2023
Ela Rockafellow, Joseph and Dorothy Sucher Graduate Prize in Physics
Scott Hancock, Monroe H. Martin Graduate Research Fellowship
2022
Ela Rockafellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Scott Hancock, Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
2021
Daniel Woodbury, finalist, APS Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award
Ela Rockafellow, Goldwater Scholarship
Stefan Waczynski, DEPS Graduate Fellowship
2020
Andrew Goffin, DEPS Graduate Scholarship
Stefan Waczynski, Clark Doctoral Fellowship
2019
Scott Hancock, IREAP Graduate Student Seminar Best Speaker Award, Fall 2019
2018
Anastasia Korolov, Joseph and Dorothy Sucher Graduate Endowment Prize
Anastasia Korolov, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention
Daniel Woodbury, IREAP Graduate Student Seminar Best Speaker Award, Fall 2018
2017
Fatholah Salehi, Chemical Physics Research Achievement Award
Eric Rosenthal, First Place, National Capital Section OSA Student Poster Competition in Optics and Photonics
Daniel Woodbury, IREAP Graduate Student Seminar Best Speaker Award, Fall 2017
2016
Nihal Jhajj, FiO Emil Wolf Student Paper Competition
Fatholah Salehi, First place, National Capital Section OSA Student Poster Competition in Optics and Photonics
Nihal Jhajj, Second place, National Capital Section OSA Optics and Photonics Poster Competition
Eric Rosenthal, Poster Presenter Award ISUILS15, Cassis, France
Daniel Woodbury, NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship, 2016-2020
Daniel Woodbury, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention
Sina Zahedpour, ECE Department Distinguished Dissertation Award
2015
Bo Miao, Richard and Anna Iskraut Scholarship
Bo Miao, Kapo-Barwick Award
Jennifer Elle, NRC Fellowship, 2015-2016
Nihal Jhajj, University of Maryland Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
Eric Rosenthal, OSA Student Leadership Conference Grant Recipient
Daniel Woodbury, UMD Dean’s Fellowship, 2015-2017
Andy Goers, UMD Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award
Andy Goers, IREAP Graduate Student Seminar Best Speaker Award, Spring 2015
2014
Eric, Nihal, Jared, Howard, UMD Invention of the Year, Runner Up, “High Power Optical Waveguide in Air”
2013
Sungjoon Yoon, Best poster award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Research Review
Sungjoon Yoon, Student Travel Award, Advanced Accelerator Concept Workshop
2012
Yu-Hsin Chen, American Physical Society Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
2011
Sanjay Varma, Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, ECE Department, University of Maryland
Brian Layer, First place, National Capital Section OSA Student poster competition
2010
Brian Layer, Student poster winner, Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop
Sungjoon Yoon, Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland
2007
Sanjay Varma, Second place, IEEE LEOS Poster Competition, Baltimore/D.C./Northern VA
2005
Sanjay Varma, Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, University of Maryland
2004
Ki-Yong Kim, American Physical Society Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
1999
Tom Clark, American Physical Society Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award