The Strauss Teaching Assistanships are awarded to strong, advanced math majors with excellent teaching ability. Each winner serves as a Teaching Assistant in a section of calculus in the fall and in the spring semester. Interested students apply the previous spring and compete for these assistantships. (See the official listings for more details on amounts and conditions.) The winners are paid at the rate a graduate student in mathematics would be paid to teach the section.

For strong math majors, the Mathematics Department encourages mathematics research activity (for example, through the Math 489 "research interaction teams") and in some cases graduate coursework in mathematics. Students with definite arrangements for such activity while Strauss TAs will be given preference in the spring competition.

Award Recipients

• 2025     Bhavya Rajasekaran, Sofia Fontana, Brooke Guo, Anthony Spinelli, Quinn Carmack, John Dinkel, Anning Cui, Emma Davie
• 2024     Kevin Flanary, Linsen Liu, Quentin Ludet, Dongxing He, Noelle Mitchell, Gary Peng, David Koralov, Jacob Riddle
• 2023     Akash Dutt, Sydney Gravel, Daniel Levy, Sam Lidz, Jacob Riddle, Matthew Schneider, Karthik Sellakumaran  Uma Tikekar, Matthew Tremba
• 2022     Nocholas Baranello, Daniel Levy, Jiatong Liang, Hugh McLaurin, Reynald Oliveria, Raymond Schleien, Matthew Schneider, Uma Tikekar, Karthik Sellakumaran Latha
• 2021     Joshua Batkhan, Leopold Bertholet, Julia Dixon, Mordechai Goldberger, Fucheng Li, Uro Lyi, Caroline Nunn, Johnny Rajala, Melinda Yan
• 2020     Aaron Benda, Julia Dixon, Asher Fink, Jeremy Folsom, Tyler Hoffman, Ekesh Kumar, Jonathan Lin, Siri Neerchal, Samuel Silver, Yunmeng Wu, Ruijie(Frank) Zheng
• 2019     Margaret Brown, Ryan Craver, Alexander Davydov, Conner Gorman, Siddhartha Harmalkar, David Yu Miller, Franklin Olmsted, Nataliya Stepanova, Ryan Synk, Matthew Watson
• 2018     AlFahad AlQadhi, Ryan Craver, Alejandro Diaz, Dat Huynh, Brittany Kuznitz, April Nellis, Avital Ron, Ryan Synk
• 2017     Maddy Alizadeh, Nadia Maria Batkhan, Keaton Ellis, Aaron George, Brittany Kuznitz, Edward Nusinovich, Shihao Sun, Davin Wang
• 2016     Michael Dworken, Emily Anne DeBoy, Joseph Zev Kaplowitz, John Bianco Padgett, Jacob Renn, John Young Shi, Tien-Yuan Yi
• 2015     Michael Dworken, Liam Fowl, Christopher Hollrah, Rouzhen Ma, Jason Schoenfeld, Xinhu Wang, Jin Wu
• 2014     David J. Bekkerman, Christopher Allen Hollrah, Race Ren-Hui Hsu, Daniel T. Kaufman, Meghana Mohan Raja, Rosemary Arabella Smith  
• 2013     Alexander Baden, David Bekkerman, Rohan Bhale, Jacob Brintzenhofe, Charles Davis, Lisa Silverman
• 2012     Rohan Bhale, Amy Hudson, Edward Lister, Alex Sherman, Lisa Silverman, Marco Tapia
• 2011     Joshua Brule, Holman Gao, Edward Lister, Colette Nataf, Andy Zheng
• 2010     David Burstein, Chaohua Huang, Daniel Secrest
• 2009     Jonathan Cohen, Mickey Salins, Jacob Konikoff, Brad Sanders
• 2008     Sean Burke, Lisa Hoffmeister, Joel Witten and (deferred to 2009) Jacob Konikoff
• 2007     Aimee Felts, Christina Frederick, Daniel Marcin, Jesse Sugar-Moore
• 2006     Mohamed Abutaleb, Philip Isett, Daniel Marcin, Samuel Pinkava
• 2005     Stephen Colodner, Jeffrey Donatelli, Erin Lynch
• 2004     Patrick Curran, Joseph Ryan, David Sivakoff, Bianca Viray
• 2003     Patricia Castellanos, Neha Gupta, Juan Lleras
• 2002     Michael Gill, Jonah Kanner, David Moyer, Michael Ostrowski, Jessica Schulte, Ariel Weinberger
• 2001     Jared English, Chad Groft, Jessica Metcalf-Burton, Michael Ostrowski, Michael Thompson
• 2000     Brent Becker, James Bremer, Kristen DeVault, Svetlana Fedotova, Philip Folkemer, Thomas Landers, Jonathan Turnes
• 1999     Jeffrey Brown, Michael Kuta, Bryan Osborn, Daniel Schick, David Spivak, Jonathan Turnes
• 1998     Evelyn Gilmore, Masha Sapper, Cara Stockham, Timothy Strobell, Wesley Yin
• 1997     Kenneth Gosier, David Hamilton, William Holochwost, Sarah Oppenheim, Masha Sapper, Timothy Strobell
• 1996     David Clark, Mark Hess, One Keam (Spring only), Michael Neely, Kevin Scaldeferri, Sudheer Shukla
• 1995     Jeremy Calvert, Theresa Chow, Vishnumohan Jejjala, Melvin Laney, Helen Loennig
• 1994     Peter Calabrese, Geoffrey (Chris) Hruska, Uri Nodelman,Michael Starsinic, Karen Thurber
• 1993     Andrea Dickerson, Mee Kim, Sherman Lo
• 1992     Matthew Baker, Didon Pachner (Fall only), Alan Preis, Michael Swisdak
• 1991     Emiliano Gomez, William (Grady) Miller
• 1990     Ilya Lyubomirsky, Didon Pachner
• 1989     Christopher Monsour, Richard Penn
• 1988     William Hix, Christopher Monsour
• 1987     William Hix, Christopher Monsour