The Van Vleck scholarship consists of $6000
per year for four years, awarded for undergraduate study at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. It is the top prize in the
Mathematics, Science and Engineering Talent Search, conducted by the
Mathematics
Department of the
UW-Madison. Generally, one Van
Vleck scholarship will be awarded each year to a student at a high
school or middle school in the State of Wisconsin. In some years, if
finances permit, more than one scholarship may be awarded.
The Van Vleck scholarship is awarded on the
basis of an invitational timed and proctored competitive written
examination offered at various locations in Wisconsin each April.
Each year, those students (and only those) who have performed well
enough on the Talent Search problems to have earned an invitation to
the Talent Search Honors Day ceremonies in Madison, will be invited
to compete for the scholarship. (Honors Day invitations will
generally be based on the student's performance on the first four
Talent Search problem sets in each academic year.)
Normally, there will be one winner and one
or two runners-up, and the names of these individuals will be
announced at the Honors Day ceremonies in May. (Although students
with the proven abilities of Talent Search honorees are certainly
expected to perform well on the examination, it is possible that none
of the scores will be deemed sufficient to earn a scholarship. In
that unlikely event, no winner will be declared, and no scholarship
awarded that year. It may also happen in some years that there will
be a winner, but no runners-up and occasionally, there may be more
than one winner.)
Winners will be offered Van Vleck
scholarships which will become effective if and when they enroll as
freshmen at UW-Madison, provided that that occurs not later than the
fall semester following their scheduled high school graduation. The
scholarship will remain in force, and will pay $3000 each semester
for up to eight semesters, only as long as the student continues to
demonstrate satisfactory academic performance at UW-Madison. (A
scholarship will normally terminate if the holder fails to enroll in
any semester, but requests for leaves of absence will be
considered.)
If a winner declines a scholarship before
the end of May in the year that it is awarded, (for example, because
he or she is a graduating senior who is planning to attend another
university) one of the runners-up, if there are any, will be declared
a winner and receive a scholarship offer, subject to these same
rules. Runner-up eligibility expires at the end of May.
The UW-Madison Mathematics Department, in
conjunction with appropriate University authorities, may modify these
rules and procedures from time to time.
1991 Brent Halsey Craig High School,
Janesville 1992 David Corris Nicholet High School,
Glendale 1993 Daniel Haas Merrill Senior High
School 1994 Ted Kreutz Rufus King High
School, Milwaukee 1995 Vahe Poladian Blair-Taylor High
School 1996 Michael Colsher Marquette University
High School Mike Rusch Rib Lake High
School Qi Su Madison West High
School 1997 Wei Ho New Berlin High
School Chad Keever Holmen High
School Po-Shen Loh Madison Memorial High
School 1998 Zhihao Liu Shorewood High
School 1999 Po-Ru Loh Jefferson Middle
School Martin Zeppenfeld Madison West High
School 2000 Daniel Kane Madison West High
School Chris Moore Madison West High
School Yian Zhang Madison West High
School 2001 Chad Koch Appleton West High
School Alec Li Madison West High
School 2002 Jesse Beder Shorewood High
School Po-Ling Loh Madison Memorial High
School 2003 Nick Wage Appleton East High School
2004 Andrew Bolanowksi Rufus King High School
2005 Tim Black Madison Memorial High School
2007 Zef RosnBrick Madison West High
School Matthew Wage Appleton East High
School
Revised February 2008