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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)


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


Senior Teaching Fellows:

H. Edwards (1990)
Azoff (1995)


Meigs Teaching Award:
H. Edwards (1991)
Shifrin (1997)
Hollingsworth (1998)
Azoff (2001)


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


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)


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- )

Sarah Moss Fellowship:
Graham (1998)

McCay Award

Clint McCrory (1998)
Robert Rumely (2000)
Malcolm Adams (2002)
Roy Smith (2003)
Robert Varley (2005)
David Galewski (2007, posthumously)

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)

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)

Pythagoras Award
Ted Ashton (2004)

Dissertation Completion Award
Bobbe Cooper (2007)
Irfan Bagci (2008)

Anderson Memorial Award for best UGA thesis:
Jim Haglund (1996)
Kevin James (2000)
Ernie Croot (2002 )

Graduate Students Excellence in Research Awards:
Vitali Vologodsky (2003)
Victoria Baramidze (2005)

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)

William Armor Wills Memorial Scholarship Award:

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)


Undergraduate Student Award Winners:

The Charles M. Strahan Award:

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)

Hollingsworth Scholarship: 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.

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

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

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 (2005)

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. (2006)

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. (2007)

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 (2008)

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

Charles Mathis (1st)(1998)
Reed Cartwright (2nd)(1998)
Joshua N. Williams (1999)
Paul Pollack (2000)
Alan Dion (2000)
Catalina Afanador (2001)
Boris Alexeev (1st)(2002)
Maxim Arap (Tie, 2nd&3rd) (2002)
Adam King (Tie, 2nd&3rd) (2002)
Brandon Holton (1st)(2003)
Maciej Misztal (2nd)(2003)
Chantelle Anfuso (3rd)(2003)
Joseph LeCates (1st)(2004)
Douglas M. Jackson (2nd)(2004)
Yunjiang Jiang (1st)(2005)
Rachel Whitaker (2nd)(2005)
Christopher Pryby (3rd)(2005)
John Doyle (1st)(2006)
Will Whiteside (2nd)(2006)
Tyler Kelly (3rd)(2006)
Joshua M. Hanna (1st)(2007)
David Kraun (2nd)(2007)
Alex Moore (3rd)(2007)
Lucy Fu (1st)(2008)
Jung Woong Kim (2nd)(2008)
Stephanie Chapman and Andy Cray tied (3rd)(2008)