External Awards
- 2007: Vincent Vatter won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- 2008: Chris Stucchio won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- 2009: Philip M. Wood won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- 2010: Wesley Pegden won an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- 2011: Glen Wilson won an honorable mention in the NSF-GRF application.
- 2012: Lillian (Katy) Crow Craig won an honorable mention in the NSF-GRF application.
- 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.
Recipients of TA Teaching Excellence Awards
| Semester | Winner(s) | Semester | Winner(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 2011 | Bence Borda, Glen Wilson | Spring 2012 | John Kim, Vladimir Lubyshev, Douglass Schultz, Thomas Sznigir | |
| Fall 2012 | Ross Berkowitz, Edmund Karasiewicz | Spring 2013 | Jiayin Pan, Fei Qi |
Award recipients get a prize of $100. Winners are selected based on performance on the written qualifying exam.
Other awards
- School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education as a Teaching Assistant:
- 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) - 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 - FAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to
Undergraduate Education (certificate and check)
- 2001: Amy Stern
Awards received by alumni
- 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.
- 1998: David Reimer won the Polya Prize.
- 1997: Jeong Han Kim won the Fulkerson prize.



