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Aaron Titus Receives 2026 Halliday and Resnick Award Learn More
Stefanie Walch-Gassner Receives 2026 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture
Roderick M. Grant
AAPT Names Danielle Buggé Recipient of the 2026 Paul W. Zitzewitz Excellence in K-12 Physics Teaching Award
Alan M. Gibson
Ruth Hege Howes
Ryan Bowns-Kamphuis Received Robert L. Lipton Memorial Award
2026 Barbara Wolff-Reichert Travel Grant Awarded to Samantha Gordon
San Jose State SEA Change Bronze Award
Ronald Dovaston Edge
Robert H. Romer
2026 Oersted Medal Shared by Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood
2026 Phillips Medal Award to Dwain Desbien
2026 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award to be Presented to Rhett Allain
Meghan DiBacco Named as 2026 Recipient of the Doc Brown Futures Award
2026 Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT to be Awarded to Krista E. Wood
Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT to be Presented to David Sturm
Raeghan Graessle awarded the Homer L. Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT
Tatsu Takeuchi Named as 2026 Dodge Citation for Distinguished Service to AAPT
Five Gold Medals Earned by the U.S. Physics Team at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad
EMU Physics and Astronomy Earns Award from P/A SEA Change Program
TCNJ Physics Department Earns Award from Physics and Astronomy SEA Change Program
Arnold A. Strassenburg
Beverley Ann P. Taylor
2025 U.S. Physics Team Members Selected to Participate in the International Physics Olympiad
Edwin F. Taylor
U. S. Physics Team for 2025
2025 Richtmyer Awardee is Nadya Mason
Bree Barnett Dreyfuss 2025 Zitzewitz Award
Sean Carroll to Receive 2025 Klopsteg Award
Summer 2025 Fellow, Manjula Sharma, Announced
Bruce Mason to receive 2025 Lillian McDermott Medal
2024 Lotze Scholarships Announced
AAPT Members Receive 2025 PAEMST Award
2025 Barbara Wolff-Reichert Travel Grant goes to Sabrina Whitaker
Daniel Morris Smith
Mary E. Mogge
Alan Van Heuvelen
Amber L. Stuver
Stephanie Chasteen
Edward F. (Joe) Redish
2025 Melba Newell Phillips Medal Recipient is Karen Jo Matsler
Jonathan Perry Is 2025 Doc Brown Futures Award Recipient
Laurie Elizabeth McNeil is the 2025 John David Jackson Excellence in Graduate Physics Education Recipient
2025 Oersted Medal Winner is Fred M. Goldberg
Kathleen Harper Winter 2025 AAPT Fellow
Paul Stokstad