Illinois Physics MEng graduate student Jack Roberts has been named a 2023/24 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. The Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award, established to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program, recognizes student athletes who have achieved excellence in academics.
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Illinois Physics MEng graduate student Jack Roberts has been named a 2023/24 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. The Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award, established to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program, recognizes student athletes who have achieved excellence in academics. Recipients must have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in the previous academic year, been enrolled full-time for the entire previous academic year, and earned a GPA of at least 3.70 during the previous academic year. Roberts is one of 102 Fighting Illini student athletes honored.
Photo Credit: Sofi Klein, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Physics MEng graduate student Jack Roberts leads the pack in a race during the Gary Wieneke Memorial Meet at Demirjian Park in Champaign, IL.
Photo Credit: Siv Schwink, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jack Roberts (far right) poses with the inaugural MEng in Instrumentation and Applied Physics class outside Loomis Laboratory of Physics.
Roberts is a member of the inaugural graduating class of the one-year Illinois Physics Master’s in Engineering in Instrumentation and Applied Physics professional degree program and an alumnus of the Illinois Physics undergraduate program (B.S. Engineering Physics 2023).
To learn more about Roberts’ accomplishments in Track & Field, check out his stats here.
Madeline Stover is a physics doctoral student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying atmospheric dynamics applied to forest conservation. She interns as a science writer for Illinois Physics, where she also co-hosts the podcast Emergence along with fellow physics graduate student Mari Cieszynski. When Stover is not doing research or communications, she enjoys hosting her local radio show, singing with her band, and cooking with friends.
Daniel Inafuku graduated from Illinois Physics with a PhD and now works as a science writer. At Illinois, he conducted scientific research in mathematical biology and mathematical physics. In addition to his research interests, Daniel is a science video media creator.
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Ph. D. is a science writer and an educator. She teaches college and high school physics and mathematics courses, and her writing has been published in popular science outlets such as WIRED, Scientific American, Physics World, and New Scientist. She earned a Ph. D. in Physics from UIUC in 2019 and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jamie Hendrickson is a writer and content creator in higher education communications. They earned their M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2021. In addition to their communications work, they are a published area studies scholar and Russian-to-English translator.
Garrett R. Williams is an Illinois Physics Ph.D. Candidate and science writer. He has been recognized as the winner of the 2020 APS History of Physics Essay Competition and as a finalist in the 2021 AAAS Science and Human Rights Essay Competition. He was also an invited author in the 2021 #BlackinPhysics Week series published by Physics Today and Physics World.
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Ph. D. is a science writer and an educator. She teaches college and high school physics and mathematics courses, and her writing has been published in popular science outlets such as WIRED, Scientific American, Physics World, and New Scientist. She earned a Ph. D. in Physics from UIUC in 2019 and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.