For the first time the Mathematics Department is awarding the Mathematics Distinguished Service Award to two graduates. This award has been established to recognize students who, through their service, have made outstanding contributions to the department, their fellow students, and the University as a whole.  This year’s recipients are Erik Bates and Nitya Mani.

Math majors, Nitya Mani and Jiren Zhu, have been awarded the Firestone Medal Award and the Undergraduate Research Award respectively. The Firestone Medal Award recognizes the top ten percent of all honors theses in the social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering and applied sciences. Nitya Mani’s future plans include pursuing a PhD in mathematics at MIT.

Katy Woo, a junior majoring in mathematics, has been named one of nearly 500 recipients of the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship.This year’s scholarship winners include majors from mathematics and computer sciences, natural sciences,and engineering. Many Goldwater Scholarship winners go on to achieve impressive results in academia and research, including Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Awards, Churchill Scholarships, and Hertz Fellowships. 

Stanford Mathematics is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the Pólya Teaching Fellow Award (Benjamin Fayyazuddin Ljungberg, Weston Ungemach, and Caitlin Stanton) and the Robert Osserman Teaching Award (Cole Graham and Joey Zou). The Pólya Teaching Fellow Award is named in honor of George Pólya, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford from 1940 to 1953.