Undergraduate Students 2020-21
Chair’s Prize Award
To Be Announced
Special Awards
Diego Galvan, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Andrew Harr, DAAD Fellowship
Chancellors Scholars (4.0 GPA in all courses)
Kushagra Kapil, Fall 2020; Spring 2021 to be announced
Math Majors Graduated with Highest Distinction – Spring 2021
Will Brunner, Allison Cruikshank, Andrew Haar, Jackson Lederer, and Jesse Osborn
Math Majors Graduated with High Distinction – Spring 2021
Jonathan Askey, Will Bruening, Samuel Carrasco, Micah Holmes, Zachary Madsen, Nick Nguyen, Lara Quiring, Ben Rhodes, Lexus Root, Amanda Rowley, Michael Schneider, Treyvor Vice, Zeyu Wang, and Yimeng Zhao
Math Majors Graduated with Distinction – Spring 2021
Diego Galvan, Parker Janicek, Nicholas Lennon, Brennan Rhoadarmer, and Josh Schmidt
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Spring 2021
Will Brunner, Allison Cruikshank, Diego Galvan, Jackson Lederer, Nicholas Lennon, Nick Nguyen, Jesse Osborn, Lara Quiring, Brennan Rhoadarmer, and Amanda Rowley
Math Majors Graduated in Spring 2021
Azaria Ahl, Izzat Bin Ahmad Adly, Ahmed Al-Khalil Ahmed Al-Mazrouai, Jonathan Askey, Hannah Balandran, Taylor Bartek, Xiaoyu Bi, Shannyn Bird, Brandon Blue, Tara Brockman, Will Bruening, Will Brunner, Kenneth Buffo, Zach Cairney, Samuel Carrasco, Chris Carreras, Shen Chang, Caleb Cox, Allison Cruikshank, Alex Curran, Blake Dvarishkis, Calvin Focht, Diego Galvan, David Garza, Austin Gubbels, Andrew Haar, Christopher Haidvogel, Achintya Handa, Jacob Henderson, Micah Holmes, Parker Janicek, Nicholas Johnson, Scott Jones, Lucas Keester, Jacob Kennedy, Taylor Kissinger, Jackson Lederer, Nicholas Lennon, Siyi Li, Barrett Luci, Zachary Madsen, Sean Miller, Henry Mitchell, Nischal Neupane, Nick Nguyen, Dana Nugent, Jesse Osborn, Jesse Osnes, Cameron Peer, Samuel Pierce, Lara Quiring, Bret Reetz, Ryan Reeves, Quinn Reimer, Brennan Rhoadarmer, Ben Rhodes, Lexus Root, Amanda Rowley, Josh Schmidt, Michael Schneider, Taylor Schrader, John Slaby, Jane Speier, Will Stokebrand, Nate Thach, Grace Tiernon, Shreeya Vaitla, Treyvor Vice, Zeyu Wang, Colten Welch, Sirui Wen, Reagan Wooden, and Yimeng Zhao
Math Majors Graduated with Highest Distinction– Fall 2020
Kushagra Kapil
Math Majors Graduated with High Distinction– Fall 2020
Nicholas Verdoni
Math Majors Graduated with Distinction– Fall 2020
David Maas
Math Majors Graduated in Fall 2020
Matous Adamec, Jean Claude Bamute Kamba, Melissa Bowers, Cheng Cheng, Kushagra Kapil, Jared Ladd, Guanzhong Liang, Huanyu Liu, David Maas, Phillip Nguyen, Zhenchang Qi, Wei Qu, Brennan Roberson, Nicholas Verdoni, Carter Walford, Dillon Walker, Zetian Wang, Heng Xu, Xu Yang, and Liyuan Zhang
Math Majors Graduated in Summer 2020
Emilee Buol, Drew Doyle, Nathan Ghanavati, Jinyu Hu, Yakira McKay, Lucille Melcher, Kyle Pekarek, Huixin Peng, Jonghyun Yoo, Wenjun Yuan, and Geigh Zollicoffer
Senior Honors and Distinction Theses (directed by)
Will Brunner (Timothy Gay, Physics & Herman Batelaan, Physics), Spring 2021
Allison Cruikshank (Huijing Du, Mathematics & Yawen Guan, Statistics), Spring 2021
Diego Galvan (Adam Larios, Mathematics & Petronela Radu, Mathematics), Spring 2021
Andrew Harr (Petronela Radu, Mathematics & Adam Larios, Mathematics), Spring 2021
Kushagra Kapil (Etsuko Moriyama, Biological Sciences & Jitender Deogun, Computer Science), Fall 2020
Jackson Lederer (Martin Centurion, Physics & Herman Batelaan, Physics), Spring 2021
Jesse Osborn (Ilya Kravchenko, Physics & Ken Bloom, Physics), Spring 2021
UCARE Awards and Undergraduate Research Participation (directed by)
Allison Cruikshank (Huijing Du); Diego Galvan (Adam Larios); Anjaneshwar Ganesan (Petronela Radu); Andrew Harr (Petronela Radu); Jesse Osnes (Bo Deng); and Ana Podariu (Yu Jin)
2020 Putnam Contest Participants
Anjaneshwar Ganesan, Katie Gerot, Stephanie Marsh, and Caitlin Murphy
Pi Mu Epsilon — Inducted Spring 2021
Charles Bonk, Grace Farson, and Ronit Gandhi
Department Scholarship Awards
54 scholarships were awarded for the 2020-21 academic year.
Irwin Dubinsky Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics
Will Brunner
Joel Stebbins Fund
Cheyenne Warren
Dean H. and Floreen G. Eastman Memorial Scholarships in Mathematics
Samantha Bannister, Alexander Batelaan, Ciara Baumert, Tomohide Bessho, Kasey Brabec, Zach Cairney, Dylan Chapin, Allison Cruikshank, Collin Dougherty, Stanley Drvol, Zoe Engelbert, Grace Farson, Diego Galvan, Anjaneshwar Ganesan, Elizabeth Griggs, Joshua Gromowsky, Andrew Haar, Ryan Lampe, Jackson Lederer, Benjamin Lohrman, Aleah Miller, Nicholas Nguyen, Ray Nierman, Jesse Osborn, Jesse Osnes, Anthony Palmesano, Ana Podariu, Lara Quiring, Ava Rech, Lexus Root, Amanda Rowley, Joshua Schmidt, Spencer Schmidt, Simon Schoenbeck, Jarod Schwinck, Margaret Scott, Nicholas Scott, and Nicholas White
Gallup UNL Math Day Fund
Lixin Cao
Drusilla Winchester Scholarship
Thomas Walton
Renneman/Luebbers Scholarship in Math
Meghan Ryan and Thomas Walton
Ruby Wittemore Fund
Ciara Baumert
Dr. Huben Schneider Scholarship
Luke Van Drie
Sylvia & Hans Jeans Mathematics Scholarship
Alexander Batelaan, Will Brunner, Alexander Fetzner, Michael Schneider, Liam Seper, Luke Van Drie, and Cheyenne Warren
Linda Bors Mathematics Scholarship
Grace Farson
Graduate Students
2020 Ph.Ds.
December 2020 Ph.D.:
Matt Reichenbach, "Spectral Properties of a Non-compact Operator in Ecology", Geospatial Research Laboratory (US Army Corps of Engineers)
May 2021 Ph.Ds.:
Juliana Bukowsi, "Free Semigroupoid Algebras from Categories of Paths", Georgetown College
Elizabeth Carlson, "Enhanced Effication of Turbulent Flow Observations: Parameter Recovery, Sensitivity Analysis, Nonlinear Data Assimilation Algorithms, and a Real-World Implementation",
Taran Funk, "Frobenius and Homological Dimensions of Complexes",
Su Ji Hong, "On the realization of real Schur roots as planar curves", Yale University
Robert Huben, "Gauge-Invariant Uniqueness and Reductions of Ordered Groups",
August 2021 Ph.Ds.:
Eric Hopkins "N-Fold Matrix Factorizations", Asst. Professor, College of the Ozarks
Erica Hopkins, "Complexes over the Exterior Algebra with Small Homology"
Aurora Marks, "Title", Job
Adolfo Amadeus Martin, "Curved BGG Correspondence", Preceptor of Mathematics at Harvard University
Alyssa Whittemore, "Title", Job
Master's Degree Recipients
August 2020, MAT:
Alyssa Baber, Geoff Carnahan, Keira Johnson, Corey Jones, Jim Lynam, Laura Rademacher, Drew Rische, Hannah Rundle, Kaitlyn Tenski, Alison Timoney, Alison WillisMay 2021, MAT:
Hannah Beck, Nicholas Clayburn, Kelsey CorderoMS/MA, May 2021:
Molly Creagar, Matthew Enlow, Abigail Long, April Loyd, Robert Martin, Meraiah Martinez, Sarthak Neupane, Justin Nguyen, Shah Roshan Zamir, Isabel Safarik, Andrew Soto Levins, Kaitlin Tademy, Kathryn Van Etten, Anh Vo, Daniel WelchonsAwards and Fellowships
2020-2021 Othmer Graduate Fellowship
Tessa Stevens
2020-2021 Chancellors Graduate Fellowship
Audrey Goodnight and Apala Mandal
2020 Walter Mientka Teaching Award
Brittany Johnson
2020 Don Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student
Hayley Olson
2020 Outstanding First Year Student
Meraiah Martinez
2020 Outstanding Qualifying Exam
Gregory Faurot
2020 Bill Leavitt Award
Eric Hopkins
2020 Lloyd Jackson Award
Sara Myers
2020 Emeritus Faculty Fellowships
Dylan McKnight
2020 Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young Fellowship
Vincent Longo
Amy Bouska GTA Leadership Award
Nicole Buczkowski
Linda Bors Fellowships
Michael DeBellevue
Emiily McMillon
Ana Wright
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Collin Victor (2020)
Molly Creagar (2021)
NASA Nebraska Space Grant Fellowship
Emiily McMillon
2020-2021 Steven Haataja Award for Outstanding Exposition by a Graduate Student
To be Announced
2020-2021 AMS Officers
Jake Kettinger (President) and Kathryn Van Etten (Secretary/Treasurer)
2020-2021 Internships and Summer Schools
Center for Communication Studies (SCAMP) - Audrey Goodnight
Ocuvera - Meraiah Martinez
Summer School: MSRI Gauge Theory, Summer 2021, Nick Myers
Sandia National Lab - Jason Vander Woude
2020-2021 Conference Speakers and Poster Sessions
Meeting, Place, Time - Name
Faculty and Staff
Promotion to Full Professor
X
Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
X
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
X
UNL Awards
Nathan Wakefield, Distinguished Teaching Award
New Faculty — Fall 2020
Jack Jeffries
New Postdocs — Fall 2020
Amy Bennett
Animesh Biswas
Family & Friends Recognition Awards (formerly known as the Parents' Recognition Award)
Kelli Roeber-Schoening (1), Mark Walker (4), Kevin Gonzales (5)
Roger Wiegand Award
To Be Announced
Faculty and Staff Members Serving for 0 (mod 5) Years
Jim Lewis (50 years)
David Pitts (35 years)
Tom Danaher (25 years)
Mark Walker (25 years)
Bill Rogge (15 years)
Hujing Du (5 years)
Kevin Gonzales (5 years)
Tri Lai (5 years)
Xavier Perez Gimenez (5 years)
Thank you to the GSAB members (Molly Creagar, David Lieberman, Isabel Safarik, Maia Wichman, Ana Wright) and Marilyn Johnson for organizing the department’s 22nd annual recognition event, noting accomplishments from June 2020 to May 2021.