Faculty Honors

Honors, awards and recognition achieved by our faculty

Faculty Awards and Honors

Year	Recipient	Award/Honor
2024	Gabor Csathy	Named American Physical Society Fellow
2024	Chris Greene	Purdue University Morrill Award
2024	Paul Duffell	Excellence in Graduate Advising
2024	Paul Duffell	SPIRA Award for Graduate Teaching
2024	Dan Milisavljevic	SPIRA Award for Undergraduate Teaching
2024	Qi Zhou	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2023	Niranjan Shivaram and Chris Greene	W. M. Keck Foundation Grant
2023	Tongcang Li	Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award
2023	Nat Lifton	2023 Kirk Bryan Award – Geological Society of America
2023	Maxim Lyutikov	2023 American Physical Society Fellow
2023	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Dean's Award for Achievement, University at Buffalo
2023	Sanjay Rebello	Excellence in Graduate Advising
2023	Birgit Kaufmann	Purdue Insights Forum Fellow
2023	Chris Greene	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2023	Ken Ritchie	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2023	Tongcang Li	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2022	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Elected, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2022	Andreas Jung	Ulrich Bonse Visiting Chair for Instrumentation, TU Dortmund, Germany
2022	Danny Milisavljevic	Exceptional Early Career Teaching Award for Purdue University
2022	Danny Milisavljevic	PGSA Outstanding Advisor Award
2022	Chris Greene	Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2022	Arnab Banerjee	Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2021	Alex Ruichao Ma	NSF CAREER award
2021	Andreas Jung	CERN Associate Scientist
2021	Rafael Lang	APS Division of Particles and Fields Mentorship Award 2021
2021	Yong Chen	Herbert Newby McCoy Award
2021	Michael Manfra	Arden L. Bement Jr. Award
2021	Michael Manfra	Falling Walls Foundation honor
2021	Rafael Lang	Excellence in Graduate Advising
2021	Chris Greene	Ruth and Joel Spira Award, Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2021	Ken Ritchie	Ruth and Joel Spira Award Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2020	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2020	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2020	Michael Manfra	Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy
2020	Yulia Pushkar	Showalter University Faculty Scholars
2020	Chris Greene	Herbert Newby McCoy Award
2020	Paul Muzikar	Ruth and Joel Spira Award, Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2020	Tongcang Li	Excellence in Graduate Advising
2020	David Nolte	Ruth and Joel Spira Award Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2020	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Society's Reginald Fessenden Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists
2020	Dan Milisavljevic	Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching by an Assistant Professor, Purdue University College of Science
2019	Erica Carlson	Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award
2019	Yong Chen	Velux Foundation Villum Investigator
2019	Tomás Díaz de la Rubia	Honorary Doctorate, Universidad Nacional del Centro del Peru
2019	Chris Greene	Member, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
2019	Chen-Lung Hung	NSF CAREER Award
2019	Andreas Jung	LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher
2019	Sergei Khlebnikov	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2019	Dan Milisavljevic	PGSA Outstanding Advisor
2019	David Miller	Purdue University College of Science Undergraduate Advising Award
2019	Paul Muzikar	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2019	Carina Rebello	Purdue University College of Science Outstanding Teacher
2019	Carina Rebello	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2019	Leonid Rokhinson	Purdue University College of Science Research Award
2018	Marc Caffee	Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2018	Erica Carlson	Purdue University 150th Anniversary Professor
2018	Erica Carlson	Purdue University Book of Great Teachers
2018	Srividya Iyer-Biswas	Ralph W. and Grace M. Showalter Research Trust Early Career Faculty Grant
2018	Srividya Iyer-Biswas	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2018	Martin Kruczenski	PGSA Outstanding Advisor
2018	Rafael Lang	Purdue University College of Science Research Award
2018	Sherwin Love	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2018	Maxim Lyutikov	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2017	Erica Carlson	Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy
2017	Mark Haugan	College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award
2017	Rafael Lang	Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching by an Assistant Professor, Purdue University College of Science
2017	Matthew Lister	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2017	Sherwin Love	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2017	Yulia Pushkar	PGSA Outstanding Advisor
2017	Yulia Pushkar	Purdue University College of Science Research Award
2017	Ken Ritchie	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2016	Yong Chen	Fellow, American Physical Society
2016	Gabor Csathy	PGSA Outstanding Advisor
2016	Gabor Csathy	Purdue University College of Science Research Award
2016	Sergei Khlebnikov	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2016	Tongcang Li	NSF CAREER Award
2016	Andrew Mugler	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2016	Norbert Neumeister	LHC Physics Center Distinguished Researcher
2016	David Nolte	Outstanding Commercialization Award for Purdue University Faculty
2016	Leonid Rokhinson	Fellow, American Physical Society
2015	Erica Carlson	Fellow, American Physical Society
2015	Stephen Durbin	Purdue University College of Science Team Award
2015	Rafael Lang	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2015	Sherwin Love	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2015	Michael Manfra	Fellow, American Physical Society
2015	Andrew Mugler	Simons Investigator in Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems, Simons Foundation
2015	Yulia Pushkar	PGSA Outstanding Advisor
2014	Marc Caffee	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2014	Marc Caffee	Fellow, Geological Society of America
2014	Martin Kruczenski	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2014	Michael Manfra	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2014	Jay Melosh	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
2014	Yulia Pushkar	NSF CAREER Award
2014	Chen Yang	PGSA Outstanding Advisor
2013	Marc Caffee	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2013	Erica Carlson	APS-IUSSTF Professorship Award
2013	Yong Chen	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2013	Chris Greene	2013 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
2013	Chris Greene	Albert Overhauser Distinguished Professor of Physics
2013	Birgit Kaufmann	NSF CAREER Award
2013	Matthew Lister	Purdue University College of Science Research Award
2013	Sherwin Love	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2013	Oana Malis	NSF CAREER Award
2013	David Nolte	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2013	David Nolte	Purdue University Discovery Park Fellow
2013	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Fellow, American Rock Mechanics Association
2012	Lynn Bryan	Outstanding Science Teacher Educator of the Year, Association for Science Teacher Education
2012	Marc Caffee	Fellow, Geological Society of America
2012	Martin Kruczenski	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2012	Maxim Lyutikov	Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics
2012	Paul Muzikar	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2012	Brian Todd	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2011	Jay Melosh	Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011	David Miller	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2011	Denes Molnar	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching
2011	Fuqiang Wang	Fellow, American Physical Society
2010	Daniela Bortoletto	Edward Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics
2010	Erica Carlson	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2010	Thomas Clark	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in graduate teaching
2010	Martin Kruczenski	NSF CAREER Award
2010	Denes Molnar	DOE Early Career Research Award
2010	Anant Ramdas	Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009	Erica Carlson	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in graduate teaching
2009	Anant Ramdas	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2009	Ian Shipsey	Appointed to PASAG the new joint DoE and NSF Particle Astrophysics Scientific Assessment Group
2009	Martin Kruczenski	Selected as Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
2008	Daniela Bortoletto	Reappointed to Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Subpanel of HEPAP
2008	Norbert Neumeister	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2008	Martin Kruczenski	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in graduate teaching
2008	Fuqiang Wang	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2007	Julie Conlon	Appointment to AAPT Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
2007	Steve Durbin	Appointment to the Physics Policy Committee of the APS
2007	Dan Elliott	Fellow, American Physical Society
2007	Nicholas Giordano	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2007	Gabriele Giuliani	Fellow, American Physical Society
2007	Ken Ritchie	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in graduate teaching
2007	Ian Shipsey	Chair of the American Physical Society W.K.H. Panofsky Prize Committee
2007	Ian Shipsey	Julian Schwinger Distinguished Professor of Physics
2006	Erica Carlson	Oustanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching, College of Science
2006	Erica Carlson	Cottrell Scholar Award
2006	Wei Cui	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2006	Gabriele Giuliani	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in graduate teaching
2006	Mark Haugan	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2006	Norbert Neumeister	Outstanding Junior Investigator Awards in High Energy Physics
2006	Ian Shipsey	Chair of the American Physical Society W.K.H. Panofsky Prize Committee
2005	Daniela Bortoletto	Elected to the Particle Physics Projects Prioritization Panel
2005	Daniela Bortoletto	High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) to the NSF and the DOE
2005	Erica Carlson	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2005	Sherwin Love	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in graduate teaching
2005	Sherwin Love	Fermilab Frontier Fellow
2005	David D. Nolte	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
2005	Albert W. Overhauser	Doctor of Science (Honorary), Purdue University
2005	Ian Shipsey	Vice Chair of the American Physical Society Panofsky Prize Committee
2005	Ian Shipsey	Co-recipient European Physical Society Prize in Particle Physics
2004	Daniela Bortoletto	Fellow, American Physical Society
2004	Daniela Bortoletto	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2004	Daniela Bortoletto	Elected to the DPF Executive Committee, American Physical Society (3 year term)
2004	Nicholas J. Giordano	Hubert James Distinguished Professor of Physics
2004	Nicholas J. Giordano	Indiana Professor of the Year
2004	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Associate Editor, American Geophysical Union journal
2004	Jorge Rodriguez	NSF Career Award (5 year)
2004	Leonid Rokhinson	NSF Career Award (5 year)
2003	Daniela Bortoletto	Elected to the DPF Executive Committee, American Physical Society
2003	Solomon Gartenhaus	One Brick Higher Award
2003	Nicholas J. Giordano	Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy
2003	Nicholas J. Giordano	Inducted into the Book of Great Teachers
2003	David Nolte	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2003	Ian Shipsey	Elected as the Spokesman for the CLEO collaboration
2003	Ian Shipsey	Inducted into the Book of Great Teachers
2003	Jay Melosh	Member, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
2002	Roberto Colella	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
2002	T.K. Kuo	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2002	David D. Nolte	Fellow, American Physical Society
2002	Anant K. Ramdas	Lark-Horovitz Distinguished Professor of Physics
2002	Anant K. Ramdas	Fellow of AVS, American Vacuum Society
2002	Ian Shipsey	Fellow, American Physical Society
2002	Fuqiang Wang	Outstanding Junior Investigator Award (DOE)
2001	Ephraim Fischbach	Fellow, American Physical Society
2001	Sergei Khlebnikov	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
2001	Anant K. Ramdas	Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
2001	Sergio Rodriguez	Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
2001	Ian Shipsey	Elected as the Spokesman for the CLEO collaboration
2000	Albert Chang	Fellow, American Physical Society
2000	Mark Haugan	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
2000	Laura Pyrak-Nolte	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
1999	Daniela Bortoletto	Purdue University Faculty Scholar
1999	Steve Durbin	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1999	Sherwin Love	Fellow, American Physical Society
1998	John Finley	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1998	Albert W. Overhauser	Doctor of Laws (Honorary), Simon Fraser University
1998	Ian Shipsey	Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy
1997	Daniela Bortoletto	NSF Faculty Early Career Developement Award
1997	Nicholas J. Giordano	Undergraduate Computational Science Award, DOE
1997	David D. Nolte	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1997	David D. Nolte	Fellow, Optical Society of America
1997	Arnold Tubis	Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
1996	Thomas E. Clark	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1996	Anant K. Ramdas	Fellow, Optical Society of America
1996	Anant K. Ramdas	Associate Fellow, The Third World Academy of Sciences
1995	Roberto Colella	Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow
1995	Sergei Khlebnikov	NSF Faculty Early Career Developement Award
1995	T.K. Kuo	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1995	Edward I. Shibata	International Research Fellow, U.S. National Science Foundation and Japan Foundation
1994	Daniela Bortoletto	NSF Career Advancement Award
1994	Daniela Bortoletto	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1994	Sergei Khlebnikov	DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
1994	Sergei Khlebnikov	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1994	Albert W. Overhauser	National Medal of Science
1994	Anant K. Ramdas	Frank Isakson Prize, American Physical Society
1994	Anant K. Ramdas	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
1994	Anant K. Ramdas	Sherman Fairchild Lecturer, Lehigh University
1994	Sergio Rodriguez	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
1994	Ian Shipsey	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1993	Anant K. Ramdas	Raman Chair, Indian Academy of Science
1992	Stephen M. Durbin	Class of 1941 Innovative Teaching Grant
1992	Nicholas J. Giordano	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
1992	Laszlo J. Gutay	National Medal of Honor, Hungary
1992	Frank J. Loeffler	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1992	David H. Miller	Elected as the Spokesman for the CLEO collaboration
1992	Hisao Nakanishi	Gordon Bell Prize for scientific & engineering application of parallel computing, IEEE & Gordon Bell
1992	Van E. Neie	Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Curriculum & Instruction
1992	Earl W. Prohofsky	Secretary-Treasurer, Division of Biological Physics, American Physical Society
	Ronald G. Reifenberger	Distinguished Physics Alumnus, John Carroll University
1992	Ian Shipsey	Superconducting Super Collider National Fellow
1992	Ian Shipsey	NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Award
1991	Nicholas J. Giordano	Fellow, American Physical Society
1991	David D. Nolte	NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
1991	Edward I. Shibata	Class of 1941 Innovative Teaching Grant
1990	Michael W. McElfresh	IBM Patent Achievement Award
1990	David D. Nolte	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1990	David D. Nolte	Young Author Best Paper Award
1989	Van E. Neie	Outstanding Teacher Awards, Kappa Delta Pi
1989	Van E. Neie	Purdue University Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in memory of Charles B. Murphy
1989	Van E. Neie	Ruth and Joel Spira Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching
1989	Anant K. Ramdas	Special Recognition by the American Chapter of the Indian Physics Association
1988	Van E. Neie	Humanities, Social Science and Education Departmental Award, Purdue University
1988	Anant K. Ramdas	Raman Centenary medal
1987	Stephen M. Durbin	NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
1987	Van E. Neie	Outstanding Teacher Awards, Kappa Delta Pi
1987	Albert W. Overhauser	Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
1985	Sherwin T. Love	DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
1985	Van E. Neie	Outstanding Teacher Awards, Kappa Delta Pi
1984	Laszlo J. Gutay	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
1984	Rolf P. Scharenberg	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
1982	Albert W. Overhauser	Counselor at Large, American Physical Society
1981	Thomas E. Clark	DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
1981	Paul C. Simms	Fellow, American Physical Society
1980	Louis A.P. Balazs	Fellow, American Physical Society
1980	Roberto Colella	Co-Editor, Acta Crystalographica
1980	Van E. Neie	First Prize, National Media Competition (Videotape Category), American Association of Physics Teachers
1980	Van E. Neie	Golden Tape Award (Video Production Excellence), Department of Physics, North Texas State University
1979	D. Duane Carmony	Senior Fulbright Fellow
1979	Nicholas J. Giordano	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1979	James G. Mullen	F.O.M. Fellow, The Netherlands
1979	Albert W. Overhauser	Doctor of Science (Honorary), University of Chicago
1979	Albert W. Overhauser	Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award
1978	Yeong E. Kim	Fellow, American Physical Society
1978	Albert W. Overhauser	Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Purdue University
1978	Albert W. Overhauser	Visiting Scientist of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1977	Arthur Garfinkel	Fulbright Research Travel Award
1977	Solomon Gartenhaus	Distinguished Visiting Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy
1977	Yeong E. Kim	Senior U.S. Scientist Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1977	Van E. Neie	Outstanding Teacher Awards, Kappa Delta Pi
1977	Albert W. Overhauser	Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award
1977	Anant K. Ramdas	Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award
1977	Arnold Tubis	Fellow, American Physical Society
1976	Albert W. Overhauser	Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
1976	Albert W. Overhauser	Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1975	D. Duane Carmony	Fellow, American Physical Society
1975	Albert W. Overhauser	Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society
1974	Sergio Rodriguez	Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award
1973	David H. Miller	Fellow, American Physical Society
1972	D. Duane Carmony	Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award
1972	D. Duane Carmony	Senior Scientist, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany
1972	David H. Miller	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow
1972	Rolf P. Scharenberg	Fellow, American Physical Society
1971	Albert W. Overhauser	Editor, Journal of Applied Physics
1970	Albert W. Overhauser	Fellow, American Physical Society
1969	Anant K. Ramdas	Fellow, American Physical Society
1969	Anant K. Ramdas	Fellow, the Indian Academy
1969	Sergio Rodriguez	Fellow, American Physical Society
1968	Laszlo J. Gutay	Fellow, American Physical Society
1967	Louis A.P. Balazs	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1967	Sergio Rodriguez	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow
1967	Donald Schlueter	Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Science, Purdue University
1963	Robert L. Mieher	Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
Other Honors	Roberto Colella	Fellow, American Physical Society
Other Honors	Solomon Gartenhaus	Fellow, American Physical Society
Other Honors	T.K. Kuo	Fellow, American Physical Society
Other Honors	Frank J. Loeffler	Fellow, American Physical Society
Other Honors	Robert L. Mieher	Fellow, American Physical Society
Other Honors	Earl W. Prohofsky	Fellow, American Physical Society