Earlier this month, the Simons Foundation announced the inaugural recipients of its Simons Dissertation Fellowship in Mathematics. Among the graduate student names were those of Harvard’s own Anda-Sorana Tenie and Matthew King. The fellowship—named in honor of foundation co-founder Jim...
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Janet Chen, a Harvard math senior preceptor, was awarded a 2025 Anya Bernstein Bassett Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Harvard Office of Undergraduate Education. The award is designed to highlight the integral role that non-ladder faculty play in...
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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. Quinn Brussel ‘25. Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in...
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Denis Auroux, Herchel Smith Professor of Mathematics, was one of five faculty members awarded a Harvard College Professorship for excellence in undergraduate teaching in fields ranging from high-dimensional geometry to comparative politics. Auroux describes his teaching style as classical—lectures, plenty...
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Arav Karighattam, a '24 Harvard math graduate, is one of 19 chosen recipients of the 2025 Hertz Fellows. In its announcement, the Hertz Foundation emphasized his recent paper, in which he determined the ranks of members of a challenging family...
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