Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Scholarship for Graduate Women

The Department of Mathematics annually awards the Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Scholarship

 of $2,000 to up to three women graduate students who are making excellent progress

towards the PhD. To nominate a woman graduate student, a letter from the advisor should be addressed to:

Chair of Awards Committee
Department of Mathematics
UW-Madison

and given to the Graduate Program Administrator in 214 Van Vleck Hall.

Any additional supporting materials are welcome. Deadline for receipt of

nominations for the 2008 awards is: March 31, 2008.

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Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder was one of the earliest recipients of a PhD in Mathematics granted by the University of Wisconsin.

Her PhD class in 1930 consisted of three people and they were the 18th, 19th, and 20th Wisconsin Mathematics PhDs.

At the Wisconsin Mathematics PhD Centennial Celebration held in 1997, Dr. Hirschfelder was the earliest Wisconsin

Mathematics PhD present; at that time, she held her PhD for 67 years. Dr. Hirschfelder taught mathematics at the

University of Wisconsin for almost 20 years and was the co-author of the important textbook "Higher Mathematics

 for Engineers and Physicists" published in 1934. In 1997 she endowed the Elizabeth S. Hirschfelder Fund for

Graduate Women in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics at the UW-Foundation. She died in 2002 at the age of 100.