Professor Ilaria Pascucci is the recipient of the 2024 Leon and Pauline Blitzer Award for Excellence in Teaching of Physics and Related Sciences. The award recognizes outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

In 2022, Professor Pascucci was elected a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, for her scientific contributions to understanding how planet-forming disks evolve and disperse. Professor Pascucci will present the Blitzer award lecture in the spring of 2024.