• Emertius Professor of Mathematics
• 334 McAllister Building
• The Pennsylvania University
• University Park, PA 16802
• Phone: (home) 814 865-5081, (office) 814-863-8665, (cell) 814-571-8672
• e-mail: rung@math.psu.edu
• fax: 814-865-3735

• 2487 Buchenhorst Rd, State College, PA 16801
• Phone: (814) 238-5316
• Born: September 12, 1932
• Married to Catherine Lyon Rung
• Six children: Donald III, Kevin, Lisa, Margaret, Anne, Sean

• 1961 PhD, University of Notre Dame, Mathematics
• 1957 MS, University of Notre Dame, Mathematics
• 1954 BA, Niagara University (Summa cum laude)

1998-present

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics

1961-1997

Faculty member, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University

1981-82, 1989

Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Hawaii at Manoa

1973-74

Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1967-68

Senior Fulbright-Hays Lecturer in Mathematics at Tsing-hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China

1960-61

Instructor, University of Notre Dame

1954-60

Graduate Assistant, University of Notre Dame

1968-70

Associate Head, Department of Mathematics

1975-80

Head, Department of Mathematics

1986-87

Acting Head, Department of Computer Science

1994-97

Associate Head for Freshman Calculus, Dept. Math.

• Executive Committee, College of Science, 1975-80, 1986-87
• Faculty Advisory Committee to the President, 1984-86, 1991-93
• University Planning Advisory Committee I, 1984-85 and II, 1990
• Middle States Association Advisory Committee, 1985-86
• The Presidential Advisory Committee on Responses to Apartheid, Chair, 1987-89
• The Search and Screen Committee for the Position of Director of Admissions, Chair, 1987
• Public Policy Institute Advisory Committee, 1987-88
• Health Promotion Strategic Study Group, 1989-90
• Provost Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Faculty Handbook, 1990-91
• Provost Ad Hoc Committee on University Policy for Management Systems, 1991-92
• Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Advisory Committee, 1991-92

Joint American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America Committee on Employment and Educational Society

Member: 1979-1996

Chair and Director of the Annual Surveys: 1982-1986

Joint American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Committee on Employment Opportunities, later the Joint AMS-IMS-MAA Data Committee

Member: 1981-1991

Chair: 1983-1991

MAA committee on Guidelines for Mathematics Departments, member, 1990-1993

Project Director, American Mathematical Society Special Committee on Resources Necessary for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction, 1992

The Survey of Mathematical and Computer Sciences sponsored by Conference Board of The Mathematical Sciences (conducted every five years)

Member of the 1985 Survey committee: 1985-1987

Director of the 1990 Survey: 1988-92

Director of the 1995 Survey: 1993-97

National Science Foundation Panel on Alternate Modes of Support for Mathematics, 1981

MS 2000 project of National Academy of Science; Chair of Subcommittee on Masters degree curriculum, also member, Talent Review Paper Workshop for MS 2000, 1990

Reviewer for American Mathematical Society publications, 1965-78

• At various times member of the Department's Personnel, Policy and Headship Committees
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1965-67,
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mathematics, 1970-72, 1989-90, and Coordinator of Freshman Calculus (later Associate Head for Freshman Calculus), 1993-present
• Served on several College of Science promotion and tenure committees
• Senior member of the Graduate Faculty since 1965
• Chaired two doctoral committees
• Five sabbatical leaves: 1967-68, 1973-74, 1981-82, 1988-89, 1996
• Elected member of University Faculty Senate, 1965-67, 1970-72, 1978-81, 1984-88, 1990-1997
• Elected Chair of The University Faculty Senate in 1985-86, serving as Chair-elect and Immediate Past Chair in the antecedent and subsequent year

• Chair of the Committee on Academic and Physical Planning
• Vice-Chair of the Academic Admission Committee
• Chair of Academic and Athletic Standards Committee
• Chair of The Senate Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics
• Faculty Rights and Responsibility Committee, 1987-88
• University Faculty Senate Council, 1987-88, 1991-1997
• Member, Faculty Advisory Committee to the President of The University: 1984-86, 1991-94
• Chair, Ad Hoc Senate Committee to Review the University's Non-Discrimination Statement, 1990-91
• Member, Ad Hoc Senate Committee to Review University Faculty Senate, 1992
• Member, Special Senate Subcommittee on Faculty Compensation, 1995-96

• American Mathematical Society

• McKay Donkin Award: given annually to a faculty or staff member who has made outstanding contribution to the economic, physical, mental or social welfare of the faculty of The Pennsylvania State University, 1989

Teresa Cohen Award: given annually to a mathematics faculty member for contributions to the Mathematics Department, 1990

• Principal Investigator: Survey of Undergraduate Mathematical and Computer Sciences Departments 1990-91, National Science Foundation, $168,611
• Co-Principal Investigator - Survey and Report of Collegiate Undergraduate Programs in The Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science, Fall 1995, $202,498

1. The author of a series of thirteen survey articles on the status of the academic mathematics community (new doctorates, faculty mobility, enrollment, salary, etc.) which appeared in the Notices of The American Mathematical Society, (1980-85)
2. (with Donald J. Albers, Don O. Loftsgaarden and Ann E. Watkins). Statistical Abstract of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science in the United States, 1990-91 CBMS Survey, MAA Reports 23: pp. 1-173 (1992)
3. (with Don O. Loftsgaarden and Ann E. Watkins). Statistical Abstract of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences in the United States, 1995 CBMS Survey, MAA Reports 2: pp 1-171 (1997)

1. Results on the order of holomorphic function defined in the unit disk. J. Math. Soc. Japan, 14(3):322-332 (1962)
2. Boundary behavior of normal functions defined in the unit disk. Mich. Math. J., 10:43-51 (1963)
3. Asymptotic values of normal subharmonic functions. Math. Zeit, 84:9-15 (1964).
4. (with P. Lappan). Normal functions and non-tangential boundary arcs. Canadian J. Math., 18:256-264 (1966)
5. The order of certain classes of functions defined in the unit disk. Nagoya Math. J., 33:39-52 (1966)
6. (with J.A. Cima). Normal functions and a class of associated boundary functions. Israel J. Math., 4(2):119-126 (1966)
7. A remark on the theorem of Somadasa. J. London Math. Soc., 43:337-338
8. Some conditions under which sequences of functions are uniformly bounded. Nagoya Math. J., 33:75-83 (1968)
9. Behavior of holomorphic functions in the unit disc on arcs of positive hyperbolic diameter. Kyoto Math. J., 8:1-49 (1968)
10. The influence of small values of holomorphic function on its maximum modulus. Kyoto Math. J., 9(2):213-219 (1969)
11. A connection between the Nevanlinna characteristic and behavior of a sequence of boundary arcs for meromorphic functions in the disk. Kyoto Math. J., 13(2):273-300 (1973)
12. Errata and comments to "A connections between the Nevanlinna characteristic and behavior on a sequence of boundary arcs for meromorphic functions in the disc." Kyoto Math. J., 14(2):413 (1974)
13. A local form of Lappan's five point theorem for normal functions. Mich. Math. J., 23:141-145 (1976)
14. Meier type theorems for general boundary approach and s-porous exceptional sets. Pacific J. Math., 76(1):201-213 (1978)
15. (with S. Dragosh). Normal functions bounded on arcs and a proof of the Gross cluster value theorem. Hiroshima Math. J., 9:303-312 (1979)
16. (with J. Hwang). Proof of a conjecture of Doob. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 75(2):231-234 (1979)
17. (with J. Hwang). An improved estimate for the Bloch norm of functions in Doob's class. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 80:406-410 (1980)
18. (with S.A. Obaid and C.L. Belna). Geometric conditions for interpolation. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 18(3):469-475 (1983)
19. (with S.A. Obaid). Interpolating sequences on curves. Rocky Mountain J. Math., 15(4):787-799 (1985)
20. (with S.A. Obaid). Combinatorics and flexure. Z. Angew Math Phys.,36 (3):443-459 (1985)
21. (with S.A. Obaid). The sharpness of some cluster-set results, Inter. J. of Math. and Math. Sc., 10(4):777-786 (1987)
22. (with S.A. Obaid). New mathematical identities with application to flexure and torsion. Z. Angew Math. Phys., 40:93-110 (1989)

From 1969 to 1993, coached Little League Baseball, youth soccer from 3rd grade to high school level, and youth basketball. In 1975, founded the first under 19 soccer team in State College registered with the United States Soccer Association.

Recipient of the 1986 William Johnson Award for Contributions to Youth Soccer in the Centre Region .

Former Advisor to the Penn State Squash Club and the 1998 National Squash Champion in the 65+ Division.

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