In recent years, the OSU Mathematics Department has seen numerous honors awarded to both faculty members and students, undergraduate and graduate. Three professors have won prestigious Sloan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships: J. Brian Conrey, in 1986; David J. Wright, in 1988, and Amit Ghosh, in 1990. About thirty of these awards are given each year to researchers (no older than 32) in mathematics. The $30,000 fellowship allows the professor the opportunity to spend a year in pure research. Our three OSU winners each spent their year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, considered one of the nation's top math research centers.
In recent years, graduate student David Farmer received a Postdoc from
the National Science Foundation; senior Jennifer
Williams
won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Women in Mathematics
in the national Alice Schafer prize competition; a team of three
students, Michael Oehrtman, Jennifer Williams, and Kevin Yoder, won a
Math Modeling Competition; and OSU's 1995-96 team came in 47th in the
nation in the Putnam Competition.
There are many opportunities for such recognition. We expect that OSU will continue to be competitive for such awards in the future.