• 1991: Steve Weiss was awarded $1,000 and a 1991 LSA Merit Award for outstading undergraduates. Four students, among the approximately 16,000 students in the College of Literature, Science, and Arts (LSA) were given this award in 1991.
• 1992: Peter Kurczynski won the 1992 William L. Williams Prize and $1,000 for an outstanding thesis submitted by a graduating senior.
• 1993: Britton Plourde was awarded $1,000 and a 1993 LSA Merit Award for outstading undergraduates. Five students, among the approximately 16,000 students in the College of LSA were given this award in 1993.
• 1993: Britton Plourde won the 1993 William L. Williams Prize and $1000 for an outstanding thesis submitted by a graduating senior.
• 1993: Britton Plourde was the University of Michigan nominee for the 1993 Apker Award of the American Physical Society.
• 1994: Naia Venturi won an Honorable Mention for the 1994 William L. Williams Prize and $200 for an outstanding thesis submitted by a graduating senior.
• 1995: Paul Sholtz was awarded $1,000 and a 1995 LSA Merit Award for outstading undergraduates. Only two students, out of about 16,000 in the College of LSA were given this award in 1995.
• 1996: Mickey Moore won the Physics Department 1996 Wiley Book Award.
• 1996: Melody Klaus was awarded $1,000 and a 1996 LSA Merit Award for outstading undergraduates. Only two students, out of about 16,000 in the College of LSA, were given this award in 1996.
• 1996: Melody Klaus won the 1996 William L. Williams Prize and $1000 for an outstanding thesis submitted by a graduating senior.
• 1999: After a nation-wide competition, Amit Mehta was selected by the National Society of Physics Students (SPS) and the American Physical Society (APS) to present a talk at the largest physics conference ever: the Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society (in Atlanta, 1999). Finantial support is provided by the National SPS and the APS.
• 1992-2006: ten undergraduate students co-author papers including: five articles published in Physical Review Letters; two co-author one published in Nature; one in EPL, one in PRB, one in Scientific American and Contemporary Physics.

Fellowships and Awards to Graduate Students working in our group

• 1991-93: Yeong-Lieh Lin was awarded the F. Mock and the F. Moller Physics Department Graduate Fellowships for outstanding graduate students.
• 1993-94: Xuedong Hu was awarded a 10-month Rackham Graduate Fellowship for outstanding graduate students (typically given to one or two physics graduate students each year).
• 1993-94: Yeong-Lieh Lin was awarded a 10-month Rackham Graduate Fellowship for outstanding graduate students (typically given to one or two physics graduate students each year).
• 1994-95: Yeong-Lieh Lin was awarded a 12-month Research Partnership Graduate Fellowship for outstanding graduate students.
• 1996: Yeong-Lieh Lin was awarded the Honorable mention of the Kent Terwilliger Prize for outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in physics.
• 1993-98: Charles Reichhardt was awarded a 4-year Fellowship from the Graduate College.
• 1994-96: Cynthia Olson was awarded a 2-year Fellowship from the Graduate College.
• 1996-98: Cynthia Olson was awarded a Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation (Summer 1996) and a Fellowship from NASA (1996--98).
• 1997: Xuedong Hu was awarded a Rackham Outstanding Thesis Award (this year awarded to five Ph.D. Theses throughout the entire University; and the second time ever that a physics Ph.D. Thesis is selected).
• 2006: Frontier Research System Technical Award (to Mr. Robert Johansson)

• 1991-1992: Fullbright Fellowship to Dr. Oscar Pla (postdoc from Madrid working in Michigan)
• 2002-2004: JSPS Fellowship to Dr. Ciro Cattuto
• 2003: Frontier Research System Grand Award for Excellent Research (to Dr. J.Q. You)
• 2003: Frontier Research System Grand Award for Excellent Research (to Dr. S. Savelev)
• 2004: RIKEN Special Postdoctoral Fellowship (to Dr. Namiko Mitarai)
• 2004: Frontier Research System Award for Excellent Research (to Dr. S. Savelev)
• 2005: Best Poster Award: International Conference on Vortex Matter, in India (to Dr. S. Savelev)
• 2005: Best Poster Award: International Conference on Vortex Matter, in India (to Dr. V. Misko)
• 2005-2007: JSPS Fellowship to Dr. Sahel Ashhab
• 2007: Frontier Research System Award for Excellent Research (to Dr. Yu-xi Liu)
• 2008: Frontier Research System Award for Excellent Research (to Dr. S. Ashhab)
• 2008: Advanced Research Fellowship of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the United Kingdom (to Dr. S. Savelev)
• 2008: Wakate Award from MEXT (Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, etc.) for Excellence in Research (to Dr. S. Savelev). This is a very prominent award never given before to a non-Japanese researcher.