• The Claire F. Adler Award in Mathematics
• The Joseph Panzeca Memorial Award in Mathematics
• The Lena Sharney Memorial Award in Mathematics

• The Hubert B. Huntley Memorial Award in Mathematics

A complete list of award recipients since 1963 is included at the bottom of this page.

The Department regularly nominates outstanding mathematics majors for appropriate College and University awards and our students have a long tradition of winning the Dean's Scholarship Award and the C.W. Post Award for Academic Excellence.

Students with outstanding academic achievement in mathematics are elected each year to membership in the New York Lambda Chapter of the Kappa Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society.

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The Claire F. Adler Award in Mathematics honors the late Dr. Claire F. Adler.

Professor Adler earned her A.B. (1918) and A.M. (1919) from West Virginia University and her Ph.D. (1942) from New York University with a thesis on minimal surfaces written under the direction of Richard Courant. Some of her results appeared in her article "An isoperimetric problem with an inequality" on pages 59-69 of the American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 52 (1945). Her textbook on Modern Geometry (McGraw-Hill, 1958) was reviewed by S.R. Struik as "an inspiring book to the prospective teacher." She came to C.W. Post as an associate professor in 1961 and when she retired in 1967 she held the rank of full professor. Called the "Math Club Award" prior to 1972, the Claire F. Adler Award in Mathematics has been given annually since 1963 and the names of the recipients are engraved on a plaque now hanging in the Department of Mathematics office in Life Science Room 240.

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The Joseph Panzeca Memorial Award in Mathematics honors the memory of the father of Paul J. Panzeca.

Paul J. Panzeca established the Joseph Panzeca Memorial Scholarship Fund at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in 1969. Mr. Panzeca was an electrical contractor based in Greenvale. The Joseph Panzeca Memorial Award in Mathematics has been given annually since 1972.

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The Lena Sharney Memorial Award in Mathematics honors the memory of Dr. Lena Sharney.

Professor Sharney earned her A.B., M.S., and Ph.D. from New York University and did much of her work under the direction of Harold Shapiro. She came to C.W. Post as an associate professor in 1968 after working on the mathematics of multiple pool analysis of metabolic pathways in the hematology department of Mt. Sinai Hospital. She died in January 1975 shortly after retiring and her many friends and colleagues subsequently established the endowment in her name that funds the Lena Sharney Memorial Award in Mathematics, which has been given annually since 1993.

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The Hubert B. Huntley Memorial Award in Mathematics honors the memory of the late Hubert B. Huntley.

Professor Huntley earned his A.B. (1922) from Harvard University and his A.M. (1928) from Brown University. He was the first full-time faculty member in mathematics at C.W. Post and, at the time of his death in October 1958, he was chairman of both the Mathematics and the Pre-Engineering departments. His portrait hangs just to the left of the door to the north vestibule of the Great Hall in the Administration Building. The Hubert B. Huntley Memorial Award in Mathematics has been given annually since 1959.

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