2007

Joe Eberly to serve as president of the Optical Society of America in 2007

Patrick M. McLaughlin ('07) awarded Kaufmann's Entrepreneurial Year (KEY) Award in 2007

Mario F. Dal Col awarded Kaufmann's Entrepreneurial Year (KEY) Award in 2007

Jeremy D. Wilson Awarded University Messersmith Fellowship in 2006

Ching Tang to receive the 2007 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award

Richard A. Miserendino (07') to Receive Student Life Award in 2007

Tarduno to receive 2007 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Bocko to receive 2007 University Dean's Award for Meritorious Service in Ph.D. Defenses

Stephen Privitera ('07) earns honorable mention in the 2007 NSF Graduate Fellowship competition

Robert Penna ('07) Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2007

Kristin M. Beck '09 (B.S. Physics / B.A. Math) Named Goldwater Scholar in 2007-2008

Ernest Courant (UR Physics PhD 1943), Father of Modern Particle Accelerators, to receive the 2007 University of Rochester distinguished scholar award.

Tarduno Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union in 2007

Daniel Richman, Undergraduate, Receives a DOE 2007 National Undergraduate Fellowship Award

Samuel Harrold, Undergraduate, Receives a DOE 2007 National Undergraduate Fellowship Award

Steve Manly to Receive 2007 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Gao Awarded a Bridging Fellowship to the Department of Biomedical Engineering for Fall 2007

Pipher Inducted into Hall of Fame: National Women's Hall of Fame to Honor Judy Pipher and Eight Others.

Physics Undergraduate Bob Penna Wins Churchill Scholarship to go to Cambridge.

Chuang Ren Receives an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award from the Department of Energy

Graduate Student Tobin Fricke Awarded LIGO Fellowship

Physics Professor Ashok Das Receives Fulbright to Teach in Brazil

Bigelow Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Novotny Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America

2006

Joe Eberly to serve as president-elect of the Optical Society of America in 2006

Nicholas P. Bigelow and Ashok Das Win Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Graduate Student Ivan Minchev Wins Graduate Research Prize from the Division of Dynamical Astronomy

Graduate Student Phay J. Ho Receives DAAD ,German Academic Exchange Service, Fellowship

Kristin Beck, Physics Undergraduate Major, Wins a 2006 Iota Book Award

Adam Bublitz, Undergraduate Physics Major, Recipient of the 2006 Honors Physics Prize

Prof. Chuang Ren Awarded DOE Junior Faculty Development Grant in Plasma Physics

Adam W. Bublitz, Physics Undergraduate Wins Radu Scholarship

Steven M. Bloch, Undergraduate Wins 2006-2007 Castle Scholarship

Prof. Okubo Recieves the 2006 Wigner Medal for the Application of Group Theory in Physics

Prof. Dan Watson Receives 2006 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching

Grant Tremblay, Class of 2006, Wins Undergraduate Student Prize of the Astronomical Society of New York

Prof. John Tarduno Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Graduate Student Jose Perillan Receives Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching

Prof. John Howell Receives Adolph Lamb Medal from the Optical Society of America

Prof. Ashok Das Receives Fulbright Scholar Award

Prof. Ashok Das Receives University Graduate Teaching Award

Undergraduate Stephen Privitera Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Prof. Esther Conwell Receives Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award

Maria Florencia Canelli (UR Physics PhD 2003) Wins 2006 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics

2005

Joe Eberly Elected as Vice President of the Optical Society of America in 2005

Dan M. Watson Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Lynne Orr Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Prof. Kevin McFarland Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Prof. Eric Blackman Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Assistant Professor John Howell Awarded Presidential PECASE Award June 2005

Phay Ho, UR Graduate Student, Awarded Agnes M. and George Messersmith Fellowship 2005

Prof. Arie Bodek Named as First George E. Pake Professor of Physics

Prof. Frank Awarded University Bridging Fellowship for Fall 2005

Prof. Okubo Receives the 2005 Sakuri Prize of the American Physical Society

2004

Lynne H. Orr and Dan Watson Win Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Nicholas Bigelow Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Freshman Robert Penna Receives Schlumberger Scholarship

Maria Florencia Canelli Wins URA - Fermilab Best PhD Thesis Award

Undergraduate Physics Major Zhuohan Liang Wins 2004 Janet Howell Clark Prize

Undergraduate Siddharth A. Parameswaran Wins College Writing Center Undergraduate Writing Colloquium Award in 2004

Prof. Arie Bodek to receive 2004 University Award for Graduate Teaching

Undergraduate Physics Major Zhuohan Liang Wins Goldwater Fellowship

Prof. Arie Bodek Wins 2004 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics

2003

Dan M. Watson Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Steven Manly Named 2003 Carnegie Foundation's New York State Professor of the Year

Graduate Student Rob Gutermuth Awarded 2003 Graduate Student Prize by the Astronomical Society of New York

Sophomore Siddharth Parameswaran wins Iota Book Award

Prof. Shaul Mukamel Wins Optical Society of America Award

Graduate Student Kam Wai Clifford Chan Awarded University Messersmith Fellowship

Profs. Nicholas Bigelow and David Meyerhoffer Receive Dean's Award

Jack Crow (UR PAS PhD 1967) Director of National Magent Laboratory Receives UR Distinguished Scholar Medal in 2003

Freshman Siddharth Parameswaran Wins Delno Sisson Prize

Prof. Douglass Awarded University Bridging Fellowship

2002

Thomas Ferbel Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Profs. Ashok Das and David Meyerhofer Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society

Prof. Thomas Ferbel Awarded a Senior PPARC Fellowship For a Sabbatical Year at Imperial College

Graduate Student Un Ki Yang Receives URA/Fermilab Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis Done at Fermilab

Prof. Emil Wolf Receives Esther Hoffman Beller Award From the Optical Society of America

Undergraduate Laura Schmidt Awarded University's Catherine Block Memorial Fund Prize

Undergraduate Elizabeth Strychalski Awarded University's Janet Howell Clark Prize

Prof. Kevin McFarland to Receive NSF CAREER Award

Graduate Student Mark Houk Wins University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching

Department of Physics and Astronomy Ranked 6th Nationwide in Atomic/Molecular/Optical/Plasma US News Survey

Prof. Robert Boyd Named as the First M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics

Undergraduate Jason Nordhaus Wins Goldwater Scholarship

Prof. Steven Manly Named College's Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor

Paul Horn (PhD 1973) Senior Vice President and Director of Research at IBM to be Awarded the 2002 Hutchison Medal in 2002

Prof. Stephen Teitel Awarded University Bridging Fellowship

Prof. Judith Pipher Receives University's Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award

2001

Judith L. Pipher Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Profs. Riccardo Betti, Robert Boyd, Thomas Foster and Paul Tipton Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society

Department of Physics and Astronomy Ranked 2nd Nationwide in Overall Graduate Student Satisfaction

Undergraduate Albert Wang a Finalist for Apker Prize of the American Physical Society

Graduate Student Michael Fitch Awarded URA/Fermilab Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis

Prof. Leonard Mandel Elected a Member of the National Academy

Prof. Kevin McFarland Receives Cottrel Scholars Award

Graduate Student Kevin Wright Wins University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching

Lecturer Priscilla Auchincloss Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Graduate Student Un Ki Yang Receives Honorable Mention in "Outstanding Young Researcher Award" of the American Korean Physics Association

Prof. Paul Tipton and Senior Research Associate Pawel deBarbaro Selected to Serve on National Department of Energy Committees

Prof. Kevin McFarland Selected to Serve on DOE/NSF Panel to Chart Next 20 Years for High Energy Physics

2000

Lynne H. Orr and Steve Teitel Win Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Profs. Stephen Teitel and John Thomas Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society

Prof. Joseph Eberly Named a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Undergraduate Albert Wang Wins 2nd Prize in Poster Competition at Meeting of the NYS Chapter of the American Physical Society

Prof. Nicholas Bigelow Named Lee A. DuBridge Chair in Physics

Prof. Joseph Eberly Receives University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Education

Prof. Eric Blackman Receives Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Award From Department of Energy

Prof. Emil Wolf Receives University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Masatoshi Koshiba, PAS PHD (1955) University of Tokyo, Receives UR Distinguished Scholar Medal in 2000

1999

C. Richard Hagen Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester (1999)

Graduate Student Jane Wesley Wins University Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching

Prof. Emil Wolf Receives Honorary Degreees From the University of Franche Comté (France) and Aalborg University (Denmark)

Prof. Lynne Orr Receives University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching

Prof. Adam Frank Receives Popular Writing Award of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society

Prof. Edward Thorndike Wins Panofsky Prize of the American Physical Society

Prof. Kevin McFarland Name Department of Energy Outstanding Young Investigator

Undergraduate Govind Krishnaswami Receives Apker Award of the American Physical Society

1998

Nicholas P. Bigelow Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Ashok Das Wins Fulbright Award

Program for Women in Science and Engineering, directed by Dean Priscilla Auchincloss, Prof. Arie Bodek and Prof. Lynn Orr, wins University's Georgen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Learning

1997

Ashok Das Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Paul Slattery wins University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Learning

Prof. Frank Wolfs Receives University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching

Prof. Emil Wolf Receives Honorary Degrees From the University of Bristol (England) and the University of Laval (Quebec)

1996

C. Richard Hagen Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1995

Paul Tipton Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Frank Wolfs Receives University's Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching

1994

Dan M. Watson Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1993

Sarada G. Rajeev Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1992

Dan M. Watson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

Prof. Leonard Mandel Receives University Graduate Teaching Award

1991

Stuart Gazes Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1990

Ashok Das Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1989

Robert S. Knox Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1988

Stewart L. Sharpless Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1987

Ashok Das Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1986

Adrian Melissinos Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester

1985

David Clark Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester

1984

David Clark Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester

1983

Paul F. Slattery Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1982

Stewart L. Sharpless Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1981

Adrian Melissinos Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Rochester

1980

Steve Olsen Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1979

Thomas Ferbel Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

1978

Robert S. Knox Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester