The Mathematics Alumni Endowment for undergraduate math majors provides important support to:

• Fund small stipends to pay students to conduct research with our faculty members.
• Subsidize undergraduate student travel to conferences where recipients will speak about their research projects and network with other mathematics students and professionals.
• Defray students' summer living expenses while working on faculty research projects.
• Develop initiatives for undergraduates to enhance their educational training and opportunities.
• Respond to urgent needs related to undergraduate students and education.

The funds of this endowment are managed by the University's Investment Council and only the income produced each year is used to fund the support described above.  Alumni contributions, directed to this endowment, have a lasting value by providing support not only now but also in the future for Penn State's mathematics students.
 
To contribute to the Mathematics Alumni Endowment For Undergraduates,

1. Go to the Penn State Giving Page.
2. On step 2 of the giving process on that page, enter Other in the Please designate my gift box.
3. Enter the fund code XCSMU.

This award was established in 1981 by PSU alumnus Raymond Shibley (1974 BS Chem) in honor of his father, math faculty member, Jabir Shibley.

Recipients are:

This scholarship was established by Jill Anderson and family and friends in memory of Kermit Anderson (1965 BS Math) who was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on 11 September 2001.

Recipients are:

• 2016  Patrick B. Nicodemus and Christopher E. Roth
• 2015  Katrina Rydzewski, Yifan Wu
• 2014  Eric Bieber and Elisabeth Paulson
• 2012  Qiyuan Li and John Urschel
• 2011  Samantha Fuller and Victoria Marone
• 2010  Brandon Carangi and Daniel Kluskiewicz
• 2009  Leslie Ross and David Lytle

This scholarship was established in 2000 by members of the math department to honor faculty member Mary McCammon, who was a member of the math faculty for more than four decades.

Recipients are:

• 2022/2023 Liufei Chen, Lacey Magulick, Cecilia Fidler, Kristy Kwok and Maxwell Hahn
• 2021/2022 Isabelle Stepler, Bethany Fetsko, Graceanne Paz and Luciana Lai
• 2020/2021 Lea Cesaire, Julian Jean, James Levri, Madelyn McNally, Justyna Sokolik and Olivia Wright
• 2019/2020 Raymond Lu, Kyle Mauger, Matthew Pidgeon and Jonah Wyzomrski
• 2018   Sylvia Bintrim-Yang, Daniel Hofman, Gavin Kerrigan and Zhenyu Tian
• 2017   David Falk, Matthew Litman, Simranjeet Singh, Gavin Kerrigan
• 2016   David T. Keklock, Kara B. Ross, Simranjeet Singh, Samuel T. Slocum
• 2015   Alaina Bradley, Sara Cobern, Kyra Leasure
• 2014   Joseph Bonazelli, Sara Cobern, Kyra Leasure
• 2012   Edgar Acosta, Daniel Kannell, Krzysztof Pawelec, Sebastian Rolotti
• 2011   Andrew Bydlon, Aaron Castillo, Krzysztof Pawelec, Cecily Vottero
• 2010   Gina Capristo, Joshua J. M. Conrad, John Dougherty, Samantha Fuller, Zeljko Raic
• 2009   Derrick Keister, Lauren Moore, Stacy Lemin

This scholarship was established in 1999 by Science alumnus, George Bergey (1961 BS Phys), in honor of the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler.

Recipients are:

• 2022/2023 Bethany Fetsko and Graceanne Paz
• 2021/2022 Justin Malley and Jaya Grafton
• 2020/2021 Diana Aquilar, Jenna Bologa, Nathan Brown, Patrick Byrne, Craig Feaster, Sondra Hutchinson, Qian Liu, Dante Marcucci, Bailey Musselman, Matthew Pidgeon, John Rottschaefer, Miranda Schiavone, Jonah Wyzomirski and Serena Young
• 2019/2020 Alexis Dobransky, Brandon Gaines, Kedar Karhadkar, Kai-Uwe Konrad, Limeng Luo, Duong Nguyen, Kassandra Olson, Garian Rice, Jennyfher Serna-Vivar, Justin Strecker, Emily Thyrum, YongKang Wang and Jinyang Wu
• 2018   Helal El-Zaatari, Yifei Xiao, Jinyang Wu and Stephen Thornton
• 2017   Catherine Babecki and Yuefei Shen
• 2016   Matthew D. Easton and Michael Evans
• 2015   Yungbok Lee and Robert Lumpkin
• 2014   Yancy Liao and Zachary Snyder
• 2012   Nicole Butera, Lindsay Eisenhut, Mathhew Jaffe and Leah McNamara
• 2011   John Dougherty and Qiyuan Li
• 2010   Bryan Gillespie and Brandon Herman
• 2009   Brandon Herman and Vincent Del Prince

This scholarship was established in 2006 by Gary Mullen, a long-time departmental faculty member in honor of his parents, Boyd A. and Bernice K. Mullen.

Recipients are:

• 2022/2023 Cecilia Fidler
• 2021/2022 Hiu Ying Kwok
• 2020/2021 Jacob Roma and Myles Cramer
• 2019/2020 Leah Hunt
• 2018   Raymond Friend and Sebastian Rauch
• 2017   Miranda Auhl and Hannah Pohlmann
• 2016   Miranda S. Auhl and Michael T. Fogarty
• 2015   Bridget Backer and Cameron A. Kellock
• 2014   Steven Styer and Lauren Valdivia
• 2012   Andrew Bydlon and Ping Zhao
• 2011   Jacqueline Luff and Jeffery McMahon
• 2010   Nicole Horrigan and Sasha Slipak
• 2009   Jennifer Ober and Jeffrey Conway

Women in Mathematics (WIM) offers support to female undergraduate students to conduct research projects under the direction of faculty mentors within the Mathematics Department at Penn State University.

Applicants must be female  students enrolled at Penn State University Park Campus with a Mathematics Major in the 2020-2021 academic year. Priority will be given to juniors and seniors. We strongly encourage students without prior research experience to apply. The proposed research work for WIM Scholars should not be part of projects for which students receive academic credit.

WIM will offer support up to $1000 per student for the academic year 2020-2021, including summer sessions. The funds for could be used for the summer sessions with intensive research activities or for Fall and Spring semesters combined.  (If the time period is less, please specify the amount requested and time period.)

Applicants should fill out an application form in all its parts.

The deadline to submit an application for 2021 has passed.

Application form

• Current recipients
• Past recipients

For more information, please contact:
Professor Diane Henderson.

This award was established in 1950 from a bequest from Ormelle Stecker in honor of her late husband, H. Freeman Stecker, former math faculty member.

Recipients are:

• 2022/2023 Aoran Cui
• 2021/2022 Yancheng Wang
• 2020/2021 Lucas Richardsen
• 2019/2020 Haley Zsoldos
• 2018   Karan Shah
• 2017   Katherine Brophy
• 2016   Ryan A. Sosnader
• 2012   Victoria Marone
• 2011   Nicole Butera
• 2010   Zipeng Wang
• 2009   Chris Lengerich

This award was established in 1965 by family, colleagues, and friends to honor former faculty member Evan Johnson.

Recipients are:

• 2022/2023 Austin Bentzinger
• 2021/2022 Noah Schriver
• 2020/2021 Xuesong Chen
• 2019/2020 Brandon Gaines and James Levri
• 2018   Melissa Dewoody and Jeremy Wells
• 2017   Weiyu Luo
• 2016   Qianru Zhu
• 2015   Tyler Albany and Jia Fan
• 2014   Leah Frederick and Peter Sutor
• 2012   Gregory Ference
• 2011   Lindsay Eisenhut and John Urschel
• 2010   Himani Gupta and Michael Prikockis
• 2009   Jacqueline Luff and Alan Slipak

The Christopher R. Dyckman and Susan Scotto Scholarship provides recognition and financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students enrolled in Mathematics.

Recipients are:

The William B. Forest Honors Scholarship recognizes and provides financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Mathematics

Recipients are:

The Steven and Sherry McCrystal Award honors undergraduate students majoring in Mathematics who have achieved academic excellence.

Recipients are:

The William B. Forest Endowment for Mathematics Award recognizes and provides financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Mathematics.

I Love Math Scholarship in Eberly College of Science recognizes and provides financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Mathematics.

The Peter Fangzhou Rao Scholarship in the Eberly College of Science recognizes and provides financial assistance to outstanding undergraduate students majoring in Mathematics.

The Dwyer Graduate Fellowships are made possible through the generosity of Terence J. and Jane Dwyer. Terence J. Dwyer received his bachelor's degree from the Eberly College of Science at Penn State in 1970. He was honored in 2001 by the Eberly College of Science with the Outstanding Science Alumni Award and in 2004 as an Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association.

Recipients are:

• 2008-2010Ryan Flynn
• 2006-2008Brian Haines

This award recognizes graduate assistants in the Department of Mathematics for their outstanding undergraduate teaching.

2022 - Emily Hammett

2021 - Jesus Sanchez

2020 - Ana Chavez Caliz

2019 - Dmitrii Pedchenko

2018 - James Kowalski & Dominic Veconi

2017 - Jake Pardo & Mike Harrison

2016 - Alena Erchenko

2015 - Shilpak Banerjee & Adam Zydney

2014 - Daniel Droz & Ehssa Khanmohammadi

2013 - Phil Hudelson

2012 - Seunghun Hong

2011 - Tyrone Crisp

2010 - Vivek Srikrishnan

2009 - Jonas Kibelbek

2008 - Heiko Todt

2007 - Hengguang lI

2006 - Yuliya Gorb

2005 - Dima Matsnev

2004 - Nestor Handzy

2003 - Stephen Binns

2002 - Jeff Raven

2001 - Roland Gunesch

2000 - Alistair Windsor

1999 - Jeremy Lovejoy

1998 - Alexander Mezhirov

1997 - Eric Johnson

1996 - Jim Andtony, Moisey Guysinsky & Ling Shen

1990 - Oksana Lassowsky, Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani & Jose Santos

1988 - Frank Arlinghaus & Gunnar Stefansson

1987 - Joe Conrad & Phan-Hung Loi

1986 - Maddtew Coleman, Tzu Chiao Huang, Daniel Otero, Faraj Shielban & Jim Strayer

1983 - Elizabedt Bator, Jean Pierre Matet, Dwayne Presler & Clifford Reiter

1982 - Jorge Almeida, Michael Gass & Benjamin Sunderland

1981 - Lance Littlejohn & Blair Spearman

1979 - John Herring, Robert Mignone & Galen Weitkamp

1978 - Kevin Kadell, Sheau-Dong Lang & Rick Smidt

1977 - Evelyn Obaid, Samih Obaid & Richard Stout

1976 - Edward White

1975 - Elaine Milito, Margaret Morton & Russell Myers

The ZZRQ Award honors outstanding achievement by a doctoral candidate who has contributed to the sense of community within the department. This award is made possible through annual contributions from alumni and friends of the Department of Mathematics.

Recipients are:

2023 - Patrick Donaghue & Joshua Paik

2022 - Jacob Bradd

2021 - Caleb Springer

2020 - Caitlin Lienkaemper

2019 - Ana Chavez Caliz & Dmitrii Pedchenko

2018 - Dominic Veconi

2017 - Matt Mizuhara

2016 - William Wright

2015 - Ayla Gafni

2014 - Shahrzad Sara Jamshidi

2013 - Kurt Vinhage

2012 - Zhan Huang

2011 - Paul Siegel & Yanxiang Zhao

2010- Vaughn Climenhaga & Yanping Ma

2009 - Rufus Willett

2008 - John Ethier & Li Hengguang

2007 - Vivek Srikrishnan

2006 - William Keith

2005 - Dima Matsnev

2004 - Carl Mummert

2003 - Filiz Dogru & Ilie Ugarcovici

2002 - Jeff Raven

2001 - Linda Smolka & Bin Zhang

2000 - Kim Roth

1999 - Kresimir Josic

1998 - Rachel Hall

1997 - Moisey Guysinsky

1996 - Jim Humphreys

1995 - Hwai-Ling Shan

Raymond and Christine Ayoub Award was established due to the generosity of Christine Ayoub. The purpose is to recognize a graduate student for an outstanding thesis in algebra or number theory.

2022

Ali Alp Uzman

2021

Seokbong Seol

Chien-Hua Chen

Dmitrii Pedchenko

Caleb Springer

Shane Chern

2020

Sumita Garai

2019

None

2018

Hsuan-Yi Liao

Travis Morrison

2017

None

2016

William Chen

Daniel Droz

Ayla Gafni

Kurt Vinhage

2015

Jeff Yelton

Haining Wang

Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award

Mary Lister McCammon Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching

The purpose of this award is to recognize teaching assistants, instructors, or faculty in the Department of Mathematics who have established themselves as an exemplary undergraduate mathematics instructor, preferably in the freshman or sophomore level courses, in the Eberly College of Science at The Pennsylvania State University.

Mary McCammon, Professor Emerita of Mathematics, played a key role in the development of the Penn State undergraduate mathematics curriculum. She taught mathematics at the University from 1954 to her retirement in 1998, introducing such new classes as numerical analysis and computer programming. In the 1960s, she developed the mathematics department's precalculus courses, made changes to the calculus-course series, and introduced the use of graphing calculators and personal computers. She also was involved with the establishment of computer-science courses in the Department of Mathematics and went on to help establish the Department of Computer Science in 1965. Throughout her career, McCammon has been well known for her personal concern for her students and her excellent and exacting teaching methods. "I was tough but fair and I loved teaching," she says. "

Recipients are:

Donald C. Rung Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching in Mathematics

Teresa Cohen received her PhD in Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University in 1918. She was a pioneer that paved the way for this generation of women mathematicians. She came to Penn State in 1920 where she taught Mathematics for over 60 years. She was the first female member of the university's mathematics department and the only woman for her first three-and-a half years.

Cohen was promoted to assistant professor in 1921, to associate professor in 1939, and to full professor in 1945 (one of only a few university full professors in the country at that time who were female.) Due to university regulations, she officially retired from Penn State at the end of 1961 but spent much of the next twenty-four years tutoring math students for free. As she once said, "I just like the pleasure of explaining and seeing someone understand." She continued devoting her time and energy to students until an accident at the age of 94 forced her to enter a nursing home in Baltimore. She died in 1992 at the age of 100.

In 1987 the department established the Teresa Cohen Tutorial Endowment Fund to foster undergraduate tutoring.

Enhancement Funds provide financial support for Mathematics education and research. These funds provide seed monies for new initiatives, for student research, for attendance to professional meetings. They provide support for renowned visitors for collaborations, seminars and short courses.

Enhancement Funds provide financial support for Mathematics education and research. These funds provide seed monies for new initiatives, for student research, for attendance to professional meetings. They provide support for renowned visitors for collaborations, seminars and short courses.

Enhancement Funds provide financial support for Mathematics education and research. These funds provide seed monies for new initiatives, for student research, for attendance to professional meetings. They provide support for renowned visitors for collaborations, seminars and short courses.

Enhancement Funds provide financial support for Mathematics education and research. These funds provide seed monies for new initiatives, for student research, for attendance to professional meetings. They provide support for renowned visitors for collaborations, seminars and short courses.