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Association for Women in Mathematics Schafer Prize

For Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman

About the award | Past recipients | Call for nominations

About the Award

The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) calls for nominations for the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize to be awarded to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics. All members of the mathematical community are invited to submit nominations for the Prize. The nominee may be at any level in her undergraduate career but must be an undergraduate as of October 1, 2007. She must either be a U.S. citizen or have a school address in the United States.

The Schafer Prize was established in 1990 by the Executive Committee of the AWM and is named for AWM former president and one of its founding members, Alice T. Schafer, who has contributed a great deal to women in mathematics throughout her career.

Schafer Prize Awardees

2008 Galyna Dobrovolska and Alison Miller (Co-Winners)
Honorable Mentions: Naomi Brownstein, Reagin Taylor McNeill, Mary Wootters,
2007 Ana Caraiani
Runners-Up: Tamara Broderick, Yaim Cooper
Honorable Mention: Alyson Deines
2006 Alexandra Ovetsky
Runner-Up: Allison Bishop
Honorable Mention: Ellen Gasparovic
2005 Melody Chan
Runners-Up: Margaret I. Doig and Elena Fuchs
Honorable Mention: Annalies Vuong
2004 Kimberly Spears
Runners-Up: Karola Meszaros and Jennifer Novak
Honorable Mentions: Ariel E. Barton and Elena Grigorescu
2003 Kate Gruher
Runners-Up: Wei Ho and Josephine T. Yu
Honorable Mentions: Elizabeth F. Thoren, Annalee H. Wiswell, and Kathryn M. Zuhr
2002 Kay Kirkpatrick and Melanie Wood (Co-Winners)
Honorable Mentions: Karen M. Lange, Sonja Mapes, Amy E. Marinello,
Kathleen A. Ponto, and Grace C. Wang
2001 Jaclyn (Kohles) Anderson
Runners-Up: Sami Assaf and Suzanne Sindi
Honorable Mentions: Alice Chan and Crystal Hoyt
2000 Mariana E. Campbell
Runners-Up: Sarah E. Dean and Beth Robinson
Honorable Mention: Jaclyn Kohles, Fumei Lam, and Camillia Smith
1999 Caroline J. Klivans
Honorable Mentions: Amanda Mueller, Suzanne Shontz, Laura Ciobanu,
and Catherine S. Grasso
1998 Sharon Ann Lozano and Jessica A. Shepherd (Co-Winners)
Runner-Up: Jie Li
Honorable Mentions: Patience Elizabeth Moreno and Vera Peshchansky
1997 No prize awarded (due to calendar change)
1996 Ioana Dumitriu
Runners-Up: Karen Ball and Wung-Kum Fong
Honorable Mention: Tara S. Holm
1995 Ruth Britto-Pacumio
Runners-Up: Wung-Kum Fong, Nancy Heinschel, and Jessica Wachter
Honorable Mentions: Tara E. Brendle and Karen Shuman
1994 Jing Rebecca Li
Runner-up: Patricia Hersh, Julia J. Rehmeyer, and Nina Zipser
Honorable Mentions: Jennifer M. Switkes and Yi Wang
1993 Catherine H. O'Neil and Dana Pascovici (Co-Winners)
Runners-Up: Melissa Aczon and Susan W. Goldstine
Honorable Mentions: Karin Dorman, Rebecca Field, Laura Ann Glenn,
and Jennifer Slimowitz
1992 Zvezdelina E. Stankova
Runner-Up: Julie B. Kerr
Honorable Mentions: Marcia Geiger, Cheryl P. Grood, Kristine Hauser,
Laura Hegerle, Eugenie Hunsicker, Mary C. Joyce, Martha J. Mancewicz,
Jennifer Williams, and Virginia E. Wright
1991 Jeanne Nielsen Clelland
Runner-Up: Zvezdelina Stankova
Honorable Mentions: Sarah Marie Belcastro, Debra Boutin, Cheryl Grood,
Karen King, Speranta Marcu, Edith Mooers, Jessica Polito, and Diana Thomas
Special Recognitions:Yick Chan, Millie Niss
1990 Linda Green and Elizabeth Wilmer (Co-Winners)
Honorable Mentions: Jennifer Beineke, Urmi Bhattacharya, Hope Concannon,
Colleen Gallagher, Lela Hill, Judy Leavitt, Jennifer McLean, Jeanne Nielsen Clelland,
Natalie Thurman, and Ileana Vasu
Special Recognition: Julie B. Kerr

Call for Nominations for 2009 Schafer Prize

The Nineteenth Annual Schafer Prize will be awarded at the Joint Prize Session at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC, January 2009.

The letters of nomination should include, but is not limited to, an evaluation of the nominee on the following criteria:

  • quality of performance in advanced mathematics courses and special programs
  • demonstration of real interest in mathematics
  • ability for independent work in mathematics
  • performance in mathematical competitions at the local or national level, if any

With letter of nomination, please include a copy of transcripts and indicate undergraduate level. Nominees must be an undergraduate as of October 1, 2008. Additional supporting materials (e.g., reports from summer work using math, copies of talks given by members of student chapters, recommendations letters from professors, colleagues, etc.) should be enclosed with the nomination, if applicable.

Send five complete copies of nominations for this award to

The Alice T. Schafer Award Selection Committee
Association for Women in Mathematics
11240 Waples Mill Road
Suite 200
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Questions? Call 703-934-0163 or email awm@awm-math.org.

Nominations via e-mail of fax are not acceptable.
Deadline is the received date, not the postmarked date.

Schafer Prize Nomination Deadline: October 1, 2008

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