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.
Quinn Brussel ‘25.
Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman
Katherine Tung ‘26.
David Mumford Prize
From the income of the gift in 1997 of Peter L. Falb, A.B. 1957, A.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1961, the David B. Mumford Undergraduate Mathematics Prize was established, to be given annually to the most promising senior concentrator in mathematics, provided such concentrator is outstanding.
Shared by Elliot Hodges ‘25 and Jessica Zhang ‘25.
Friends Prize
Voted by the senior faculty of the Department of Mathematics for two distinguished thesis senior writers.
Shared by Lev Kruglyak ’25 and Ava Zinman ‘25.
Putnam Competition
Harvard undergraduate students who finished in the top 500 out of almost 4,000 students taking the exam:
Alan Bu ‘28 | Preston Bushnell ‘26 | Kevin Cong ‘26 | Kevin Du ‘25 | Samuel Engel ‘28 | Andrew Gu ‘26 | William Hu ‘25 | Tri Le ‘28 | Radu Andrei Lecoiu ‘27 | Jacob Paltrowitz ‘27 | Eric Shen ‘26 | Easton Singer ‘26 | Aquila Wolff ‘27 | Gabriel Wu ‘25 | Henry Xie ‘26 | Haozhe “Stephen” Yang ‘27 | Alexander Zhang ‘25 | Sophie Zhu ‘27
Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize
From the income of the gift in 1921 of the late Robert Fletcher Rogers, A.B. 1886, there have been established a first prize and second prize to be awarded annually to the College students who present the best papers before the Math Table during an academic year.
First place to Calvin Osborne ‘25. Second place to Josh Rooney ‘26.
Wister Prize
From a bequest of Charles J. Wister, a prize is awarded in alternate years to the senior concentrating in mathematics or music who has the highest record in his or her field of concentration.
Jarell Cheong Tze Wen ‘25.