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See Honors Day Photos Here. Physics paid tribute to outstanding achievement on April 23 at the department’s annual Honors Day celebration. Each spring, top students are recognized for their academic and research accomplishments, while the students themselves select a faculty member to honor with the Society of Physics Students Teacher of the Year award. Dr. Loren Crabtree, Chancellor of the Knoxville campus, was the invited speaker for the event. He reflected on C.P. Snow’s 1959 Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution and addressed the need for a wider, more all-encompassing view of the world that bridges science and the humanities, borrowing from the strengths of each.
The 2007 student honors included a new accolade: The Wayne Kincaid Award. Wayne Kincaid was both an alumnus of the department and a research associate who was deeply interested in educational technology, astronomy education, and scientific writing. He passed away in 2004, and with this award the department recognizes a student who shares his interests and has made similar contributions. The student awards and recipients were as follows: Outstanding First Year Physics Student Robert Talley Award for Outstanding Undergraduate
Research Douglas V. Roseberry Award Robert W. Lide Citations Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Award Wayne Kincaid Award Colloquium Award Paul H. Stelson Fellowship for Beginning Research Paul H. Stelson Fellowship for Professional
Promise Fowler-Marion Award Outstanding Graduate Student
Award The Society of Physics Students Teacher of the Year Award was presented to Dr. Alex Zucker. Additionally, the following students were inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honors society: Jay Billings, Te-Yu Chien, Jack Hunt, Byron Kilbourne, Ozgur Polat, and Alex Woods. The department also honored the Class of 2007, graduating in May: Undergraduates Steven Boada Graduate Students Phil Evans |
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The
physics department also honored the late Dr. Edward Arakawa with
the Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Arakawa, who passed away in
March, earned the Ph.D. in 1957 working with Dr. Alvin Nielsen and
was an important figure in the lives of many UTK physics graduate
students. His citation read, “For his outstanding contributions
to optical spectroscopy and condensed matter physics; and for his
many years of service to graduate education through the mentoring
of graduate students working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.”
Mrs. Harue Arakawa accepted the award on her husband’s behalf.
The department instituted the award in 2004. Previous honorees include
Sam Hurst, Raymond Murray, Rufus Ritchie, and Robert Talley.