Pavlo Levkiv

“Miles for Pavlo” final push to the summit

admin — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:35:30 +0000

The virtual journey of Newark Academy students to Mt. Everest came to conclusion. The final push to the summit took place May 29 at the front of the NA building. At the end of the ceremony, Dr. DiBianca announced that the gifts received (more then $12000) will form an endowment and the Pavlo Levkiv Memorial Grant for Experience in Learning will be established. The fund will award in perpetuity one yearly grant to students in need of funds who seek to engage in Experience in Learning activities in the environment improvement and conservation, nature exploration, science and international areas.

More pictures can be found on the page Miles for Pavlo

The video of the event is here: Part 1 Part 2

NA “Miles for Pavlo” approaching Mt. Everest

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 06:29:39 +0000

“Miles for Pavlo”, the initiative of students at Newark Academy that pledged to make the journey from Newark Academy to Mt. Everest is approaching its final destination. The last yards of the trip will be done May 29.

Wrestling team award in Pavlo’s name

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:21:30 +0000

Newark Academy wrestling team established an award in the name of Pavlo. It will be the annual award. The first recipient is James McGann, former Pavlo’s teammate.
Source: Jay Gerish, wrestling coach.

Pavlo’s spirit lives on

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:55:41 +0000

In Middlebury, Pavlo wanted to continue the wrestling training, but there was no wrestling club in the college. So he joined the rugby team, and decided to organize the wrestling club. In spring semester he started to gather interested students and writing letters to college authorities, trying to persuade them that such club be founded at Middlebury. “Pavlo’s efforts at establishing a wrestling club at Middlebury were an illustration of quiet determination,” as former Dean of Cook Commons Matthew Carluzzo recalls. Unfortunately, by summer, the club was yet not established. Now, other students are continuing the work that Pavlo started. Here is the link to the article about the progress in creating the wrestling club: Pavlo’s spirit lives on

Notable New Jerseyans remembered

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:13:44 +0000

Pavlo is remembered as notable New Jerseyan of 2008.

The link to the article (scroll down to August): Notable New Jerseyans who died in 2008 remembered

Pavlo is referenced as collaborator in research by his professor

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:40:07 +0000

Dr. Noah Graham, Pavlo’s professor of Physics with whom Pavlo worked in summer 2008 as research assistant, references Pavlo in his research results (scroll down to Research) : These changes were developed with assistance from Pavlo Levkiv

Hope of rebirth for lost member of class of 2011

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:22:23 +0000

Members of the Middlebury College community gathered Sept. 27 (Pavlo’s birthday) to in honor the the memory of Pavlo. They planted an oak tree in the front of science building, where he spent most of his time in college.

Link to the post (scroll down and right): HOPE OF REBIRTH FOR LOST MEMBER OF CLASS OF 2011

Computation of Spheroidal Wave Functions

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:37:29 +0000

Summer research project, Middlebury College.
Advisor Dr. Noah Graham.

The abstract (written by Dr. Graham).

After his first year at Middlebury, Pavlo worked as a summer research
student developing a Mathematica software package for the computation of
spheroidal wave functions. These functions arise when one considers waves
confined within or reflecting from oblate (pancake-shaped) or prolate
(cigar-shaped) spheroidal bodies. They generalize the more common
spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions. Pavlo quickly mastered
both the advanced mathematics and the complex computer code involved in
this work. He rewrote sections of the code to compute Taylor expansions of
spheroidal wave functions, fixing several bugs and significantly improving
the code’s efficiency — remarkable contributions, particularly for a
first-year student. Pavlo’s careful testing and benchmarking ensured the
reliability of these changes in the wide variety of situations in which the
code could be used. This code is currently used in Dr. Graham’s
calculations of Casimir energies and forces for spheroidal geometries.

College mourns Pavlo Levkiv ‘11

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:08:44 +0000

The link to the article: College mourns Pavlo Levkiv ‘11

Student from Summer Institutute for the Gifted remebers Pavlo

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:08:14 +0000

Two summers, while in middle school, Pavlo attended the Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG)program at Drew University. A student from that program shares her memories about Pavlo (scroll down to the middle of the post when she talks about SIG) Some Good Things, Something VERY Bad