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Awards & Honors

2013 Awards

  • Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award - Kenan Gundogdu
  • Alumni Outstanding Research Award - Harald Ade
  • Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research - Kenan Gundogdu
  • Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor - Dean Lee
  • Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society - John E. Thomas

2012 Awards

  • NC State University Faculty Scholar - Keith Weninger
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society - Christopher M. Roland
  • Garrett Briggs Faculty Career Achievement Award - Richard Mowat
  • NCSU Distinguished Professor - Thomas M. Schaefer
  • Career Award, National Science Foundation - Davide Lazzati
  • UNC Board of Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching - Stephen P. Reynolds

2011 Awards

  • Career Award, National Science Foundation - Dan Dougherty
  • Career Award, Department of Energy - James Kneller
  • McGraw Prize in Education - Robert Beichner
  • Fellow, American Physical Society-Chueng - R. Ji, Albert Young
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advanced of Science - Harald Ade, Robert Beichner, Jerzy Bernholc
  • Fellow, Materials Research Society - Jerzy Bernholc
  • Jessie W. Beams Medal, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society - John Thomas
  • Alexander von Humboldt Award for Experienced Researchers - Karen E. Daniels
  • Mentor Award, Society of Vacuum Coaters - David E. Aspens
  • Global Eminent Scholar in the Korean World Class University Project - David E. Aspnes
  • Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society - Jerzy Bernholc, Thomas Schaefer
  • Frank Abrams Service Award, NC State Chapter of Sigma Xi - John M. Blondin

2010 Awards

  • UNC Board of Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching - Robert J. Beichner
  • Carnegie Foundation NC Professor of the Year - Robert J. Beichner
  • Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor - Gerald Lucovsky
  • Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor - John M. Blondin
  • Alumni Outstanding Research Award - Gail McLauglin
  • Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award - Carla Frohlich
  • Leroy and Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence - Richard Mowat
  • NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow - Jacqueline Krim
  • Research Scholar Award, American Cancer Society - Keith Weninger
  • Fellow, American Physical Society - Harald Ade, David Brown, Lubos Mitas
  • Fellow, American Council of Education - Robert J. Beichner
  • President of the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers - Chueng-R. Ji
  • President of the Association of Korean Physicists in America- Chueng-R. Ji

2009Awards

  • Leroy & Elva Martin Award for Teaching Excellence - Laura I. Clarke
  • Jesse W. Beams Medal, Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society - Gerald Lucovsky
  • Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow - John Blondin, Ruth Chabay, Gail McLaughlin
  • Fellow, Neutron Scattering Society of America - Robert Golub
  • Global Eminent Scholar in the Korean World Class University Project – David E. Aspnes
  • ACC Scholar - Robert J. Beichner

2006 - 2007 Awards

  • Career Award, National Science Foundation - Karen Daniels
  • Alumni Distinguished Graduate 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

  • Career Award, National Science Foundation - Celeste Sagui
  • DoE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award - Gail McLaughlin
  • Award for Excellence in Teaching, 14th International Conference of College Teaching and Learning - Robert Beichner
  • Jesse Beams Award for Outstanding Research - Jerzy Bernholc
  • Invited Fellow at the Nuclear Theory Institute ECT in Trento, Italy - Stephen Cotanch
  • Overseas Editor for the Journal of the Korean Physical Society - Chueng-Ryong Ji
  • Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2001-2003 - Jacqueline Krim
  • Associate Director, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory - G.E. Mitchell
  • Best Pedagogic Talk, Spring meeting on the North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers - Michael Paesler
  • Outstanding Achievement Award of the International IXS Society - Dale Sayers
  • Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics - James W. York

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 and 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


University Chair
Gerald Lucovsky


Drexel Professor
Jerzy Bernholc


Board of Governor's Award for Teaching Excellence
Robert Beichner | Richard Patty | Stephen P. Reynolds


National Science Foundation Career Award
Harald Ade | John M. Blondin | Karen E. Daniels | Daniel Dougherty | Jacqueline Krim | Christopher M. Roland | Maria Celeste Sagui | Davide Lazzati


Department of Energy Career Award
James Kneller | Gail McLaughlin


Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Kenan Gundogdu


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


Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
Robert Beichner | John M. Blondin | Christopher R. Gould | David G. Haase | Dean Lee | Richard Patty | Stephen P. Reynolds


Alumni Outstanding Research Award
Jacqueline Krim | Gail McLaughlin | Harald Ade


Academy of Outstanding Teachers
Robert Beichner | John Blondin | Grover Cobb | Wesley Doggett | Raymond Fornes | Christopher R. Gould | David G. Haase | Karen Johnston | | Fred Lado | Dean Lee | Jasper D. Memory | Michael Paesler | Richard Patty | Stephen P. Reynolds | Jan F. Schetzina | Worth Seagondollar


Fellow of the American Physical Society
Harold Ade | David. E. Aspnes | Robert Beichner | Jerzy Bernholc | John M. Blondin| David Brown | Kwong Chung | Stephen Cotanch | Donald Ellison | Robert Golub |Chris Gould | David G. Haase | Chueng-R. Ji | Jacqueline Krim | Gerald Lucovsky | Jasper D. Memory| Gail McLaughlin | Lubos Mitas|Gary Mitchell | Michael Paesler | Stephen P. Reynolds | John S. Risley | Christopher M. Roland | John E. Rowe | Thomas M. Schaefer | Jan F. Schetzina | Bruce Sherwood | Phillip Stiles | John Thomas | Albert Young


Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Harald Ade | David E. Aspnes | Robert Beichner | Jerzy Bernholc | Richard Patty | John Risley | John E. Rowe


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


Fellow of the American Vacuum Society
David E. Aspnes | Jacqueline Krim | Gerald Lucovsky | John E. Rowe


Fellow of the Materials Research Society
Jerzy Bernholc


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