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Awards & Honors

2006 - 2007 Awards

International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Quark and Nuclear Physics, 2006


Stephen Cotanch

Program Committee, 5th international workshop on Chiral Dynamics, 2006


Stephen Cotanch

Member of the Honor Societies, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi


Chueng-Ryong Ji

Graduate alumni Distinguished Professor


G.E. Mitchell



2005 - 2006 Awards

Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor


D. E. Aspnes

Distinguished Lecture in Condensed Matter Science, BNL


D. E. Aspnes

Best paper (co-author) at the 16th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning


Robert Beichner

Chair, Division of Computational Physics, APS


Jerzy Bernholc

NCSU Margaret Cox Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology


Ruth Chabay

Cover Story for the Feb 2005 issue of Physics World, “Friction at the Nanoscale”


Jacqueline Krim

Honorary Membership, AVS


Gerald Lucovsky

Elected Fellow, American Physical Society


T. Schäfer

NCSU Margaret Cox Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology


Bruce Sherwood

Winner of a 2005 Barry M. Goldwater Fellowship Undergraduate Research Award, $1000


Keith Weninger's student



2004 - 2005 Awards

Named Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor

D. E. Aspnes
Elected Fellow, World Innovation Foundation D. E. Aspnes
Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society Robert Beichner
Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award Marco Buongiorno-Nardelli
Elected Vice-chair of the Executive Committee of the APS Forum on Education David Haase
Board of Governors’ Teaching Award of the College of  PAMS Steve Reynolds
Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society Bruce Sherwood
ORAU Junior POWE Faculty Enhancement Award Keith Weninger
Thomas P. Pearl

2003 - 2004 Awards

Award for Excellence in Teaching, 14th International Conference of College Teaching and Learning

Robert Beichner

Jesse Beams Award for Outstanding Research
Invited Fellow at the Nuclear Theory Institute ECT in Trento, Italy
Overseas Editor for the Journal of the Korean Physical Society
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2001-2003
DoE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
Associate Director, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
Best Pedagogic Talk, Spring meeting on the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers
Outstanding Achievement Award of the International IXS Society

Jeryz Bernholc
Stephen Cotanch
Chueng-Ryong Ji
Jacqueline Krim
Gail McLaughlin
G. E. Mitchell
Michael Paesler

Dale Sayers



2002 - 2003 Awards
The Department is the recipient of the 2003 University Award for "Departmental Teaching and Learning Excellence".

US Patent

David Aspnes

Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology

Robert Beichner

Chair of the Education Committee for the AVS, Science and Technology Division

Jacqueline Krim

Representative to the AIP Liaison Committee on Physics Education

Jacqueline Krim

Member-at-Large to the Executive Committe for the Division of Materials Physics of the APS

Jacqueline Krim

Lecturer at the 2003 National Nuclear Physics Summer School

Gail McLaughlin



2001 - 2002 Awards

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor

Robert Beichner

Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award

Michael Paesler

Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award

Jacqueline Krim

SURA/Jefferson Lab Graduate Fellowship

Yuriy Mishchenko
& Martin DeWitt

Leroy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence

Marjorie Klenin

Award for Excellence in Teaching, 14th International Conference of College Teaching and Learning

Robert Beichner



Cumulative Awards

National Academy of Sciences
David. E. Aspnes

Drexel Professor
Jerzy Bernholc

Fellow of the American Physical Society
David. E. Aspnes | Jerzy Bernholc | Kwong Chung | Stephen Cotanch | Donald Ellison | Chris Gould | David G. Haase | Jacqueline Krim | Gerald Lucovsky | Jasper D. Memory | Gary Mitchell | Michael Paesler | Stephen P. Reynolds | John S. Risley | John E. Rowe | Thomas M. Schaefer | Jan F. Schetzina | Bruce Sherwood | Phillip Stiles

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
David E. Aspnes | John S. Risley | John E. Rowe

Fellow of the Optical Society of America
David E. Aspnes | Richard Patty

Fellow of the AVS
David E. Aspnes | Jacqueline Krim | Gerald Lucovsky | John E. Rowe

NSF Young Investigator Award
Harald Ade | Karen E. Daniels | Jacqueline Krim | Christopher M. Roland | Maria Celeste Sagui

University Chair
Gerald Lucovsky

Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor
David E. Aspnes | Gary Mitchell | Robert Nemanich

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
Robert Beichner | Christopher R. Gould | David G. Haase | Richard Patty | Stephen P. Reynolds

Academy of Outstanding Teachers
Robert Beichner | John Blondin | Raymond Fornes | Christopher R. Gould | David G. Haase | Fred Lado | Jasper D. Memory | Michael Paesler | Richard Patty | Stephen P. Reynolds | Jan F. Schetzina


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