Kansas State University

Faculty Awards

Itzik Ben-Itzhak

• Schwenk Teaching Award, 2000
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002
• University Distinguished Professor, 2012 

Matthew J. Berg 

• DOD DURIP Award, 2012
• NSF CAREER Award, 2015

Tim Bolton

• Schwenk Teaching Award, 2005
• Commerce Bank Oustanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2011
• K-State College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Star, 2017

Amit Chakrabarti

• Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1992 & 2000
• Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2002
• KSU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, 2009-10
• Presidential Award for Outstanding Department Head, 2016

Brett DePaola

• Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1993
• Schwenk Teaching Award, 1997
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002
• Jefferson Science Fellow, 2010

Brett Esry

• Schwenk Teaching Award, 2002
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2006
• University Distinguished Professor, 2011
• Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, 2012

Loren Greenman

• DOE Early Career Award, 2021

Glenn Horton-Smith

• DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2005 

Keti Kaadze 

• K-State Mentoring Fellowship, 2015
• LPC Distinguished Researcher, 2017

Andrew Ivanov

• K-STAR NSF EPSCoR First Award, 2010
• Fermilab LHC Physics Center Fellowship, 2011

Chii-Dong Lin

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1985
• University Distinguished Professor, 1990
• Olin K. Petefish Award in Basic Sciences, 2010

Yurii Maravin

• DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2008

Michael O' Shea

• Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1991
• Jefferson Science Fellow, 2019

Bharat Ratra

• K*STAR NSF EPSCoR First Award, 1997
• NSF CAREER Award, 1999
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2002
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005
• Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, 2012
• University Distinguished Professor, 2016
• Olin K. Petefish Award in Basic Sciences, 2017
• Kansas Science Communication Initiative Science Communication Award, 2020

Daniel Rolles

• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2024

Lado Samushia

• DOE Early Career Award, 2020

Uwe Thumm

• Harvard - Smithsonian Award, 1999
• German Science Foundation Award, 2000
• Max Planck Research Award, 2007
• Kansas State University Professorial Award, 2008
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2011
• FAST Fellow of the ETH Zürich and Swiss National Center of Competence in Research, 2013
• Kansas State University Professorial Award, 2014
• Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, 2014
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, 2014
• University Distinguished Professor, 2019