Recent Awards
The Faculty of the WSU Department of Physics and Astronomy is recognized nationally and internationally. Among our faculty are six NSF CAREER Award winners, one PECASE award winner, one DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, one Alfred Sloan Fellow, and seven American Physical Society Fellows.
| 2015 | Alexey A Petrov | American Physical Society Fellowship | |
| Takeshi Sakamoto | National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award | ||
| Sergei Voloshin | Outstanding American Physical Society Referee | ||
| 2014 | Alexey A Petrov | FNAL Intensity Frontier Fellowship URA Visiting Scholar Award | |
| 2013 | Ratna Naik | Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award | |
| Robert L. Thomas | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| 2012 | Sergei Voloshin | WSU Academy of Scholars | |
| Alexey A Petrov | Physics Letters Certificate of Reviewing Excellency (Elsevier) | ||
| Jerry Dunifer | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| Walter Kauppila | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| 2011 | Sergei Voloshin | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | |
| Punya Talagala | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| 2010 | Sean Gavin | WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching | |
| Gavin Lawes | WSU Career Development Chair | ||
| Paul E Karchin | WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| Alexey A Petrov | WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| Paul Karchin Zhixian Zhou | College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| 2009 | Claude Pruneau | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | |
| Peter Hoffmann | WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching | ||
| Boris Nadgorny | WSU Career Development Chair | ||
| ZhiFeng Huang | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| 2008 | Peter Hoffmann | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | |
| Ratna Naik | WSU Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award | ||
| Alexey A Petrov | WSU Career Development Chair | ||
| Steven Rehse | College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| Sergei Voloshin | American Physical Society Fellowship | ||
| 2007 | Sean Gavin | WSU Career Development Chair | |
| Peter Hoffmann | WSU Career Development Chair | ||
| Emil Kaczor | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Staff Award | ||
| Gavin Lawes | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| Alexey A Petrov | WSU Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award | ||
| Jose Riso | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Staff Award | ||
| Punya Talagala | Women of Wayne Alumni Association Research Grant Career Development Grant from the ESCALATE project of WSU | ||
| Jo Wadehra | College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| 2006 | Thomas Cormier | Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship | |
| Sean Gavin | Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award | ||
| Ashis Mukhopadhyay | College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| Alexey A Petrov | WSU Academy of Scholars' Outstanding Junior Faculty Award | ||
| Claude Pruneau | WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching | ||
| 2005 | Sean Gavin | Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) | |
| Alexey A Petrov | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award | ||
| 2004 | Sean Gavin | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award | |
| Peter Hoffmann | College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| Alexey A Petrov | College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | ||
| William Rolnick | WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award | ||
| 2003 | Sean Gavin | College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | |
| 2002 | Robert Harr | College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | |
| Peter Hoffmann | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award | ||
| Boris Nadgorny | NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award | ||
| Alexey A Petrov | Frontier Science Golden Award (INFN, Italy) | ||
| 2001 | Caroline Morgan | College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award | |
| Punya Talagala | College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award |