
Math Department Awards
K. Brooks and Marion Reid Student Achievement Awards
The CSUSM Department of Mathematics is excited to announce three awards for CSUSM students for academic performance in the academic year 2024-25. Thanks to a generous donation by the Founding Librarian Dean and Librarian Emerita Marion Reid and Founding Faculty Member and Professor Emeritus K. Brooks Reid, the department will be able to give three awards to students at the end of each spring semester. The awards will distinguish students that have shown exceptional accomplishments in one of the following areas.
Academic Year 24-25 Award Application Forms:
The first two awards will be given to undergraduate students and the third award will be given to a graduate student. Each awardee will receive $600 and students do not need to be nominated to receive the award. Faculty members who teach the above courses will form an award committee in spring to determine the awardees of the year.
Past Reid Student Achievement Awardees
- Algebra/Analysis Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize undergraduate students with the most outstanding academic performance in Algebra or Analysis upper division or graduate course(s).
2024 Awardee: Carmen Gutierrez
2023 Awardee: Cameron Ginn
- Discrete Mathematics Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize undergraduate students with the most outstanding academic performance in Discrete Mathematics upper division or graduate course(s).
2024 Awardee: Thomas Cameron
2023 Awardee: Tyler Weaver
- Graduate Student Achievement Award
The purpose of this award is to recognize graduate students with the most outstanding academic performance in their graduate course(s). A student cannot receive this award twice.
2024 Awardee: Trevor Ryback
2023 Awardee: Haoyang Lu
2023-24 Outstanding Graduate Awards
- Outstanding Master's Thesis Award2024 Awardee: Iryna Razhkova
- Outstanding Master's Comprehensive Exam Award2024 Awardee: Joshua Ottoson
- Outstanding Teaching Associate Award2024 Awardee: Maryrose Jardin
Outstanding Faculty-Student Collaboration
The Outstanding Faculty-Student Collaboration Award honors a tenure-track faculty member and a student from each department in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics for achievement in the area of collaboration on a project related to research and/or teaching. CSTEM prides itself on active student research and the teacher-scholar model. This award will showcase how closely our faculty work together with our students on innovative projects, while helping our students learn and grow from the experience.
2024 Awardees: Dr. Wayne Aitken and Jesse Stevenson
Wolfram Award
The Wolfram Award is given to an undergraduate student for achivements in computational science. Students incorporating computation into their undergraduate research projects or as part of advanced coursework are eligible for nomination.
Office of Graduate Studies Grand Slam
The Annual Grad Slam is a campus-wide research communication competition where both undergraduate and graduate students present their research and scholarly work in a concise and engaging manner to a non-specialist audience. It challenges participants to distill complex ideas into clear and compelling presentations within a short time frame. The goal is to effectively communicate the significance and impact of their research in a way that is accessible and engaging to a wide audience.