Bethel Young Alumnus Award for 2007

The Awards Committee of the Bethel College Alumni Association has named Susan Loepp, Williamstown, Mass., as the winner of the 2007 Young Alumnus Award. Loepp is an associate professor of mathematics at Williams College, where she has been since 1996. Her field of research is commutative algebra and she often teaches courses in abstract algebra at Williams.Loepp is a 1989 graduate of Bethel College with a B.A. in mathematics and a B.S. in physics. She earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, where her dissertation topic was “Making the generic formal fiber local.” She was a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska from 1994-96.Loepp is the author of a number of articles published in the Journal of Algebra, the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra and the Rocky Mountain Journal of Algebra, among others. In 2006, she published her first book, a collaborative effort with fellow Williams College professor William Wootters, a physicist.