The Department of Physics Undergraduate Studies Committee has chosen this year's undergraduate award winners. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to recognize this year's award recipients during the annual undergraduate awards ceremony but students will receive a certificate along with a monetary award. Congratulations to this year's award winners!

Freshman Book Award
This award, provided by the Alva Smith 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 gift certificate which can be used to cover educational expenses such as books and other supplies.

• Tayt Armitage
• James Blackshire
• Hetanshu Choksi
• Ethan Fahimi
• Simon Filbert
• Aditi Fulsundar
• Cullen Gantenberg
• Alex Giovannone
• Matthew Lastovka
• Anthony Lobdell
• Mohammad Musa
• Sean Patrick Myers
• Santhusht Prasad
• Ethan Schieb
• Matvey Shmukler
• Thomas Zhang
• Zhengyuan Zhang
• Abel Aebker
• Cecilia Russell
• Lauren Robinson
• Jessy Wu

Smith Sophomore Award
This award, provided by the Jack C. and Charlotte D. 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.

• Leonard Deer
• Matthew Freudenrich
• Peter Menart
• Nathaniel Taylor
• Alexander Patton
• Frederick Cooper
• Noah Chongsiriwatana
• Avidaan Srivastava
• Zachary Levy
• Yuanyuan Yang

Smith Junior Award
This award, provided by the Alpheus W. and Adah B. 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.

• Danielle Bingman
• Boyu Gao
• Luca Lavezzo
• Emily Osborne
• Cade Sbrocco
• Caitlin Patterson

Smith Senior Award
This award, provided by the Alpheus W. and Adah B. Smith 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.

• Dhvanil Desai
• Jiasheng He
• Omar Mansour
• Lucas Nestor
• Victoria Niu
• Chase Wallace
   

Senior Alumni Award
This award, provided by the Alpheus W. and Adah B. Smith scholarship fund, was established to recognize the top students in the graduating class. In addition to the academic recognition, the Department of Physics is pleased to provide students with a $1,000.00 end of the year award.

• Kyle DeBry
• Michael Heinz
   

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.

• Caitlin Patterson

Valentino Scholarship
The Physics Valentino Academic Achievement Scholarship provides an $8,000/year scholarship to incoming freshmen planning to major in Physics or Engineering Physics. This scholarship has been possible due to the generosity of Michael Valentino and Family.  

• Nigel Krekeler
   

James Smith Student Support Scholarship
The James L. Smith Student Support Scholarship was established in 2016 and is targeted toward physics and engineering physics majors who are working to cover college-related expenses.  The goal of this scholarship is to make it possible for students to work fewer hours so they can dedicate more time to school work and research.

• Julian Castro
• Simon Filbert
• Candice Kang
• Elijah Kritzell
• Victor Olivares
• Liam Ramsey