The Physics Department gives many prizes to physics majors. These include the Farras P. Mattar Scholarship, the Sigma Pi Sigma Prize, the George Granger Brown Scholarship and the Samuel F.B. Morse Medal, and being nominated for the National Physics Honors Society Sigma Pi Sigma.

The Farras Mattar Scholarship is awarded to full-time students in their junior or senior years in the College of Arts and Science who have designated physics as their major, and who demonstrate academic merit in their work in the Department of Physics. The Sigma Pi Sigma Prize is awarded to the student with the highest scholastic average in physics. The George Granger Brown Scholarship are merit awards presented at the end of the junior year to undergraduates majoring in physics or chemistry solely for excellence and promise in these fields. The Samuel F. B. Morse Medal is an award, provided for in the will of Samuel Morse, presented annually to a student who shows special ability in physics.

For more information about the the Physics Honors Society consult their web site http://www.sigmapisigma.org/ and for more information about prizes contact Bill Le Page: wlp1@nyu.edu