Awards and Achievements

Awards for Faculty and Staff

Departmental Awards

Blitzer Award for Excellence in Teaching

Recent awardees (from the Physics Department):

  • Prof. Charles Stafford, 2018
  • Prof. Ken Johns, 2014

Recent awardees:

  • Dr. Alex Burant, 2024
  • Dr. Sam Krishnamurthy, 2023
  • Prof. Eduardo Rozo, 2016 and 2017
  • Dr. Brokk Toggerson, 2014 and 2015

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Koen Visscher, 2024
  • Prof. Tai Kong, 2023
  • Prof. Fulvio Melia, 2019
  • Prof. Erich Varnes, 2018
  • Prof. Sam Gralla, 2016
  • Prof. Stefan Meinel, 2015 and 2017

College Awards

https://cossac.arizona.edu/star-awards

Recent awardees:

https://cossac.arizona.edu/college-science-excellence-awards

Recent awardees:

  • Teresa Plaskett, 2024
  • Mike Eklund, 2024
  • Shane Smith, 2023
  • Rohit Singh, 2022
  • Gardie Lueders, 2019

https://science.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-honors-awards

Recent Awardees

Distinguished Early-Career Teaching Award

  • 2024 - Samyukta Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.
Distinguished Early-Career Teaching Award
  • 2022 - Alex Burant, Ph.D. 

https://science.arizona.edu/galileo-circle

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Shufang Su, 2023
  • Prof. Shufeng Zhang, 2019: news article

https://science.arizona.edu/galileo-circle

Recent awardees:

https://science.arizona.edu/galileo-circle

Recent awardees:

University Awards

https://research.arizona.edu/women

Recent awardees:

https://facultyaffairs.arizona.edu/distinguished-scholar-award

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Weigang Wang, 2022
  • Prof. Arvinder Sandhu, 2017: news article

https://facultyaffairs.arizona.edu/university-distinguished-professors

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Ken Johns, 2022
  • Prof. Elliott Cheu, 2016: news article

https://facultyaffairs.arizona.edu/regents-professors

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. John Rutherfoord, 2019

https://facultyaffairs.arizona.edu/henry-and-phyllis-koffler-prizes

Recent awardees:

National and International Awards

NSF CAREER Award

Recent awardees:

DOE Early Career Award

Recent awardees:

https://sloan.org/fellowships

Recent awardees:

https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Arvinder Sandhu, 2022
  • Prof. Alexander Cronin, 2020
  • Prof. Brian LeRoy, 2019
  • Prof. Andrei Lebed, 2014
  • Prof. Shufang Su, 2014

https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/listings.cfm

Recent awardees:

  • Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Prof. Ubirajara (Bira) van Kolck, 2020: news article