Graduate awards
Student awards are given each spring before the end of the semester.
Please congratulate these students when you meet them around MacLean Hall and around the campus. You can also browse galleries from the awards ceremonies on this page.
Awards and recipients
2021 Awardee: Sara Reed
2024 Awardee: Adriana Fernandez I Quero
2021 Awardee: Biao Ma
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.
| Year | Names |
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| 2024 | Ngoc Anh Phan |
| 2023 | Nitesh Mathur |
| 2022 | Biao Ma and Amrei Oswald |
| 2021 | Shrey Sanadhya |
| 2020 | Adam Wood |
| 2019 | Alexander Sistko |
| 2018 | Thomas Kindred |
| 2017 | Daniel Rodman and Richard Ligo |
| 2016 | Kyle Czarnecki |
| 2015 | David Meyer |
| 2014 | Ekaterina Nathanson |
| 2013 | David Gaebler |
| 2012 | Mijai Lai |
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
- 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.
| Year | Recipient(s) |
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| 2021 | Samuel Brensinger, AMCS Vincent Rodgers, Dissertation Advisor Projective Gauge Gravity |
| 2018 | Greg Ongie, AMCS Mathews Jacob, Dissertation Advisor Off-the-grid Compressive Imaging |
| 2014 | David Gaebler, Mathematics Paul Muhly, Dissertation Supervisor Unital Dilations of Completely Positive Semigroups |
| 2006 | Marius V. Ionescu, Mathematics Paul Muhly, Dissertation Supervisor C*-Algebras Associated with Mauldin-Williams Graphs |
| 2000 | Marius Stefan, Mathematics Florin Radulescu, Dissertation Supervisor Some Indecomposability Properties of Free Group Factors |
| 1998 | Razvan Gelca, Mathematics |
| 1983 | Hector Salas, Mathematics |
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:
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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.
| Year | Recipient |
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| 2007 | Colin McKinney |
Spring awards celebration gallery
Bor-Luh Lin Thesis Awards gallery
