The Outstanding Lecturer Award is open to all lecturers and senior lecturers with at least one year of service in the Department of Physics, and is given to recognize exemplary contributions to the Department of Physics by a lecturer. This award is presented at the Department of Physics Spring Picnic each year.

Previous recipients of the award are:

2025: Andrew Dougherty and Parisa Roustazadeh

2024: Beatriz Burrola Gabilondo and Chelsea Hendrus