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Home   |   Programs   |   Prizes, Awards and Fellowships   |   Prizes   |   Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution

Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution

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To honor a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional development of undergraduate physics students. The prize consists of a $5,000 stipend to the prize recipient and a separate $5,000 unrestricted grant for the research to the prize recipient's institution. An additional allowance will be provided for travel expenses to the APS meeting at which the prize ceremony will take place, and a certificate citing the contributions by the recipient. The prize is presented annually.

Establishment & Support

The prize was established in 1984 by a grant from the Research Corporation, a private foundation for the advancement of science and technology.

Rules & Eligibility

The prize will be given to a physics faculty member at an undergraduate institution. The recipient will have been recognized as contributing substantially to physics research and providing inspirational guidance and encouragement of undergraduate students participating in this research. A nominee must be from the faculty of a predominantly undergraduate institution in the United States. The nominee's department may offer a program leading to a masters degree but shall not have a doctoral program in physics. Nominations are active for three years.

In addition to the normal requirements for an APS Prize or Award, nominations for this Prize should also include a publication list that highlights student co-authors, including whether these students are high school, undergraduate or graduate students.

Nomination & Selection Process

This year’s deadline has passed.  Please check back soon for next year’s nomination information and deadline.

2009 Selection Committee: John F. Mateja, Michael Thoennessen, Michael R. Brown, Robert B. Hallock, Kenneth D. Singer

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2010 Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution Recipient:
Enrique Galvez
Colgate University

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Past Recipients:

2009: James C. Eckert
2008: Michael R. Brown
2007: William K. Wootters
2006: Q. Charles Su
Rainer Grobe
2005: Murtadha Khakoo
2004: Nancy Haegel
2003: Dhiraj K. Sardar
2002: James Cederberg
2001: Paul DeYoung
2000: Donald Thomas Jacobs
1999: Robert Edson Warner
1998: Richard W. Peterson
1997: Robert C. Hilborn
1996: David Peak
1995: Michael E. Sadler
1994: Peter J. Collings
1993: Steven Feller
1992: Joseph Trivisonno, Jr.
1991: Larry R. Hunter
1990: Jacob J. Leventhal
1989: Stuart B. Crampton
1988: R. Bruce Partridge
1987: Roger W. Bland
1986: Jerry P. Gollub
 
 
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