Past Mathematics Department Award Winners

Faculty Winners:

Beaver Teaching Award ("Little Beaver"):
H. Edwards (1979)
D. Penney (1980)
Lether (1981)
Bouldin (1984)
Saade (1986)
Dauenhauer (1989)
Shifrin (1991)
Hollingsworth (1992)
Azoff (1993)
C. Penney (1994)
McCrory (1995)
Beckmann Kazez (1997)
M. Hendon (1999)
Gard (2000)
Adams (2001)
Matic (2002)
Benson (2003)
Kazez (2007)
Alexeev (2009)
Lyall (2012)

Beaver Teaching Professorship ("Big Beaver"):
Shifrin (1994-97)
Hollingsworth (1997-2000)
Beckmann Kazez (2001-04)
Malcolm Adams (2005)
Clint McCrory (2007)
Ed Azoff (2010)

Senior Teaching Fellows:
H. Edwards (1990)
Azoff (1995)

Josiah Meigs Teaching Professorship:
H. Edwards (1991)
Shifrin (1997)
Hollingsworth (1998)
Azoff (2001)
Beckmann-Kazez (2011)

Michael Award:
Pomerance (1982)
Lapidus (1989)
Adams (1992)
Gootman (1994)
Fu (1997)
Zhang (2009)

Creative Research Medal:
Gootman (1982)
Johnson (1983)
Rumely (1984)
Lapidus (1989)
Maier (1989)
Smith-Varley (1990)
Clancey (1993)
Alford-Granville-Pomerance (1994)
Benson (1998)
Zhang (2000)
Alexeev (2001)
Izadi (2002)
Lai-Wenston (2003)
Lorenzini (2004)
Nakano (2007)
Fu (2011)
Kazez-Matic (2012)

Creative Research Award:
Pomerance (1989)
Granville (2000)
Benson (2004)

Distinguished Research Professorship:
Pomerance (1984-1999)
Carlson (1992-2002)
Benson (2000-2005)
Alexeev (2004- )
Lorenzini (2006- )
Nakano (2010- )

Sarah Moss Fellowship:
Graham (1998)
Varley (1986)

McCay Award

Clint McCrory (1998)
Robert Rumely (2000)
Malcolm Adams (2002)
Roy Smith (2003)
Robert Varley (2005)
David Galewski (2007, posthumously)
Daniel Nakano (2008)
Brian Boe (2009)
Cantarella (2011)

Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor -Originally named the Outstanding Honor Professor Award, this award was dedicated to Lothar Tresp, former Honors Program Director, in the mid-1990s. It recognizes superior teaching and dedication to Honors students in senior faculty members. Determined by the Honors Faculty Council and the Honors Program.

Charles Edwards (1972)
David Penney (1973)
J. Marshall Saade (1974)
David Penney (1974)
Charles Edwards (1974)
David Penney (1975)
Charles Edwards (1975)
J. Marshall Saade (1976)
David Penney (1976)
J. Marshall Saade (1978)
David Penney (1978)
Charles Edwards (1978)
J. Marshall Saade (1979)
Frank Lether (1979)
Charles Edwards (1979)
Charles Edwards (1980)
Charles Edwards (1981)
David Penney (1982-Honoratus)
Carol Penney (1982)
Charles Edwards (1982)
Charles Edwards (1982-Honoratus)
J. Marshall Saade (1983)
J. Marshall Saade (1983-Honoratus)
Ted Shifrin (1984)
Frank Lether (1984)
John Hollingsworth (1984)
John Hollingsworth (1985)
Ted Shifrin (1986)
Frank Lether (1986)
Carol Penney (1988)
Ted Shifrin (1989)
Ted Shifrin (1990)
Frank Lether (1990)
Ted Shifrin (1991)
Frank Lether (1991)
Frank Lether (1992-Honoratus)
Ted Shifrin (1992-Honoratus)
John Hollingsworth (1992)
Peter Rice (1993)
Edward Azoff (1994)
John Hollingsworth (1998)
Ted Shifrin (2002)
Edward Azoff (2005)
Ted Shifrin (2010)
Jason Cantarella (2011)

J. Howard Hatten III Award - Named after late Geology Professor J. Hatten Howard III. Established to recognize faculty members who exhibit special promise in teaching Honors courses early in their careers.

Mitchell Rothstein (1995)

Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award
Jason Cantarella (2007)

Instructor Award Winners:

Outstanding Instructor Award

Susan Whitehead (2002)
Maurice Hendon (2003)
Carol Warnes (2004)
Natalia Alexeev (2005)
Allison Arnold (2006)
Cherilyn Rumely (2007)

Graduate Student Award Winners:

Department Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

Michael Beck (2000)
Tanya Cofer, Daniele Arcara (2001)
Graham Mathews (2002)
Jie Zhou (2003)
Victoria Baramidze (2004)
Chad Mullikin (2005)
Joe Rusinko (2006)
Emilie Davie (2007)
Bree Ettinger (2008)
Brandon Samples (2009)
Rebecca Gaff (2010)
Stacey Musgrave, Alex Rice (2012)

University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

Michael Beck, Eric Pine (2000)
Daniele Arcara, Tanya Cofer (2001)
Victoria Baramidze, Sungkon Chang (2002)
Graham Matthews (2002)
Kenny Little, Jie Zhou (2003)
Michael Guy, Chad Mullikin (2004)
Emille Davie, Joe Rusinko (2005)
Valerie Cormani, Adam Fletcher, Jacob Keenum (2006)
Ted Ashton, Sheree Sharpe (2007)
Irfan Bagci, Kenyon Platt, Stephen Winburn (2008)
Jennifer Belton, David Prager, Brandon Samples (2009)
Maxim Arap, Justin Manning, Matt Mastin (2010)
Whitney George, Maury LeBlanc (2011)
Stacey Musgrave, Joel Oakley, Alex Rice (2012)


Pythagoras Award - for excellence in graduate studies

Ted Ashton (2004)

Dissertation Completion Award

Bobbe Cooper (2007)
Irfan Bagci (2008)
Jim Stankewicz (2011)

Anderson Memorial Award for best UGA thesis - In memory of Robert C. Anderson, former Vice President for Research and President of UGARF for excellence in research to a recent graduate of the UGA Graduate School.

Jim Haglund (1996)
Kevin James (2000)
Ernie Croot (2002 )

Graduate Students Excellence in Research Awards - Funded and administered by the Graduate School, this award recognizes the quality and significance of graduate student research.

Vitali Vologodsky (2003)
Victoria Baramidze (2005)

Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award - The University recognizes the significant contribution graduate students make to the instructional mission of the University.

Brandon Samples (2011)

B.J. Ball Scholarship - Named in honor of Prof. B.J. Ball, longtime colleague (1959-1986) and department head (1963-1969): this fund endows a graduate student scholarship.

Heunggi Park (2000)
Stephen Donnelly (2001)
Paolo Almeida (2002)
Chad Mullikin (2003)
Michael Guy and Valarie Cormani (2004)
Okkyung Cho and Joe Rusinko (2005)
Maxim Arap (2006)
Maxim Arap and Irfan Bagci (2007)
David Prager and Jie Yu (2008)
Jennifer Belton and HoiTin Kong (2009)
Whitney George, Leopold Matamba Messi, Ben Wyser (2010)
Matt Mastin (2011)
Adrian Brunyate, John Doyle, Alex Rice (2012)

William Armor Wills Memorial Scholarship Award - Funded through an endowment by Mrs. Josephine Hubbard Wills to honor her late husband. William Armor Wills received his Master's degree in Mathematics at the University of Georgia in 1944.

Vitali Vologodsky (1999)
Daniele Arcara (2000)
Gerard Awanou (2001)
Victoria Baramidze (2002)
Moustapha Pemy (2003)
Sungkon Chang (2004)
Bobbe Cooper (2005)
Peter Petrov (2006)
Jie Yu (2007)
Maxim Arap (2008)
Leopold Matamba Messi (2009)
Jim Stankewicz (2011)
Duy Nguyen (2012)


Undergraduate Student Award Winners:

The Charles M. Strahan Award - This award to outstanding junior mathematics majors was endowed by an anonymous former student of Dr. Charles M. Strahan, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mathematics from 1883 to 1945.

William E. Skaggs (1976)
J. Scott Carter (1977)
Pam Dian Stallings, Walter J. Muller (1978)
Bryan Jay Whitfield (1979)
Diane Ricketson (1980)
William Mark Faucette (1981)
David Edward Hammett (1982)
David Mark Pelletie r(1983)
Richard L. Rutledge, Larry W. Shackelford (1984)
James W. Anderson, John P. Anderson (1985)
Thomas E. Ishee (1986)
W. Keener Hughen (1987)
Susan Cleaver, Sarmad Abbasi (1989)
Laura Robertson (1989)
Ya-Jen(Nora) Hsaio (1991)
Stephen S. Bullock (1992)
Stephen Webb (1993)
Andrew Schretter, Henrik Kalisch (1994)
Thomas A. Bryan (1995)
Samuel A. Burer (1996)
Adrian J. Daigle, David C. Sheppard (1997)
Shawn A. Walker, Daniel E. Warren (1998)
Patrick Power, Wade Schueneman, Andrew Thompson (1999)
Kerouac Cleary, Christopher Gill, Mary E. Miles, Rolf Ryham, J. Benjamin Zippere (2000)
Paul Pollack (2001)
B.J. Cooley, Susan Sexton (2002)
Zachary Cochran, Zachary Michaels (2003)
Dean Tolla (2003)
Maksim Arap, Adam King and John Paul Ward (2004)
John Foreman, Josef Broder (2005)
James Dabbs (2006)
George Vulov, Rachel Whitaker (2007)
Tyler Kelly (2008)
Kyle Istvan and Alex Moore (2009)
Victoria Akin and Jung Woong Kim (2010)
Jacob Rooney (2011)
Derek Ponticelli and Tyler Johnson (2012)

The Hollingsworth Award - Named in honor of Prof. John Hollingsworth, longtime colleague (1967-2000), department head (1992-1995), and--for most of us--the model of commitment to undergraduate teaching: this fund endows a scholarship for undergraduate mathematics majors.

2003:
Jonathan Sauls, Qixing Zheng, Josh Weddle, Idris Woday,
Kara Mussatt

2004:
Alpesh Patel, Heather Ripley, Brandon Samples, Brian Wells,
Susan Garrison, Leonard Lasek, Jeff Nolte, J. Christopher Tarr

2005:
Angela Brown, Courtney Cody, Robert Darrith, Chris Zoeller,
Mark Dubose, Amanda Elam, Tim Rondeau, Ben Johnson, Eric Lopez, Victoria McNerney, Matthew Day, Leslie Kesley, Claudia Niculas, Andrew Ryan, Darren Rose, Kelly Gilmore, Brabara Wang, Kyle Webb

2006:
J. Ben Coleman, Nichole Costa, John Doyle, Grant Fiddyment,
Rhain Frye, James Gordy, James Richard Hyde, Makoto Ikeo,
Sean Johnston, Todd Jones, William Kerr, Kenneth Knox, Mia Morgan, Tim Nicklien, Kellie Sappington, Shannon Smith, Constance Southern, Rachel Stokely, Dominic Valentino, Justin Vastola, Fei Yang, and Angela Zachman.

2007:
Katelyn Andrews, Ashley Babcock, Bridget Babcock, John Behizadeh, Jason Boggus, Vanarith Chheang, Jessica Fain, Joseph Tito Herbozo, Maggie LaRochelle, Alex MacGregor, Balaji Narain, Ashden Reece,
Alex Rice, Kaitlin Spooner, Emily Susko, Kathryn Walter, Amanda West Kathryn Williamson, Ken Yamamoto.

2008:
John Doyle, Jessica Fain, Erica Fletcher, Stephanie Folk,
Ryan Higginbotham, Jesse Hinton, Alyshah Hussaini, Kyle Istvan,
Jerry (Jay) Leverett, steven McCord, Phillip Mote, Jonathan Okon, Aaron Osborn, Cho Yi (Jelena) Poon, Kevin Pope, Zachary Robbins, Paul Sperduto, Aileen Thomas, Katie Thompson, Claire Underwood, Ramon Vergara, Angela Wall, Jillian Winkler, Zao Yang

2009:
Stephanie Chapman,Victoria Akin,Sook Yoon,Margo Gonterman,
Derek Reeves, William Patrick Dever, Jr., Cho Poon, Katherine Keck, Eleanor (Ellie) Dannenberg, Kimberly Newman, Jennifer Fox,
Claire Bergstrom, Adam Jaeger, Kelechy Ugenyi, Alexander Russov, Neeraj Sriram, Robert Wainright, Joseph William (Will) Bender,
Jesse Hinton, Sarah Thompson, Stephen Morris, Greg Bailey,
Joanne McWilliams, Xianwei Hu, Thomas Olinger

2011:
Steven Adams, Muneeb Ahmed, Daniel Atha, Grant Bickwit,
Mary Boyles, Glenn Branscomb, Chelsea Davidson, Lucy Fu,
Tyler Johnson, Kirk Lemmen, Xieran Li, Xin Lu, Alexander Lyford, Kathryn Maples, Kristina Melstrom, Malik Obeidin, Chris O'Dekirk,
Brian Pidgeon, Katherine Plumblee, Derek Ponticelli, Alex Pritchett, Trevor Reece, Theresa Stratmann, Zachary Upton

2012:
Stephen K. Ayres, Cody Baetz, Emmanuel Chimezie, Ryan Gell,
Dustin Gertsch, Minh Hong Pham, Christopher Jagels, Kunal Patel, Camille Pfister, Nicole Ranieri, Andrew Reynolds, Matthew Saltz,
Sibo Sang, Kassie Smith, Michael Solomon, Madelyn Stephens, Mengtong Wu

Kossack Calculus Prize - Honors Carl F. Kossack, a retired member of the university's Mathematics and Statistics Departments. The grant supporting the prize was provided by one of Kossack's former calculus students in appreciation of Kossack's dedication to superior teaching

1998:
1st Place - Charles Mathis
2nd Place - Reed Cartwright

1999:
Joshua N. Williams

2000:
1st Place - Paul Pollack
2nd Place - Alan Dion

2001:
Catalina Afanador

2002:
1st Place - Boris Alexeev
2nd Place - Maxim Arap & Adam King (tie)

2003:
1st Place - Brandon Holton
2nd Place - Maciej Misztal
3rd Place - Chantelle Anfuso

2004:
1st Place - Joseph LeCates
2nd Place - Douglas M. Jackson

2005:
1st Place - Yunjiang Jiang
2nd Place - Rachel Whitaker
3rd Place - Christopher Pryby

2006:
1st Place - John Doyle
2nd Place - Will Whiteside
3rd Place - Tyler Kelly

2007:
1st Place - Joshua M. Hanna
2nd Place - David Kraun
3rd Place - Alex Moore

2008:
1st Place - Lucy Fu (1st) (2008)
2nd Place - Jung Woong Kim (2nd) (2008)
3rd Place - Stephanie Chapman & Andy Cray (tie)

2009:
1st Place - Jacob Rooney
2nd Place - Victoria Akin
3rd Place - Patrick Smith

2010:
1st Place - Derek Ponticelli
2nd Place - Zachary Freeland
3rd Place - Malik Obeidin

2011:
1st Place - Arianna Kazez (1st) (2011)
2nd Place - Xie Rachel Kulikoff, David Millard, Ryan Norris (tie)

2012:
1st Place - Bryan William Oakley
2nd Place - Cody Baetz and Hutton Brandon (tie)

last updated - May 3, 2012