Prizes
Every year the Mathematics Department awards prizes for outstanding achievement in mathematics and contributions to the mathematics community within Northwestern. The prizes are awarded at a gala departmental ceremony held in early summer, to which all undergraduates, faculty, graduate students, and guests are invited.
2020 Undergraduate Awards and graduation celebration
This year's awards and graduation event was celebrated via our Zoom on June 17th, with featured guest speaker, Francis Su of Harvey Mudd College. Prof. Su’s speech, "Mathematical Virtues in a Post-Pandemic World", centered on what our graduates can expect to retain from their college math degree and how their mathematical training has shaped their character for the world today.
2020 Undergraduate Award Winners
- Robert R. Welland Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Mathematics by a Graduating Senior:
- Justin Lin
- Senior Career Award in Mathematics:
- Owen MacDonald, Jinming Zhang
- Junior Career Award in Mathematics:
- Nicholas Karris
- Award for Excellence in Mathematics By a First Year:
- Daniel Luo, Gwen Cooke, Anxin Guo, Akhil Kalghatgi, Nikhil Kalghatgi, Xander Struyk, Zhuran Su, Zening Luo, Yizhou Wang, Alyssa Connor, Yixin Liu, Andrew Laeuger
- Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Mathematical Life:
- Yintian Zhan
- High Achievement on the William Lowell Putnam Examination:
- Hoan Nguyen
- Excellence as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant:
- Peter Guan
- Undergraduate Teaching Service Award:
- Owen MacDonald
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