The John Walsh Award is given to the student with the most outstanding performance on the Ph.D. written exam.
The Paul Minton Award is given to the first year student with the best overall performance in class and the basic exam. Paul Minton Memorial Article (AmStat News, Sept 2008).
The Scheuren Award for Academic Excellence is given to two first-year students for outstanding performance in the theory and applied portions, respectively, of the first-year curriculum.
The first recipients of this award were Tracy Xu and Kinfemichael Gedif (2004). Luke Peterson and Lisa Cannon were the winners of this award in 2005.
Getaneh Yismah was the 2006 winner of the Scheuren Award; Ke Wang was the 2007 winner; 2008 winner was Heather Lin; 2009 winner was Xiaowen Hu;
2010 winners were Jacob Turner and Kalanka Jayalath.
The following is a list of recipients of the WALSH and MINTON Awards:
|
Walsh Award
|
Minton Award
|
| 2012 |
Ou Bai |
Yuhang (Charles) Liu |
| 2011 |
Bivin Sadler |
|
| 2010 |
Aymen Al-Rawashdeh |
Long Luo |
| 2008 |
Ke Wang, Yiao Liao and Getenah Yismah |
E J Liao |
| 2006 |
James Haney |
Darcie Delzell and James Haney |
| 2004 |
Katherine Lin |
Qihua (Katherine) Lin |
| 2002 |
Huiping Jiang |
Shuyi Shen |
| 2000 |
Jian Han |
Eun-Ha Choi
Yan Zhong |
| 1999 |
Krista B. Cohlmia |
Karla H. Genter
Chu-Ping Vijverberg |
| 1998 |
Jeff Pitblado |
Krista Blevins Cohlmia |
| 1997 |
None Awarded |
Jeffrey Pitblado
Brent Juusola |
| 1996 |
None Awarded |
Jorge Montemayor |
| 1995 |
Mike Ernst, An Jia
Ying Wan, Jinping Wang |
Molly Hartfield |
| 1994 |
Greg Miller |
Stephen Wiechecki |
| 1993 |
Tommy Fu and James Miller |
Mike Ernst |
| 1992 |
None awarded |
Tommy Fu
James Miller |
- 1991
|
- Patrick Gerard
- Sunho Hong
|
- Huchen Fei
|
| 1990 |
M. S. Moon
David Daniel |
Patrick Gerard |
| 1989 |
Warren Bao
Joyce Wellman |
John Han |
| 1988 |
None Awarded |
M. S. Moon |
| 1987 |
Helen Li
Fred Curtis |
Joyce Wellman |
| 1986 |
Michael Ames |
None |
| 1985 |
David Lamb
Miriam Reilman |
Fred Curtis |
| 1984 |
Tom Carmody
Lori Thombs |
Michael Ames |
| 1983 |
J. C. Shyu |
Miriam Reilman |