Awards and Honors
Explore a list of awards and honors from Neeti Parashar, Professor of Physics at Purdue University Northwest.
- Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award, Purdue University Northwest, 2021
- Teaching Incentive Program Award, Purdue University Northwest, 2021
- European Physical Society Prize in High Energy Physics, to the CDF and D0 Collaborations “for the discovery of the top quark and the detailed measurement of its properties”, 2019
- 2019 CMS Achievement Award – Parashar’s High Energy Physics group postdoc Dr. Tongguang Cheng, for his contributions in the CMS Physics Performance and Dataset Group
- Overall Up and Coming Influential Woman Award of Northwest Indiana in all 11 categories, Avalon Manor, November 6, 2014
- Up and Coming Influential Woman Award of Northwest Indiana in the Education Category at Avalon Manor, November 6, 2014
- Best Performance in Research Award for College of EMS, by Sponsored Programs on Faculty Research Day, Purdue University Calumet, October 21, 2014
- Fellows Award from The Society of Innovators of Northwest Indiana for contributions to the discovery of the Higgs Boson, Horseshoe Casino Ballrooms, Hammond, October 16, 2014
- Established Purdue University Calumet as the Education and Outreach Center in High Energy Physics, called QuarkNet, 2014
- Co-author on the “DISCOVERY OF THE HIGGS BOSON”, CMS Collaboration, 2013 and 2014
- Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award at Purdue University Calumet, 2012-2013
- Outstanding Faculty Teacher Award at Purdue University Calumet, 2012-2013
- Distinguished Chancellor Faculty Lecturer at Purdue University Calumet, 2013
- Received “Outstanding Commitment to Sponsored Programs Award”, for winning grants of more than $100,000 in the last two years, at the Sponsored Programs Recognition Reception at Purdue University Calumet, September 2012
- Recognized by the Purdue University President, Tim Sands, for contributions to Higgs search and the discovery of the new boson at Purdue Board of Trustees, July 2012
- Author and collaborator to the discovery of a new boson at Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, July 2012
- Outstanding Teaching Contribution to Pearson Publishing Company, 2012
- Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award at Purdue University Calumet, 2007-2008
- Author to the discovery of single top quark on the DZERO (pronounced DEE-ZERO) experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2008)
- Author to the discovery of “Cascade-b” particle on the DZERO experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (2007)
- Special Award from the National Society of Black Engineers, Louisiana Tech University for advising the students (2004)
- Speaker of science for educational institutions – State of Louisiana Board of Regents (2003)