Prizes and Competitions

The Julia Dale Prize

The Julia Dale Prize is a cash prize awarded annually by the Department of Mathematics to a mathematics major (or majors) on the basis of excellence in mathematics. A selection committee is appointed by the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Julia Dale, an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, died early in her career on January 13, 1936. Friends and relatives of Professor Dale established the Julia Dale Memorial Fund in the Spring of 1936; the Julia Dale Prize is supported by the income from this fund. Recent first-prize recipients are listed below.



Year 	        Student                    Prize
 
1981            David Massey               first
                Leon Holzsweig             second
                Phil Kegelmeyer            second
                Mike McGlockton            second
                Richard Robb               second

1982            John J. Fitzpatrick        first
                Joseph Koltisko            second
                Douglas McCrory            second
                Michael Womack             second

1983            Frederick M. Parham, Jr.   first
                Bruce E. Simmons           second
               
1984            Michelangelo Grigni        first
                Richard Gustave Heck       second

1985            Keith Calvert Ivey         first
                Patricia Jean Dunn         second

1986            Michelangelo Grigni        first
                Katherine Benson           second

1987            Michael Gordon             first
                James Bock                 first
                Paul Hefferman             second

1988            Geoffrey M. Davis          first
                Paula M. Andersen          second
                Joseph E. Gottman          second
                Nancy E. Mangum            second

1990            Brian S. Mangum            first
                Brett R. Kelts             second

1991            Jeanne Nielsen             first
                Christopher Finger         second

1992            William Alan Schneeberger  first
                David Morgan Jones         second
                
1993            Sang Chin                  first
                Jennifer Slimowitz         first
                Robert Bassett             second
                Oliver Goldstein           second

1994 		Jeffrey Vanderkam          first
 
1995 		Paul A. Dreyer, Jr.        first
      		Craig B. Gentry            first
                Mark Miller                second

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