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Alan H. Barrett Prize--for outstanding research in astrophyiscs
- Emily M. Levesque 2006, Middleborough, MA

Joel Matthew Orloff Award--for outstanding scholarship in physics
- Patrick S. Varilly 2006, San Jose, Costa Rica

Joel Matthew Orloff Award--for research scholarship in physics
- Emily M. Levesque 2006, Middleborough, MA

Joel Matthew Orloff Award--for outstanding service
- Anat Burger 2006, Nashville, TN
- Alejandro Rodriguez 2006, Miami, FL

Malcolm Cotton Brown Award--for a senior of high academic standing in physics who plans to pursue graduate study in physics
- Huanquian Loh 2006, Singapore

Philip Morse Memorial Award--for a senior of high academic standing in physics who plans to pursue graduate study in physics
- Philip J. Richerme 2006, Hazlet, NJ

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 7, 2006 (download PDF).

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