarah Trowbridge (SB '08, Physics) (Astrophysics. Thesis supervisor: Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano) was awarded a Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship by NASA; and as head coach of the MIT Women's Gymnastics Team, led them to win the 2011 NAIGC (National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs) national championship.
    • Eugene Yurtsev (Biophysics. Thesis supervisor: Jeff Gore) was awarded a 2011 National Science Foundation Fellowship.

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