Congratulations to all of our graduates and award recipients. The following are awards and achievements for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Department Awards
| Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award | Joaquin Siado-Castaneda |
| Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award | Roshan Bengali |
| Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research | Benjamin Bradley |
| Undergraduate Merit Award for Academic Performance | Matthew Dunn |
| Roger & Suzanne Kirby Outstanding Physics Major Award | Seth Kurfman |
Undergraduate Fellowships
| Teaching Assistants | Roshan Bengali Nicole Benker Samantha Burtwistle Robert Carlson Shelby Clausen Austin Connor Zebulon Cooper Ellie Feis Jennifer Hamblin Matthew Hormandl Seth Kurfman Savanna McDonald Ashton Neylon Andrew O’Connell Hannah Paxton Emma Schneider Molly Seeger Zachary Smith |
| NASA Nebraska Space Grant | Nicole Benker Shelby Clausen Jennifer Hamblin Matthew Hormandl Celeste Labedz Savanna McDonald |
| SRC STARnet Undergraduate Research Internship | Jack Rodenburg Ethiyal Wilson |
| Darrell J. Nelson Summer Undergraduate Internship in Energy Sciences Research | Ethiyal Wilson |
| Finalist, ND Connect Competition | Ethiyal Wilson |
| Silicon Lab Research Recognition Award Presenter: Rachel Bartek |
Kevin Hagen |
| UCARE Award Recipients | Peter Kosch Jordan O’Neal Austin Schulte Zachary Smith |
Graduate Fellowships
| Chancellor’s Fellowship | Karl Ahrendsen |
| GAANN | Giovanni Baez Flores Colton Fruhling Corbyn Mellinger Noah Sutton |
| NASA Nebraska Space Grant | Jonathan Reyes Alexander Stamm |
| Othmer | Paulo Costa Elena Krivyakina |
| Bridging Program | Prescott Evans Travis Hutchins Christopher Keck Ross Kuchta Corbyn Mellinger Yu Hang Ng Shane Sandhoefner |
| NCMN Graduate Research Fellowship | Ivan Zhuravlev |
| 2015 AVS Graduate Research Award | Elena Maria Echeverria Mora |
| 2016 INTERMAG Best Student Presentation Award | Anil Rajapitamahuni |
Faculty Awards
| Elected to Board of Directors of the American Physical Society | Timothy Gay |
| Fellow of the American Physical Society | Dan Claes |
| Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry | Peter Dowben |
| NSF CAREER Award | Xiaoshan Xu |
| Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, UNL Parents Association and Teaching Council | Matthias Fuchs Orhan Yenen (received for 5th time) |
| Delivered 2015 Nebraska Lecture, the Chancellors Distinguished Lecture Series | Dan Claes |
| NCMN Ambassador Awards Presenter: Dr. David Sellmyer |
Shireen Adenwalla |
- Department Chair Dan Claes introduces the speaker and awards. Photo by Karl Ahrendsen
- Professor David Sellmyer presents Seth Kurfman with an NCMN student award. Photo by Karl Ahrendsen
- Joaquin Siado-Castaneda wins the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. Photo by Karl Ahrendsen
- Roshan Bengali wins the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award. Photo by Karl Ahrendsen
- Professor Ken Bloom introduces the undergraduate department awards. Photo by Karl Ahrendsen
- Benjamin Bradley wins the Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research. Photo by Karl Ahrendsen
