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2007

Joe Eberly Serves as President of the Optical Society of America in 2007

 

Ching Tang Receives the 2007 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award

 

Ernest Courant (UR Physics PhD 1943), Father of Modern Particle Accelerators, Receives the 2007 University of Rochester distinguished scholar award

  John Tarduno Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union in 2007
  Gao Awarded a Bridging Fellowship to the Department of Biomedical Engineering for Fall 2007
  Judy Pipher Inducted into Hall of Fame: National Women's Hall of Fame to Honor Judy Pipher and Eight Others
 

Chuang Ren Receives an Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award from the Department of Energy

  John Tarduno Receives 2007 Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  Mark Bocko Receives 2007 University Dean's Award for Meritorious Service in Ph.D. Defenses
  Steve Manly Receives 2007 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
  Ashok Das Receives Fulbright to Teach in Brazil
  Nicholas P. Bigelow Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
  Lukas Novotny Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
2006 Joe Eberly Serves as President-Elect of the Optical Society of America in 2006
 

Nicholas P. Bigelow and Ashok Das Win Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

  Chuang Ren Awarded DOE Junior Faculty Development Grant in Plasma Physics
  Okubo Recieves the 2006 Wigner Medal for the Application of Group Theory in Physics
  Dan Watson Receives 2006 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching
 

John Tarduno Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

 

John Howell Receives Adolph Lamb Medal from the Optical Society of America

 

Ashok Das Receives University Graduate Teaching Award

  Esther Conwell Receives Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 Joe Eberly Elected as Vice President of the Optical Society of America in 2005
  Dan Watson Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
 

Lynne Orr Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

  Kevin McFarland Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
  Eric Blackman Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
  John Howell Awarded Presidential PECASE Award June 2005
  Arie Bodek Named as First George E. Pake Professor of Physics
  Frank Awarded University Bridging Fellowship for Fall 2005
  Okubo Receives the 2005 Sakuri Prize of the American Physical Society
2004

Lynne H. Orr and Dan Watson Win Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

  Nicholas Bigelow Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
  Arie Bodek Receives 2004 University Award for Graduate Teaching
  Arie Bodek Wins 2004 Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
2003 Dan M. Watson Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
 

Steven Manly Named 2003 Carnegie Foundation's New York State Professor of the Year

 

Shaul Mukamel Wins Optical Society of America Award

 

Nicholas Bigelow and David Meyerhoffer Receive Dean's Award

 

Jack Crow (UR PAS PhD 1967) Director of National Magent Laboratory Receives UR Distinguished Scholar Medal in 2003

  Douglass Awarded University Bridging Fellowship
2002 Thomas Ferbel Wins Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
 

Ashok Das and David Meyerhofer Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society

  Thomas Ferbel Awarded a Senior PPARC Fellowship For a Sabbatical Year at Imperial College
  Emil Wolf Receives Esther Hoffman Beller Award From the Optical Society of America
  Kevin McFarland Receives NSF CAREER Award
  Department of Physics and Astronomy Ranked 6th Nationwide in Atomic/Molecular/Optical/Plasma in US News Survey
 

Robert Boyd Named as the First M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics

 

Steven Manly Named College's Mercer Brugler Distinguished Teaching Professor

  Paul Horn (PhD 1973) Senior Vice President and Director of Research at IBM to be Awarded the 2002 Hutchison Medal in 2002
 

Stephen Teitel Awarded University Bridging Fellowship

 

Judith Pipher Receives University's Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award

2001 Judith L. Pipher Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
  Riccardo Betti, Robert Boyd, Thomas Foster and Paul Tipton Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
  Department of Physics and Astronomy Ranked 2nd Nationwide in Overall Graduate Student Satisfaction
  Leonard Mandel Elected a Member of the National Academy
  Kevin McFarland Receives Cottrel Scholars Award
 

Paul Tipton and Senior Research Associate Pawel deBarbaro Selected to Serve on National Department of Energy Committees

 

Kevin McFarland Selected to Serve on DOE/NSF Panel to Chart Next 20 Years for High Energy Physics

2000

Lynne H. Orr and Steve Teitel Win Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester

  Stephen Teitel and John Thomas Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
 

Joseph Eberly Named a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences

  Nicholas Bigelow Named Lee A. DuBridge Chair in Physics
  Joseph Eberly Receives University's Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Education
  Eric Blackman Receives Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Development Award From Department of Energy
  Emil Wolf Receives University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching
  Masatoshi Koshiba, PAS PHD (1955) University of Tokyo, Receives UR Distinguished Scholar Medal in 2000