The Department of Physics Undergraduate Studies Committee has chosen this year's undergraduate award winners. Congratulations to this year's scholarship recipients!

Freshman Award
This award, provided by the Hazel Brown scholarship fund, was established to recognize and encourage high academic achievement by physics and engineering physics majors.  In addition to the academic recognition, the Department of Physics is pleased to provide students with a $50.00 scholarship which can be used to cover educational expenses such as books and other supplies.

• Hirak Basu
• Henry Cregar (not pictured)
• Nicholas Flinner
• Thomas Giles
• Ian Harris
• Yating Huang
• Katherine Indyk
• Datong Jin
• Salim Karimov
• Luke Knull
• Hannah Lyons
• Pallav Pant
• Emilie Pierce (not pictured)
• Kyle Provonsil
• Pushkar Shirahatti
• Ashley Tarrant
• Leo Wang
• Dylan Wells (not pictured)
• Mingxuan Wu
• Haiyang Zheng

Smith Sophomore Award
This award, provided by the Alva Smith scholarship fund, was established to recognize and encourage high academic achievement by sophomore physics and engineering physics majors. In addition to the academic recognition, the Department of Physics is pleased to provide students with a $250.00 scholarship for the following academic year.

• Rakhi Bawa
• Sam Bellman
• Harrison Blake
• Daniel Boyea
• Michael Burnes (not pictured)
• Ojas Deshpande (not pictured)
• Andrew Dorner
• Kalpak Dudella
• Pranav Jois
• Nigel Krekeler
• Ryan ODonnell
• Anya Phillips
• Alyssa Whalen
• Huihao Zhang

Smith Junior Award
This award, provided by the Jack C. and Charlotte D. Smith scholarship fund, was established to recognize and encourage high academic achievement by junior physics and engineering physics majors. In addition to the academic recognition, the Department of Physics is pleased to provide students with a $500.00 scholarship for the following academic year.

• Tayt Armitage 
• James Blackshire (not pictured)
• Cullen Gantenberg
• Candice Kang (not pictured)
• Tony Lobdell (not pictured)
• Noah Malik
• Sean Myers (not pictured)
• Mackenzie Scott
• Matt Shmukler

Smith Senior Award
This award, provided by the Alpheus W. and Adah B. Smith scholarship fund scholarship fund, was established to recognize and encourage high academic achievement by senior physics and engineering physics majors. In addition to the academic recognition, the Department of Physics is pleased to provide students with a $750.00 end of the year award.

Noah Chongsiriwatana

• Carson Cooper
• Leo Deer
• Haley Kieffer
• Allison Lucas
• Peter Menart
• Alex Patton
• Mingqi Sun

Bunny and Thomas Clark Scholarship
This scholarship, endowed by faculty emeritus Bunny Clark, supports diversity by providing a scholarship to undergraduate students within the Department of Physics who show strong service to the department. Recipients receive a $1,000 scholarship for the following academic year.

• Manali Nayak
• Rachel Slaybaugh