Awards

Members of our group have received recognition at national, international and University levels. Here are some highlights:

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2025

• Ben Jones (PI): International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) Early Career Researcher Instrumentation Award
• Ben Jones (PI): Outstanding Research Achievement or Creative Accomplishment Award University of Texas at Arlington 
• Luis Taylor (undergraduate): Best Presentation, Heart of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference
• Luis Taylor (undergraduate): McNair scholarship

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2024

• Luis Marcos Taylor (undergraduate): Best presentation in category, APS April Meeting

• Kara Stogsdill (undergraduate): Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award from the American Institute of Physics

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2023

• Karen Navarro (graduate student): CPAD Graduate Instrumentation Research Award Fellow for project “A Qubit-Inspired Photonic Integrated Circuit for Ultra- Sensitive Tagging of Barium in Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay”
• Enakshi Dey (graduate student): DISCOVER Workshop, first place poster prize

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2022

• Krishan Mistry (Postdoc): Springer Thesis Award
• Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship, Edward and Dorothy Perez Endowed Scholarship.
• Ben Smithers (graduate): Dr. John L. Fry Endowment for the Department of Physics

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2021

• Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): College of Science Dean’s Excellence Scholarship, Richard Jack Marquis Physics Scholarship, 1895 Society Scholarship
• Ivana Moya (undergraduate): Math Dept outstanding scholar award

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2020

• Grant Parker, Ben Smithers, and Ibrahim Safa (grad, grad, alum): IceCube Impact Award

• Nick Byrnes (grad): Texas APS Student Presentation Award

• Ben Smithers (grad): Texas APS Student Presentation Award

• Jackie Baeza-Rubio (Undergraduate): Won three awards from the McNair program at UTA: McNair scholar Fellowship, Kathryn Head Scholarship Endowment, and the Best Paper Scholarship

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2019

• Austin McDonald (Graduate Student): GIRA Instrumentation Award Honorable Mention, from the Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors
• Nick Byrnes (Graduate Student): ACES Poster Prize (UTA College of Science ACES symposium)
• Ryne Dingler (Undergraduate): Kathryn Head Scholarship Award, from the UTA McNair Program

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2018

• Leslie Rogers (Graduate Student): Judith R Carrier Award from Arlington Chamber of Commerce
• Ben Jones (Professor): University of Texas at Arlington Outstanding Research Award (UTA)

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2017

• Ben Jones (Professor): Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award (American Physical Society)

• Akshat Tripathi (Undergraduate): Outstanding Undergraduate Presentation Award (Texas Section of the American Physical Society)