Undergraduate Prizes 2020-2021

05/18/2021

Below are undergraduate prizes awarded in Mathematics for the 2020-2021 academic year. Alexander Prize • Hanna Mularczyk Friends Prize • Kenz Kallal • Lux Zhao Highbridge Prize • Serina Hu Hoopes Prize • Kenz Kallal • Lux Zhao David Mumford...
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Commendations for Extraordinary Teaching

07/12/2020

Dean of Undergraduate Education Amanda Claybaugh sent letters of Special Commendation for Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times to Wes Cain Janet Chen Voula Collins David Freund Dusty Grundmeier Flor Hunziker Oliver Knill Drew Zemke The Commendations read: [W]e decided this...
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Melanie Matchett Wood

Melanie Matchett Wood wins $1M NSF Waterman Award

05/12/2021

Professor Melanie Matchett Wood has received the National Science Foundation's annual Alan T. Waterman award, which recognizes an outstanding early-career U.S. science or engineering researcher who demonstrates exceptional individual achievements in research in NSF-supported fields. Wood is the first woman...
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DeMarco Popa and Wood

Three New Professors Join Department

06/25/2020

Harvard Mathematics welcomes three new Professors to our Department in July: Laura DeMarco in Dynamical Systems, Mihnea Popa in Algebraic Geometry, and Melanie Matchett Wood in Number Theory. More on all three new Professors in The Harvard Gazette.
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2021 Friends of Math Thesis Prize: Kenz Kallal and Lux Zhao

05/04/2021

The Friends of Harvard Mathematics Undergraduate Thesis Prize is awarded annually for one or two exceptional undergraduate Senior Honors theses. In 2021 the Prize was awarded to Kenz Kallal for his thesis "The Arthur–Selberg trace formula and some applications to...
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