Bates Physics and Astronomy Department Awards

Physics and Astronomy Prize

awarded to a graduating senior for excellence in scholarship and dedication to physics 

 

     2023 Sam Delamere, Charlie Rubin
     2022 Sofia Edgar, Natasha Jones
     2021 Xiaole (Alex) Jiang
     2020 Hannah Fitts
     2019 Cristopher Thompson
     2018 Salim Ourari
     2017 Niccolò Bigagli, Sophia Gottlieb
     2016 Lucia DeRose
     2015 Jocelyn Hoye, Aliza Khurram
     2014 Yang Guo, Joanna Moody
     2013 Olalekan Afuye

Thesis Prize

awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated exceptional achievement in the senior thesis

 

     2023 Colby Stakun-Pickering
     2022 Muhammad Abdullah, Biruk Chafamo
     2021 Kirstin Koepnick
     2020 Morgan Baxter
     2019 Tianyao (Max) Huang
     2018 Matthew Goldberg, Mary Szatkowski
     2017 Tiago Correia
     2016 Daniel Paseltiner
     2015 Emily Clark, Peter Cole

Experimental Physics Prize

awarded to a graduating senior who has demonstrated great ability and potential in experimental physics

 

     2023 Elias Veilleux
     2022 Milly Detels, Clay Hundertmark
     2021 Rebecca Minsley
     2020 Michał Ćwik
     2019 Tong Zhou
     2018 Nicholas Sergay
     2017 Aashu Jha
     2016 Khoi Tuan Nguyen
     2015 Andrew Briggs
     2014 Edward Moan
     2013 Myles Black-Ingersoll, Matthew Valles

Distinguished Junior Prize

awarded to a rising senior who has demonstrated academic success and dedication to physics

 

      2023 Claudia Mabley, Kyle Sprague
      2022 Elias Veilleux
      2021 Biruk Chafamo, Muhammad Abdullah, Tasha Jones
      2020  Yichun Liu, Eisho Takatsuji
      2019 Christian Bradna, Avi Brach-Neufeld
      2018 Benjamin Eckardt
     2017 Salim Ourari, Nick Sergay
     2016 Tiago Correia, Niccolò Bigagli, Alex Andonian
     2015 Lucia De Rose, Khoi Tuan Nguyen, Daniel Paseltiner
     2014 Jocelyn Hoye, Aliza Khurram