
Awards and Honors
The School of Physics have received recognitition through the award of local, national, and international awards.
Faculty Awards and Honors
2015
- John Wise - College of Sciences Eric R. Immel Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Deirdre Shoemaker - College of Sciences Cullen-Peck Fellow
- Shina Tan - Junior Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) Award
- JC Gumbart - NSF CAREER Award
2014
- Walt de Heer - Reuters Most Cited Researcher Award
- Claire Berger - Reuters Most Cited Researcher Award
- Flavio Fenton - CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
- Daniel Goldman - NSF PECASE Award
- Mei-Yin Chou - APS Outstanding Referee
- Shina Tan - NSF CAREER Award
- Claire Berger - APS Fellow
- Michael Schatz - APS Fellow
- Deirdre Shoemaker - APS Fellow
- Elisa Riedo - APS Fellow
Postdoctoral Research Awards and Honors
- Ilija Uzelac - American Heart Association Fellowship
Graduate Student Awards and Honors
- Emily Alicea-Muñoz (2015) - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers
- Andrea Welsh (2015) - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers
- Yan-Yan "Claire" Ji (2015) - Summer Co-op at Boston Scientific
- Karan Jani (2015) - Sam Nunn Security Program Fellowship
- Perrin Schiebel (2014) - National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Daegene Koh (2014) - NSF East Asian and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI) Fellowship
Undergraduate Student Awards
- Forrest Kieffer (2015) - Nickelson-Sutherland Undergraduate Research Award
- Christopher Evans (2015) - H. Fukuyo Outstanding Physics Undergraduate Award
- Jeffrey Heningen (2014) - Nickelson-Sutherland Undergraduate Research Award
- Conner Herndon (2014) - Best Presentation at the SPS Zone 4 Meeting
- Forrest Kieffer (2014) - Goldwater Scholarship