Undergraduate Students
Chair’s Prize Award
Dakota Andrews
Kolton O'Neal
Honorable Mention: Nicole Marienau
Special Awards
Dakota Andrews, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Chancellor's Scholars (4.0 GPA in all courses)
Fall 2024: Khai Shen Ch'ng
Spring 2025: Ryan Barent, Landry Geiger, Aditya Jain, Chase Kling, and Kyla Kubik
Majors Graduated with Highest Distinction – Spring 2025 (Anticipated)
Kolton O'Neal
Majors Graduated with High Distinction – Spring 2025 (Anticipated)
Ryan Barent, Landry Geiger, Zach Hammann, Aditya Jain, Gracie Kerr, Chase Kling, Kyla Kubik, Nicole Marienau, Caitlin Murphy, Lars Pedersen, Jack Rankin, Jacob Snider, Sara Vance, and Ruthi Zielinski
Majors Graduated with Distinction – Spring 2025 (Anticipated)
Mitchell Anderson, Dakota Andrews, David Dirks, Caleb Holmbeck, and Nadjia Logans
Majors Graduated with Honors – Spring 2025 (Anticipated)
Landry Geiger, Ben Gerdes, Spencer Godina, Zach Hammann, Aditya Jain, Gracie Kerr, Chase Kling, Nadjia Logans, Cole Miller, Caitlin Murphy, Kolton O'Neal, Lars Pedersen, Sara Vance, and Ruthi Zielinski
Majors Graduated in Spring 2025 (Anticipated)
Joseph Allen, Derek Andersen, Mitchell Anderson, Dakota Andrews, Ryan Barent, Madelyn Barkman, Andrew Cook, Lucy DePooter, Mac DePriest, David Dirks, Caleb Esquibel, Tyson Forbes, Matthew Geary, Landry Geiger, Ben Gerdes, Spencer Godina, Katie Gore, Zach Hammann, Caleb Holmbeck, Max Jabir, Aditya Jain, Kaitlin Keleher, Gracie Kerr, Chase Kling, Bradley Klug, Kyla Kubik, Nadjia Logans, Nicole Marienau, Angel Mendez Lopez, Cole Miller, Caitlin Murphy, Jack Murphy, Sydney Nelson, Kylie Newkirk, Oreoluwa Ogunleye, Kolton O'Neal, Adam Osborne, Eric Ovenden, Ian Parmley, Hannah Pearce, Lars Pedersen, Sena Petersen, Mark Phan, Jack Rankin, Evin Rasho, Kaylee Roland, Zoey Schultz, Tyson Shields, Jacob Snider, Noah Sorensen, Ian Sutton, Sara Vance, Aaron Wickland, and Ruthi Zielinski
Majors Graduated with High Distinction – Fall 2024
Sakeena Al Balushi, Khai Shen Ch'ng, and Nick Starns
Majors Graduated with Distinction – Fall 2024
Kun-Yu Lee and Lucas Wurtz
Majors Graduated in Fall 2024
Sakeena Al Balushi, Andrew Blocker, Kole Brack, Khai Shen Ch'ng, Adrian Choate, Hunter DeBoer, Samuel Lainhart, Kun-Yu Lee, Mason Nordhausen, Chase Rathke, Nick Starns, Tatiana Startseva, and Lucas Wurtz
Majors Graduated in Summer 2024
Ahmed Husain Ali Al Fazari and Mitchell Lange
Senior Honors and Distinction Theses (directed by)
Mitchell Anderson (Kazuo Yamazaki, Math & Yu Jin, Math)
Kolton O'Neal (Eloisa Grifo, Math & Mark Walker, Math)
Lars Pedersen (Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap, Physics & Harindranath Ambalampitiya, Physics)
Ruthi Zielinski (Robert Streubel, Physics & Shireen Adenwalla, Physics)
UCARE Awards and Undergraduate Research/Independent Study Participation (directed by)
Sajid Raihan Akash, UCARE Summer 2024 & 2024-25 (Ilya Kravchenko, Physics)
Abhinav Bettadapura, UCARE 2024-25 (Matthew Wiebe, Vet Medicine)
Riley Brown, UCARE Summer 2024 (Tri Lai)
John Daugherty, UCARE 2024-25 (Evan Rich, Physics)
Allison Enyart, Spring 2024 (Judy Walker)
Maisie Gilford, Spring 2025 (Judy Walker)
Gracie Kerr, UCARE 2024-25 (Grace Panther, Civil Engineering)
David Khuu, Spring 2025 (Tom Marley)
Nadjia Logans, Fall 2024 (Yvonne Lai)
Khanh Le, UCARE 2024-25 (Mohammad Ghashami, Mechanical Engineering)
Ty Mandachit, Spring 2025 (Judy Walker)
Nicole Marienau, 2024-25 (Yvonne Lai)
Helen Martinez, UCARE 2024-25 (Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, Electrical Engineering)
Jack Murphy, UCARE Summer 2024 (Huijing Du) & Spring 2025 (Adam Larios)
Jasmine Pham, UCARE Summer 2024 & 2024-25 (Paul Hanson, Natural Resources & Jim Benes, Natural Resources)
Bishop Placke, UCARE Summer 2024 (Alexandra Seceleanu)
Evin Rasho, UCARE 2024-25 (Gwen Nugent, CYAF & Leen-Kiat Soh, Computing)
Shaghayegh Rouhi, UCARE Summer 2024 & 2024-25 (Petronela Radu & Mikil Foss)
Sam Sanketh, UCARE Summer 2024 (Alexander Zupan) & Spring 2025 (Judy Walker)
Noah Sorensen, Fall 2024 (Chris Schafhauser & Allan Donsig)
Nick Starns, UCARE Summer 2024 (Alexander Zupan)
Ransom Sterns, Spring 2025 (Judy Walker)
Anok Timothy, UCARE 2024-25 (Alexander Zupan)
Jenna Wakefield, UCARE Summer 2024 & 2024-25 (Eric Weaver, Biological Sciences & Adthakorn Madapong, Biological Sciences)
MATH 398 Paper with Román Aranda: Noah Crawford, Andrew Maas, Nicole Marienau, Erica Pearce, Renzo Sarreal, Savannah Schutte, Ransom Sterns, and Eric Woods
2024 Putnam Contest Participants
Andrew Cook, Andrew Rogers, and Rohan Yalamanchili
Pi Mu Epsilon — Inducted Spring 2025
Caroline Belleque, Noah Crawford, Jasmine Pham, Jacob Snider, Sandesh Subedi, and Eric Woods
Nebraska Experimental Math and Outreach Lab Participants
Fall 2024 (mentored by Levi Heath)
Ben Gerdes, Caleb Holmbeck, Reva Long, Andrew Maas, Ally Muellner, Hannah Pearce, Bishop Placke, and Thy Tran
Spring 2025 (mentored by Glenn Ledder and Michael Pieper)
James Lynch and Sophia Thompson
Math Directed Reading Program – Fall 2024 (mentored by)
Sajid Raihan Akash (Zach Nason)
Riley Brown (Nick White)
Noah Crawford (Nick White)
Sydney Kohl (Derek DeBlieck)
Kolton O'Neal (Ryan Watson)
Ian Parmley (Nawaj KC)
Jack Reason (Michael Pieper)
Lily Rippeteau (Shahriyar Roshan Zamir)
Noah Sorensen (Mikkel Munkholm)
Math Directed Reading Program – Spring 2025 (mentored by)
Riley Brown (Nick White)
Noah Crawford (Isaiah Martinez)
Thanish Kashyap (Ayden Eddings)
Jack Murphy (Nick White)
Kolton O'Neal (Ryan Watson)
Ian Parmley (Nawaj KC)
Chase Rozman (Nawaj KC)
Sam Sanketh (Pablo Jose Padilla Ortiz)
Renzo Sarreal (Mikkel Munkholm)
Savannah Schutte (Nicole Xie)
Eric Woods (Noah Walker)
Department Scholarship Awards
70 scholarships were awarded for the 2024-25 academic year.
New Eastman Top Scholars for 2024-25
Garrett Carter, Ruby Gutzmann, Hannah Heftie, Jacob Reason, Mia Wendt, and Rohan Yalamanchili
Irwin Dubinsky Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics
Khai Shen Ch'ng and Jacob Snider
Joel Stebbins Fund
Zach Hamman and Andrew Maas
Dean H. and Floreen G. Eastman Memorial Scholarships in Mathematics
Jadyn Anderson, Mitchell Anderson, Dakota Andrews, Braden Borchers, Riley Brown, Nevin Butler, Bryley Carabantes, Garrett Carter, Carson Catherall, David Dirks, Landry Geiger, Andrew Grant, Abby Gregory, Joshua Havlovic, Hannah Heftie, Alexander Hermsen, Aditya Jain, Anna Janvrin, Thanish Kashyap, Kaitlin Keleher, David Khuu, Nicole Marienau, Brooke Murphy, Caitlin Murphy, Jack Murphy, Kolton O'Neal, Erica Pearce, Bryant Peck, Jasmine Pham, Bishop Placke, Jacob Reason, Karmen Reimer, Lily Rippeteau, Noah Sorensen, Ian Sutton, Sophia Thompson, Blaine Traudt, Sara Vance, Jenna Wakefield, Mia Wendt, Edward Wiltgen, Lucas Wurtz, and Brayton Zeibig
Drusilla Winchester Scholarship
Khai Shen Ch'ng and Zach Hamman
Renneman/Luebbers Scholarship in Math
Khai Shen Ch'ng, Zach Hammann, and Jacob Snider
Ruby Matzke Whittemore Fund
Jenna Wakefield
Dr. Huben Schneider Scholarship
Andrew Maas
Sylvia & Hans Jeans Mathematics Scholarship
Sajid Raihan Akash, Dakota Andrews, Caroline Belleque, Donovan Dyk, Abbigail Gant, Carlin King, Andrew Maas, Lain Mastey, Riley Oller, Jacob Snider, Sebastian Wysocki, and Ivy Zhan
Gallup UNL Math Day Scholarship
Andrew Rogers and Rohan Yalamanchili
Linda Bors Mathematics Scholarship
Caitlin Murphy
Mike & Jo McGuire Scholarship
Dakota Andrews
Chivukula & Emani Scholarship for Mathematics
Andrew Maas
College of Arts & Sciences Scholarships Earned for 2024-25
Nevin Butler, Patricia & Harold Van Vleck Mathematical Sciences Scholarship
Aditya Jain, Dr. Walter Mientka STEM Scholarship Fund
Caitlin Murphy, Mr. John O. Nigh Scholarship Fund
Bryant Peck, Mr. John O. Nigh Scholarship Fund
Lily Rippeteau, Patricia & Harold Van Vleck Mathematical Sciences Scholarship
Jacob Snider, Ling Lu UNL Arts and Sciences Student Support Fund
Jenna Wakefield, Herbert Thomas & Lilah David Folsom Memorial Endowment - PreMed
Graduate Students
Master's Degrees
May 2024, MA/MS
Kara Fagerstrom, Julianne Faur, Ben Katz
May 2024 MAT
Cherrie Kerr, Rena Pitasky
August 2024, MA/MS
Gabriel Adams, Fares Soufan
August 2024, MAT
Kacey Carpenter, Lyliana Chavez, Lauren Haman, Juliann Johnson, Burkelee Kenefick-Aschoff, Kaitlyn Kuhn, Peter McGinley, Liz Swartz, Loren VanDenBerg, Ryan Voelker
December 2024, MA/MS
Danny Anderson, Anjana Bhandari, Julia Courtney, Ben Huenemann, Stephen Stern, Cleve Young, Austin Gubbels, Xiaoling He, Dakota White, Apala Mandal
December 2024, MAT
Patrick Mahoney
May 2025, MA/MS
Rachel Schmiess, Nicole Xie, Uyen Tran, Iris Arenas
May 2025, MAT
Annie Crowley, Gina Quedensley, Josie Weise
December 2024 Ph.D.:
(Advised By)
Abigail D'Ovidio Long, (Huijing Du and Bo Deng)
Colby Lamb, (Yvonne Lai)
May 2025 Ph.Ds.:
(Advised By)
Jordan Barrett, (Jack Jeffries)
Johan Benedict Cristobal, (Yvonne Lai)
Nawaj KC, (Mark Walker and Jack Jeffries)
Daniel Welchon, (Christine Kelley)
August 2025 Ph.Ds.:
(Advised By)
Greg Faurot, (Chris Schafhauser)
Allison Granger, (Brian Harbourne)
Scott Hootman-Ng
David Lieberman, (Jack Jeffries)
Dylan Mcknight, (George Avalos and Mohammad Rammaha)
Sara Mcknight, (George Avalos)
Nick Meyer, (Alex Zupan)
Andrew Soto Levins, (Mark Walker)
Kaitlin Tademy, (Mark Brittenham)
Anh Thuong Vo, (Petronela Radu)
Catherine Zimmitti, (David Pitts)
Awards and Fellowships:
Outstanding First Year Student
Julia Courtney
Outstanding Qualifying Exam
Danny Anderson
Walter Minetka Teaching Award
Abigail Moos
Don Miller Outstanding GTA Award
Sara Mueller
G.C. Young and W.H. Young Award
Taylor Murray
Amy Bouska GTA Leadership Award
Sam Lewis-Monkman
Linda Bors Fellowships
Amanda Rowley
Steven Haataja Award for Outstanding Exposition by a Graduate Student
Pablo Padilla
Ben Nolting Award
Cleve Young
Emeritus Faculty Fellowship
Kirsten Morris
Bill Leavitt Award
Thanh Le
Lloyd Jackson Award
Maciej Piwowarczyk
Faculty and Staff
UNL Awards
College Distinguished Teaching Award
Michelle Homp
Professorships
Christine Kelley – Aaron Douglas Professorship
Tom Marley – Jensen Professorship
Wendy Smith – Willa Cather Professorship
Alexandra Seceleanu and Alex Zupan Milton Mohr (Junior) Professorships
Other Awards
Yvonne Lai - 2025 AMS Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
Michelle Homp: Donald W Miller Distinguished Service Award and Nebraska Association of Teachers of Mathematics, 2024
New Faculty
Shiying Li - Assistant Professor in Data Science
Anna Brosowski - NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Promotions
Eloísa Grifo – tenured and promoted to Associate Professor
Yu Jin and Adam Larios – promoted to Professor
Family & Friends Recognition Awards
Kevin Gonzales
Roger Wiegand Award
Jack Jeffries
Retirements
Cheryl Kane
Grants
Amy Bennett - CAS Strategic Priorities Award; Nebraska's ImpactED Grant
Christine Kelley - CAS Strategic Priorities Award
Shiying Li – Co-PI NSF-DMS award
Wendy Smith - Co-PI Nebraska's ImpactED Grant, Co-PI NSF-IUSE Grant
Faculty and Staff Members Serving for 0 (mod 5) Years, Awarded Fall 2024
Mark W Brittenham (25 years)
Mikil D Foss (20 years)
Rachelle Jensen (15 years)
Adam Larios (10 years)
Thomas John Marley (35 years)
Petronela Radu (20 years)
Christopher P Schafhauser (5 years)