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Graduate Awards

Other Graduate Awards

Eberly College of Science Climate and Diversity Awards

  • 2026 - Emma Steinebronn and Stephen Paolini
  • 2019 - Kallan Berglund
  • 2018 - Kristen Dreyer and Eric Hudson
  • 2017 - Randi Neshteruk
  • 2015 - PAW (Physics and Astronomy Women)
  • 2012 - Ashley DaSilva
  • 2009 - second year Physics graduate students

 

Graduate Student Service Award

The award, established in 1991, recognizes a graduate student who has best combined high academic achievement with leadership in University or other public activities.

  • 2026 - Emma Steinebronn
  • 2025 - Stephen Poalini and Sanika Khadkikar
  • 2024 - Stephen Paolini, Matthew Krebs, Emma Steinbronn, and Unnati Akhouri
  • 2023 - Unnati Akhouri, Emma Steinebronn
  • 2022 - Sarka Blahnik, Unnati Akhouri, Fatemehsadat Fateminasrollahi
  • 2021 - Kallan Berglund, Justin Rodriguez, Brett Green
  • 2014 - Kathryne Sparks Woodle

 

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

  • 2019 - Aishwarya Kumar (69th meeting)
  • 2016 - Lucas Hackl (66th meeting)

 

MIT '35 Innovators under 35'

Dr. Abinhav Kandala (currently IBM staff member at Yorktown Heights) was recognized for his pioneering work quantum computing [Nature 549, 242 (2017); Nature 567, 491 (2019)].

 

Office of Science Graduate Student Research award

The Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories. 

  • 2016 - Kelly Malone (for research at Los Alamos National Lab).
  • 2015 - Mark Dellostritto (for research at Oakridge National Research Lab).

 

Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics Award (i-Progress)

  • 2016 - Alan Coleman (for research visit to the Karlsruher Institute for Technology)

 

Chateaubriand STEM Fellow

  • 2019 - William Faugno
  • 2016 - Alan Coleman 

 

Bergman-Wheeler Prize of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation

  • 2010 - Victor Taveras

 

Penn State Student Leadership Scholarship

  • 2025 - Cristobal Vallejos
  • 2024 - Emma Steinebronn

 

AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

  • 2024 - Unnati Akhouri

 

Juergen Ehlers prize of the International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation

  • 2010 - Nicolas Yunes

 

Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) Graduate Fellowship

  • 2013 - Elliot Nelson

 

RHIC and AGS Thesis Award

  • 2012 - Leonard Eun (worked with Prof. Steve Heppelmann)

 

Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program

  • 2013 - Michael Skocik

 

Penn State Alumni Association Scholarship (Fox Graduate School) 

  • Garrett Wendel 

     

I Am STEM

  • Sanika Khadkikar (3rd Place) 

     

APS Dividion of Gravitational Physics Best Student Speaker Award

  • 2026 - Sanika Khadkikar

     

Student Representative in the Executive Committee of APS Division of Gravitational Physics 

  • 2026 - Sanika Khadkikar

     

Graduate Student International Research Award

  • 2026 - Sanika Khadkikar

 

Herbert J. Bailey Endowed Graduate Fellowship

  • Shio Sakon

     

Be More Lovisa Award

  • Shio Sakon
  • Stephan Paolini

 

Rick Robinett Service Award

  • Viviana Caceres
  • Abhinava Chatterjee
  • Dana Kullgren
  • Daniel Paraizo

 

Rick Robinett Service Award Assistant Research Professor 

  • Saurav Islam