Jeff Giansiracusa is Awarded Dean's Medal

For two years in a row, a math major has been named the Dean's medalist in the Sciences: Jeff Giansiracusa is the medalist for 2003. Thomas Carlson was the medalist last year. Jeff is a double major, math and physics, and has done research in both subjects. He has participated in physics REUs at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at the University of Michigan and at CERN in Switzerland. In 2002 he was a student in the UW Math REU, and in the summer of 2003 he was a TA for the UW Math REU program. In 2001-2 and 2002-3, he was also a TA for the honors calculus sequence, Math 134/5/6. Jeff is a member of a graduating class that had many outstanding students; along with Ernie Esser, he was twice a member of a winning team for the Mathematical Contest in Modeling - see this article. Jeff is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which he will hold at MIT. He is spending the academic year 2003-4 at Oxford University, deferring his enrollment at MIT until 2004.

Jim Morrow