These are external awards given to the Department. For students awards check our Awards and Prizes pages.
In 2006, the American Physical Society awarded Rainer Grobe & Charles Su and the Department the Undergraduate Research Prize "for their outstanding effort at creating a successful and renowned optical theory research program at Illinois State University, and for their exemplary involvement of undergraduates in this research."
In both 1995 and 1997 the Physics Department received the Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science Award from the U.S. Department of Energy for our efforts to integrate computing into the physics curriculum.
