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Undergraduate Prizes and Awards 2024-2025

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....
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Math Professor Denis Auroux Awarded Harvard College Professorship

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...
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Harvard Math Graduate Named 2025 Hertz Fellow

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...
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Harvard Math Professor Melanie Matchett Wood Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Melanie Matchett Wood, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). "It is a great honor to join so many of my mathematical...
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Harvard Math Preceptor Kate Penner Named 2025 Dean’s Distinction Recipient

Kate Penner, Harvard math preceptor and Undergraduate Science Research Advisor, was named one of 11 individual recipients of the 2025 Dean's Distinction. This honor recognizes a small number of exceptional...
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Harvard Math Professor Lauren Williams Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Lauren Williams, Dwight Parker Robinson Professor of Mathematics and Sally Starling Seaver Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, was among 20 Harvard faculty elected to the American Academy of Arts...
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Si Ying Lee Receives 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

Congratulations to Harvard math PhD graduate Si Ying Lee, currently Szegö Assistant Professor at Stanford University, for receiving the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize! Lee won the prize for...
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Dennis Gaitsgory Receives 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics

Congratulations to former Harvard math professor Dennis Gaitsgory, currently of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematic, for receiving the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics! Gaitsgory won the prize for his...
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Harvard Makes Strong Showing at 85th Putnam Mathematical Competition

Harvard scored second place among the winning teams at the 85th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Almost 4,000 students from over 477 institutions participated in the highly competitive exam...
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Harvard Math Professor Melanie Matchett Wood Awarded PECASE

Harvard William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics Melanie Matchett Wood was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) earlier this month. She received the award...
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