First Year Undergraduate Math Information
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News Archive
Undergraduate Prizes 2020-2021
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...
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Commendations for Extraordinary Teaching
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...
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Melanie Matchett Wood wins $1M NSF Waterman Award
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...
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Three New Professors Join Department
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...
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2021 Friends of Math Thesis Prize: Kenz Kallal and Lux Zhao
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...
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#shutdownSTEM–10 June 2020
In partnership with the Harvard Division of Science, the Mathematics Department used the call to #shutdownSTEM on 10 June to initiate a discussion of actions we can take, individually and...
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Patrick Lopatto Receives Bok Undergraduate Teaching Award
Patrick Lopatto, a 2020 Doctoral recipient in Mathematics, was named a recipient of the Harvard 2020 Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates. The role...
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Celebrating our May 2020 Ph.D. Graduates
Congratulations to our May 2020 Doctoral Recipients! https://youtu.be/wDoWuf4_Rnw
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David Kazhdan Awarded Shaw Prize
David Kazhdan, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Harvard and Professor of Mathematics at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel was co-recipient along with Alexander Beilinson of The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences...
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