Ethan Alexander Mancil, son of Dr. and Mrs. Gary Mancil of Salisbury, was awarded the 2018-2019 Mary Creason Memorial Award for Undergraduate Teaching from the Department of Physics at Duke University. This award was established to honor doctoral students who excel in teaching physics in the Introductory Physics Laboratories at Duke and is accompanied by a certificate together with $1,000. This award is presented to an individual based on the impact made in the way undergraduate students learn in the laboratory and the course evaluations of the undergraduate students taught by the nominee.
Ethan began the MS/PhD graduate program at Duke in the fall of 2018. He graduated from Graystone High School in 2013 and Appalachian State University in 2017 with dual degrees in both physics and math.