Honors, Awards, and Graduate Recognition Day

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, the Department of Physics celebrated many things:  We heard the final 5 of our total of 12 (!) Honors Theses Presentations, we initiated 13 new Sigma Pi Sigma members, we recognized our graduating seniors (28) and graduate students (2 Masters and 8 PhDs), we welcomed 17 new Physics majors, and presented many well-deserved awards to some VERY amazing people.  All are listed below.  What an incredible day!

Outstanding Teaching Assistant  –  Richard Dudley

Peer Mentor Award Recipients  –  Hyunsu Lee, Stephanie Jensen, and Dr. Zach Lamport    

William E. Speas Award Recipients – Sajant Anand and David Ostrowski

Graduate Student Research Award Recipients – Dr. Ryan Melvin, Dr. Junwei Xu, and Dr. Jason Howard

Excellence in Teaching Award Recipient– Dr. Oana Jurchescu and Outstanding Service Award Recipient – Eric Chapman

2018 Graduating Seniors:

Manal Ahmidouch
Sajant Anand
Luke Annichiarico
Katrina Barth
Nicolas Boyajian                
Shengcheng Chen              
Christopher Coleman        
Timothy DeCampo            
John Diaz-Silveira             
Zoe Hurtado          
Robert Jacowleff
Laura Jennings
Mary Kinney          
Brittany Kirby
Caroline Kuczynski
Preston Levy
Josiah Low
Amy Medford
David Ostsrowski
Robert Oswald
Monique Otero
Benjamin Scharmann
Tianxiao Shen
Chunting Song
Sean Suskevich
John Treadwell
Daniel Vickers
Cenji Yu

Honors Graduates:

Manal Ahmidouch
Sajant Anand
Katrina Barth
Laura Jennings
Zoe Hurtado
Mary Kinney
Caroline Kuczynski
Josiah Low
David Ostrowski
Benjamin Scharmann
Daniel Vickers
Cenji Yu

ΣΠΣ (Sigma Pi Sigma) Inductees:

Robert Bradford
Terra Colvin
Melanie Ferreri
Brady Gales
Hamna Haneef
James Lee
Amy Medford
Jacquelyn Sharpe
James Sowa
Cole Teander
Lucas Tommervik
Colin Tyznik
Cenji Yu

Major Field Tests Achievement Awards:

Sajant Anand
Timothy DeCampo
Laura Jennings
Caroline Kuczynski
Preston Levy
Josiah Low

New Physics Majors:

Robert Bradford               
Josh Cohen                       
Mark Farnham                 
David Filston                     
James Lee                         
Weijia Li                            
Tucker Loy                         
Noah Meyer                       
Daniel Nealon
Katherine Riley
Jacquelyn Sharpe
James Sowa
Andrew Wiggin
Kevin Woytowich
Chuanyang Yu
Zachary Zhang
Jacqueline Zhu