Faculty awards

The faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is recognized nationally and internationally. Among our faculty are six NSF CAREER Award winners, one PECASE award winner, one DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator, one Alfred Sloan Fellow and seven American Physical Society Fellows.

Year Name Award
2022 Chris Kelly WSU Career Development Chair Award
2022 Alexey A Petrov Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award
2021 David Cinabro Academy of Scholars
2021 Peter Hoffmann Academy of Teachers
2021 Alexey A Petrov Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
2021 Alexey A Petrov URA Visiting Scholar Award
2021 Alexey A Petrov Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
2021 Nausheen R. Shah Profiles in Warrior Strong
2021 Chun Shen DOE Early Career Award
2021 Sergei Voloshin Distinguished Faculty Fellowship
2021 Zhixian Zhou Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
2019 Edward Cackett Sultana N Nahar Prize for Distinction in Research in Physics and Astronomy
2019 Chris Kelly College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2019 Gil Paz Lady Davis Visiting Associate Professor
2019 Gil Paz WSU Career Development Chair Award
2019 Claude Pruneau Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award
2019 Nausheen R. Shah Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2019 Chun Shen  IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics 2019
2018 Abhijit Majumder Sultana N Nahar Prize for Distinction in Research in Physics and Astronomy
2018 Gil Paz Simons Fellow in Theoretical Physics
2018 Alexey A Petrov C.H. Gershenson Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
2018 Alexey A Petrov Academy of Scholars
2018 Joern Putschke WSU Career Development Chair Award
2018 Alvin Saperstein Tikkun Olam Repairing the World Award
2018 Jo Wadehra Outstanding Graduate Director Service Award
2018 Jo Wadehra Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2017 Edward Cackett WSU Career Development Chair Award
2017 Edward Cackett Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2017 Chris Kelly National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2017 Chris Kelly Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2017 Abhijit Majumder WSU Career Development Chair Award
2017 Gil Paz College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2017 Gil Paz Fermilab Intensity Frontier Fellowship Program
2016 Alexey A Petrov Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2015 Edward Cackett Wayne State University Academy of Scholars Junior Faculty Award
2015 Alexey A Petrov American Physical Society Fellowship
2015 Takeshi Sakamoto National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2015 Sergei Voloshin Outstanding American Physical Society Referee
2014 Edward Cackett National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2014 Alexey A Petrov FNAL Intensity Frontier Fellowship
2013 Ratna Naik Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
2013 Robert L. Thomas Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2012 Jerry Dunifer Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2012 Walter Kauppila Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2012 Alexey A Petrov Physics Letters Certificate of Reviewing Excellency (Elsevier)
2012 Sergei Voloshin WSU Academy of Scholars
2011 Punya Talagala Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2011 Sergei Voloshin Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2010 Sean Gavin WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
2010 Paul E Karchin WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award
2010 Paul E Karchin Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2010 Paul Karchin College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2010 Gavin Lawes WSU Career Development Chair Award
2010 Alexey A Petrov WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award
2010 Alexey A Petrov Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2010 Zhixian Zhou College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2009 Peter Hoffmann WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
2009 Zhi-Feng Huang NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2009 Zhi-Feng Huang College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2009 Boris Nadgorny WSU Career Development Chair Award
2009 Claude Pruneau Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2008 Peter Hoffmann Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2008 Ratna Naik WSU Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
2008 Alexey A Petrov WSU Career Development Chair
2008 Steven Rehse College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2008 Sergei Voloshin American Physical Society Fellowship
2007 Sean Gavin WSU Career Development Chair
2007 Peter Hoffmann Career Development Chair
2007 Emil Kaczor Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Staff Award
2007 Gavin Lawes NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2007 Gavin Lawes College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2007 Alexey A Petrov WSU Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award
2007 Jose Riso Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Staff Award
2007 Punya Talagala Women of Wayne Alumni Association Research Grant
2007 Punya Talagala Career Development Grant from the ESCALATE project of WSU
2007 Jo Wadehra College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2006 Thomas Cormier Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship
2006 Thomas Cormier Elected to WSU Academy of Scholars
2006 Sean Gavin Dept. of Physics' Richard J Barber Faculty Award
2006 Ashis Mukhopadhyay College of Liberal Arts and Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2006 Alexey A Petrov WSU Academy of Scholars' Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
2006 Claude Pruneau WSU President's Award for Excellence in Teaching
2005 Sean Gavin Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2005 Alexey A Petrov NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2004 Sean Gavin NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2004 Peter Hoffmann College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2004 Alexey A Petrov College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2004 William Rolnick WSU Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award
2003 Sean Gavin College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2002 Robert Harr College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2002 Peter Hoffmann NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2002 Boris Nadgorny NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
2002 Alexey A Petrov Frontier Science Golden Award (INFN, Italy)
2001 Caroline Morgan College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award
2001 Punya Talagala College of Science's Excellence in Teaching Award