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Awards and Achievements

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Scholarships and Awards for Students

Scholarships and Awards for Undergraduate Students

Fellowships and Scholarships for Graduate Students

Awards for Faculty and Staff

Departmental Awards

Blitzer Award for Excellence in Teaching

Recent awardees (from the Physics Department):

  • Prof. Sam Gralla, 2024
  • Prof. Charles Stafford, 2018
  • Prof. Ken Johns, 2014
  • Prof. Elliott Cheu, 2010

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Brian LeRoy 2025
  • Prof. Sumit Mazumdar 2025
  • Prof. Alex Burant, 2024 and 2022
  • Prof. Sam Krishnamurthy, 2023
  • Prof. John Schaibley, 2021
  • Prof. Eduardo Rozo, 2016 and 2017
  • Prof. Brokk Toggerson, 2014 and 2015

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Charles Stafford 2025
  • Prof. Koen Visscher, 2024
  • Prof. Tai Kong, 2023
  • Prof. Shufang Su, 2022
  • Prof. Fulvio Melia, 2019
  • Prof. Erich Varnes, 2018
  • Prof. Stefan Meinel, 2017 and 2015
  • Prof. Sam Gralla, 2016

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Stefan Meinel, 2025

Recent awardees:

  • Kyle Rine, 2025

Recent awardees:

  • Amy Bai, 2025

College Awards

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

Recent awardees:

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

Recent awardees:

  • Amy Bai, 2025
  • Teresa Plaskett, 2024
  • Mike Eklund, 2024, 2010 and 2007
  • Shane Smith, 2023 and 2017
  • Rohit Singh, 2022
  • Gardie Lueders, 2019
  • Carmen Montijo, 2018 and 2016
  • Matthew Jones, 2015
  • Sherri Cox, 2014
  • Soraya Torabi, 2013 and 2008
  • Susan Arnold, 2012 and 2004
  • Bonnie Wood, 2011
  • Linda Passarelli, 2009
  • Lisa Shapouri, 2006
  • Li Cheng, 2006
  • Alexander Leonard, 2005
  • Claudia Miller, 2005
  • Greg Hodgins, 2004

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

Recent Awardees:

Distinguished Career Teaching Award

  • Prof. Srin Manne, 2025

Innovation in Teaching Award

  • Prof. Brian LeRoy, 2025
Distinguished Early-Career Teaching Award
 
  • Prof. Samyukta Krishnamurthy, 2024
  • Prof. Alex Burant, 2022

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

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Shufang Su, 2023
  • Prof. Shufeng Zhang, 2019: news article
  • Prof. Raymond Goldstein, 2006
  • Prof. Fulvio Melia, 2005

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

Recent awardees:

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

Recent awardees:

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. John Rutherfoord, 2013

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:

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

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. John Rutherfoord, 2019
  • Prof. Pierre Meystre, 2004 (joint faculty)
  • Prof. Bruce Barrett, 1972 

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

Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize in Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity

Recent awardees:

Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize in Public Service Outreach

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Bira van Kolck, 2019

https://facultyaffairs.arizona.edu/awards-distinction

Recent awardees: 

  • Prof. Shawn Jackson, 2021

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Brokk Toggerson, 2015

National and International Awards

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

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Sam Gralla, 2025: news article
  • 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

Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Recent awardees:

Dwight Nicholson Medal 

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Charles Falco, 2015

Maria Goeppert Mayer Award

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Elisabeth Krause, 2020

DOE Early Career Award

Recent awardees:

NSF CAREER Award

Recent awardees:

Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) Grant

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Shufeng Zhang, 2024
  • Prof. Weigang Wang, 2024

Major Research Instrumentation Grant

  • Prof. Arvinder Sandhu (Hassan, Monti, Rolles), 2019

https://sloan.org/fellowships

Recent awardees:

  • Prof. Elisabeth Krause, 2021: news article
  • Prof. Eduardo Rozo, 2016: news article
  • Prof. Bira van Kolck, 2002
  • Prof. Bruce Barrett, 1972

AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science

  • Prof. Pierre Meystre, 2004 (joint) 

Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Young Investigator Research Program

  • Mohammed Hassan, 2019
  • John Schaibley, 2016

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

  • ATLAS Collaboration, 2025

Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing Fellow

  • John Schaibley, 2024
  • Weigang Wang, 2024

Council for International Exchange of Fulbright Scholars 

  • Johann Rafelski, 2019
  • Ludwik Adamowicz, 2001 (joint) 

European Physical Society - High Energy and Particle Physics Prize

  • CDF and DO Collaborations (Cheu, Johns, Rutherfoord, Varnes, Shupe), 2019

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

  • John Schaibley, 2025

Guiness Book of World Records - Fastest Electron miscroscope

  • Mohammed Hassan, 2025

Kenneth G. Wilson Award for Excellence in Lattice Field Theory

IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in General Relativity and Gravitation

  • Prof. Sam Gralla, 2018

Lawrence Livermore National Library - Kenneth G. Wilson Award

  • Prof Stefan Meinel, 2015

Microscopy Today Innovation award

  • Prof. Mohammed Hassan, 2025

National Academy of Sciences - Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellows 

  • Prof. Keith Dienes, 2004

Research Corporation for Science Advancement - Cottrell Singular Exceptional Endeavors of Discovery

  • Prof. Eduardo Rozo, 2025

Research Corporation for Science Advancement - Cottrell Scholar

  • Prof. Eduardo Rozo, 2018

Science Foundation Arizona - Bisgrove Scholars Early Career Award

  • Prof. John Schaibley, 2017

U.S. Universities and Laboratories that are part of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider - Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Prof. John Rutherfoord, 2023

Udall Center Faculty Fellow

  • Alex Cronin, 2015

W.M. Keck Award for Effort to Achieve a Scientific First

  • Mohammed Hassan, 2020