Peter Maring Ellis and Sharon Lee Gardner Ellis Memorial Scholarship in Mathematics and Statistics

The Peter Maring Ellis and Sharon Lee Gardner Ellis Memorial Scholarship in the Mathematics and Statistics Department was established in 1996 by Dr. Peter Ellis in memory of his late wife, Mrs. Sharon Lee Gardner Ellis. Sharon was a mathematics teacher at Mount Logan Middle School. She took great joy in teaching and inspiring students. She challenged students with mathematics that went beyond the textbook. Just before her passing 1995 her Math Counts team from Mount Logan Middle School won the Utah State Math Counts competition and became the coach of the team that competed in the national competition in Washington DC. The scholarship support students who are seeking to be secondary math educators.