Dr. Paul Conn recognizes Jonathan Clark as the recipient of the 2015 Charles Paul Conn Award.
Lee University’s President Dr. Paul Conn recognized Jonathan Clark as the 2015 recipient of the Charles Paul Conn Award during the Honors Chapel. Mr. Clark will also be honored for this award at commissioning on Friday.
The Conn Award is given to a Lee senior who demonstrates the greatest promise of achievement in graduate or professional studies after graduating from Lee. Established in 1996, it is named after Lee’s sixteenth president. Each department may nominate one student for the award, and from these nominees, a winner is selected by a faculty vote.
“Although he has acquired lists of honors, awards, and scholarships, I nominated Jonathan Clark for the Charles P. Conn Award because of his passion for physics, his creativity in research, and his resilience to pursue his studies no matter what obstacles he may face,” said Dr. Jeneva Moseley, an assistant professor of mathematics at Lee.
Mr. Clark, a native of Cleveland and the son of Jim and Brenda Clark, will graduate from Lee this May with a major in mathematics.
"I wouldn't have received this award had it not been for the overwhelming support I received from the professors in the Natural Science and Mathematics Department,” said Mr. Clark. “This is a reflection of how much they continue to believe in me, not simply of my work. I would not be where I am nor who I am today without their tremendous instruction and influence.”
While at Lee, Mr. Clark has participated in seven math presentations, four of which were held at state and regional meetings, and submitted two manuscripts to national peer-reviewed journals. He is a tutor and a teaching assistant in math, physics, and benevolence, and he was the Tucker Scholar in Science and Math for the 2014-15 year. Mr. Clark served as a mentor in a program funded by the Mathematical Association of America, and he was the treasurer of Lee Prime, the university’s official mathematics club.
Mr. Clark plans to attend the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to study theoretical physics, and he has recently accepted an offer for a graduate teaching assistantship in the university’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.