Accomplishments
Celebrate the kudos, accolades, and awards recently earned by our physics students
Undergraduate Student Awards Graduate Student Awards
Undergraduate Student Awards
National Awards
Zhongying Yan '18
Majors: Physics, Mathematics, History of Art
2018 Finalist for the American Physical Society LeRoy Apker Award
Orsola Capovilla-Searle '15
Majors: Physics, Mathematics
2015 Awardee of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Bryn Mawr College Awards
2018 - Zhongying Yan '18 (Physics, Mathematics, History of Art)
2008 - Aditi Vashist '08 (Physics, Mathematics)
2023 - Ellie Hughes '23 (Physics)
2022 - Mallory Yu '22 (Physics)
2010 - Evan Schneider '10 (Physics, Mathematics)
2025 - Maja Teofilovska '26 (Physics AB/MA)
2017 - Zhongying Yan '18 (Physics, Mathematics, History of Art)
2014 - Orsola Capovilla-Searle '15 (Physics, Mathematics)
2007 - Aditi Vashist '08 (Physics, Mathematics)
2022 - Ellie Hughes '23 (Physics)
2018 - Ankitha Kannad '19 (Physics, Geology)
2013 - Bingging Li '14 (Physics, Chemistry)
2012 - Tonima Tasnim Ananna '13 (Physics, Astronomy)
2009 - Evan Schneider '10 (Physics, Mathematics)
2008 - Laura Popa '09 (Physics)
2022 - Lily Goltz '23 (Physics)
2026 - Kath Cui '28 (Physics, Mathematics)
2025 - Yiling Hou '27 (Physics)
2024 - Sage Thomas '25 (Physics, Mathematics) and Maja Teofilovska '26 (Physics)
2023 - Nina Martinez Diers '24 (Physics)
2021 - Shiksha Pandey '22 (Physics, Mathematics)
2019 - Merrilyn Adzo Fiagbenu '20 (Physics, Mathematics)
2018 - Ankitha Kannad '19 (Physics, Geology)
2017 - Cheryl Liu '18 (Physics)
2016 - Zhongying Yan '18 (Physics, Mathematics, History of Art)
Graduate Student Awards
National Awards
Sarah Spielman (2021 cohort)
2022 - Sarah Spielman, a Ph.D. student studying physics in the lab of Professor Michael Noel has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Bryn Mawr College Awards
2021 - Amy Smock (2018 cohort)
2015 - Andy Clark (2018 cohort)
2014 - Vincent Gregoric (2011 cohort)
2011 - Melanie Lott (2008 cohort)
2016 - Xiao Wang (2012 cohort)
2017 - Alex Chartrand (2011 cohort)
2014 - Kristen Recine (2011 cohort)
2009 - Don Fahey (2007 cohort)
2026 Sarah Spielman, GSAS; Mike Noel, Faculty
2023 Sarah Spielman, GSAS
2022 Andy Clark, GSAS
2015 Kristen Recine, GSAS
2011 Donald Fahey, GSAS
2007 Liz McCormack, Faculty
2005 Robert Ekey, GSAS; Al Albano, Faculty
Distinguished Staff Awards (Prior to McPherson Award for Excellence)
1997 Ann Daudert, Physics
Contact Us
Department of Physics
Park Science Building
Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
Phone: 610-526-5358