Graduate Awards

Student Awards are given each spring before the end of the semester. A photo gallery of the Awards Celebration is here. Please congratulate these students when you meet them around MacLean Hall and around the campus.

Graduate Research Excellence Award from the Office of the Vice President for Research

2021 Awardee	Sara Reed

CLAS Dissertation Writing Fellow

2021 Awardee	Biao Ma

Bor-Luh Lin Thesis Award

The annual Dr. Bor-Luh Lin Award, created in 2012, is given for the outstanding thesis in Mathematics. The award is presented in an annual ceremony held in the H. J. Muhly Lounge in MacLean Hall.

The awardees:

List of Bor-Luh Lin Thesis Award recipients:
Year	Name(s)
2023	Nitesh Mathur
2022	Biao Ma & Amrei Oswald
2021	Shrey Sanadhya
2020	Adam Wood
2019	Alexander Sistko
2018	Thomas Kindred
2017	Daniel Rodman & Richard Ligo
2016	Kyle Czarnecki
2015	David Meyer
2014	Ekaterina Nathanson
2013	David Gaebler
2012	Mijai Lai

D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize

The D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize was established to recognize excellence in doctoral research. Each year the winner of the D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize has been the University of Iowa's nominee in the national competition for the Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award. Prizes are awarded annually in two of four broad disciplinary areas: Humanities and the Fine Arts, Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering, Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences. The Graduate College, in turn, holds two D.C. Spriestersbach Prize competitions in the areas specified by the Council of Graduate Schools, with the winners being our nominees in the national competition.

List of D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize Winners: First column is year, Second column is the award winner
Year	Recipient(s)
2021 Awardee	Samuel Brensinger, AMCS Vincent Rodgers, Dissertation Advisor Projective Gauge Gravity
2018 Awardee	Greg Ongie, AMCS Mathews Jacob, Dissertation Advisor Off-the-grid Compressive Imaging
2014 Awardee	David Gaebler, Mathematics Paul Muhly, Dissertation Supervisor Unital Dilations of Completely Positive Semigroups
2006 Awardee	Marius V. Ionescu, Mathematics Paul Muhly, Dissertation Supervisor C-Algebras Associated with Mauldin-Williams Graphs*
2000 Awardee	Marius Stefan, Mathematics Florin Radulescu, Dissertation Supervisor Some Indecomposability Properties of Free Group Factors
1998 Awardee	Razvan Gelca, Mathematics
1983 Awardee	Hector Salas, Mathematics

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching - Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards

This university-wide honor is awarded to teaching assistants who have shown outstanding ability in their role as teachers at the University of Iowa. Awardees from the Department of Mathematics are as follows:


Year	Recipients	Year	Recipients	Year	Recipients
2023	Jessa Rhea Ibrahim Emirahmetoglu Kitrick Fynaardt Elise Askelsen Garrett Mason	2014	Christina Caples Jessica Williams	2006	Ben Galluzzo Kim Huerter Leonida Ljumanovic Giovanna Llosent Abukuse Mbirika Oscar Vega
2022	Samantha Warren	2013	Erin Griesenauer Annette Honken Rachael Norton Julia Walk	2005	Stephanie Adkinson Malik Bataineh Esteban Diaz Heather Russell
2021	Anna Leinheiser	2012	Brian Borchers Nathan Druivenga Sadia Embree	2004	Xiaojie Hou Katie Reif
2020	Nicholas Connolly Jared Grove Mitchell Riley	2011	Nathan Ellingwood Ross Kilgore Ekaterina (Usova) Nathanson Roseanne Wolf Kamuela Yong	2003	Allison Brcka Cynthia Farthing
2019	Curtis Balz Paul Samuel Padasas Ignacio Melanie King Pake Melland Amrei Oswald Roberto C. Toro-Rodriguez Rajinda S. Wickrama Adam Wood	2010	Danilo Diedrichs David J. Gaebler Mark A. Krines	2002	Jenelle McAtee Policarpio Soberanis
2017	Ana Berrizbeitia Jeremy Edison Ranthony Edmonds Hassan Rafique	2009	Amanda Hager John Rost Shannon Talbott	2001	Greta Lechelt Abagail Roscum Ryan Stuffelbeam
2016	Jeffrey Landgren Rebeccah MacKinnon Daniel Rodman Josiah Smalley Ze Zhao	2008	Ian Besse Susan Brooks Jonas Meyer Heather Molle Jitka Stehnova Jon Van Laarhoven	2000	Mirela Iancu Paul Johnson John Robeson
2015	Gordon Aiello Kevin Gerstle Maria Gommel Nan Hu Richard Ligo	2007	Luke Bennett Will Hager Colin Mckinney Ted Wendt

Catharine Wegner Outstanding Mathematics Teaching Assistant Award:

Catharine Wegner Outstanding Mathematics T.A. Award: First column is year, Second column is the name of the recipient.
Year	Recipients	Year	Recipients
2018	Kevin Bombardier Alex Polenberg Sara Reed	2015	Morgan Fonley Thomas Kindred Josiah Smalley
2017	Catalina Betancourt Samuel Brensinger Gregory Tanner Roberto Toro-Rodriguez	2014	Benjamin Dill Kevin Gerstle Catherine Patterson
2016	Kenneth Czuprynski Huan Qin

Sandy Barken Mentoring Award

This award, named for former Associate Dean of the Graduate College Sandra H. Barkan, recognizes graduate students who show exceptional mentorship of undergraduates and junior graduate students in their assistantships. The Sandra H. Barkan Graduate Student Mentor Award is awarded in conjunction with the Graduate Student Recognition Week and The James F. Jakobsen Graduate Conference in spring of each year. For more information, visit http://gss.grad.uiowa.edu/jakobsen-conference/sandra-barkan-mentor-award.

Sandy Barken Mentoring Award: First column is year, Second column is recipient name.
Year	Recipient
2007	Colin McKinney