On Friday, May 30, the Department honored graduate students for their academic and teaching accomplishments during 2007-08.

Christian Schnell was recognized for receiving the University's Presidential fellowship.

Rob McDougal was recognized for being a finalist for the University's Graduate Associate Teaching Award.

The following students won the Phil Huneke Excellence in Teaching Award:

Dan Munther

Kitzeln Siebert

Wen Chean (Dasmen) Teh

Michael Tychonievich

Finalists for this award included: Bora Bosna, Gangyong Lee, Nick Werner, Rob Woodruff, and Chao Xie.

Students who were recognized for excellence in their first year of teaching were:

Andy Nicol

Nick Peterson

Dan Poole

Heather Rosenblatt

Lizhi Zhang

The following students were recognized for receiving Ph.D. degrees (Summer 2007-Spring 2008):

Niranjan Balachandran (advisor, Dijen Ray-Chaudhuri)

Rich Hambrock (advisor, Yuan Lou)

Suhkjin Hur (advisor, Henry Glover)

Craig Lennon (advisor, Boris Pittel)

Chris McClain (advisor, Neil Robertson)

Martin Nikolov (advisor, Yuval Flicker)

Choongseok Park (advisor, Dave Terman)

Dongwen Qi (advisor, Mike Davis)

Kevin Schoenecker (advisor, Robert Brown)

Songyun Xu (advisor, Herb Clemens)

Scheduled to receive Ph.D.'s in the next two quarters are:

Scott Arms (advisor, Warren Sinnott)

Shaun Ault (advisor, Zig Fiedorowicz)

Andriy Bezuglyy (advisor, Yuan Lou)

Michael Khoury (advisor, Jim Cogdell)

Lingfei Li (advisor, Fangyang Zheng)

John McSweeney (advisor, Boris Pittel)

Liang Niu (advisor, Akos Seress)

Christian Schnell (advisor, Herb Clemens)

Wei Xiong (advisor, Peter March)

Ji-A Yeum (advisor, Boris Pittel)

Teaching and research positions for our new Ph.D.'s include:

California Institute of Technology

Dalton State College

Fordham University

Georgia Southwestern State University

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

National Security Agency

Ohio Wesleyan University

The Ohio State University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

United States Military Academy at West Point

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Michigan

University of Minnesota

The following students were recognized for receiving Master’s degrees (Autumn 2007-Summer 2008):

Tyrus Berry

Jennifer Czocher

Jianming Huang

Peter Maceli

Franco Munoz

Juan Rodriguez

Kitzeln Siebert

Hui Song

Ilya Volynin

Congratulations to all of these students!