HMC
Physics Awards
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:
- 27 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 Apker finalists, in 2004, 2008, and 2009
- 3 winners of Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships since 1998
- Andrew Higginbotham (’09) and Kit Rodolfa (’04) winning Churchill Fellowships to spend a year of graduate study in England
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