Phil Kutzko

Director, National Alliance & Director, UI Sloan Scholarship Program
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Phillip Kutzko was a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring by President Obama at the White House on January 6, 2010! Congratulations Dr. Kutzko! - IBP Staff Under Phil Kutzko’s leadership the University of Iowa now produces more mathematics Ph.D.s from underrepresented groups than any other college in the country.

Kutzko was born and raised in New York City and is a product of the New York City public schools. He attended the City College of New York and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He joined the University of Iowa mathematics faculty in 1974. Kutzko’s research is in the area of pure mathematics known as the representation theory of p-adic groups, an area with applications to the theory of numbers. He is the author, with Colin Bushnell, of a monograph in the Annals of Mathematics Studies (Princeton) and has lectured widely on his work. He is presently a University of Iowa Collegiate Fellow.

Kutzko is honored to have played a pivotal role in the Department of Mathematics’ activities in minority graduate education and in the extension of these activities to other departments at the three Iowa Regents universities. In this context, he directs the departmental Sloan Foundation minority fellowship program as well as the NSF-funded Iowa AGEP program, a large-scale project to increase the number of underrepresented minority graduate students in science, technology, engineering and the mathematical sciences at the three Iowa Regents universities. As of August, 2005 Kutzko has joined the University of Iowa Graduate College as its Director of Graduate Ethnic Inclusion. In this position he hopes to extend the goals and practices of Iowa AGEP to graduate education at the UI.

Last Updated: 1/4/2010