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The Joel Matthew Orloff Award--for outstanding scholarship in Physics
- Ziliang Lin '08, physics and chemistry, Malden, Mass.

The Joel Matthew Orloff Award--for outstanding research
- Yeming Shi '08, physics, China

The Joel Matthew Orloff Award--for outstanding service
- J. Colin Hill '08, physics and mathamatics, Spokane, Wash.
- Risa Kawai, physics, Vestavia Hills, Ala.

The Malcolm Cotton Brown Award--for a senior of high academic standing in physics who plans to pursue graduate study in experimental physics
- Ruth Shewmon '08, physics, Wooster, Ohio

The Philip Morse Memorial Award--for a senior of high academic standing in physics who plans to pursue graduate study in physics
- Thaned Pruttivarasin '08, physics and humanities & science, Thailand

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 4, 2008 (download PDF).

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