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