Faculty Honors & Awards

Our outstanding faculty have earned many prestigious awards and accolades. Some of the highlights are listed below.

The UCI School of Physical Sciences gained international prominence in 1995 when professors F. Sherwood Rowland (Chemistry) and Frederick Reines (Physics) each received Nobel Prizes, making UC Irvine the first public university with faculty honored in two different fields in the same year.

 

The National Medal of Science was awarded to Frederick Reines in 1983.

 

 

 

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UCI Campus and Academic Senate Awards to Physics and Astronomy Faculty

• Peter Taborek, 2006
• Michael Dennin, 2007
• William Heidbrink, 2017
• Phil Collins, 2020

UCI Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research

• Huolin Xin, 2020
• Stephanie Sallum, 2023

UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research

• Zuzanna Siwy, 2013
• Timothy Tait, 2019

• Wilson Ho, 2005

UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service

• Michael Dennin, 2012

• Michael Dennin, 2001
• Jonathan Feng, 2004
• Thorsten Ritz, 2007
• Kevork Abazajian, 2013

• David Kirkby, 2004

• Roger McWilliams, 2005
• William H. Parker, 2008

• Michael Dennin, 2000
• Gary Chanan, 2002
• Rochelle Radzyminski / Albert Siryaporn, 2019
• Kyungseup Yoon / Daniel Whiteson,2020
• Mario Hernandez / Paul Robertson, 2021
• Huolin Xin, 2022

• Frederick Reines, 1979
• Norman Rostoker, 1989

• Alexei A. Maradudin, 1976
• Willliam H. Parker, 1989

UCI Tom Angell Fellowship Faculty Mentoring Award 

• Franklin Dollar, 2021

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• David Kirkby, 2017
• Aaron Barth, 2018
• Mu-Chun Chen, 2019
• Laura Tucker, 2020
• David Kirkby, 2021
• Juan Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, 2022
• William Heidbrink, 2023

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Fellows of the American Physical Society

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Physics and Astronomy Faculty Honors and Awards

• Susan Near Prize in Mathematics, 2002, Queen's University Department of  Mathematics and Statistics
• Nellie and Ralph Jeffrey Award in Mathematics, 2004, Queen's University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
• NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award, 2004, Dalhousie University Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science
• NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Master's), 2006
• NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (Doctoral), 2007
• Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences IGTC Fellowship, 2009
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2010

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1962-69
• American Physical Society, Fellow 1980

• Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1990
• Hubble Fellowship, 2001 – 2004
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006
• Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2018

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017
• Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2014
• Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Harold E. Edgerton Award of the SPIE, 2016
• R. W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America, 2018
• UCI Distinguished Professor, 2017

• Irvine Faculty Fellowship Award for Research, 1991, 1993
• NSF Young Investigator Award, 1992
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1999, 2009
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2003

• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1963
• Nebula Award (Science Fiction) 1975
• Cambridge University, Fellow 1976
• Australian Ditmar Award 1980
• International Campbell Award 1980
• Nebula Award (Science Fiction) 1980
• United Nations Medal in Literature 1989
• Lord Foundation Award in Science 1995
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 2004
• Isaac Asimov Memorial Award, 2007

• The First Prize of the 8th “Outstanding Research Paper Award of Society of Chinese High Energy Physics (Chenguang Cup),” 2010
• Universities Research Association (URA) Visiting Scholar Award 2016-2019
• UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation: Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year Award Nominee, 2019

• Phi Beta Kappa, Ohio State University, 1993
• Alpheus Smith Prize, Ohio State Physics department, 1994
• Senior Alumni Award for outstanding Ohio State physics undergraduate, 1994
• NSF GAANN Graduate Fellowship, 1994 - 1997
• Associate Member of Sigma Xi Research Society, 1997
• Northern California Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship, 1997
• Hubble Fellowship, 2001
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2008
• UCI Celebration of Teaching Award for Instructional Technology Innovation (2011)
• UCI Physical Sciences Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education Award (2011)
• Visiting Miller Professorship (2011)
• Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2017

• Chandra Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1998-2000
• UCI Faculty Career Development Award for Assistant Professor, 2003   

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2008
• Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science, 2017
• Elected member of International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences, 2017
• Bourke award of the British Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
• Fellow of British Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017
• Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor, U. Bristol, 2019

• Bruno Rossi Prize for Astrophysics(with Kamiokande and IMB collaborations), 1989
• University of Michigan Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1991
• Department of Energy (DOE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2004
• The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1982-86
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1988
• UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 2002
• Physics ans Astronomy Teaching Award, 2017

• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1981
• Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences Fellowship, 1980, 2003)
• Miller Visiting Research Professorship, UC Berkeley, 1987
• American Physical Society Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, 2004
• Guangbiao Visiting Chair Professorship, ZheJiang University, 2004
• Hannes Alfven Prize by the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society, 2008
• Lee Kuo-Ting Visitng Chair Professorship, National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C. 2007
• American Association for Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2009
• American Geophysical Union, Fellow, 2011
• James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics, 2012
• Subrahnmanyan Chandrasekhar Prize, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies, 2019

• Research Innovation Award, Research Corporation, 2003
• Award of International Center for Fundamental Physics (Moscow), for Junior Scientists, 1995, 1996
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2017
• Physics and Astronomy Graduate Teaching Award, 2018
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2022

• Carl. A Helmholz Graduate Student Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley, 1996 - 1998
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2003
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2004
• UCI Office of Network and Academic Computing Services:  Instructional Innovation Using Technology, 2005
• UCI Extension Award for Novel Course Development, 2009
• UCI Award for TA Professional Development & Mentoring, 2011
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2014
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, 2020
• UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation: Excellence in Digital Learning Award, 2020

Michael Cooper

• Phi Beta Kappa, Grinnell College, 2001
• Spitzer Fellowship, University of Arizona, 2007-2010
• Hubble Fellowship, UC Irvine, 2010-2012
• Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2017

• Sigma Xi & Sigma Pi Sigma
• McCormick Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1997 - 1999
• Nathan Sugarman Award for Excellence in Research, Enrico Fermi Institute, 2000
• Sherman Fairchild Senior Research Fellowship, Caltech
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2007
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2007
• UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, 2007   

• DuPont de Nemours Fellowship, 1988
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 1989
• AT&T Bell Lab Graduate Fellowship (offered 1990, declined), 1990
• David S. Saxon Award for Outstanding First Year Graduate Researcher, 1990
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 1990 - 93
• Order of Omega Outstanding Faculty Member, 1998
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education,  1998
• Outstanding/Inspirational Professor within School of Physical Sciences, 1999
• Research Innovation Award, presented by Research Corporation, 1999
• UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, 2000
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowship, 2000-02
• Cottrell Scholar, 2000 - 02
• UCI Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research, 2001-02
• UCI-IRC Celebration of Teaching Award, 2006, 2009
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, 2007-08
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service, 2012, 2013
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2021

• Lomonosov Prize 1972
• USSR Academy of Sciences, Member 1974
• Order of Honor 1975
• Order of Red Banner of Labour 1981
• State Prize of USSR 1984
• L. D. Landau Prize 1989
• American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Member 1991
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1996
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2002

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1987
• Marshall Scholarship, 1988
• Kirkpatrick Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford University, 1993
• Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship, 1994
• Miller Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1995
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Fellowship, 1996
• Taplin Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1998
• Michelson Prize in Physics, 2001
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2003
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 2004
• UCI Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research, 2004
• Outstanding Young Researcher Award, Overseas Chinese Physics Association,  2004
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2008
• Chancellor's Fellow, UC Irvine, 2006
• Kavli Frontier Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2006
• Heinz R. Pagels Memorial Lecturer, Aspen Center for Physics, 2010
• Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, 2012
• Guggenheim Felowship, 2014
• CERN Scientific Associate, 2014
• Simons Investigator, 2015
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2016
• CTL Teacher of the Year Nominee, 2017
• Chancellor's Professor, 2020
• UCI Distinguished Professor, 2021
• Dean’s Honoree Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2022
• Outstanding Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching, 2022

• Fellow of the Los Alamos National Lab, 1984
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1985
• Distinguished Performance Award, Los Alamos National Lab, 1985
• International Prize for New Materials, American Physical Society, 1990
• E.O. Lawrence Award, 1992
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994
• National Academy of Sciences, 1996
• UCI Distinguished Professor

• University of Illinois, Xerox Award for Faculty Research, April 1988
• Associate in the Center for Advanced Study, 1991-1992
• American Physical Society Fellow, 1991
• Listed on "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students," for Spring  Semester, Physics 101: General Physics, 2003
• 6th Annual MSPAC Outstanding Advisor Award" by the Medical Scholars Program Advisory Committee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
• Gregorio Weber Award for Excellence in Fluorescence Theory and Application,  (Biological Fluorescence Subgroup, Long Beach, CA.), 2005

• Fulbright Fellow, 1977-1982
• Cern Fellow, 1994
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1996
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1983
• Outstanding Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching, 2020

• IEEE Outstanding Thesis award, 1984
• UCI Lauds and Laurels Awards of the UCI Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 1995
• American Physical Society Fellow, 1996
• American Physical Society Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research, 2004
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1991, 2000
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, 2017
• UCI Distinguished Professor, 2021
• Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2023

• Sigma Xi Award,1975
• Sigma Xi Award, 1979
• American Physical Society W. Nottingham Prize,  1979
• American Chemical Society Victor K. LaMer Prize,  1980
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1981
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1995
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, 1997
• Bonn Chemistry Prize, 2000
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, 2005
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2009
• American Vacuum Society Medard W. Welch Award, 2011
• Jubilee Professorship at Chalmers University, 2013
• American Physical Society Irving Langmuir Prize, 2013
• Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2013
• Academician, Academia Sinica, Republic of China, 2014 
• Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science from the American Physical Society (APS), 2017
• UCI Distinguished Professor

• IBM Worldtrade Postdoctoral Fellow, 1978
• Visiting Scientist, ETH and IBM Research, Zurich, 1991
• Visiting Scientist, KFA Julich, 1992
• Sony Sabbatical Chair, Yokohama, 1995

• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2009
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2020

• Department of Energy (DOE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2002
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 2003
• UCI Distinguished Asst Professor Award for Teaching, 2004
• UCI-IRC Instructional Technology Award, 2004
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2008
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2008
• Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2017, 2021

• Diploma Cum laude, Tomsk State University, 1994
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Minnesota, 1999
• University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2001
• University of Minnesota Aneesur Rahman Award, 2002
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2007
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2020

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1972-74
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1997
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 2000
• Stewardship Star from the University Advancement, 2009
• National Research Council, National Associate,  2011
• European Physical Society, High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, 2013 (shared)
• DOE Office of Science & NSF Directorate of Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Appreciation Award, 2018
• UCI Distinguished Professor
• Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2022

• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1986
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2007

Howard (Ho Wai) Lee

• SPIE Rising Researcher, 2020
• Outstanding Professor Award at Baylor University, 2020
• DARPA Director’s Fellowship, 2019
• Young Scientist Award, IEEE Optoelectronics Global Conference, 2019
• OSA Senior Member, 2019
• NSF CAREER Award, 2018
• OSA Ambassador, 2018
• APS Robert S. Hyer Award, 2017
• DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2017
• 2018 Young Investigator Award, Baylor University, 2017
• Fellow, The Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2015
• Fellow, International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2024

• Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1995 - 1997
• Kaul Foundation Prize for Excellence in Plasma Physics and Technology Development, Princeton, 1999
• Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2000
• Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, 2000
• Department of Energy (DOE) Plasma Physics Junior Faculty Develoment Award, 2003
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2004
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2006
• Chang Jiang Scholars, Peking University, China, 2009

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1953
• Tau Beta Pi, 1953
• Sigma Xi, 1953
• American Physical Society, Fellow 1963
• Marshall Scholar, 1954-1956
• UCI Alumni Association Lauds and Laurels Award - Distinguished Research, 1973
• UCI Alumni Association Lauds and Laurels Award - Extraordinarius, 1976
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, U.S. Senior Scientist Award, 1980-81
• Docteur Honoris Causa - Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 1986
• Electromagnetics Academy Member, 1990
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1993
• Elected to Commission B of URSI (the International Union for Radio Science), 1995
• Resnick Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University, 1996
• Institute of Physics (U.K.), Fellow, 1997
• Optical Society of America, Fellow, 1997
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2002
• Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, 2007  

• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1966
• College de France Medal, 1986

• Golden Key National Honor Society
• Phi Beta Kappa
• UCI Faculty Honors Convocation Speaker, 1977
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1984
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1994
• UCI Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, Inaugural Winner, 1994
• UCI Faculty Honors Convocation Speaker, 1997
• UCI Academic Senate Daniel G. Jr. Distinguished University Service Award, 2005
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 2004

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1968-70
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1977
• Yamada Foundation, Fellow, 1984
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1985
• UCI Alumni Association Lauds and Laurels Award - Distinguished Research, 1987
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sr. Fellowship, 1990
• Masse Honor Lecturer, Kansas State University, 1992
•  American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2008

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1985
• Outstanding Jr. Investigator, Department of Energy (DOE), 1985
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1995

• Kavli Fellow, Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium, 2012
• UCI Hellman Fellowship Award, 2014-15
• “Premio Navicella Sardegna”, Italy, 2012
• Van der Waals professorial chair, The Amsterdam Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, 2017

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1970
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1987
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1999
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2006

• Guggenheim Fellow, 1966

• Honors Mention of Excellence, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2003
• Best Graduate in Physics of the Year 2003, National Association of Schools and Faculties of Engineering, Mexico
• John Stager Stemple Memorial Prize in Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2006
• Best Student Award, 45th International School of Subnuclear Physics, 2007
• Chamberlain Fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2009
• National Prize of Youth, Academic Achievement Distinction, President of Mexico, 2009
• Springer Thesis Award, Springer, 2010
• Most Promising Engineer or Scientist at the Doctoral Level, Great Minds in STEM, 2012
• Breakthrough Prize in Physics, 2016
• Excellence in Teaching Recognition Award (PRED), Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2017
• Young Scientist of the World Economic Forum, 2018-2019
• Physics and Astronomy Graduate Teaching Award, 2018
• Physics and Astronomy Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2022

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1968-70
• John Price Wetherill Medal, The Franklin Institute, 1975
• UCI Academic Senate Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Distinguished University Service Award, 1980, 2008
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1979, 1983
• UCI Medal, 2009

• Sigma Xi, 1944
• Tau Beta Pi
• Centennial Lecturer, University of Maryland, 1956
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1957
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1958-1959
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1959-1963
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 1966
• Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1966
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1969
• Stevens Honor Award, 1971
• Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, University of California, Irvine, 1979
• Fellow, American Association Advancement of Science, 1979
• National Academy of Sciences, 1980
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize, 1981
• National Medal of Science, awarded by the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan 1983
• Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1984
• Medal for Outstanding Research, University of California, Irvine, 1985
• L.I. Schiff Memorial Lecturer, Stanford, 1988
• Albert Einstein Memorial Lecturer, Israel Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem, 1988
• Bruno Rossi Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1989, (with Members of the IMB Collaboration, Wojciech Gajewski, William R. Kropp, LeRoy Price, Jonas Schultz, Henry W. Sobel and Craig R. Wuest)
• Michelson-Morley Award, 1990
• Goudschmidt Memorial Lecturer, 1990
• New York University Plaque, 1990
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, New York University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1990
• W.K.H. Panofsky Prize, 1992
• The Franklin Medal, awarded by Benjamin Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts, 1992
• Foreign Member Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994
• Nobel Prize in Physics, 1995

• German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung) Fellow, 1991-1996
• Best Dissertation Award, University of Ulm, 2001
• Institute of Physics UK, Fellow, 2004
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 2005
• Cottrell Scholar, 2006 - 07
• UCI Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research, 2007-08
• 2011 Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, UK
• 2012 Fellow of the American Physical Society

 

• Outstanding Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching, 2023

• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1995.

• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1960
• American Physical Society, Chairman-Plasma Physics Division, 1972
• James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, 1988
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, 1989
• UCI Medal, 1999
• UCI  Office of Technology Alliances Innovation Award (Plasma Electric Generator), 2005
• Foreign Member Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008

• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1984

• American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, 1992
• American Physical Society Fellow, 1969
• Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland, Professeur Invite
• Ecole Polytechnique de Palaiseau, France, Professeur Invite
• Fulbright Fellowship, 1978
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Life Fellow 1980

• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2021

Stephanie Sallum

• Early-Career Faculty Award for Research, 2023-2024

• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 1980
• American Astronomical Society, Bruno Rossi Prize 1989
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1991
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1994

Aomawa Shields

• UC President’s Postdoctoral Program Fellowship, 2014-2016
• NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2014-2017
• Kavli Fellow, 2015
• TED Fellow, 2015
• Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, American Astronomical Society 225th Meeting, 2015
• Clare Boothe Luce Professorship, 2016
• The Origins Project Postdoctoral Award Lectureship, 2016
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2018-2023

• Richard P. Feynman fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2002-2005
• Outstanding Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching, 2019

• NIH F32 Fellowship, 2012
• NIH K22 Career Transition Award, 2015
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2021

• Prize of President of the Silesian University of Technology, "Omnium Studiosorum Optimo" for the best graduates from the Silesian University of Technology, 1995
• Prize of the Foundation of the Silesian Univ. of Technology for outstanding results in research, 1995
• MCBN UNESCO fellowship, 3-month visit, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, U.K., 1996
• Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science for outstanding results in research, 1997
• Prize of the Polish Minister of Education for the PhD Thesis, 1998
• Fellowship of the Foundation for Polish Science for 1-year research work at the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Materials Research Department, 2000
• Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 1-year research work at GSI, Materials Research Department, 2000
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 2007
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2007-2008
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2010
• 2013 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• UCI Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, 2013
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019
• Carol Connor Faculty Mentor Award, 2021
• UCI Chancellor's Professor, 2021

• American Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 1991
• Amelia Earhart Fellowship, Zonta International Foundation, 1991
• Davis Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1989-1991
• NATO-NSF Post Doctoral Fellowship, 1993
• AAS/AAUW Annie Jump Cannon Special Commendation of Honor, 1995
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2001
• Pacesetter Award, Academic and Professional Women of UC Irvine, 2006

• American Physical Society, Fellow 1998
• American Astronomical Society, Bruno Rossi Prize 1989
• Asahi Prize in Physics, 1999
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2008
• The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize, 2009
• The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
• American Physical Society W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics, 2021

• Regents Scholar, University of California, 1989
• Elizabeth Irvine Memorial Fellow, UC San Diego, 1989
• Herbert T. Graham Fellow, Michigan State University, 1993
• 2013 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Chancellor's Fellow, UC Irvine, 2013-2016
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2016
• Van der Walls Professor, University of Amsterdam, 2017
• Kavli Frontier Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, 2017
• UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, 2019
• APS DPF Mentoring Award, 2019
• Chancellor's Professor

• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1963
• Phi Beta Kappa UCLA, 1964
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow, 1966-68
• Sigma Xi, 1969
• NATO Research Fellowship, 1969 - 1970
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1972 - 1974
• Maryland Academy of Sciences, Outstanding Young Scientist, 1976
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1982
• National Academy of Sciences, J. Murray Luck Prize for Excellence in Scientific Reviewing, 1986
• Utah State University, Ralph M. Johnson Distinguished Lecturer, 1987
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1988
• Schopp Memorial Lecturer (endowed) San Diego State University, 1999
• AAS Second Century Speakers' Panel, 2000
• Elected a Foreign Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society, London, 2001     
• Paul Klopsteg Memorial Prize and Lectureship, American Association of Physics Teachers, 2001
• J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer (32nd), 2002
• 10th Shaw Memorial Lecture, Southern Illinois University, 2002
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Robert Resnick Lecturer, 2005
• Ninth Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
• Caroline Herschel Visiting Scholar, Space Telescope Science Institute, 2008
• Doctora Honoris Causa, University of Valencia (Spain), 2010
• George Van Biesbroeck Prize of the American Astronomical Society, 2011
• Astronomia Nova in Chestochowa Poland, Spring, 2016
• American Astronomical Society, Patron of the Society, 2018
• William Tyler Olcott Award of the American Association of Varible Star Observers, 2018
• Honorary Member of Sigma Pi Sigma, Caltech Chapter, 2018
• Gemant Award for Championing the Social Perspective of Science, 2019
• Fellow of American Astronomical Society, 2020
• Fellow of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society, 2020
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2022
• Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics (American Physical Society), 2024

• Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2020

• American Physical Society, Fellow 1962
• Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award-The George Washington University 1991
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow 1994

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship, 1982-1985
• Andrew D. White Supplementary Fellowship, 1982-1985
• IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1988-1989
• American Physical Society Fellow, 1998
• American Physical Society, Division Councillor for Computational Physics, 1999
• American Physical Society Aneesur Rahman Prize, 2003
• Physical Review Letters Milestone Paper of 1992 (selected 2008)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 2008
• Perimeter Institute Distinguished Visiting Research Chair (2012)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2016
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
• Feenberg Memorial Medal in Many-Body Physics, 2019
• UCI Distinguished Professor

​Daniel Whiteson

• 1997 Fulbright Fellow
• Department of Energy (DOE) Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2008
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 2010
• 2015 Webby Award
• 2016 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2016

• American Physical Society, Fellow, 2001
• D.E. Bianchi Faculty Award for Outstanding Research (CSUN),  1999

• Elphinstone College Merit Scholar, Bombay, 1944-46
• University of Bombay Gold Medal, 1948
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member, 1968
• American Physical Society, Fellow, 1968
• University of Maryland,Chancellor's Distinguished Scholar Award, 1980 - 1981
• Association of Indians in America, Washington Chapter, Outstanding Citizen Award, 1981
• Indian Physics Association, Distinguished Physicist Award, 1991
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1995
• Institute of Physics UK, Fellow, 1999

• Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1979
• Kusaka Memorial Prize for Senior Thesis Research, 1979
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship, 1979 - 1982
• Participant in AT&T Bell Labs Graduate Research Program for Women, 1979 - 1984
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 1991-93
• UCI School of Physical Sciences Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, 2005
• American Physical Society, Fellow 2005
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
• Fellow of American Association for Advancement of Science, 2021
• Chancellor's Professor

• Guanghua Scholarship of Tsinghua University, 2000
• UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, and Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship, 2007-2010
• Keystone Symposia the Future of Science Fund Scholarship, 2011

• Richard Chase Tolman Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 2008
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Sloan Research Fellowships, 2013
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2014
• Lee-Osheroff-Richardson North American Science Prize, 2011
• OCPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Macronix Prize), 2018
• American Physical Society Fellow, 2019