The H. Roy Brahana Prize
The H. Roy Brahana Prize is awarded to the student with the most exceptional undergraduate mathematics career. The award is not restricted to mathematics majors. The Brahana Prize is named in honor of H. Roy Brahana, a distinguished former professor of mathematics.
H. Roy Brahana was born in Lowell, Vermont in 1895. He received his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College in 1916 and a Masters degree from Princeton in 1917. After a year and a half of service in the U. S. Army in World War I, he got his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1920, writing his thesis in the emerging field of topology under the direction of Oswald Veblen. He joined the mathematics department of the University of Illinois immediately after getting his Ph.D. and remained on the staff until his retirement in 1963. At Illinois his interests turned to the theory of finite metabelian groups and related geometrical structures, and he supervised many Ph.D theses in that area. He served as acting head of the department of mathematics during the academic years 1947-1948 and 1954-1955. He served as editor of the works of G. A. Miller Professor Brahana was a very popular teacher and generously gave of his time to students at all levels. He and his wife were friendly people and helped create a warm atmosphere in which new faculty could flourish.
Recipients of the H. Roy Brahana Prize
| 2011 | Meng Guo |  |
Yi Zeng |  |
| 2010 | Yi-Wei Chan |  |
Brent Nelson |  |
| 2009 | Richard A. Moy |  |
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| 2008 | Jack Scheff |  |
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| 2007 | David Edward Grayson |  |
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| 2006 | Simina Maria Boca |  |
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| 2005 | Wing Ho Ko |  |
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| 2004 | Noah Prince |  |
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| 2003 | David Deuber |  |
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| 2002 | David Smyth |  |
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| 2001 | Michael Geline |  |
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| 2000 | Eiji Aoki |  |
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| 1999 | Brad Aaron Friedman |  |
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| 1998 | (two recipients)</ | |||
| Christopher Francisco |  |
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| Matthew Rodriguez |  |
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| 1997 | Ivan Ivramovic |  |
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| 1996 | Tsz Ho Chan Patrick J. Keenan |
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| 1995 | Thomas A. Insel | |||
| 1994 | Christine Heitsch | |||
| 1993 | David P. Nicholls | |||
| 1992 | Howard Ding | |||
| 1991 | Jeffrey Ho | |||
| 1990 | Jeffrey Douglas | |||
| 1989 | no award | |||
| 1988 | David Bryce Secrest | |||
| 1987 | Reid Charles Huntsinger Brian Scott Pilz |
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| 1986 | Jackson L. Kilpatrick Michael D. Hollander |
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| 1985 | Michael William Bell | |||
| 1984 | Debra K. Borkovitz | |||
| 1983 | Jerome V. Walsh | |||
| 1982 | Oscar F. Hernandez | |||
| 1981 | Craig Smith | |||
| 1980 | no award | |||
| 1979 | Richard La Sota Christopher Bowen |
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| 1978 | Michael Stillman | |||
| 1977 | Paul Hriljac | |||
| 1976 | Bruce Hajek Allen Moy |
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| 1975 | Jerome Coonen | |||
| 1974 | Marlies Gerber | |||
| 1973 | William van Melle | |||
| 1972 | Mark Ephron | |||
| 1971 | Michael W. Jamieson David Reiner |
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| 1970 | no award | |||
| 1969 | Stanley Paul Kerr Robert Edwin Olson Daniel Eaton Putnam |
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| 1968 | Eric Douglas Bedford | |||
| 1967 | Edward Paul Culp | |||
| 1966 | Paul Harvey Cox | |||
| 1965 | Hugh Montgomery | |||
| 1964 | William Alan Edelstein |