Department of Physics and Astronomy: Graduate Program

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".

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

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 & astronomy graduate student Teaching Assistant.

2008 - TBA (September 2008)
2007 - Holley Ellen Lynch

The Akunuri V. Ramayya Award

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

2008 - Jeffrey Clay Hammonds
2007 - Marcin Michal Jankiewicz

For more information, please contact Dept of Physics and Astronomy.
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