Faculty Awards
Professor John Cumalat gave the keynote address at the 2026 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence Awards Ceremony held on Tuesday, April 7. The ceremony recognized the nine recipients of this year's faculty excellence awards in research, teaching, and
Noah Finkelstein has been named a Distinguished Professor, CU’s highest honor for faculty across the four-campus system.ÌýÌýAt the University of Colorado Board of Regents meeting on Feb. 6, Finkelstein was recognized
Cindy Regal, physics professor and JILA fellow, is one of eight investigators recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics who will receive up to $2 million over five years.
This year's award recognized the work of four international research collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, including 32 current and former physicists at ̽»¨ÊÓƵ.
Jun Ye, a distinguished Fellow at JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a physics professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been honored with the 2025 Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis. The award acknowledges Ye's groundbreaking work in optical clocks and frequency metrology, which has significantly advanced precision measurement and timekeeping.
John Cumalat, professor of distinction in the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Physics, has been awarded the 2025 Hazel Barnes Prize.
Professor Ivan Smalyukh has been recognized for scientifically and socially distinguished achievements by the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
Rahul Nandkishore, an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been honored with the 2024 Anatoly Larkin Award from the William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (FTPI) at the University of
University of Colorado Boulder Physics Professor Jamie Nagle has been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Research Lectureship by the university. This award is among the highest honors bestowed upon a faculty member by their
Jun Ye, a professor of physics and a JILA and NIST Fellow, has been named the inaugural holder of the Monroe Endowed Professorship in Physics. This prestigious new professorship, the result of a $1 million endowment from CU alumnus Chris Monroe,