Graduate Student Awards
Department Awards to Graduate Students
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Prize Name
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Awarded for
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2024 Awardees
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2023 Awardees
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2022 Awardees
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2021 Awardees
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2020 Awardees
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Max Dresden Prize
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Outstanding Theoretical Physics Thesis
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Charles Kocher
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Yuan Fang
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Sudhakantha Girmohanta
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Mukul Sholapurkar
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Yao Ma
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David Fox Prize
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Outstanding Teaching Assistant
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Saajid Chowdury Evan Saraivanov |
Aaron Conover Benjamin Levine |
Aaron Mueninghoff Chase Wallace |
Jason Bennett Drew Rosen |
Gonenc Mogol Aaron Dunbrack |
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Gerald Brown Prize
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Outstanding Research/Travel Awards
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Duncan Adams Catherine Feldman David Frenklakh Jan Albert Iglesias Greg Suczewski Benjamin Levine Wei-Yang Liu Aman Singal Alec Wills |
Prakruth Adari Dading Chen Yichul Choi Jay Desai David Frenklakh Eric Johnson Heny Klest Zelong Zhang Kunhao Zhong |
Duncan Adams Gabriel Cardoso Artemis Giannakopoulou Alexander Smith Clark Yihan Wang |
Yuan Fang Sahal Kaushik Vidushi Sharma Myles Silfies Ziheng Yao |
Xinzhong Chen Sudhakantha Girmohanta Farid Salazar Drew Jamieson Nicolas Pomata |
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Peter B. Kahn Prize
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Outstanding Research/Travel Award
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Brendan Boyd Khanak Bhargava Sabina Sagynbayeva |
Daniel Firak Evan Saraivanov Radhakrishnan Srinivasan Hiroki Sukeno Makoto Tsuneto |
Jose Miguel Bautista Yuan Fang Pedro Mercado Lozano Jacob Larkin Jay Rutledge Alec Wills |
Daniel Gift
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Mukul Sholapurkar
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H.B. Silsbee Prize
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For an outstanding 2nd year student (based on comps/courses & research)
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Vasilii Iugov Pushkar Mohile |
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Aman Singal Yaman Sanghavi |
Yichul Choi
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Rod Englemann Prize
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Outstanding Research/Travel Award
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Jacob Larkin
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Shilin Liu
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Shilin Liu
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Zhongling Ji
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Kevin Wood
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Di Tian Prize
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Outstanding Research/Travel Award
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Tongzhou Guo
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Zhi Chen
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Xiaoyang Liu
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Dounan Du
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Yihan Wang
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Jonathan Kaufman Prize
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Outstanding Research/Travel Award (Experimental students)
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Vassu Doomra Chase Wallace Haowei Zheng |
Brian Kaufman Theodore Sauyet Zachary Withers |
Youngshin Kim Alfonso Lanuza |
Ian Schwartz
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Guodong Cui
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Alex Pond Prize
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Students who passed the comps with distinction
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Shihab Fadda Naomi Mizuno |
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Wenhan Guo Siwei Zhong |
Hailin Xu Hongye Yu |
Yichul Choi
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Lourie Fellowships
These fellowships are designed to facilitate the making of connections between excellent students and potential advisors during their first two years in the PhD program. Some fellowships are awarded to students as part of our recruitment effort, while others were awarded based upon proposals submitted by faculty.
2024 Fellows:
Prakruth Adari, Zhi Chen, Megan Hott, Nabil Lhachemi, Storm Lin, Tanner O'Neal, Evan Saraivanov
2023 Fellows:
Xiangyu Huang, Benjamin Levine, Megan McDuffie, Aswin Parayil Mana, Saba Shalamberidze, Haowei Zheng, Wenjun Zheng
2022 Fellows:
Julia Codere, Karol Dyro, Yuying “Flynn” Guo, Wei-Yang Liu, Aaron Mueninghoff, Greg Suczewski
2021 Fellows:
Dmitrios Athansakos, Jay Bhambure, Edoardo Buonocore, Tongzhou Guo, Wenhan Guo, Waltraut Knop, Amanda MacInnis, Radhakrishnan Srinivasan, Chase Wallace, Alec Wills
2020 Fellows:
Duncan Adams, Sergey Alekseev, Yichul Choi, Matthew Forslund, Colin Gordon, Jan Albert Iglesias, Jiayu Ji, Mikhail Litvinov, Gonenc Mogol, Aman Singal, Abraham Teklu
President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students
The President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students rewards the most outstanding doctoral students to graduate from Stony Brook. Physics and Astronomy is well represented among the recipients of these awards! Winners from our department are listed below.
- 2022: Yiyang Jia
- 2021: Sebastian Dick
- 2020: Xinzhong Chen
- 2019: Connor Behan
- 2018: Hans Niederhausen
- 2016: Wolfgang Peelears & Mao Zeng
- 2014: Matt von Hippel
- 2013: Bryce Gadaway
- 2012: Abhijit Gadde
- 2011: Jacqueline Faherty & Christian Holzner
- 2010: Leandro Almeida, Xiaojing Huang & Ilmo Sung
- 2009: Shivani Ahujua
- 2008: Kieran Boyle
- 2006: Rama Calaga