Award for " The best Ph. D. thesis written at the Goethe University of Frankfurt in 1977 " (awarded in 1978 by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Goethe - University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
DOE Grand Challenge Award, High-Performance Computing and Communications Program, project entitled "The Quantum Structure of Matter", Vanderbilt - ORNL - Univ. Tennessee collaboration, 1992
2. Teaching
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
Teaching
Introductory Physics
College of Arts and Science, December 2005
Award, Provost's Initiative on Technological Innovation in the Classroom, "Advanced computer visualization in teaching introductory physics to non-science majors", Vanderbilt University (May 1994)
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award of the College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University (December 2005)
3. Physics Department, College, and University
service
Member,
Faculty Senate (1995-1998)
Chair,
CPC Subcommittee on the Natural Sciences, (1990-1991 and 2003-2005)
Member,
Senior Advisory Review Committee (SARC) of the College of Arts &
Science for faculty
renewal,
promotion and tenure (AY 08/09)
4. Address and contact
information
Prof. Volker
E. Oberacker
Dept. Physics & Astronomy
Vanderbilt
University
VU Station B 351807
Nashville, TN
37235-1807
