Department Awards
Physics and Astronomy Prize
awarded to a graduating senior for excellence in scholarship and dedication to physics
2025
2024 Claudia Mabley
2023 Sam Delamere, Charlie Rubin
2022 Sofia Edgar, Natasha Jones
2021 Xiaole (Alex) Jiang
2020 Hannah Fitts
2019 Cristopher Thompson
2018 Salim Ourari
2017 Niccolò Bigagli, Sophia Gottlieb
2016 Lucia DeRose
2015 Jocelyn Hoye, Aliza Khurram
2014 Yang Guo, Joanna Moody
2013 Olalekan Afuye
Thesis Prize
awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated exceptional achievement in the senior thesis
2025
2024 Hongke Lu
2023 Colby Stakun-Pickering
2022 Muhammad Abdullah, Biruk Chafamo
2021 Kirstin Koepnick
2020 Morgan Baxter
2019 Tianyao (Max) Huang
2018 Matthew Goldberg, Mary Szatkowski
2017 Tiago Correia
2016 Daniel Paseltiner
2015 Emily Clark, Peter Cole
Experimental Physics Prize
awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated great ability and potential in experimental physics
2025
2024 Will Conway
2023 Elias Veilleux
2022 Milly Detels, Clay Hundertmark
2021 Rebecca Minsley
2020 Michał Ćwik
2019 Tong Zhou
2018 Nicholas Sergay
2017 Aashu Jha
2016 Khoi Tuan Nguyen
2015 Andrew Briggs
2014 Edward Moan
2013 Myles Black-Ingersoll, Matthew Valles
Distinguished Junior Prize
awarded to a rising senior who has demonstrated academic success and dedication to physics
2025
2024 Brandon Villalta Lopez, Julia White
2023 Claudia Mabley, Kyle Sprague
2022 Elias Veilleux
2021 Biruk Chafamo, Muhammad Abdullah, Tasha Jones
2020 Yichun Liu, Eisho Takatsuji
2019 Christian Bradna, Avi Brach-Neufeld
2018 Benjamin Eckardt
2017 Salim Ourari, Nick Sergay
2016 Tiago Correia, Niccolò Bigagli, Alex Andonian
2015 Lucia De Rose, Khoi Tuan Nguyen, Daniel Paseltiner
2014 Jocelyn Hoye, Aliza Khurram