Awards

Our team has won many awards and scholarships in the last few years, here are a few!

2023

  • Karen Navarro (graduate student): CPAD Graduate Instrumentation Research Award Fellow for project “A Qubit-Inspired Photonic Integrated Circuit for Ultra-Sensitive Tagging of Barium in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay”
Enakshi wins
    • Enakshi Dey (graduate student): DISCOVER Workshop, first place poster prize
    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Scharf Award Endowment
    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Richard Jack Marquis Scholarship
    • Ben Smithers (graduate student): Dr. John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics 

    2022

    • Krishan Mistry (Postdoc): Springer Thesis Award

    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Division of Nuclear Physics Travel Award (APS),  Division of Particles & Fields Travel Award (APS)
    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship, Edward and Dorothy Perez Endowed Scholarship (UTA),
    • Ben Smithers (graduate): Dr. John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics 

    2021

    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): College of Science Dean’s Excellence Scholarship, Richard Jack Marquis Physics Scholarship, 1895 Society Scholarship
    • Ivana Moya (undergraduate): Math Dept outstanding scholar award 
    • Ben Smithers (graduate): Dr. John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics

    2020

    IceCubeImpact
    • Grant Parker, Ben Smithers, and Ibrahim Safa (grad, grad, alum):IceCube Impact Award 2020
    • Nick Byrnes (grad): Texas APS Student Presentation Award
    • Ben Smithers (grad): Texas APS Student Presentation Award
    • Nick Byrnes (Graduate Student): University Scholars Endowed Fellowship for the 2020-2021 year
    • Nick Byrnes (Graduate Student): James L. Horwitz Physics Scholarship Fund
    • Leslie Rogers (Graduate Student): Truman D. Black Endowed Scholarship in Physics (UTA)
    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): B. Cecil and Jo Thompson Undergraduate Physics Scholarship (UTA)
    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Won three awards from the McNair program at UTA: McNair scholar Fellowship, Kathryn Head Scholarship Endowment, and the Best Paper Scholarship
    • Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): IME BECAS & HACEMOS Dallas scholarship (Communidades Consulado de Mexico en Dallas)
    • Logan Norman (Undergraduate): B. Cecil and Jo Thompson Undergraduate Physics Scholarship (UTA)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Dr. John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics (UTA
    Awards2020

    2019

    • Austin McDonald (Graduate Student): GIRA Instrumentation Award Honorable Mention, from the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors
    • Nick Byrnes (Graduate Student): ACES Poster Prize (UTA College of Science ACES symposium)
    • Ryne Dingler (Undergraduate): Kathryn Head Scholarship Award, from the UTA McNair Program
    • Leslie Rogers (Graduate Student): Jack R. Maquis Scholarship (UTA)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Travel Award, Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (Department of Physics, Rice University)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Richard Jack Marquis Physics Scholarship Fund (Department of Physics, UTA)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): H.A.D. Dunsworth Scholarship (Department of Mathematics, UTA)

    2018

    • David Nygren (Professor): Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award from the IEEE
    • Leslie Rogers (Graduate Student): Judith R Carrier Award from Arlington Chamber of Commerce
    • Ben Jones (Professor): University of Texas at Arlington Outstanding Research Award (UTA)
    • Ryne Dingler (Undergraduate): Cecil Thompson Award (UTA), McNair Scholarship (McNair Program)
    • Austin McDonald (Graduate Student): Horowitz Physics Scholarship (UTA)
    • Nick Byrnes (Graduate Student): The Michael and Wanda Ray Fellowship for the 2018-2019 Academic Year
    • Bernadette Duhan (Undergraduate): Maquis Scholarship (UTA)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Cecil  & Jo Thompson
      Scholarship, (Department of Physics, UTA)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): John A Gardner Scholarship (Department of Mathematics, UTA)

    2017

    • Ben Jones (Professor): Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award (American Physical Society)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Sheri Schember Quick and James Campbell Quic Endowment (University College, UTA)
    • Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation Award (Texas Section of the American Physical Society)