Other Graduate Awards

Eberly College of Science Climate and Diversity Awards

2019 - Kallan Berglund
2018 - Kristen Dreyer and Eric Hudson
2017 - Randi Neshteruk
2015 - PAW (Physics and Astronomy Women)
2012 - Ashley DaSilva
2009 - second year Physics graduate students

Graduate Student Service Award

The award, established in 1991, recognizes a graduate student who has best combined high academic achievement with leadership in University or other public activities.

2023 - Unnati Akhouri, Emma Steinebronn
2022 - Sarka Blahnik, Unnati Akhouri, Fatemehsadat Fateminasrollahi
2021 - Kallan Berglund, Justin Rodriguez, Brett Green
2014 - Kathryne Sparks Woodle

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

2019 - Aishwarya Kumar (69th meeting)
2016 - Lucas Hackl (66th meeting)

MIT '35 Innovators under 35'

Dr. Abinhav Kandala (currently IBM staff member at Yorktown Heights) was recognized for his pioneering work quantum computing [Nature 549, 242 (2017); Nature 567, 491 (2019)].

Office of Science Graduate Student Research award

The Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories.

2016 - Kelly Malone (for research at Los Alamos National Lab).
2015 - Mark Dellostritto (for research at Oakridge National Research Lab).

Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics Award (i-Progress)

2016 - Alan Coleman (for research visit to the Karlsruher Institut for Technology)

Chateaubriand STEM Fellow

2019 - William Faugno
2016 - Alan Coleman

Bergman-Wheeler Prize of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation

2010 - Victor Taveras

Juergen Ehlers prize of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation

2010 - Nicolas Yunes

Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) Graduate Fellowship

2013 - Elliot Nelson

RHIC and AGS Thesis Award

2012 - Leonard Eun (worked with Prof. Steve Heppelmann)

Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program

2013 - Michael Skocik