News: Awards

Graduate student Daine Danielson has been awarded the 2020 Hertz Foundation Fellowship, which supports five years of graduate research as well as lifelong professional support, including mentoring and networking within a connected, influential community of Hertz Scholars. Danielson's research explores the phenomenology of fundamental particles and fields, developing novel applications toward nuclear security and nonproliferation, and deepening our understanding of the natural world.

Congrats to our current and incoming graduate students for receiving NSF Graduate Student Fellowships and honorable mentions!

Paolo Privitera has been selected as a winner of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring.

Recent alumnus Bjorn Scholz has been honored by the American Physical Society.

First-year graduate student Daine Danielson has been awarded the 2019 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award by the US Department of Energy for his work on, "Directionally Accelerated Detection of a Second, Unknown Reactor with Antineutrinos for Mid-Field Nonproliferation Monitoring."

First-year graduate student Tali Khain has been awarded an APS Apker Award for outstanding achievement by an undergraduate student. She did her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan. She ours now!

Associate Professor Michael Levin

Professor John Carlstrom

PECASE Award for Professor Vieregg

Physics major Maritha Wang awarded a Goldwater Scholarship.

Professors Son and Levin receive Simons Foundation grant

Dr. Walter Massey was a Professor of Physics while Director of Argonne National Laboratory. He has been honored for his leadership while on our faculty and many other accomplishments by the National Science Board.