This page lists selected (inter)national and university honors received by the current Rutgers astrophysics faculty.
(Inter)national honors
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
American Astronomical Society & American Institute of Physics
- 2013 Rachel Somerville
Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize
- 2014 Saurabh Jha (as a member of the High-z Supernova Search Team)
Gruber Cosmology Prize
- 2007 Saurabh Jha (as a member of the High-z Supernova Search Team)
Sloan Research Fellowship
- 2015 Alyson Brooks
Simons Investigator
- 2014 Rachel Somerville
Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society
- 2018 Alyson Brooks
Annie Jump Cannon Award, American Astronomical Society
- 2019 Blakesley Burkhart
Fellowship, American Physical Society
- 2008 Jack Hughes
- 2018 Eric Gawiser
- 2019 Saurabh Jha
Fellowship, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2014 Andrew Baker
Robert J. Trumpler Award, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- 2017 Blakesley Burkhart
Bart J. Bok Prize
- 2010 Saurabh Jha
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- 2008 Chuck Keeton
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2008 Chuck Keeton
- 2009 Saurabh Jha
- 2010 Andrew Baker
- 2011 Eric Gawiser
Fulbright Scholarship
- 2015 Andrew Baker
University honors
Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research
- 2009 Jack Hughes
Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence
- 2010 Chuck Keeton
- 2019 Alyson Brooks
Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award
- 2019 Chuck Keeton
Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2019 Andrew Baker
Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
- 2010 Chuck Keeton
- 2012 Andrew Baker
- 2019 Alyson Brooks
School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education
- 2010 Andrew Baker
- 2012 Eric Gawiser
- 2017 Alyson Brooks
- 2018 Saurabh Jha
- 2019 Matt Buckley
Society of Physics Students Outstanding Teacher Award
- 2007 Chuck Keeton
- 2010 Andrew Baker
- 2011 Saurabh Jha
- 2012 Eric Gawiser
- 2016 Alyson Brooks
- 2017 Matt Buckley
Last edited September 17, 2019.
