External Awards

• 2014: Kelly Spendlove was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
• 2014: Lillian (Katy) Crow-Craig won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2013: John Kim won an NSF-GRF Fellowship; Lihua Huang won an honorable mention in the NSF-GRF application; (incoming student) William Franks won an NDSEG Fellowship.
• 2012: Siao-Hao Guo won a Taiwan Fellowship
• 2012: Lillian (Katy) Crow-Craig won an honorable mention in the NSF-GRF application.
• 2011: Glen Wilson won an honorable mention in the NSF-GRF application.
• 2010: Wesley Pegden won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2009: Philip M. Wood won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2008: Chris Stucchio won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• 2007: Vincent Vatter won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Recipients of TA Teaching Excellence Awards

Semester	Winner(s)		Semester	Winner(s)
Fall 2015	Patrick Devlin, Charles Wolf		Spring 2016	Fei Qi, Howard Nuer
Fall 2014	Bud Coulson, Glen Wilson		Spring 2015	Nathaniel Shar, Tien Trinh
Fall 2013	Moulik Balasubramanian, Zhan Li		Spring 2014	Sjuvon Chung, Matthew Russell
Fall 2012	Kellen Meyers, Ming Xiao		Spring 2013	Shashank Kanade, Arran Hamm
Fall 2011	Yusra Naqvi, Chris Sadowski		Spring 2012	Ved Datar, Francesco Fiordalisi
Fall 2010	Thomas Tyrrell, Jinwei Yang		Spring 2011	Priyam Patel, Vijay Ravikumar
Fall 2009	Wesley Pegden, Humberto Montalvan-Gamez		Spring 2010	David Duncan, Elizabeth Kupin
Fall 2008	Sara Blight, Padmini Mukkamala		Spring 2009	Gabriel Bouch, Daniel Staley
Fall 2007	Andrew Baxter, Leigh Cobbs		Spring 2008	John Bryk, Brent Young
Fall 2006	Jared Speck, Thotsaporn Thanatipanonda		Spring 2007	Shiting (Ellen) Bao, Colleen Duffy
Fall 2005	Ben Bunting, Scott Schneider		Spring 2006	Lara Pudwell, Eric Rowland
Fall 2004	Ben Bunting, Brian Manning		Spring 2005	Ben Kennedy, Ian Levitt
Fall 2003	Derek Hansen, Sasa Radomirovic		Spring 2004	Brian Lins, Jason Tedor
Fall 2002	Laura Ciobanu		Spring 2003	Michael Weingart
Fall 1999	Brian Ingalls, Ryan Martin		Spring 2000	Klay Kruczek, David Nacin
Fall 1998	Cyril Coumerbatch, Paul Dreyer		Spring 1999	Amy Stern, Steven Warner
Fall 1997	Thomas Bullock, Tor Gunston		Spring 1998	Jim Dare, Rebecca Hickling
Fall 1996	Terri Girardi, Luca Mauri		Spring 1997	Ka Luen Cheung, Pirkko Kuusela

Award recipients get a certificate and $200.

Recipients of Pizza Seminar Awards

Semester	Winner		Semester	Winner
Fall 2016	Patrick Devlin		Spring 2017
Fall 2015	Patrick Devlin		Spring 2016	Nathan Fox, Yonah Biers-Ariel
Fall 2014	Erik De Amorim		Spring 2015	Pedro Pontes
Fall 2013	Patrick Devlin, Nathaniel Shar, Richard Voepel		Spring 2014	Matthew Russell
Fall 2012	Jake Baron		Spring 2013	Sjuvon Chung
Fall 2011	Doug Schultz		Spring 2012	Jake Baron, Bence Borda
Fall 2010	Jay Williams, Michael deFreitas		Spring 2011	Justin Bush
Fall 2009	Daniel Staley		Spring 2010	Brian Thompson
Fall 2008	Scott Schneider		Spring 2009	Philip Matchett Wood, Elizabeth Kupin
Fall 2007	Wesley Pegden, Jay Williams		Spring 2008	Dan Staley
Fall 2006	Phil Matchett Wood		Spring 2007	Dan Staley
Fall 2005	Lara Pudwell		Spring 2006	Phil Matchett Wood
Fall 2004	Nick Weininger		Spring 2005	Jared Speck
Fall 2003	Paul Ellis		Spring 2004	Matt Young
Fall 2002	Michael Weingart		Spring 2003	Jason Tedor
Fall 2001	David Galvin		Spring 2002	Jason Tedor
Fall 2000	Waldeck Schötzer		Spring 2001	David Galvin
Fall 1999	John Cain		Spring 2000	Yuka Taylor
Fall 1998	Harri Ojanen		Spring 1999	Amy Stern

Award recipients get a prize of $50. Winners are selected by a vote of their fellow graduate students.

Recipients of Academic Excellence Awards

Semester	Winner		Semester	Winner
Fall 2016	Holly Mandel		Spring 2017	George Hauser, Xiaoping Zhu
Fall 2015	Abigail Raz, Keith Frankston		Spring 2016	Jeaheang Bang, Yukun Yao
Fall 2014	Jianxiang Gao, Jing Gong		Spring 2015	Erik de Amorim, Matthew Welsh
Fall 2013	Pedro Pontes		Spring 2014	Matthew Charnley, William Cole Franks
Fall 2012	Ross Berkowitz, Edmund Karasiewicz		Spring 2013	Jiayin Pan, Fei Qi
Fall 2011	Bence Borda, Glen Wilson		Spring 2012	John Kim, Vladimir Lubyshev, Douglass Schultz, Thomas Sznigir

Award recipients get a prize of $100. Winners are selected based on performance on the written qualifying exam.

Other awards

• FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education (certificate and check)
  2001: Amy Stern
• School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education as a Teaching Assistant:
  2007: Lara Pudwell
  2008: Paul Raff
  2009: Andrew Baxter
  2016: Matthew C. Russell
  
  
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Research from the Graduate School (certificate and check):
  2001: Clifford Smyth (Ph.D. received in 2001)
  2002: Juan Davila (Ph.D. received in 2002)
  2004: Augusto Ponce (Ph.D. received in 2005)
  2008: Thotsaporn Thanatipanonda (Ph.D. received in 2008)
  2009: Luc Nguyen (Ph.D. received in 2009)
  2012: Tianling Jin and Camelia Pop (Ph.D. received in 2012)
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student from the Graduate School
  2014-5: Kellen Myers (Ph.D. received in 2015)
  
  
• Bevier University Fellowship (For advanced students writing their Ph.D. dissertation):
  2003-4: Matt Young
  2004-5: Aaron Lauve
  2005-6: Qinian Jin
  2006-7: Chris Stucchio
  2008-9: Luc Nguyen
  2011-12: Tianling Jin
  2013-14: Zahra Aminizare

  
  

  Awards received by alumni

  • 2016: Wesley Pegden won an A.P. Sloan fellowship.
  • 2014: Lara Pudwell won a Mathematical Association of America Henry L. Alder Award.
  • 2012: Daniel Kling receives a Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award
  • 2011: Roman Holowinsky and Xiaoqing Li each won an A.P. Sloan fellowship.
  • 2011: Roman Holowinsky won the SASTRA Ramunujan Prize.
  • 2007: Zoltan Szabo won the Oswald Veblen prize (with Peter Ozsvath).
  • 1998: David Reimer won the Polya Prize.
  • 1997: Jeong Han Kim won the Fulkerson prize.