Illinois Physics MEng and BS alumnus wins Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award
6/27/2024
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.