Graduate Student Recognitions

Honors, awards and recognitions achieved by our graduate students

Year	Recipient	Recognition
2023	Danielle Dickinson	Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Award
2023	Ranadeep Dastidar	Award for Most Contribution to Our graduate Community - in Honor of Sandy Formica. Given for For greatest contribution to the graduate community in the department of physics & astronomy.
2023	Ravishankar Subramaniam	Fellow into the Purdue University Teaching Academy
2023	Razan (Rosie) Hamed	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2023	Ravishankar Subramaniam	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2022	Amanda Depoian-Baxter	Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award for Physics and Astronomy
2022	Robert Orlando	Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award for Physics and Astronomy
2022	Dr. James Nakamura	Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize
2022	Dr. Cheng-An Chen	Springer Thesis Award
2021	Megan McDuffie	Purdue University Mortar Board Graduate Fellowship
2019	Katherine Schreiber	Springer Thesis Award
2018	Amandeep Bakshi	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2018	David Blasing	Purdue University Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award
2018	Harshad Sahasrabudhe	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2017	Peter Anderson	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2017	David Blasing	Purdue University Class of 1922 Outstanding Innovation in Helping Students Learn Award
2017	Darryl Masson	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2016	Andrew Hesselbrock	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2016	Kelsie Niffenegger	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2015	Ian Arnold	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2015	Michael Meier	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2015	Zachary Mitchell	Purdue University Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award
2015	Cyrus Vandrevala	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2014	Ian Arnold	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2014	David Blasing	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2014	Kelsie Niffenegger	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2014	Haoyu Wang	CAARI 2014 Outstanding Poster Award
2014	Haoyu Wang	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2013	Jordan Heim	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2013	Jordan Heim	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2013	Daniel Merrill	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2012	Adrien Chauvet	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2012	John Doyle	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2012	Jonathan Nistor	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2012	Cyrus Vandrevala	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2011	Adrien Chauvet	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2011	Katherine Davis	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2011	Ajith Rajapaksha-Mudalige	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2011	Brendan Sullivan	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2011	John Watson	Outstanding Student Poster, North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference
2010	Christos Deligkaris	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2010	Christos Deligkaris	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2010	Alyssa Garrelts	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2010	Alyssa Garrelts	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2010	Daniel Hartzler	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2010	Jordan Heim	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2010	Robert Niffenegger	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2009	Glynn Bricker	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2009	John Buncher	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2009	Eric Clausen-Brown	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2009	Richard Garrelts	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2009	Steven Kane	Travel and Research Award, Midwest Crossroads Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate
2009	Andrew Kramer	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2009	Yihong Liu	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2009	Jonathan Nistor	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2009	Abraham Olson	National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
2009	Abraham Olson	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2009	Deepak Pandey	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2009	Gregory Robison	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2009	John Watson	Sandia Laboratories Purdue University Excellence in Science and Engineering Fellowship
2009	Sannah Ziama	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2008	Helin Cao	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2008	David Lomiashvili	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2008	Andrew Irrgang	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2008	Xin Li	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2008	Eric Sword	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2008	Yu Zheng	Research Poster Award, Large Hadron Collider Users Meeting
2007	Samarth Agarwal	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2007	Glynn Bricker	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2007	Glynn Bricker	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2007	Babita Dhayal	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2007	Vinh Diep	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2007	Peter Dudley	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2007	Chen Fang	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2007	Brandon Hogan	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2007	Andrew Irrgang	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2007	Joshua Mattes	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2007	Deepak Pandey	AAPT Outstanding Teaching Assistant
2007	Benjamin Phillabaum	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2006	Stefano Chesi	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2006	Jacob Hale	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2006	Gabor Pszota	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2006	George Simion	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2005	Laura Biederman	Sandia Laboratories Purdue University Excellence in Science and Engineering Fellowship
2005	Naranbaatar Dashdorj	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2005	Xiangshun Lu	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2005	Joshua Mattes	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2005	Jacob Millspaw	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2005	Ricardo Vasquez	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2004	Teepanis Chachiyo	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2004	Bernard Griggs II	Purdue University Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher
2004	Kwan Jeong	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2004	Xiangshun Lu	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2003	Kim Giolo	Grodzins Summer Research Award
2003	Xiangshun Lu	Grodzins Summer Research Award