Awards, honors, and appointments
| Recipient Name | Reason for awards, honors and appointments | Award name or sponsor | Date | Award type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Sibener | Nominated by other members because of their distinguished research careers, impact on scientific advancement and benefit to the application of chemical science through public service, outreach, policy development and change, and through connecting or leading the chemical science community to provide solutions for societal challenges.Fellowship is the most senior category of membership and typically represents that a Fellow has an influential position in the chemistry community, possesses expertise and experience, and is committed to helping society understand and value the contributions of the chemical sciences. | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry | 2024 | Scientific |
| Liana Shpani | Selected as one of the 86 outstanding U.S. graduate students from a diverse pool of applicants based on merit review by external scientific experts. | DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program Fellow | 2024 | Scientific |
| Monika Yadav | Nominated by UC faculty and chosen after submitting an essay, letters of recommendation, an evaluation of their research accomplishments, and approval by the Lindau meetings organization in Germany. | Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Fellow, Lindau Council | 2024 | Scientific |
| Tyler Wu | Invited to give an oral presentation on his theory work applying Lippmann-Schwinger equation to photocathode materials | P3 Conference, Invitation to give an oral presentation | 2023 | Scientific |
| Alimohammed Kachwala | Experimental Research | William J. and Carol M. Motil Scholarship for Experimental Research | 2023 and 2024 | Scientific |
| Sadie Seddon-Stettler | Award for top performance at the 2023 Quantum Information Science Summer School | Top Performer Award - U.S. Quantum information Science Summer School | 2023 | Academic |
| David Garcia | Merit-based award supports the increased participation of historically underrepresented identities in the study of accelerator sciences. | Sekazi K. Mtingwa Scholarship | 2023 | Academic |
| Liana Shpani | For an oral presentation entitled "Development of High-performance Niobium-3 Tin Cavities at Cornell" | Early Career Investigator Award (SRF 2023 - 21st International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity) | 2023 | Scientific |
| Steve Sibener | Recipients of the Remsen award are chemists of outstanding achievement in keeping with Ira Remsen’s long and devoted career as an exponent of the highest standards in teaching and research in chemistry. | American Chemical Society Remsen Award | 2023 | Scientific |
| David Muller | Recognition of lifetime achievement to an international leader in the fields of diffraction physics or microscopy | International Microscopy Congress 2023 John Cowley Medal | 2023 | Scientific |
| Jared Maxson | Devotion to teaching | Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award | 2023 | Academic |
| James Rosenzweig | Career achievement in plasma acceleration | European Physical Society 2023 Hannes Alfven Prize in Plasma Physics | 2023 | Scientific |
| David Muller | Fellow of the AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science | 2023 | Scientific |
| Michelle Kelley | Theory work on anti-Q slope. | Invited Speaker by ISPC for SRF 2023 | 2023 | Scientific |
| Zhaslan Baraissov | MAS Microanalysis Society Best Paper Awards- Awarded for papers presented at the M&M meeting deemed to be best in four categories. | 2023 Microscopy & Microanalysis Student Scholar Award | 2023 | Scientific |
| Gevork Gevorkyan | International grant by laboratories and institutions in Asia, Europe,and Americas for students in the field of Accelerator Science and Technology to present their work at the International Particle Accelerator conference 2023 in Venice, Italy. | IPAC 2023 Student Grant Award | 2023 | Academic |
| Juan Pablo Gonzalez Aguilera | Quarterly Fellowship. “Your nomination by the Department of Physics and selection by the Physical Sciences Division Fellowship Committee are testimony to your strong academic potential, and I offer my sincere congratulations to you on receiving this important honor.” | Physical Sciences Division Fellowship (UChicago) | 2023 | Scientific |
| James Rosenzweig | Career achievement in advanced beam physics. | 2022 Advanced Accelerator Prize | 2022 | Scientific |
| Mark Transtrum | Demonstrated potential for future research excellence. | Edward and Betty Seppi Endowed Chair of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. | 2022 | Scientific |
| Gevork Gevorkyan | Forming and hosting an interdisciplinary graduate colloquium series at ASUGPSA Innovation Fellows | Innovation Fellowship | 2022 | Scientific |
| Afnan Al Marzouk | The Most Outstanding Dissertation Award of 2021-2022 in the STEM and health sciences category. | The Graduate Schoolof Northern Illinois University | 2022 | Scientific |
| AJ Dick | Outstanding Graduate Student | NIU Graduate School, Dept. of Physics | 2022 | Academic |
| Alimohammed Kachwala | Outstanding Research Award | Graduate and Professional Student Association Outstanding Research Award | 2022 | Scientific |
| Alimohammed Kachwala | Outstanding Mentor Award | GPSA Outstanding Mentor Award | 2022 | Scientific |
| Alimohammed Kachwala | For Experimental Research | William J. and Carol M. Motil Scholarship for Experimental Research | 2022 | Scientific |
| Michelle Kelley | Top 10% of posters at the 2022Psi-k conference | Poster Commendation (Psi-k conference) | 2022 | Scientific |
| Michelle Kelley | Fellowship to cover travel, lodging and fees to present at Psi-k conference 2022 | Psi-k conference fellowship NCCR MARVEL | 2022 | Scientific |
| Joshua Mann | Applied for, attended NAPAC, attended to the mics during talks | NAPAC Student Grant | 2022 | Scientific |
| Siddharth Karkare | Finalist at the Moore Inventor Fellow competition (among top 10 inventors) | Moore Foundation | 2022 | Scientific |
| Kyle Shen | APS Fellow | APS DMP | 2022 | Scientific |
| Young-Kee Kim | Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. | Elected to National Academy of Sciences | 2022 | Scientific |
| Gevork Gevorkyan | Forming and hosting an interdisciplinary graduate colloquium series at ASUGPSA Innovation Fellows | Innovation Fellowship | 2022 | Scientific |
| Eric Cropp | DOE SCGSR Fellowship | Department of Energy | 2022 | Scientific |
| Jason Gibson | Software fellowship | Molecular sciences software institute | 2021 | Scientific |
| Ryan Porter | Best Student Poster Prize (2nd) | 2021 International Conference of RF Superconductivity | 2021 | Scientific |
| David Muller | Ernst Ruska Prize | German Society for Electron Microscopy | 2021 | Scientific |
| David Muller | Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% by citations in Physics) | Clarivate Analytics | 2021 | Scientific |
| David Muller | "Top 10 science and technology progress in the world in 2021" | Chinese Academics of Science and Engineering | 2021 | Scientific |
| Sandra Biedron | Elected as member-at-large of the American Physical Society, Division of Physics of Beams for a 3-year term. | Member-at-Large, American Physical Society, Division of Physics of Beams | 2021 | Scientific |
| A.J. Dick | Awarded to outstanding graduate students to enable thesis research at DOE facilities in mission critical areas | DOE SCGSR Fellowship | 2021 | Scientific |
| Jason Gibson | Prestigious fellowship that recognizes advanced graduate students and postdocs pursuing the development of software infrastructure, middleware, and framewords that will benefit the broader field of computational molecular sciences. | NSF MolSSI Seed Software Fellowship | 2021 | Scientific |
| Young-Kee Kim | President Elect 2021, President 2022 | Korean American Scientists and Engineers Association | 2021 | Scientific |
| Young-Kee Kim | Senior advisor | Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Scientific Initiatives at the University of Chicago | 2021 | Scientific |
| Chris Knill | Academic merit | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Early Start Scholarship | 2021 | Academic |
| Chris Knill | Award to outstanding doctoral and master's degree students who were honored nationally and internationally during academic year 2020-21. Awarded for presentation of research at NAPAC | “CLAS Graduate Excellence Award” | 2021 | Scientific |
| Ritchie Patterson | Awarded an endowed professorship by the Cornell Board of Trustees recognizing faculty excellence and accomplishments. | Helen T. Edwards Professor of Physics | 2021 | Academic |
| Chris Pierce | Awarded to outstanding graduate students to enable thesis research at DOE facilities in mission critical areas | DOE SCGSR Fellowship | 2021 | Scientific |
| Ryan Porter | Cornell physics department travel for attending international conferences | Douglas Fitchen travel award | 2021 | Scientific |
| Jim Sethna | Awarded an endowed professorship by the Cornell Board of Trustees recognizing faculty excellence and accomplishments. | James Gilbert Wright Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences | 2021 | Academic |
| Mark Transtrum | This award encourages and acknowledges outstanding promise and contributions by junior faculty in scholarship. | BYU Early Career Scholarship Award | 2021 | Academic |
| Sandra Biedron | For her achievements in helping to develop the X-ray producing Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab, and her contributions to the world of science. | Moraine Valley Community College Hall of Fame | 2020 | Academic and Scientific |
| Will DeBenedetti | Recognizes outstanding academic and research performance by a graduate student in the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. | 2020 Tunis Wentink Prize | 2020 | Academic and Scientific |
| Auralee Edelen | Recognizes exceptional early-career scientists who would most benefit from the opportunity to do their research at the lab | Panofsky Fellowship / SLAC | 2020 | Scientific |
| Aiden Harbick | A three-year university fellowship awarded for academic merit. | High-Impact Graduate Research Award | 2020 | Academic |
| Chris Knill | For work as a mentor in the Sundial program at ASU | Steven Archer Scholarship | 2020 | Academic |
| David Muller | Highly Cited Researcher 2019, 2020 (top 1% by citations in Physics) | Clarivate Analytics | 2020 | Scientific |
| Jai Kwan Bae | Best Student Poster | NAPAC 2019 Student Poster Prize |
2019 |
Scientific |
| Jan Balajka | Awarded for excellence in physical organic chemistry | Loschmidt Prize 2019, Society of Chemical Physics, Austria | 2019 | Scientific |
| Paul Cueva | Award for outstanding papers contributed to the Microscopy & Microanalysis (M&M) meeting, which are competitively judged based upon the quality of the submitted paper. | Student Scholar Award, Microscopy Society of America (MSA) | 2019 | Academic |
| Lipi Gupta | Provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE lab that addresses scientific challenges central to the Office of Science Mission. | U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award | 2019 | Fellowship |
| Lipi Gupta | Awarded by the Chair of the Physics Department to a graduate or undergraduate student (not both) in recognition of exceptional service | Chair’s Award for Distinguished Service, University of Chicago | 2019 | Other |
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Young-Kee Kim |
Awarded to a scientist who has made outstanding technical contributions in the areas of science. | 2019 Scientist of the Year (Korean Scientists and Engineers Association (U.S.) and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology (Korea) | 2019 | Scientific |
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Nikita Kuklev |
Awarded for the best scientific poster | Best Poster Award, 52nd FNAL Users Meeting | 2019 | Scientific |
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Matthias Liepe |
The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publications, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may have also made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society. | APS Fellowship | 2019 | Fellowship |
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Jared Maxson |
One of 73 scientists nationwide awarded grants from DOE. The program aims to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by supporting exceptional researchers during their crucial early career years[71]. Automatic citation updates are disabled. To see the bibliography, click Refresh in the Zotero tab. | Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Grant | 2019 | Scientific |
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Jared Maxson |
Named Assistant Professorship, Joyce A. Yelencsics ’65 and Frederick M. Rosevear ’64 Assistant Professor. | Named Assistant Professorship | 2019 | Other |
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David Muller |
Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% by citations in Physics) | Highly Cited Researcher (top 1% by citations in Physics) by Clarivate Analytics | 2019 | Scientific |
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Kevin Nangoi |
One of four awards for best scientific posters | CBB Symposium 2019 Best Poster Award | 2019 | Scientific |
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Ritchie Patterson |
Honored for her leadership and invaluable contributions to science and technology. | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2019 Fellow | 2019 | Scientific |
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Joshua Paul |
Highly competitive research stipends awarded to the strongest PhD applicants. | University of Florida Graduate School Preeminence Award | 2019 | Education |
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River Robles |
UCLA undergraduate selected to receive scholarship to USPAS summer session | RadioSoft LLC | 2019 | Industry |
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Jim Sethna |
The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publications, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. He was cited for seminal and wide-ranging contributions to information geometry, sloppy models, crackling noise, fracture and emergent self-similarity. His work explores how multiparameter, or ‘sloppy’, models behave collectively; his team is using statistical mechanics to understand plasticity and fracture in disordered materials. | APS Fellowship | 2019 | Fellowship |
| Sarah Willson | Awarded based on performance as a teaching assistant for the yearlong general chemistry sequence, which included leading weekly discussion sections, writing exam materials, and supervising weekly teaching labs | Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award in General Chemistry | 2019 | Education |
| Paul Cueva | Student scholar award for paper entitled: “Sub-nm Resolution, Sub-pm Precision Structure Mapping Robust to Thickness and Tilt Variations by Cepstral Analysis of Scanning Nanodiffraction 4D-STEM.” | 2019 M&M Student Scholar Award, Microscopy and Microanalysis Societies | 2019 | Scientific |
| Rex Dyer | Arizona Science and Engineering Fair | 3rd Place in overall Arizona Science and Engineering Fair (Physics Category) | 2019 | Education |
| Matthias Liepe | Perspectives on RF and SRF and involvement in CBB ensures program continues and extends appropriate programming. | Appointed to US Particle Accelerator School Curriculum Committee (CC) | 2019 | Scientific |
| Alden Pack | Academic achievement | Bryant & Clara C. Copley Fellowship | 2019 | Education |
| Tomás Arias | Excellence in teaching award for outstanding, exemplary teachers. | Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship | 2018 | Education |
| William DeBenedetti | To recognize and encourage excellence in continuing graduate studies in science and technologies of interest to the AVS. | Russel and Sigurd Varian Award, AVS | 2018 | Education |
| William DeBenedetti | Chemistry department award | Bauer Scholarship Award | 2018 | Education |
| William DeBenedetti | First prize poster award at the Center for Bright Beams Annual Meeting | First Prize Poster Award | 2018 | Scientific |
| Rachael Farber | Excellence in research, interdisciplinary research interests, those who bring a diverse perspective | Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellowship from The University of Chicago | 2018 | Education |
| Jacob Graham | Travel award | Kharasch Postdoctoral Travel Award for Postdoctoral Scholars, University of Chicago | 2018 | Scientific |
| James Maniscalco | 2nd place poster at Global LINAC 2018 Conference | 2nd place poster at the Globaly Linac 2018 Conference | 2018 | Scientific |
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Alison McMillan |
One of the top honors for graduate students in the department | Helen Sellei-Beretvas Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry, University of Chicago | 2018 | Scientific |
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David Muller |
Top 1% by citations in Physics | Highly Cited Research, Clarivate Analytics | 2018 | Scientific |
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David Muller |
Innovative research | Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award | 2018 | Scientific |
| Steven J. Sibener | Appointed Director of the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago. | University of Chicago | 2018 | Scientific |
| Danilo Liarte | Article “Theoretical estimates of maximum fields in superconducting resonant radio frequency cavities: stability theory, disorder, and laminates”, published Science and Technology (SUST) was chosen for IOP 2017 highlights collection | IOP Publishing, http://iopscience.iop.org/ | 2018 | Scientific |
| William DeBenedetti | Best Poster (CBB Annual Meeting) | First Place Scientific Poster | 2018 | Scientific |
| James Maniscalco | Best Poster (CBB Annual Meeting) | Second Place Scientific Poster | 2018 | Scientific |
| Alden Pack | Best Poster (CBB Annual Meeting) | Third Place Scientific Poster | 2018 | Scientific |
| Rachael Farber | Most Participation Winner at CBB Annual meeting | Most Participation Prize | 2018 | Scientific |
| Darren Veit | Awarded 3rd place in Graduate Student Poster Competition, 2017 American Vacuum Society (AVS) Prairie Chapter Symposium, | AVS |
2017 |
Scientific |
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Steven J. Sibener |
Elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Recognized for seminal studies of gas–surface interactions utilizing supersonic molecular beams and scanning probe microscopy with theory and simulations to elucidate the fundamental, underlying atomic-level chemistry and dynamics of interfaces. |
ACS |
2017 |
Fellowship |
| Kevin J. Nangoi | Awarded 3rd best poster for “Phonon scattering processes in photoemission from bulk PbTe” | 3rd Best Poster | 2017 | Scientific |
| Siddharth Karkare | Awarded Best Poster at CBB Annual Meeting for “Understanding the Limits of Intrinsic Emittance” | Best Poster Award | 2017 | Scientific |
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Ryan Porter, Daniel Hall, and James Maniscalco |
2nd Best Poster awarded at CBB Annual Meeting for “Effectiveness of Chemical Treatments for Reducing the Surface Roughness of Nb3Sn” |
2nd Best Poster |
2017 | Scientific |
| Daniel Hall | Best Student Poster | IPAC 2017 | 2017 | Scientific |
| Erik S. Skibinski | International competition in surface science | 2017 Wayne B. Nottingham Prize | 2017 | Scientific |
| Erik S. Skibinski | Highest graduate student award in the Dept of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | 2017 Tunis Wentik Award | 2017 | Scientific |
| Will J.I. Debenedetti | Award for 3rd year graduate student in the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Howard Neal Wachter Award | 2017 | Scientific |
| Pietro Musumeci | “For pioneering work in the physics of high brightness beams, including ultrafast relativistic electron diffraction, and high gradient inverse free electron laser acceleration.” | APS | 2016 |
Fellowship |
| Steven J. Sibener | Elected Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) for contributions in the quest of developing a molecular-level understanding of surface chemistry through the study of structures, motions, and reactions at solid surfaces. |
AVS |
2016 | Fellowship |