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Some Past Award Winners

Below are listed past winners of undergraduate awards and scholarships administered by the Department of Mathematics. (For more information on the awards, see the history of the awards.)

Awards were designated in the spring of the years indicated below; Strauss TAs taught and scholarships were received in the following academic year. A dash ("--") indicates we have no record of a winner (in particular, no winner is recorded in the University graduation commencement program of that year). In most or all of these cases, the award was not given in that year. Except for the Mathematics Competition / Krahn scholarships and possibly the dashes, so far as we know the record for scholarships and awards is complete. Any further information is welcomed by the webmaster (Mike Boyle, mmb@math.umd.edu).

There are also photos of past winners in the following years 2000 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007.

Abramowitz Award

2008 Matthew McGonagle and Ermin Wei
2007 Gaurav Thakur
2006 Bryant Lee
2005 Greg Crosswhite
2004 Jonathan Dahl
2003 Jared English
2002 Jonathan Pindrik
2001 William (Pat) Hooper
2000 William (Pat) Hooper
1999 Matthew Bainbridge
1998 David J. Clark
1997 Julie Freidlin
1996 Theresa H. Chow
1995 Dursun Bulutoglu
1994 Richard V. Durand
1993 Sergey Brin
1992 --
1991 --
1990 --
1989 --
1988 Harold K. Knight
1987 Sylvie A. Ryckebush
1986 Eric Bruce Zeisel
1985 Elise Cawley
1984 Chaya Joshi
1983 Geoffrey D. Birky, Alexander Stanoyevitch
1982 --
1981 Valerie Matthews, Steven Bonner
1980 Gary N. Stolovy
1979 --
1978 Glenn Joseph Galfond
1977 Charles Collins
1976 Robert B. Johnson
1975 William C. Quinn
1974 Jonathan L. Merzel
1973 Mary E. Morley, Eric Schecter
1972 Robert A. Fefferman, Russel M. Reid
1971 Thomas W. Hall, Jr.
1970 Karen Posey and Philip Feinsilver
1969 Michael Eddy
1968 Ralph P. Pass
1967 Robert M. Higginbotham
1966 Charles Fefferman
1965 Riho Terras
1964 Robert R. Clough
1963 Audrey Bowdoin (later Audrey Terras)
1962 Daniel M. Hyman
1961 First year of the award:
Sallie A. Harwood

Aziz Mathematics Scholarship

2008 Henry Scher
2007 Philip Isett
2006 Jeffrey Donatelli
2005 Michael A. Hall
2004 Juan Lleras
2003 Andrew Snowden
2002 First year of the award:
Andrew Snowden

Euclid Teaching Assistants

2008 Christian Padzursky, Cynthia Tran, Allison Weatherford, Juliet Han

Higginbotham Award

2008 Rachel Kirsch
2007 John Silberholz
2006 Andrew Parrish
2005 James White
2004 Bianca Viray
2003 Greg Crosswhite
2002 Lawrence D'Anna
2001 Chad Groft and Jared Speck
2000 Matthew Bainbridge and Jeffrey S. Brown
1999 Kathryn Saftner
1998 John Armstrong
1997 David S. Bindel
1996 Sudheer Shukla
1995 Sudheer Shukla
1994 Uri D. Nodelman
1993 Matthew Baker and Alan Preis
1992 Emiliano Gomez
1991 Ilya Lyubomirsky
1990 Christopher Monsour and Richard Penn
1989 --
1988 --
1987 Michael J. Raue
1986 Sylvie A. Ryckebush
1985 Sylvie A. Ryckebush
1984 Elise Cawley and Eric Zeisel
1983 David Wasson
1982 Mary Flather
1981 Ravi Boppana
1980 Steven Bonner
1979 --
1978 Eric Irwin Kuritzky
1977 Glenn J. Galfond
1976 Glenn J. Galfond
1975 Robert B. Johnson
1974 Steven Spriggs
1973 Edward L. Korn
1972 Edward Korn
1971 Robert A. Fefferman
1970 First year of the award:
Mark Meyerson

Carol Karp Award (no longer awarded)

2004 Meghan Gwyer
2003 Lawrence D'Anna
2002 Jessica Metcalf-Burton
1999 Daniel Schick and David Spivak
1995 (Geoffrey) Chris Hruska
1992 Fawzi P. Emad
1988 Terri G. Marquiss
1987 Paul Robert Harris
1985 Elbert Porter
1984 Jonathan A. Epstein
1983 Selman P. Hershfield
1982 Jordana Enig
1981 Mary Flather
1980 Joyce N. Migdall
1978 Lonny Richard Gorban and Robert Karl Schwenk

Edgar Krahn (Mathematics Competion) Scholarship

2008 Mitchell Katz, Henry Scher
2007 Mitchell Katz
2006 Rudolph Henkel, Matthew Jordan
2005 Rudolph Henkel
2004 Rudolph Henkel, Nikolai Yakovenko
2003 Rudolph Henkel, Nikolai Yakovenko
2002 Nikolai Yakovenko
2001 Nikolai Yakovenko, Evan Cohen
1998 Jeremy Ou, Allan Tong
1997 Jeremy Ou, Kevin Scaldeferri, Allan Tong
1996 Jeremy Ou, Kevin Scaldeferri, Allan Tong

Outstanding Senior Award

2008 Philip Isett
2007 Jeffrey Donatelli
2006 Timothy Dulaney and Michael Hall
2005 Neha Gupta
2004 Andrew Snowden
2003 Lawrence D'Anna
2002 Chad Groft
2001 Matthew Bainbridge
2000 David Spivak
1999 David S. Bindel
1998 David S. Bindel
1997 Sudheer Shukla
1996 Dursun Bulutoglu Peter Calabrese and
Mikhail Konikov
1995 Joseph S. Miller
1994 Matthew Baker
1993 First year of the award:
Sergey Brin

Secondary Education-Mathematics Scholarship

2008 Christian Padzursky
2007 Matthew Holmes and Laura Stevens
2006 Katelyn Busby and Candace Karanovich
2005 Madeline Ahearn, Mark Widemeyer
2004 Alyssa Manna, Olivia Walters
2003 Meghan Carr, Tiffany Murphy,
Bethany Miskelly and Alicia Utterback
2002 First year of the award:
Sebastien Bacle and Shan Susan Hsiung

Strauss Scholarship

2008 Jon Anderson
2007 Burhan Sadiq
2006 Anton Lukyanenko
2005 Timothy Dulaney
2004 Neha Gupta
2003 Jonathan Dahl
2002 Marshall C. Williams
2001 Marshall C. Williams
2000 Bryan Osborn
1999 Wesley Yin
1998 Sarah Oppenheim
1997 --
1996 --
1995 Peter Calabrese and Mikhail Konikov
1994 Anna Borovikova and Dursun Bulutoglu
1993 Eli Hawkins and Lev Novick
1992 --
1991 --
1990 Eric Boesch and Amy Galitzer
1989 First year of the scholarship:
Annegret Paul and Richard Philip Penn

Strauss Teaching Assistants

2008 Sean Burke, Lisa Hoffmeister, Max Joffe, Joel Witten
2007 Aimee Felts, Christina Frederick, Daniel Marcin, Jesse Sugar-Moore
2006 Mohamed Abutaleb, Philip Isett, Daniel Marcin, Samuel Pinkava
2005 Stephen Colodner, Jeffrey Donatelli, Erin Lynch
2004 Patrick Curran, Joseph Ryan, David Sivakoff, Bianca Viray
2003 Patricia Castellanos, Neha Gupta, Juan Lleras
2002 Michael Gill, Jonah Kanner, David Moyer,
Michael Ostrowski, Jessica Schulte, Ariel Weinberger
2001 Jared English, Chad Groft, Jessica Metcalf-Burton,
Michael Ostrowski, Michael Thompson
2000 Brent Becker, James Bremer, Kristen DeVault,
Svetlana Fedotova, Philip Folkemer, Thomas Landers,
Jonathan Turnes
1999 Jeffrey Brown, Michael Kuta, Bryan Osborn,
Daniel Schick, David Spivak, Jonathan Turnes
1998 Evelyn Gilmore, Masha Sapper, Cara Stockham,
Timothy Strobell, Wesley Yin
1997 Kenneth Gosier, David Hamilton, William Holochwost,
Sarah Oppenheim, Masha Sapper, Timothy Strobell
1996 David Clark, Mark Hess, One Keam (Spring only),
Michael Neely, Kevin Scaldeferri, Sudheer Shukla
1995 Jeremy Calvert, Theresa Chow, Vishnumohan Jejjala,
Melvin Laney, Helen Loennig
1994 Peter Calabrese, Geoffrey (Chris) Hruska,
Uri Nodelman,Michael Starsinic, Karen Thurber
1993 Andrea Dickerson, Mee Kim, Sherman Lo
1992 Matthew Baker, Didon Pachner (Fall only),
Alan Preis, Michael Swisdak
1991 Emiliano Gomez, William (Grady) Miller
1990 Ilya Lyubomirsky, Didon Pachner
1989 Christopher Monsour, Richard Penn
1988 William Hix, Christopher Monsour
1987 William Hix, Christopher Monsour

Dan Sweet Scholarship

2006 Sinan Ariturk
2005 Stephen Herwig (first year of the scholarship)

The Dan Sweet Scholarship was replaced by the Daniel Sweet Undergraduate Research Fellowship (below), administered by the Norbert Wiener Center.

Daniel Sweet Undergraduate Research Fellowship Scholarship

2006 Jesse Sugar-Moore, Christina Frederick.