The Physics and Astronomy Faculty Prize in Memory of Francis W. Sears

Awarded to a graduating senior for significant contributions to the Department and unusual achievement as an undergraduate and for the promise of continued commitment to the study of physics.

Annual Awardees

  • 2024    Rujuta Purohit & Ben Karasko
  • 2023    Matthew Goodbred
  • 2022    Paola Karapataki
  • 2021    Claire C. Trop
  • 2020    Gregory Szypko
  • 2019    Hang (Christine) Qi
  • 2018    Nizar Ezroura
  • 2017    Sarah Khatry
  • 2016    Kathryn Waychoff
  • 2015    Nina Maksimova
  • 2014    Laurel Anderson
  • 2013    Benjamin Katz
  • 2012    Michael D'Andrea
  • 2011    Nicole Yunger Halpern
  • 2010    M. Umair Siddiqui
  • 2009    W. Wendell Smith
  • 2008    Leon Mauer
  • 2007    Lance Labun
  • 2006    Alison Crocker
  • 2005    Mananya Tantiwiwat
  • 2004    Abigail Goodhue
  • 2003    Jonathan Campbell & Benjamin Phipps
  • 2002    Christopher Wipf
  • 2001    Thomas Levi
  • 2000    Wilson Liu & Thomas Pasquini
  • 1999    James McGuire
  • 1998    Kevin Hand & Heather Walling
  • 1997    Cailin Nelson & Robert Parrott
  • 1996    David Mattingly
  • 1994    Zahir Daya & Karen Daniels
  • 1993    Irene Georgakoudi & David Kaiser
  • 1991    Kirsten Lorentzen
  • 1990    Daniel Crosby
  • 1989    Joshua Eisenthal
  • 1987    Nancy Bronder
  • 1986    Roberta Yuhas
  • 1985    Robert Abraham
  • 1984    Mia Luehrmann
  • 1983    Douglas Cowan