The Department of Physics and Astronomy held The Undergraduate/Graduate Awards Luncheon on April 13, 2017. 

The Thomas Lain Essay Award Winners

Emily Harris (Undergraduate): The Physics of Wind Turbines

Amro E.B. AbdelRahim (Graduate): On the Coalescence of Black Holes

Yilun Guan (Graduate): Coalescing Black Holes and the Discovery of Gravitational Wave

Hector Martinez Rodriguez (Graduate): Physics of Coalescing Black Holes

Erin Sutton (Graduate): A Brief Glance into the Physics of Coalescing Binary Black Holes

NOT PICTURED: Zixin Yang (Graduate): Binary Black Hole Evolution and Gravitational Waves Generation 

Congratulations to our Thomas-Lain Winners!

Paul Justice: Garfunkel Teaching Award Winner

Jonathan Beaumariage: Garfunkel Teaching Award Winner

Congratulations to our Garfunkel Teaching Award Winners!

Andrew Aukerman: The Halliday-Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Advisor: Tae Min Hong

Jessica Kroboth: The Halliday Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Poster

{NOT PICTURED} Nicholas Suarez: Julia Thompson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Scientific Writing

Edan Alpern: Emil Sanielevici Undergraduate Research Award

Title: Improved Amplification with Josephson Parametric Amplifier

Emil Sanielevici Winner: Edan Alpern with Mentor Dr. Michael Hatridge and Sergiu Sanielevici

Nicholas Corrado: Sophomore/Junior Level Winner of the Peter F.M. Koehler Academic Achievement Award

Aaron Miller: Junior/Senior Level Winner of the Peter F.M. Koehler Academic Achievement Award

Congratulations to our Peter F.M. Koehler Academic Achievement Award Winners!

Congratulations to the new Sigma Pi Sigma inductees!

Ian Cooper, Brett Heintz, Noah-Kee Marks, Aaron Miller,  Seth Roffe

{Not Pictured} Alli Behr, Joshua Kephart, Nicholas Suarez and Anthony Zummo}