Lawrence University Physicist Receives Distinguished Achievement Award

APPLETON, WIS. -- Lawrence University physicist John Brandenberger was honored June 16 by the Carleton College Alumni Association with its Distinguished Achievement Award. He is a 1961 graduate of Carleton.

Brandenberger joined the Lawrence faculty in 1968 and was named the Alice B. Chapman Professor of Physics in September, 1999. He received Lawrence's Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995 and was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1999, an honor bestowed on only one-half of one percent of APS members annually.

During his tenure at Lawrence, Brandenberger has received more than 20 research grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Research Corporation, among others, totaling more than $1.8 million.

He has played a leading role in developing Lawrence's laser physics program into one of the nation's most extensive undergraduate programs. In 1998, Lawrence's physics department was one of only three U.S. liberal arts colleges invited to make a case-study presentation at the "Physics Revitalization Conference: Building Undergraduate Physics Programs for the 21st Century," sponsored by the APS, the American Institute of Physics and the American Association of Physics.

After earning his bachelor's degree in physics at Carleton, Brandenberger earned a master's degree in 1964 and a Ph.D. in 1968, both in physics, from Brown University.