Undergraduate Students 2019-20
Chair’s Prize Award
Jared Ott
Math Majors Graduated with Highest Distinction – Spring 2020
Rebecca Fitzgarrald and Jesse Kruse
Math Majors Graduated with High Distinction – Spring 2020
Katherine Hartten, Matthew Meacham, Jared Ott, and Karl Shaffer
Math Majors Graduated with Distinction – Spring 2020
Sanat Bhandari, Miles Davis, Alex Heitzman, Savannah Howard, James Janvrin, Cal Leising, Jacob Shiohira, and Marc Wade
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Spring 2020
Alex Clough, Grace Dickas, Madeline Diedrichsen, Rebecca Fitzgarrald, Katherine Hartten, Savannah Howard, Jesse Kruse, Michael Mason, Matthew Meacham, Jared Ott, Karl Shaffer, Jacob Shiohira, Jessica Smith, and Evan Thornton-Kolbe
Math Majors Graduated in Spring 2020
Yaseer Al Rahbi, Matt Andersen, Michael Anthony, Masen Bachleda, Fatima Barragan Herrera, Sanat Bhandari, Grace Billig, Matthew Boeding, Robin Bouma, Jordan Case, Derek Chew, Emily Cleveland, Alex Clough, Miles Davis, Grace Dickas, Madeline Diedrichsen, Justin Ernst, Brady Farnham, Rebecca Fitzgarrald, Zhuojia Fu, Dane Gallentine, Duane Green, Hayley Haakenstad, Katherine Hartten, Alex Heitzman, Savannah Howard, James Janvrin, Hyunseok Kim, Jesse Kruse, Cal Leising, Xinyi Lin, Michael Mason, August McClenahan, Matthew Meacham, Taylor Minger, Fatima Mohammed, Shuhao Mu, Nancy Nguyen, Vida-Michelle Nixon, Hannah Oh, Jared Ott, Vince Rice, Judd Salem, Jordan Schmitz, Karl Shaffer, Tianyu Shen, Jacob Shiohira, Jessica Smith, Dylan Thompson, Evan Thornton-Kolbe, Wei Young Tian, Amy Tran, Dyllan Usher, Thu Phung Vu, Marc Wade, Qichang Yang, Fangyi Zhai, Chi Zhang, Zeping Zhang, and Ji Zhou
Math Majors Graduated with High Distinction– Fall 2019
Robert Hutchinson
Math Majors Graduated with Distinction– Fall 2019
Michael Purcell, Lane Weidner, and Qixuan Yang
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Fall 2019
Lane Weidner
Math Majors Graduated in Fall 2019
Jordan Burgener, Jiayuan Fei, Yibin Huang, Robert Hutchinson, Zachary Larson-Wurl, Yiwen Lyu, Taylor Price, Michael Purcell, Hannah Schultz, Diem Tran, Shu Wang, Manying Wang, Lane Weidner, Wenlong Xiao, and Qixuan Yang
Math Majors Graduated with Highest Distinction – Summer 2019
Elizabeth Tyler
Math Majors Graduated with Honors – Summer 2019
Elizabeth Tyler
Math Majors Graduated in Summer 2019
Almulham Albusaidi, Hannah Botten, Kai Cheng, Qianyu Dong, Noah Lazaro, Yuyao Tian, Elizabeth Tyler, Botao Wang, and Zhibo Zhang
Senior Honors and Distinction Theses (directed by)
Savannah Howard (Huijing Du, Math & Mark Wilson, Biochemistry) and Elizabeth Tyler (Nathan Wakefield, Math & Edmund Hamann, TLTE)
Chancellors Scholars
Jordan Case and Jesse Kruse
UCARE Awards and Undergraduate Research Participation (directed by)
Luke Diego Galvan (Adam Larios), Andrew Haar (Petronela Radu), Alex Heitzmann (Alex Zupan), Josh Schmidt (Andrew Becklin), Michael Schneider (Jamie Radcliffe), and Mark Wade (Glenn Ledder)
2019 Putnam Contest Participants
Derek Chew, Andrew Haar, Alex Heitzman, and Nicholas Lennon (Coach: Thomas Kindred)
Pi Mu Epsilon — Inducted Fall 2019
Zachary Kerkman, Jackson T. Lederer, Allison Cruikshank, Jordan D. Wong, and Elizabeth Griggs
Irwin Dubinsky Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics
Utkarsh Hardia
Joel Stebbins Fund
Fatima Barragan Herrera, Sanat Bhandari, Clay Christenson, Yiwen Lyu, and Jessica Smith
Dean H. and Floreen G. Eastman Memorial Scholarships in Mathematics
Samantha Bannister, Alexander Batelaan, Tomohide Bessho, Charlie Bonk, Zach Cairney, Derek Chew, Allison Cruikshank, Grace Dickas, Collin Dougherty, Stanley Drvol, Anjaneshwar Ganesan, Elizabeth Griggs, Joshua Gromowsky, Andrew Haar, Riley Hayes, Alex Heitzman, Parker Janicek, Zoe Keese, Naomi Kirkvold, Jackson Lederer, Sungjin Lee, Matthew Meacham, Nicholas Nguyen, Ray Nierman, Vida-Michelle Nixon, Leah Olson, Jesse Osnes, Jared Ott, Ana Podariu, Benjamin Praeuner, Lara Quiring, Lexus Root, Amanda Rowley, Isabelle Schmidt, Joshua Schmidt, Simon Schoenbeck, Jarod Schwinck, Joshua Stallbaumer, Erica Steiner, Marc Wade, and Qixuan Yang
Gallup UNL Math Day Fund
Lixin Cao, Derek Chew, Alex Heitzman, and Ai (Sunny) Liu
Drusilla Winchester Scholarship
Shannyn Bird and Nick Lennon
Renneman/Luebbers Scholarship in Math
Sanat Bhandari, Jake Schmitt, and Michael Schneider
Ruby Wittemore Fund
Sawyer Smith
Dr. Huben Schneider Scholarship
Shannyn Bird
Sylvia & Hans Jeans Mathematics Scholarship
Shannyn Bird, Miles Davis, Kushagra Kapil, Nick Lennon, Meghan Ryan, and Michael Schneider
Linda Bors Mathematics Scholarship
Fatima Barragan Herrera, Michael Hackett, and Calista Humphrey
Graduate Students
2019 Ph.Ds.
December 2019 Ph.D.:
William Jamieson, "Individual based model to simulate the evolution of insecticide resistance", Nasa Langley
May 2020 Ph.Ds.:
Andrew Becklin, "Hadamard well-posedness for two nonlinear structure acoustic models", Drake University
Benjamin Drabkin, "Symbolic powers in algebra and geometry", Singapore University of Technology and Design
JD Nir, "Two questions about properties of large graphs: On generalized Turan numbers and the chromatic number of random lifts", University of Manitoba
Karina Uhing, "Exploring pedagogical empathy of mathematics graduate student instructors", University of Nebraska at Omaha
August 2020 Ph.Ds.:
David McMorris, "Optimal Allocation of Two Resources in Annual Plants"
Marla Williams, "Trisections of Surface Bundles over Surfaces", Christopher Newport University
Master's Degree Recipients
August 2019, MAT: Amber Clausen, Christina Jackson, Michelle Ledford, Sarah Mack, Michael Mauer, Jinjin Shen, Timothy Smith, Geena Taite, Melissa Usasz, Rebecca Workman, Emily Kohmetscher, Amanda Nielson
MS/MA, May 2020: Allison Ganger, Scott Hootman-Ng, Brittany Johnson, Nikola Kuzmanovski, Colby Lamb, Kathleen Lee, David Lieberman, Nicholas Meyer, Valerie Morris, Sara Myers, Lawrence Seminario-Romero, Jason Vander Woude, Collin Victor
Awards and Fellowships
2019-2020 Othmer Graduate Fellowship
Robert Martin and Meraiah Martinez
2019-2020 Chancellors Graduate Fellowship
Molly Creagar and Kathryn Van Etten
2019 Walter Mientka Teaching Award
Jason Vander Woude
2019 Don Miller Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student
Erica Hopkins
2019 Outstanding First Year Student
Jason Vander Woude
2019 Outstanding Qualifying Exam
Kathleen Lee
2019 Bill Leavitt Award
Stephen Becklin
2019 Lloyd Jackson Award
Andrew Hayes
2019 Emeritus Faculty Fellowships
Erica Hopkins, Karina Uhing, Collin Victor
2019 Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young Fellowship
Austin Eide
Amy Bouska GTA Leadership Award
Elizabeth Carlson
Linda Bors Fellowships
Erica Hopkins, Stephanie Prahl, Catherine Zimmitti
2019-2020 Steven Haataja Award for Outstanding Exposition by a Graduate Student
Paula Egging
2019-2020 AMS Officers
Matt Reichenbach, AMS President
Leilani Pai, AMS Treasurer/Secretary
2019-2020 Conference Speakers and Poster Sessions
Joint Math Meetings presentations, Denver, CO, January 2020 - Ben Drabkin, Taran Funk, Su Ji Hong, Vince Longo, Emily McMillon, George Nasr, JD Nir, Leilani Pai, Stephanie Prahl, Shah Rosan Zamir, Adam Volk
AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Gainesvile, FL, October 2019 - George Nasr
AMS Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting, Binghamton, NY, October 2019 - George Nasr
AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting, Madison, WI, September 2019 - Taran Funk
Faculty and Staff
Promotion to Full Professor
Mikil Foss
Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure
Yvonne Lai
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Mark Walker
UNL Named Professorships
Brian Harbourne, Willa Cather Professor of mathematics
New Faculty — Fall 2019
Christopher Schafhauser
New Postdocs — Fall 2019
Abigail Raz (Perez/Radcliffe)
UNL Parents Association Certificates of Recognition for Contributions to Students
George Avalos, Michael DeBellevue, Hujing Du, Kevin Gonzales (4), Brian Harbourne (3), Christine Kelley (2), Aurora Marks, Amadeus Martin, Scott Martin, Mohammad Rammaha (13), Abigail Raz, Shahriyar Roshan Zamir
Roger Wiegand Award
David Pitts
Faculty and Staff Members Serving for 0 (mod 5) Years
Richard Rebarber (35 years)
Steve Cohn (30 years)
Marilyn Johnson (30 years)
Glenn Ledder (30 years)
Tom Marley (30 years)
Mark Brittenham (20 years)
Mikil Foss (15 years)
Petronela Radu (15 years)
Lindsay Augustyn (10 years)
Robert Ruyle (10 years)
Adam Larios (5 years)
Nathan Wakefield (5 years)
Thank you to Aurora Marks, Emily McMillon and Marilyn Johnson for organizing the department’s 21st annual recognition event, noting accomplishments from June 2019 to May 2020.