Department Awards
External Awards
Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship (SCGSR)
The SC-GSR is a nationally competitive fellowship awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to PhD candidates to support research activities with strong ties to a national laboratory. Students are awarded assistantship support and relocation costs to the national laboratory where the research activity is conducted. Students are co-mentored by a faculty member at SMU and a PhD researcher at the host laboratory.
Award Winners
Year Name
2019 Chris Milke
2017 Dan Jardin
Robert S. Hyer Award of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society
The Robert S. Hyer Research Award, of the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, is be presented each year to two pairs of recipients. The first pair will consist of a recipient who must have been a graduate student when the research was performed, and this student's research advisor. The second pair will consist of a recipient who must have been an undergraduate student when the research was performed, and that student's research advisor. The only criterion is excellence, including potential impact in the relevant scientific community. The research must be in physics or a physics-related subject, and it must have been presented at a Texas APS meeting within the past two years by either the student or the advisor, both of whom must have been TSAPS members at the time. We are proud of the students and their mentors who have been co-recipients of this highest research award from the Texas Section of the APS. If you believe a student-faculty pair is deserving of this award, please be sure to nominate them; the TSAPS holds nominations for up to 2 years.
Award Winners
Year Grad/Undergrad, Student Awardee, Faculty Awardee
2020 Undergrad, Noah Pearson, Joel Meyers
2017 Grad, Eric Godat, Fred Olness
2014 Undergrad, Mayisha Nakib, Jodi Cooley
2012 Undergrad, Landon Banister, Stephen Sekula