First-Year Award

Physics student

The First-Year Award indicates recognition by the faculty for outstanding work in the department and related coursework.

Award Recipients
  • 2024: Mariam Khaduri and Brian Kendall
  • 2023: Zihan Li
  • 2022: Lui Blomberg, Jonathan Carranza Cortes and Lizzie Steilberg
  • 2021: Ben McClure and Georgia McSwain
  • 2020: Bonner Kirkland and Cian Bell
  • 2019: Isabel Shaffrey, Nolan Zunk and Emma Aldrich
  • 2018: Diala Al Shamasneh
  • 2017: Matthew Withers
  • 2016: Rossella Gabriele
  • 2015: Angel Vela de la Garza Evia
  • 2014: Eleni Timas and Madeline Zhang
  • 2013: Man Dai
  • 2012: Eric Schwen
  • 2011: Vincent Kim
  • 2010: Ali M. Hamed
  • 2009: Virginia Lovell and Franco Moiso Marin
  • 2008: Andrew Tessier
  • 2007: Joseph McDonald and Aparajita Singh
  • 2006: Shreya Durvasula
  • 2005: Jameson P. Graber
  • 2004: Alexander R. Miltenberger and Michael R. McErlean
  • 2003: Adam Bennett Jarczyk and Rares Trocan
  • 2002: Thomas Trentman
  • 2001: Kemal Levi
  • 2000: David Russell Hicks and Elizabeth P. Townsend
  • 1999: Elizabeth Anne Nacozy
  • 1998: Jennifer R. Strawbridge and Charles Tyler Green
  • 1997: Brian Jeffrey Eutermoser, William Alexander Kanner, Ansley Carnochan Miller and Emilie Beth Wiesner
  • 1996: Laura Beth Goodwin and Charles Drake Leddy
  • 1995: John Joseph Thrall
  • 1994: Torsten Frederic Chase and Nathan Edward Hottle
  • 1993: Graig Alan Fantuzzi and Justin Stefanon