Category: Student Awards

Thanks again everyone for coming out to run the Clemson CES Fit Run 5k. A special thanks to Dr. Hugo Sanabria and Patti Larsen for joining us in representing our department.

While Mathematical Science took home the department award for the second straight year, the Society of Physics Students won the club award.

Our very own Jordan Eagle won the award for first place female finisher! Very impressive!!

Go tigers!

The Department of Physics & Astronomy honored this year’s departmental award recipients in its annual ceremony on April 1 and also acknowledged college-level and national scholarship awardees. Department awardees names are forwarded to the college for consideration in the CoES awards.

• Outstanding Graduate Researcher: Girish Sharma
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Amber Porter
• L.D. Huff Junior Award: Gary Vestal
• L.D. Huff Sophomore Award: Joshua Hanson
• Erin Samantha Cawthorne Award: Jaclyn Schmitt
• SPS Senior Award: Emily Thompson

• Outstanding Graduate Researcher: Girish Sharma (Condensed Matter, advisor: Professor Sumanta Tewari)
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant: Dhruva Kulkarni (Condensed Matter, advisor: Professor Chad Sosolik)
• Outstanding Senior in the Sciences: Emily Thompson
• Outstanding Junior in the Sciences: Gary Vestal

Emily Thompson, a graduating senior, is awarded an National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. For the 2016 competition, NSF received close to 17,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution), opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education they choose.

The Department of Physics & Astronomy would like to congratulate Ms. Thompson on her accomplishments and outstanding work at Clemson and are excited to be see her research, science, and discovery in the years to come.

Our outstanding students are winning honors and awards again. Emily Thompson (Junior) is a winner of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and the Outstanding Junior in Science in the College of Engineering and Science. Marharyta (Margo) Petukh is the Outstanding Graduate Researcher in the College of Engineering and Science.

Biophysics student Marharyta (Margo) Petukh has been named Clemson University’s Outstanding Graduate Researcher for 2015.