Nancy Heinschel also received the Carl L. Garrison Alumni Scholar Merit Award. This award is given annually to an outstanding student who received a scholarship from the alumni association as an incoming UC Davis student. The $750 Garrison Award, which is accompanied by a lifetime membership in the Association, goes to a graduating senior.
In addition, Nancy was chosen as runner-up for the national 1995 Alice T. Schafer Undergraduate Prize in Mathematics. The Schafer Prize was established in 1990 by the Association for Women in Mathematics and is given to an undergraduate woman in recognition of excellence in mathematics. The winner of the 1995 Schafer Prize was Ruth Britto-Pacumio of MIT and the runners-up, in addition to Nancy Heinschel, were Wing- kum Fong of the University of California, Berkeley, and Jessica Wachter of Harvard University.
Since beginning her academic career, Nancy has won many other honors including the National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, the Lawrence J. Andrews Prize for the Oustanding Junior in the College of Letters and Science, and the Kraft Scholarship.
Nancy was employed by the National Security Agency in Washington during the Summer
of 1995 and entered graduate school in mathematics at
Stanford University in the Fall of
1995. (H.A.)