Average Award:

$550.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

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Scholarship History:

Established by Dr. J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. in October, 1989 in memory of his father.  John Barkley Rosser, Sr. was a leading figure in American mathematics, computer science and space science during the middle twentieth century. He received a B.S. in mathematics in 1929 from the University of Florida.  In 1931 he received an M.S. in physics from the University of Florida, and in 1934 received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University. At Princeton he did foundational work in mathematical logic that helped lay the foundations of modern computer science with Alonzo Church and Stephen Kleene. He became an assistant professor at Cornell University in 1936, where he remained until 1963.  He was appointed to be the Director of the Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1963 to 1973.  He retired in 1978.    During World War II he played an important role in the national defense in research on rocket ballistics that led to important positions with the government after the war in the space program and defense areas. He died on September 5, 1989 in Madison, Wisconsin

Average Award:

$1200.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

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Scholarship History:

Established by Major General Joseph and Mrs. Valerie Yakovac in memory of their daughter, Sara.  Sara was born in West Point, New York.  Her family lived at Army postings that included Germany before moving to the Washington, D.C. area in 1998.  She was a member of Alpha Sigma Tau sorority and president of the Economics Club and the Omicron Delta Epsilon economics honor society.  She was a volunteer with the Leukemia Society of America. Sara graduated from JMU in 2000 with a B.S. in economics.  She was a consumer loan researcher with KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington, D.C.  During her senior year at JMU, just after spring break, Sara was diagnosed with leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells.  Doctors told her she had a 20 percent chance of making it through a bone marrow transplant procedure, but she remained positive.  In March 2001, Sara had the transplant surgery at Ohio State University's medical center.  She died from complications on April 17, 2001 at the age of 22, just a year after her diagnosis.

Average Award:

$500.00

Criteria:

   Minimum GPA:

No

Contact:

Scholarship History:

Established May 9, 1989 by Dr. and Mrs. Wilhelm.