Sophomore Daniel Hernandez received a Trustee Scholarship. This award is a merit-based, full-tuition scholarship for his remaining two years as an undergraduate at BU.

Graduating senior Mary Samuelson has been awarded the Ada Draper Award. This award is given annually to a select number of outstanding graduating women for study or travel abroad after graduation. The trust fund that funds the scholarship was left to Boston University in 1888 by Ada Draper, the daughter of a prominent Boston merchant who traveled extensively in her
lifetime and wanted to give other women the same opportunity. Mary, a joint mathematics and Spanish major, will use her award to travel extensively in Spain next year before returning to the US to begin a career in mathematics education. Mary also recently ran (and finished!) the 2003 Boston Marathon.

Angela Vierling, a graduate student in mathematics, has been awarded an AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering summer Fellowship. This award allows Angela to spend 10 weeks in St. Louis, MO, writing about mathematics for the media. The award is sponsored by SIAM.

Yakov Shapiro, a graudating senior, was awarded an NSF graduate fellowship, which he will use to attend graduate school at MIT next year. Yakov also received a Putnam Competition Certificate in recognition of superior performance on the Putnam Exam last fall. He ranked 26th in the country in this challenging exam.

At the Commencement ceremony held on May 18, 2003, the following awards were announced:

College Prize in Mathematics: Yakov Shapiro

College Prize in Statistics: Aaron Joseph LeValley

Robert Bruce Prize in Mathematics: Casey Elizabeth Bach, Cecilia Busuioc, and Melissa May Vellela. Melissa was selected to give the student address at Commencement.

Joseph E. Alman Prize in Statistics: Brianna Christine Miller

GRS Excellence in Teaching Award: Margaret Anne Beck