A black and white photo of Harvard mathematician Shlomo Zvi Sternberg in the 1970s as he gives a lecture leaning against a blackboard with math formulae.

In Memory of Professor Emeritus Shlomo Sternberg

09/06/2024

It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Professor Emeritus Shlomo Zvi Sternberg, who passed away surrounded by friends and family in Israel on August 23, 2024. Shlomo joined the Harvard Department of Mathematics in 1959 and was named...
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A 1972 black-and-white image of Harvard math professor emeritus Dick Gross hitching across Kenya, standing under a traffic sign.

Faculty Spotlight: Dick Gross, Professor Emeritus

07/30/2024

[caption id="attachment_10081" align="alignleft" width="294"] This polaroid of Dick Gross served as his entry on the bulletin board of department faculty members, long before the specially designed and printed poster visitors of the Harvard Science Center can see today.[/caption] Dick Gross’...
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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2023-2024

05/16/2024

Congratulations to this year’s prize and award recipients! Captain Jonathan Fay Prize The annual award for the top theses of Harvard College’s graduating class. The recipient of the prize with a concentration in mathematics is Dhruv Goel ‘24 for his...
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Melanie Matchett Wood Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences

05/09/2024

Melanie Matchett Wood—William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics and Director of Graduate Studies—becomes the first female faculty member of the Harvard Department of Mathematics to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. “It is a great honor...
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