Honors & Awards
Graduate Prizes
Click on each prize for a list of winners from previous years. More years of prize winners forthcoming!
Herb Alexander Prize:
for an outstanding dissertation in pure mathematics
2018-19: Albert Ai and Alexander Appleton
Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics:
2019-20: Milind Hegde and Jeffrey Kuan
Kenneth Ribet & Lisa Goldberg Award in Algebra:
2019-20: Madeline Brandt and Chris Eur
Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize:
2018-19: Catherine Cannizzo
Outstanding GSI Award:
2019-20: Andy Chen, Yijia Chen, Shinu Cho, Ethan Dlugie, Sarah Firestone, Michael Franco, Jorge Garza Vargas, Frederick Huang, Jeremy Meza, Sam Mossadeghian, Kyeong Sik Nam, Alexander Paauwe, German Stefanich, Dun Tang, Xiaohan Yan, Michael Yeh, Leon Zhang, Xinyu Zhao, Ziwen Zhao, Maksym Zubkov, Roy Zhao
Undergraduate Prizes
University Medalist:
awarded to UC Berkeley’s most distinguished graduating senior
Departmental Citation (Valedictorian):
2020-21: Junhao (Frank) Fan
Paul Chernoff Memorial Prize:
2020-21: Junhao (Frank) Fan
Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize:
to seniors who have demonstrated truly exceptional scholarship in mathematics
2020-21: Reuben Drogin, Mason Haberle, Nathan Kenshur, Casey Perdue, Eunice Sukarto, Yuanning (Andy) Zhang
Percy Lionel Davis Award:
to seniors who have demonstrated excellent scholarship in mathematics
2020-21: Matin Ghavamizadeh, Kyle Huang, Reid Johnson, Rohan Joshi, Xiaoyu Niu, Mark Olson, Kai Shaikh, Shengze (Robert) Wang, Sixian (Alex) Yu
Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman:
2021: Eunice Sukarto (Runner-Up)
William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition: