Student Research Awards

Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Awards

• 2020 - Jonathan Guglielmon (research mentor: Prof. Rechtsman)
• 2019 - Cody Messick (research mentor: Prof. Chad Hanna)
• 2018 - Lucas Hackl (research mentor: Prof. Eugenio Bianchi)
• 2016 - Ajit Balram (research mentor: Jainendra Jain)
• 2014 - Shan Gao (research mentor: Péter Mészáros)
• 2012 - Ashley DaSilva (research mentor: Prof. Jainendra Jain)
• 2011 - Edward Wilson-Ewing (research mentor: Prof. Abhay Ashtekar)
• 2010 - Josh West (research mentor: Prof. Moses Chan)
• 2009 - Xiao (Sean) Li (research mentor: Prof. David Weiss)
• 2008 - Nicolas Yunes (research mentor: Prof. Ben Owen)
• 2007 - Elena Margine (research mentor: Prof. Vin Crespi)
• 2006 - Anthony Clark (research mentor: Prof. Moses Chan)

Penn State Academic Computing Fellowship

• 2017 - Cody Messick (research mentor: Prof. Chad Hanna)
• 2014 - Mark DelloStritto (research mentor: Prof. Jorge Sofo)
• 2012 - Tyler Engstrom (research mentor: Prof. Vin Crespi)
• 2008 - Garrett Evans (research mentor: Prof. John Collins)
• 2001 - David Garrison (research mentor: Prof. Jorge Pullin)
• 1998 - Ramon Lopez-Aleman (research mentor: Prof. Jorge Pullin)

Physics Department Peter Eklund Award for Scientific Communication

• 2023 - Ish Gupta (Adviser B. Sathyaprakash) and Marius Jürgensen (Adviser, M. Rechtsman)
• 2022 - Brett Green (mentor: Prof. Sofo) and Aviral Prakash (mentor: Radice)
• 2021 - Ssohrab Borhanian (mentor: Prof. Sathyaprakash) and Yi-Fan Zhao (mentor: Prof. Chang)
• 2020 - Joshua Wilson (mentor: Prof Weiss) and Jiabin Yu (mentor: Prof Ying Liu)
• 2019 - Cody Messick (mentor: Prof. Hanna) and Riju Banerjee (mentor: Prof. Hudson)
• 2018 - Aishwarya Kumar (mentor: Prof. Weiss) and Ruixing Zhang (mentor: Prof. Ying Liu)
• 2017 - Lucas Hackl (mentor: Prof. Bianchi) and Yu Pan (mentor: Prof. Samarth) 
• 2016 - Aruna Kesavan (mentor: Prof. Ashtekar) and Mark DelloStritto (mentor: Prof. Sofo) 
• 2015 - Beatrice Bonga (mentor: Prof. Ashtekar) and Warren Wright (mentor: Prof. Mocioiu)  , Shaun Mills (mentor: Prof. Ying Liu)
• 2014 - Abhinav Kandala (mentor: Prof. Samarth) and David Zaslavasky (mentor: Prof. Stasto)
• 2013 - Shih-Ho Cheng (mentor: Prof. Sommers) and Kunyan Zhu (mentor: Prof. Weiss), and Xihao Deng (mentor: Prof. Finn)
• 2012 - Colin Campbell (mentor: Prof. Albert) and Duming Zhang (mentor: Prof. Samarth)
• 2011 - Meenakshi Singh (mentor: Prof. Chan) and Andrew Balk (mentor: Prof. Samarth)

   

Penn State Physics Ph.D. Alumni Career Colloquium

• 2023 - Amber McCreary - PSU/2017 (research mentor: Mauricio Terrones) and Karan Govil - PSU/2015 (research mentor: Murat Günaydin)

   

Rustum and Della Roy Award for Innovations in Materials Research

• 2012 - Qingzhen Hao (research mentor: Prof. Tony Huang [ESM])

Penn State University Graduate Research Exhibition

The Graduate Exhibition celebrates research in all its aspects as an essential and exciting part of graduate education at Penn State. The Graduate Exhibition places special emphasis on communicating research and creative endeavor to a general audience and offers an unusual opportunity for professional development by challenging graduate students to present their work in clear, comprehensible terms to people outside their fields.

• 2014 - Jason Wittenbach (worked with Prof. Dezhe Jin)
• 2012 – Alejandro Suarez (worked with Prof. Jorge Sofo)