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The Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, first presented in 1990, consists of a cash prize of $4000, a citation, and the recognition of the American mathematical community. As the endowed successor to the Association’s Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, first presented in 1962, this award is intended to be the most prestigious award for service offered by the Association. It honors distinguished contributions to mathematics and mathematical education–in one particular aspect or many, and in a short period or over a career. The initial endowment was contributed by husband and wife Dr. Charles Y. Hu and Yueh-Gin Gung. It is worth noting that Dr. Hu and Yueh-Gin Gung were not mathematicians, but rather a professor of geography at the University of Maryland and a librarian at the University of Chicago, respectively. They contributed generously to our discipline because, as they wrote, “We always have high regard and great respect for the intellectual agility and high quality of mind of mathematicians and consider mathematics as the most vital field of study in the technological age we are living in.”
Ken Ross was awarded the Gung-Hu Award for Distinguished Service at the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings
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Indiana University
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Joseph Gallian
University of Minnesota Duluth
Kenneth A. Ross
University of Oregon
Robert Megginson
University of Michigan
Lida Barrett
University of Tennessee
Lee Lorch
York University in Toronto
Hyman Bass
University of Michigan
Gerald L. Alexanderson
Santa Clara University
T. Christine Stevens
Saint Louis University
Clarence F. Stephens
SUNY at Potsdam
Manuel P. Berriozabal
University of Texas at San Antonio
Paul R. Halmos
Santa Clara University
Leonard Gillman
University of Texas at Austin
Alice T. Schafer
Wellesley College
Deborah Tepper Haimo
University of California at San Diego
Andrew Gleason
Harvard University
Anneli Lax
New York University
J. Sutherland Frame
Michigan State University
Henry O. Pollak
Columbia University
Lynn A. Steen
St. Olaf College
Shirley Hill
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Leon Henkin
University of California- Berkeley
Ivan Niven
University of Oregon
Murray S. Klamkin
University of Alberta
Gail S. Young
Ossining, NY
Arnold E. Ross
Ohio State University
Everett Pitcher
Lehigh University
(no award given)
> Edwin F. Beckenbach (posthumously)
University of California- Los Angeles
Thornton C. Fry
Carmel, CA
Ralph P. Boas
Northwestern University
Henry L. Alder
University of California-Davis
Otto Neugebauer
Brown University
Richard D. Anderson
Louisiana State University
Victor Klee
University of Washington
Leon W. Cohen
University of Maryland
Saunders Mac Lane
University of Chicago
RH Bing
University of Texas-Austin
R.L. Wilder
University of Michigan
Carl B. Allendoerfer
University of Washington
Burton W. Jones
University of Colorado
G. Baley Price
University of Kansas
Edward G. Begle
Stanford University
A.W. Tucker
Princeton University
W.L. Duren
University of Virginia
Harry M. Gehman
State University of New York at Buffalo
Richard Courant
New York University
E.J. McShane
University of Virginia
George Pólya
Stanford University
Mina S. Rees
Hunter College-City University of New York