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Graduate Student Awards and Honors

The Robert T. Lagemann Award

The award has been established in 1988 in honor of Robert T. Lagemann, Landon C. Garland Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who taught at Vanderbilt from 1951 to 1977. The Lagemann award is given annually to an “entering or first-year graduate student for exceptional promise in physics”.

2013	Hong Ni, Rui Wang, and Qiao Xu
2012	John Spear and Enhong Wang
2011	Peter Denton and Junhao Lin
2010	Shengquan Tuo and Alex Krejci
2009	Eric Appelt and Susan Kost
2008	Michael Andrew Clemens
2007	Holley Ellen Lynch
2006	Suseela Somarajan
2005	Christopher Tyler Goodin and Stephen Lee Johnson Jr.
2004	Rupam Das
2003	Eric Bishop Chancellor and Ke Li
2002	Dennis Fong and Junkai Xu
2001	Lin Tang
2000	Tamas Bakos
1999	Li Zhang
1998	Liguo Song and Xuequian Zhang
1997	Hui Chen, Hui Fan, Tian Ling
1996	Denis Malov
1995	Robert Cutler
1994	Tong Li and Biao Ye
1992	Stanley W. Brown and Robert B. Atchison

Most Outstanding Student Publication

The award was established in 2011 by the Graduate Program Committee and will be given anually to recognize the most outstanding student publication for a paper published during the previous calendar year.

2013	Eric Appelt and Shengquan Tuo	Measurement of the elliptic anisotropy of charged particles produced in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV, Physical Review C87, 014902 (2013)
2012	Hiram Conley	Graphene Bimetallic-like Cantilevers: Probing Graphene/Substrate Interactions, Nano Lett. 2011, 11, 4748–4752
2011	Jed Ziegler	Plasmonic Response of Nanoscale Spirals,Nano Letters,10,3013-3018(2010)

The Akunuri V. Ramayya Award

Established in 2007 by Akunuri V. Ramayya, Professor of Physics, this award is given to the most outstanding physics or astronomy graduate student Teaching Assistant.

2013	Drew Dellamonica
2010	Chong Cai
2011	Keith Warnick and Michael Carlson
2010	Joyeeta Nag and Heungman Park
2009	Jeffrey Clay Hammonds
2008	William Teets
2007	Marcin Michal Jankiewicz

The Royal Albridge Award

Established in 2007 in honor of Royal Albridge, Professor of Physics, who taught at Vanderbilt from 1961 to 2007. Presented annually to the most outstanding first time physics or astronomy graduate student Teaching Assistant.

2011	Andy Muhich and Lisa Genovese
2010	Andres Delannoy and Alex Krejci
2009	Jason Pawlowski and Caroline Yount
2007	Holley Ellen Lynch