MASS - Honors

MASS Awards and Fellowships

MASS 2007 Award Recipients

Dory Deines: outstanding performance in geometry course
Bryan Gillespie: merit fellowship and outstanding performance by the youngest participant
Sara Jensen: outstanding computer project and best project in geometry course
Chor Hang Lam: merit fellowship
Vincent Martinez: best examination in mathematical analysis
Timur Nezhmetdinov: merit fellowship
Matthew Pancia: merit fellowship and best project in algebra course
Noopur Pathak: outstanding project in algebra course
Robin Tucker-Drob: merit fellowship and best examination in geometry course

MASS 2006 Award Recipients

Jesse Barbour, St.Edward's University -- Merit fellowship and award for outstanding research project in geometry
Arthur Friend, Georgia Institue of Technology -- Merite fellowship and award for the best experimental project
Jessica Jou, PennState -- Merit fellowship and outstanding Penn State participant award
John Mangual, Princeton University -- Merit fellowship and award for the best research project in geometry
Carl Sutherland, PennState -- Merit fellowship and award for outstanding research project in analysis
Bogdan Vioreanu, International University(Bremen) -- Merit fellowship and award for the best research project in algebra
Daniel Volmar, Berkeley -- Merit fellowship and award for best scholarship
Tad Whitenight, PennState -- Merit fellowship

MASS 2005 Award Recipients

Eugene Eyeson, Benedictine University -- Outstanding projects suggested by the student
Ki Chul Kim, Dartmouth College -- Excellent performance fellowship,
Outstanding performance in Analysis course
Davide Koslicki, Washington State University -- Excellent performance fellowship,
Best project in Geometry
Sarah Matz, PennState -- Outstanding project in Analysis
Karen McCready, The College of New Jersey -- Making most progress overall,
Outstanding performance in the Analysis exam
Aya Mitani, Pitzer College -- Best presentation in Geometry
Toan Phan, Northwestern University -- Best overall performance fellowship,
Best project in Algebra,
Best project in Analysis
Joseph Roberts, PennState -- Excellent performance fellowship
Frances Worek, PennState -- Outstanding performance in the Analysis exam

MASS 2004 Award Recipients

Van Cyr, University of Buffalo -- Merit fellowship, outstanding performance in Geometry, outstanding project in Algebra
James Krysiak, Alfred University -- Best project in Geometry
Jenna Hammang, Valparaiso University -- Merit fellowship
Jeremy Heffner, PennState University -- Outstanding project in Algebra
Zachary McCoy, Yale University -- Outstanding performance in Geometry
A. Naber -- Merit fellowship, best project in Analysis, best performance in Analysis

MASS 2003 Award Recipients

Nathan Collins, University of Oregon -- Merit Fellowship
Jeffrey Gin, Central Michigan University -- Most innovative project in Analysis
Russel Halper, University of CA, Santa Barbara -- Excellent performance in Analysis
Marc Horn, Penn State University -- Best effort Award
David Jordan, University of Oregon, Clark Honors College -- Merit Fellowship
John Skukalek, Grand Valley State University -- Merit Fellowship
Vivek Srikrishnan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- Merit Fellowship
Rebecca Swanson, Dakota Wesleyan University -- Merit Fellowship
Michael Willis, Penn State University -- Nittany Lion Award

MASS 2002 Award Recipients

Patrick Barrow, North Carolina State University
Mark Branson, University of Oklahoma
Justin Fitzpatrick, Penn State University
Stacey Hubbell, Penn State University
Brady McCary, Texas A&M University
Michael Rowell, University of San Diego

MASS 2001 Award Recipients

Sharon Chuba, Penn State University
Patrick Rault, College of William and Mary
Yakov Shapiro, Boston University
Braden Soper, UCLA

MASS 2000 Award Recipients

Benjamin Chan, University of Rochester
Rachel Lash, Alfred University
Carmen Lefever, The College of New Jersey
Vakhid Masagutov, New Mexico State University
Alice Medvedev, University of California Institute of Technology

Awards received by MASS participants outside of MASS

Dmitry Vaintrob, (REU 2004) was the winner of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology (prize of $100,000), he won the third place in the Intel Science Talent Search (prize of $50,000) and he received the first-place AMS Menger award (prize of $1,000). Congratulations, Mitka!
Eric Larson, REU 2007 participant, was a member of the USA team at the 48th International Mathematical Olympiad, July 2007, Hanoi, Veitnam, and was awarded a silver medal. Congratulations, Eric!
Beth Morgan, MASS 2002 participant, is among the first Newton Fellows of the Math for America Program established by Dr. James Simons of Renaissance Technoology Crop. Congratulations, Beth! See the article in DAILY NEWS.
Rebecca Swanson has won an award at the Undergraduate Poster Session at the Phoenix AMS Conference for her poster Polygonal Ponderings.
Yakov Shapiro (Boston University, MASS 2001) was awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship.
Elizabeth Thoren, a MASS 2001 participant, has been chosen as an honorable mention in the competition for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
Patrick Rault (College of William and Mary, REU and MASS 2001) has been awarded the Barry M. Goldwater scholarship.
Sharon Chuba (Penn State, REU and MASS 2001) is a winner of the Undergraduate Student Poster Session in San Diego, January 2002.
James Kelley (MASS 1998), currently a mathematics graduate student at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jaclyn (Kohles) Anderson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, MASS 1998) is a winner of the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman, 2001.
Benjamin Chan (University of Rochester, REU and MASS 2000) is a winner of the Undergraduate Student Poster Session in New Orleans, January 2001. His poster was among three very highly ranked posters.
- Poster Title: Estimation of the Period of a Simple Continued Fraction
  Advisors: Robert Vaughan, Penn State and Misha Guysinsky, Tufts University
James Kelley (MASS 1998) ranked #59 in the 1999 William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and won an Honorable Mention among individuals.
Jaclyn Kohles received an honorable mention in the Alice T. Schafer Prize competition for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman, 2000.
Noah Salvaterra, Brian Wickman, and Jayadev Athreya (MASS 1999) are winners of the Undergraduate Student Poster Session in Washington D.C., January 2000.
- Noah Salvaterra and Brian Wickman (REU and MASS 1999)
  The Growth of Generalized Diagonals in a Polygonal Billiard
  Advisors: Anatole Katok, Penn State and Misha Guysinsky, Tufts University
- Jayadev Athreya (MASS 1999) and Lukasz M. Fidkowski
  Number Theoretic Balls in Boxes
  Advisor: Anant Godbole, Michigan State University