Undergrad Awards

A.C. ANDERSON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLAR: To support an undergraduate student doing summer research.
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ANTHONY SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: To support a summer research position for an outstanding physics undergraduate physics major.
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COMMONWEALTH EDISON/BERYL BRISTOW ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP: To support an outstanding female physics major of freshman or sophomore standing.
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ERNEST M. LYMAN PRIZE: To recognize an outstanding undergraduate Physics major. The award is named for Professor Ernest M. Lyman, a distinguished researcher and teacher who served on our faculty for 36 years. In addition to making seminal contributions to experimental nuclear physics—he was a world expert on electron scattering—Professor Lyman maintained great interest in teaching undergraduate physics and was one of the early proponents of computer-assisted physics education.
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EXCELLENCE IN PHYSICS SCHOLARSHIP: To support outstanding incoming freshman physics majors.  If students remain in good standing, the awards will be renewed each semester.
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LAURA B. EISENSTEIN AWARD: To recognize an outstanding woman Physics student. The award is named for Professor Laura B. Eisenstein, a distinguished biological physicist who made important discoveries, using a variety of techniques, including time-resolved resonance Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopies, of the mechanism of light energy transduction by biomolecules. Professor Eisenstein served our department and the biological physics community with distinction from 1969 until her untimely death in 1985.
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LEWIS C. HACK SCHOLAR: To support an outstanding undergraduate physics student in the teaching of physics.
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LORELLA M. JONES SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: To support a summer research position for an outstanding Physics undergraduate student. The award is named for Professor Lorella M. Jones, an outstanding theoretical high energy physicist who served our Department with distinction from 1968 until her untimely death in 1995. Professor Jones was a remarkable scholar—the first woman to attain tenure and a full professorship in our department. In addition to being a superb researcher, Professor Jones was also a dedicated and innovative teacher who was particularly interested in the application of computers to physics education. In 1985, she pioneered the use of computerized quizzes for a large elementary physics course at Illinois, one of the earliest developments of its kind, nationwide.
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RICHARD K. COOK SCHOLARSHIP: For recognition of an undergraduate engineering physics student at the end of his or her sophomore year. The award is named for Dr. Richard K. Cook, a 1935 Ph.D alumnus of our department who spent his entire career at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST]). Dr. Cook specialized in ultrasonics and acoustics.
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ROBERT A. STEIN SCHOLARSHIP: To recruit outstanding undergraduate Physics majors (73684). The scholarship fund was endowed by a group of Mr. Robert A. Stein's family and friends after his untimely death in 1998. Mr. Stein (BS '55), who came from a Chicago working class family, greatly valued the education he received in engineering physics at the University of Illinois, and his family thought the best tribute to his memory would be to provide that opportunity to other Chicago youths.
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ROBERT E. HETRICK OUTSTANDING SENIOR THESIS AWARD: In recognition of an outstanding senior thesis written by an undergraduate physics major.
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SHELL FOUNDATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLAR: To support summer research positions for outstanding undergraduate physics majors.  This award is dependent upon funding each year. 
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UNDERGRADUATE OUTREACH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: To recognize the work of an outstanding undergraduate student involved in Physics Society and/or Physics Van.
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