Teacher of the Year Award Recipients
In 2001 the department's chapter of the Society of Physics Students awarded the first SPS Teacher of the Year Award to recognize an outstanding professor as selected by the undergraduate students. The Graduate Physics Society also selects an outstanding graduate teacher.
2023: Sean Lindsay (tie)
2023: Steven Johnston (Graduate Teaching)
2021: Elbio Dagotto
2019: Elbio Dagotto
2017: Lucas Platter
2015: Jaewook Joo
2013: Soren Sorensen
2011: Geoff Greene
2009: Thomas Papenbrock
2007: Alex Zucker
2005: Marianne Breinig (tie)
2005: Ted Barnes (Graduate Teaching)
2004: Jon Levin (tie)
2002: Stuart Elston
2023: Elbio Dagotto (tie)
2022: Larry Lee
2020: Stuart Elston
2018: Maxim Lavrentovich
2016: Christine Nattrass
2014: Anthony Mezzacappa
2012: Norman Mannella
2010: Robert Compton
2008: Soren Sorensen
2006: Michael Guidry
2005: Kermit Duckett (tie)
2004: Marianne Breinig (tie)
2003: Jim Thompson
2001: Jim Thompson
See our other departmental awards for undergraduates, graduate students, service to our teaching labs and tutoring program, and distinguished alumni.