By Arthur Bridgeforth Jr.

Wayne State University Math Professor Steven Kahn has been given the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics by the 2003 Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

Kahn recently received the award at the Mathematical Association's annual meeting at Saginaw Valley State University on May 2. Kahn was honored for his teaching skills and his innovation for such things as the Emerging Scholars Program he created at Wayne State to help struggling students in lower-level math courses. Kahn also created the Wayne State Math Corps, a six-week long summer camp for Detroit Public School students grades 5th-12th.

In the summer of 2002, 180 middle and high school students attended the Math Corps camp. At the camp, middle school students are tutored by high school students, who in turn, are mentored by college students.

Kahn, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-native, has been on the math faculty at Wayne State since 1981. Kahn has a bachelor's degree in math from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1972. He received his master's in math in 1974 and a Ph.D. in the subject in 1979, both from the University of Maryland College Park.