Carolyn Gonzales Communications Services Oklahoma State University (405) 744-6260
OSU President Dr. James Halligan, right, congratulates Dr. Igor Pritsker for having won the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
Dr. Igor Pritsker, assistant professor of mathematics at Oklahoma State University, recently received an Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
Twenty-four researchers from universities across the nation were selected from a pool of 75 to receive the prestigious $5,000 award for research. The award will be matched with another $5,000 from OSU.
Only those who are full-time assistant professors within the first two years of their tenure track appointments at ORAU member universities may apply for the award. The awards support faculty research in: applied science, engineering, life sciences, math/computer sciences, physical sciences and policy, management or education.
Pritsker, who came to OSU last fall, says the money will help him finance the purchase of computer equipment and software and to travel to conferences as he develops his research into the application and analysis of number theory. He has already presented talks about his work at numerous conferences and has received several previous grants.
A native of the Ukraine, Pritsker earned his bachelorās and masterās degrees at Donetsk State University in the former Soviet Union. He did graduate study and research at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and at the University of South Florida, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1995.
In addition to conducting research, Pritzker teaches a variety of math classes at OSUās Stillwater and Tulsa campuses.
OSUās last recipient of the ORAU award was Dr. Zhenbo Qin, an assistant math professor who received the honor in 1994.
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