2026
M. Fontaine: LaserNetUS Meeting “Best Poster Award” in the postdoc category
2025
B. Daddario: NASA FINESST Graduate Fellowship
M. Meyers: 2025 Acta Materialia Gold Medal.
S. Stewart: 2025 Barringer Medal, Meteoritical Society
S. Tavares: 2025 UCSD Materials Science and Engineering Community Service Award
P. Tzeferacos: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
M. Vasquez (UCB): AIRAPT-29 International Conference Student Poster Award
2024
M. Pokornik: Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Symposium “Best Poster” Award
T. Bachmann: LaserNetUS Meeting "Best Poster" Award
T. Bachmann: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) Honorable Mention
2023
S. Ahmed: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)
F. Beg (UCSD): Shao-Chi and Lily Lin Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Engineering Science
A. Bogale: UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship
M. McMullan: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)
M. Pokornik: Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium Outstanding Poster Award
S. Stewart: American Physical Society Fellow for Research on Evolution and Planetary Systems
2022
J. Pilgram: 2022 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium Outstanding Poster Award
2021
F. Beg: 2021 IEEE Plasma Science and Applications Award
B. Chidester: Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory
T. Kovacevic: National Science Foundation Fellowship
G. Righi: WCI Harold Brown Fellowship
2020
W. Mori: 2020 APS James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics
C. Niemann: 2020 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research
S. Zhang: Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium Best Poster Award
2019
F. Beg: 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
R. Falcone: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
R. Flanagan: R.W. Woolley Graduate Gordon Fellow, 2019; and Henry Booker Award for Exceptional Ethical Engineering
J. Pilgram: National Science Foundation Fellowship
S. Stewart: 2019 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
P. Tzeferacos: 2019 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research