Professor Petersen and a student enjoying a Physics Department social in the Hixon Court.

Besides moving on to excellent graduate programs and permanent jobs, our students win a variety of awards both within in the College and at the national level. Some recent highlights include:

• 19 winners of prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships since 1997
• 3 winners of the American Physical Society’s Apker Award for the outstanding physics student in the country, in 1998, 2003, and 2006
• 3 winners of Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships since 1998
• Kit Rodolfa (’04) winning a Churchill Fellowship to spend a year of graduate study in England

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