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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2024-2025

05/20/2025

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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Math Professor Denis Auroux Awarded Harvard College Professorship

05/19/2025

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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Harvard Math Graduate Named 2025 Hertz Fellow

05/16/2025

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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