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 |