Department Celebrates Honors Day 2009
April 30, 2009
The physics department honored outstanding student achievement on April 20 with the annual Honors Day celebration.
The honorees were:
Outstanding First Year Physics Students
- Bart Weitering
- Zach Lindsey
- Cole Lillard
- Steven Crawford
Robert Talley Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research
- Adrian Sanchez
Robert Talley Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Leadership
- Alex McCaskey
Douglas V. Roseberry Award
- Kenneth Trofatter
Sigma Pi Sigma Inductees
- Daniel Carney
- Adrian Sanchez
- Christopher Tate
- Meagan White
- Usama Al-Binni
- Hangwen Guo
- Saban Hus
- Jennifer Niedziela
- Nan Zheng
Robert W. Lide Citations
- Erica Johnson
- Elton Freeman
- Nick Roberts
Outstanding GTA Award
- John Carruth
- Erik Olsen
- Nirmal Ghimire
- Rebecca Scott
Outstanding Tutoring Award
- Jeff Tithof
Wayne Kincaid Award
- Chris Smith
Colloquium Award
- Irakli Martashvili
Paul Stelson Fellowship for Professional Promise
- Xiaotian Zhang
Paul Stelson Fellowship for Beginning Research
- Kyle Schmitt
Fowler-Marion Outstanding Graduate Student Award
- Shaun Ard
SPS Teacher of the Year
- Thomas Papenbrock
Also recognized were the physics department's 2009 Chancellor’s Honors Recipients: James Alsup, Joe Overman, Ozgur Polat, Jeff Tithof, Andrew Tsung-Tse Yue, and Jun Zhao.