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| Graduate Awards 2009: |
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| The Richard Sady Prize recipient is John Engbers : Each year the department presents the Richard Sady Prize to our best second year graduate student based on his/her performance in the basic courses he/she took in their first year. Richard Sady was a graduate student in our department and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1977. He then was an assistant professor at Pembroke State University in North Carolina where he died in 1982. He was beloved by many here. This fund was established in his name. |
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| Outstanding Teacher Award by the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning.
The Mathematics Department is proud to announce that two of its graduate students have been awarded the 2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher award. This award is given by the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning and is given to graduate students, selected by their department, who demonstrate excellence in the classroom, laboratory or other instructional capacity. The recipients of this award are Demirhan Tunc and Angela Kohlhaas. |
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| Steven Broad Receives the Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: This award recognizes graduate students who are remarkable teaching assistants at Notre Dame, and shows exceptional record of merits. This award inspires a high standard toward which each Notre Dame graduate teaching assistant should aim. Recepients receive $250.00 and will be recognized at the Graduate School's Awards Banquet. |
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| Stacy Hoehn Receives the Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award: The Shaheen Awards recognize one outstanding graduate student from each of the four divisions of the Graduate School: Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, and Engineering. Students selected will receive a $2,000 cash award and a commemorative plaque. See College of Science Press Release |
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| Stacy Hoehn Receives NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship: Stacy Hoehn, who will receive her Ph.D. in Mathematics this semester, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship to study at Vanderbilt University for two or three years. She will continue her research in geometric topology, investigating mathematical objects, called high-dimensional manifolds, that do not have boundaries.
Hoehn became interested in topology at Xavier University, where she earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science in 2004. At Notre Dame, where she earned an M.S. in Mathematics in 2006, she was advised by Prof. Bruce Williams. Her research has included Siebenmann’s end theorem, surgery theory, algebraic K-theory and automorphisms of manifolds.
She received a three-year Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF in 2005, which among other things supported a trip to Germany to give a presentation on microbundles at a workshop on high-dimensional manifolds and to attend a conference on surgery theory in Scotland. She met Bruce Hughes, who will be her mentor at Vanderbilt, at a conference a few years ago. |
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