Two awards for undergraduate majors are given every year:
- Best Junior in Physics and Astronomy - awarded to the student in his/her junior year with the best academic record for courses that count toward the major. Research and other physics-related activities are also taken into account.
- Best Senior Thesis - The honors committee selects one senior thesis as the best of all submissions that year. All students submitting an honors thesis are automatically considered.
The students who received honors last year are:
Undergraduate student Zachary Nicolaou (Advisor: Adilson Motter) received the "Outstanding Junior in Physics and Astronomy” award.
Undergraduate student Yonatan Kahn (Research Advisor: Tim Tait) received the “Outstanding Senior Thesis in Physics and Astronomy” award for his senior thesis entitled, “Models of Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL 511 keV line.”
Undergraduate students Jeffrey Andrews (Advisor: Vicky Kalogera), Matthew Bierbaum (Advisor: Fred Rasio), Alexandra Cunliffe (Advisor: Venkat Chandrasekhar), Julia Fang (Advisor: David Meyer), Yonatan Kahn (Advisor: Tim Tait), and Kent Shirer (Advisor: William Halperin) all graduated with departmental honors. To learn more about their work, click on the links below to read their senior theses:
Jeffrey Andrews: “A Population Synthesis Analysis of Double Neutron Stars”
Matthew Bierbaum: “Optimizing Monte Carlo Simulations of Star Clusters with CUDA”
Alexandra Cunliffe: “Magnetoelectric cobalt ferrite/bismuth ferrite hybrid nanostructures: Progress towards achieving electric field control of magnetization”
Julia Fang : “Probing for Solar-System-Scale Structure in the Interstellar Medium: Ultraviolet and Optical Observations”
Yonatan Kahn: “Models of Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL 511 keV line”
Kent Shirer: “Aerogel Growth, Optical Birefringence Characterization, and Use in Ultra Low Temperature Superfluid 3He Experiments”
