Graduate Student Awards

Department Awards to Graduate Students

Prize Name	Awarded for	2024 Awardees	2023 Awardees	2022 Awardees	2021 Awardees	2020 Awardees
Max Dresden Prize	Outstanding Theoretical Physics Thesis	Charles Kocher	Yuan Fang	Sudhakantha Girmohanta	Mukul Sholapurkar	Yao Ma
David Fox Prize	Outstanding Teaching Assistant	Saajid Chowdury Evan Saraivanov	Aaron Conover Benjamin Levine	Aaron Mueninghoff Chase Wallace	Jason Bennett Drew Rosen	Gonenc Mogol Aaron Dunbrack
Gerald Brown Prize	Outstanding Research/Travel Awards	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
Peter B. Kahn Prize	Outstanding Research/Travel Award	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	Mukul Sholapurkar
H.B. Silsbee Prize	For an outstanding 2nd year student (based on comps/courses & research)	Vasilii Iugov Pushkar Mohile		Aman Singal Yaman Sanghavi	Yichul Choi
Rod Englemann Prize	Outstanding Research/Travel Award	Jacob Larkin	Shilin Liu	Shilin Liu	Zhongling Ji	Kevin Wood
Di Tian Prize	Outstanding Research/Travel Award	Tongzhou Guo	Zhi Chen	Xiaoyang Liu	Dounan Du	Yihan Wang
Jonathan Kaufman Prize	Outstanding Research/Travel Award (Experimental students)	Vassu Doomra   Chase Wallace Haowei Zheng	Brian Kaufman Theodore Sauyet Zachary Withers	Youngshin Kim   Alfonso Lanuza	Ian Schwartz	Guodong Cui
Alex Pond Prize	Students who passed the comps with distinction	Shihab Fadda Naomi Mizuno		Wenhan Guo Siwei Zhong	Hailin Xu Hongye Yu	Yichul Choi

 

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

2017: -

2016: Wolfgang Peelears & Mao Zeng

2015: -

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

2007: -

2006: Rama Calaga