<p>As evidence, I present the case of Guy Geyer Marcus '13 who is the second former Wesleyan senior in four years to win the coveted Apker Prize for undergraduate physics research. Interestingly, the award is given to two undergraduates a year, one from a liberal arts college and the other from a large research university. Guess which category Wesleyan competes in? Presumably, because of its tiny doctoral program, it is lumped in with MIT, Caltech and the like. So, one could argue, that at Wesleyan you have the best of both worlds, top STEM research conducted in a small college setting:
<a href="http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2014/02/12/award-winning-physics-alum-guy-geyer-marcus/?ref_highlights">http://roth.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2014/02/12/award-winning-physics-alum-guy-geyer-marcus/?ref_highlights</a></p>
<p><a href=“Hao Shi, Guy Geyer Marcus are Apker Recipients”>http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201312/apker.cfm</a></p>
<p>$7·5 Million DOD grant:
<a href=“The Wesleyan Argus | Physics Professor Sees Research Potential in Optics Grant”>http://wesleyanargus.com/2014/05/01/physics/</a></p>
<p>Meet UC-Santa Cruz Professor of Planetary Sciences, Ian Garrick-Bethel, Class of '02:
<a href=“Summer 2023 Issue, Wesleyan University Magazine - Wesleyan University”>Summer 2023 Issue, Wesleyan University Magazine - Wesleyan University;
<p>Another Apker Prize finalist: <a href=“Hanakata ’14 Finalist for American Physical Society’s Apker Award”>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2014/09/09/hanakatafinalist/</a></p>