Physics and Astronomy Blog

2016 Student Awards Ceremony held April 1st

2016 Student Awards Receipents
Girish Sharma, Gary Vestal, Jaclyn Schmitt, Joshua Hanson, and Amber Porter. Not shown: Emily Thompson.

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.

 Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • 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
College of Engineering and Science
  • 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
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program – Emily Thompson
Congratulations to all our students!

2015 Physics and Astronomy Student Awards

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.