Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2025-2026
Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients!
Alexander Prize
Each year, this award recognizes a deserving student who will use the money for research and travel to math conferences.
Ilaria Seidel ‘26
American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2026
Jay Chooi ‘26, Emma Finn ‘26
David Mumford Prize
From the income of the gift in 1997 of Peter L. Falb, A.B. 1957, A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1961, the David B. Mumford Undergraduate Mathematics Prize was established, to be given annually to the most promising senior concentrator in mathematics, provided such concentrator is outstanding.
Emma Finn ‘26, Easton Singer ‘26
Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student, 2026
Received by Yunseo Choi ‘25, with honorable mention for Eliot Hodges ‘25
Friends Prize
Voted by the senior faculty of the Department of Mathematics for two distinguished thesis senior writers.
Adelina Andrei ’26, Jinho Park ‘26
Hoopes Prize
From the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Harvard received a fund from which to grant annual awards to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research. Recipients of the prize with a concentration in mathematics are:
Math concentrators: Adelina Andrei ’26, Kevin Cong ‘26, Matthew Tan ‘26
Secondary allied math concentrator: Miller MacDonald ‘26
Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize
From the income of the gift in 1921 of the late Robert Fletcher Rogers, A.B. 1886, there have been established a first prize and second prize to be awarded annually to the College students who present the best papers before the Math Table during an academic year.
Preston Bushnell ’26, Josh Rooney ‘26
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
Harvard undergraduate students who finished in the top 100 out of over 4,300 students taking the exam:
Kevin Cong ’26, Andrew Gu ’26, Shokhruz Kakharov ’27, Radu Andrei Lecoiu ’26