The Physics Poster Award, sponsored by the Department of Physics, recognizes poster presentations in the fields of Physics. Judging will be performed by a panel of senior level graduate students, faculty, and department support staff.
Eligibility Criteria: A current undergraduate Physics major working in any science lab at the University of Oregon, or an undergraduate student (from any major) who is doing work in a lab run by a Physics department faculty member.
*NOTE: Candidates who self nominate for this award, may not also self-nominate for the CAS Dean's Poster Award in Natural Sciences.
Award Amounts: One (1) $300 Award; (2) $100 Honorable Mention Awards.
Current Recipients
Rowan Davis '28
Major: Physics
Project: "Using Artificial Intelligence Tools to Improve Vertexing in Dark Photon Collisions"
2026 $100 Award
Melanie Wiegand '26
Major: Computer and Information Science | Physics
Project: "Exploring Chiral Interactions Between Magnetic Skyrmions and Electron Vortex Beams"
2026 $300 Award
Shyla Winchester '27
Major: Physics
Project: "Imaging Phonon Variation Across Neel Transition in Semiconductor NiPS3"
2026 $100 Award
Christina Dorofeev '26
Major: Mathematics | Physics
Project: "Can milliQan? A search for millicharged particles at the Large Hadron Collider"
2025 $300 Award
Aidan Gardner-Okearny '25
Major: Physics
Project: "Combinatorial fake discriminatory selections for combined dE/dx and disappearing track search"
2025 $100 Award
Owen Mitchem '25
Major: Astronomy & Planetary Science | Physics
Project: "Radio observations of Intermediate-aged SNe Ia and Constraints on Progenitor Systems"
2025 $100 Award