Recent awards
Past undergraduate awards (McShane, Floyd, and Putnam prizes)
Peter Johnson wins All-University Teaching Award
April 16, 2021
We are pleased to recognize Peter Johnson for winning one of this year’s ten All-University Graduate Teaching Awards. We appreciate all of your hard work, congratulations!
Professor Jennifer Morse wins Simons Fellowship
February 4, 2021
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Morse named a 2021 Simons Fellow in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term to a full year, enabling recipients to focus solely on research for the long periods often necessary for significant advances.
Ken Ono won the 2020 UVA Distinguished Spotlight Researcher Award
February 1, 2021
Ken Ono, Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, has won the 2020 UVA Distinguished Spotlight Researcher Award. Congratulations!
Karen Parshall elected Fellow of AAAS
November 24, 2020
Congratulations to Commonwealth Professor of Mathematics and History Karen Parshall who was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics, combined with extraordinary service to the mathematical and historical sciences.”
Ken Ono is Named Among the Most Influential Mathematicians
November 13, 2020
Ken Ono, Thomas Jefferson Professor of Mathematics, has been named the 15th most influential mathematician by Academic Influence. Read more at UVA Research Development.
Jennifer Morse elected fellow of the AMS
November 1, 2020
Congratulations to Professor Jennifer Morse for being elected to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the AMS, “for contributions to algebraic combinatorics and representation theory and service to the mathematical community”.
Ken Ono awarded Honorary Professorship at IIT Guwahati
October 28, 2020
We are pleased to announce that Professor Ken Ono was awarded Honorary Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
Rostislav Akhmechet wins Jefferson dissertation year fellowship
April 21, 2020
Congratulations to Ross Akhmechet who was awarded a Jefferson dissertation year fellowship for next year!
2020 Undergraduate Award Winners
April 20, 2020
The Mathematics Department is pleased to announce the following prize winners for the 2019-2020 year:
- E.J. McShane Prize:
- Sebastian Haney
- Trent Lucas
- Edwin E. Floyd Prize:
- Nathan Li
- Zach Baugher
Sarasij Maitra wins 2020 All-University Graduate Teaching Award
April 18, 2020
We are happy to announce that Sarasij Maitra, a graduate student at Department of Mathematics, is one of this year’s winners for the All-University Graduate Teaching Award. This award honors students from all disciplines who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in undergraduate instruction, and include a $500 prize.
Paul Bourdon and Sara Maloni Win 2020 All-University Teaching Awards
April 9, 2020
We are happy to announce that Sara Maloni and Paul Bourdon are receiving University of Virginia All-University Teaching Awards. They are among this year’s group of ten recipients. See the announcement.
Undergraduate Jiayi Wang received an award at the JMM 2020 in Denver
February 6, 2020
Jiayi Wang received an “Outstanding Poster” award at the MAA Undergraduate Poster Session at the JMM 2020 in Denver, Colorado, for the work “Balance between the coherence of the vorticity direction and the vorticity magnitude in the fractional Navier-Stokes equations” (advisor Z. Grujic). A companion paper is at the arXiv
Ken Ono was elected Chair of the Mathematics Section of AAAS
January 30, 2020
Ken Ono was elected Chair of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.