Due to COVID-19, and the associated social distancing, we weren’t able to have Honors Night, Commencement, or our departmental year-end party. So, on Saturday, May 16th, we got together for a virtual celebration, via Zoom, and we announced our scholarship awardees, excellence award winners, and congratulated our graduating seniors.
![Scholarships](https://iusbphys.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/scholarships.jpg)
We awarded four CTS Scholarships:
- Liz Alters
- Jordan Edwards
- Angel Garcia
- Christian Rugelio
Additionally, two of the CTS awardees also won the Ƶ-Scholarship:
- Jordan Edwards
- Angel Garcia
![Excellence](https://iusbphys.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/excellence.jpg)
We had an especially hard time choosing Excellence Award winners this year, as we had several VERY strong candidates and, ultimately, we selected two:
- Deepu Sengupta
- Shwetha Vittal
![Graduates](https://iusbphys.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/graduates.jpg)
Finally, this was a record-breaking year for the department, with eleven graduating seniors:
- Salwa Alyami
- Gustavo Duran
- Miles Kidder
- Johnathan Leece
- Phillip Marmorino
- Erin Saunders
- Deepu Sengupta
- Stephanie Tallman
- Nathan Walkowski
- Ali Weesner
- Jeff Yoder
If interested, a recording of our virtual celebration can accessed via Kaltura.
Thanks to all who participated! We were thrilled to see eighteen separate parties join us, with several containing multiple guests. I hope we can celebrate face-to-face next year but, all things considered, this was a great experience. Have a wonderful summer, everyone, and please stay in touch!
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