The Hugh D. Young Graduate Student Teaching Award is given to encourage and recognize effective teaching by graduate students. This award was established in 1995.

Hugh D. Young was a professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University who devoted much of his life to Carnegie Mellon and its students. He was born on Nov. 3, 1930, in Ames, Iowa, and was raised in Mondamin and Osage, Iowa. He first set foot on Carnegie Mellon’s campus as an undergraduate physics major in 1948, and, by 1959, had earned a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics. He later earned a B.F.A. in music in 1972, concentrating in organ performance.

During his 52-year career teaching physics at Carnegie Mellon, Young was a mainstay of the introductory physics sequence offered by the Physics Department, nurturing it through many changes. Nearly every semester he taught both a large introductory physics course and a second course. Through it all, he introduced more than 18,000 students to the beauty of physics.

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