Student Prizes & Awards

Bennhold Family Award for Best Teaching on the Part of a Graduate Student 

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Previous award recipients

2025: Jinzi Wu & Volodymyr Tereshchuk

2023: Lucas Chandler

2022: Frank Huo

2021: Alexander Lange

2020: Michael Moss

2019: Grant Mitchell

2018: Michael Moss

2017: Giovanni Angelini

Berman Prize for Excellence in Experimental Physics including Observational Astronomy

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Previous prize recipients

2025: Andy Sargent ; Cole Christensen & Olivia Nippe-Jeakins

2024: Quinn Stefan & Erin Seroka

2023: Grabe Grauvogel & Sarah Chastain 

2022: Caden Gobat & Izzy Illari

2021: Ruby Duncan & Brendan O'Connor

2020: Miya Bernal & Alyson Barker Joens

2019: Sarah Schrup & Levgen Lavrukhin

2018: Jack Hirschman

2017: Noel Klingler & Joseph Revier

2016: Srividya Murthy

2013: Derek Brehm

2012: Nicholas Zachariou

2010: Edwin Munevar

2009: Chongzhi Zang

2008: Sarah Han-oh

Chair's Prize for Best Poster Presentation

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Previous prize recipients

2025: Rachel Ratvasky

2024: Seth Gagnon

2023: Erin Seroka

2022: Pi Nuessle

2019: Hannah Seymour

2018: Ben Kopchick

2017: Noel Klinger

2010: Deepa Raghu & Johannes Kirscher 

2009: Craig Pelissier

Gus W. Weiss Prize for Outstanding Student in Physics

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Previous prize recipients

2025: Hallie Fausey & Quinn Stefan

2024: Julia Peters & Lucia Illari

2023: Logan Earnest & Mike Moss

2022: Gabe Grauvogel & Grant Mitchell

2021: Caden Gobat & Giovanni Angelini

2020: Jason Starita 

2019: Jack Hirschman & Giovanni Angelini

2018: Kara Zielinski

2017: Obinna Ome Irondi & Jeremy Hare

2003: Alaa Ibrahim

2002: Silvia Niccolai & Pirouz Shamszad

2001: Stanislav Miltchev Mintchev

2000: Xinyu Liu

1999: Khaliq Rauf

1998: Staphanie Helene Leitner & Jennifer Nicole Hyatt

1997: Caiyi Lang

1996: Evan Scott Lavidor

1995: Rodney Omron

1994: Juan Carlos Sanabria

1993: Steven Dean Adrian

James MacBride Sterrett Jr. Prize

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Previous prize recipients

2025: Christy Elliott

2024: Jacob Rashap

2023: Yair Ben-Dor

2022: Sonia Goyal

2021: Maria Stefanova

2019: Zephyrus Jenkins

2017: Will Raderman

2013: Maximillian Hoffman

2012: Menyun Miao

Peverley Prize for Best Poster Presentation

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Previous prize recipients

2025: Maxine Alexandre-Strong

2024: Phoenix Price

2023: Emily Sullivan

2022: Annika Schmid

2021: Michael Chevalier

2019: Jacquelyn Veatch

2018: Sophia Donovan

2017: Kara Zielinski

2016: Brian Alden

2011: Samuel Lipschutz

2010: Zoe Marinides

2009: Benjamin Gamari

2008: Jordan David

2007: Daniel Mittelberger