Honors & Awards

Click on each prize for a list of winners from previous years.

Graduate Prizes

Herb Alexander Prize:

for an outstanding dissertation in pure mathematics

2023-24: Oliver Edtmair, Benjamin Pineau, Junsheng Zhang

Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics:

2023-24: Luke Corcos, Haixiang Zhang

Kenneth Ribet & Lisa Goldberg Award in Algebra:

2023-24: Xianglong Ni, Tong Zhou

Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize:

2023-24: Esme Bajo, Ziwen Zhao

Outstanding GSI Award:

2023-24: Juwayria Ahmed, Drisana Bhatia, Cassi Chen, Alice Drozd, Pranav Enugandla, Daniel Etaat, Kishan Jani, Seewoo Lee, Fangyuan Lin, Francois Logak, Ryan Martinez, Xiaoke Song, Carl Sun, Brian Sun, Spencer Taylor, Troy Tsubota, Leo Villani, Jeannie Wang

Undergraduate Prizes

University Medalist:

awarded to UC Berkeley’s most distinguished graduating senior

2023-24: Christopher Ying 

Departmental Citation (Valedictorian):

2023-24: Zachary Slonim

Paul Chernoff Memorial Prize:

2023-24: Zachary Slonim

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize:

to seniors who have demonstrated truly exceptional scholarship in mathematics

2023-24: Alex Bouquet, Sean Guan, Rhea Kommerell, Fangyuan Lin, Wade McCormick, Siddharth Menon, Lakshay Patel, Richard Wu

Percy Lionel Davis Award:

to seniors who have demonstrated excellent scholarship in mathematics

2023-24: Aaron Agulnick, Maxwell Black, Alex Fu, Alec Li, Henry Purcell, Vibhu Ravindran, Zain Shields, Hui Sun, Isadora White

Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman:

2022: Lily (Qiao) Li (Honorable Mention)

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition:

2024

Top 200: Robin Sharif, Jianzhi Wang

Top 500: Aditya Baireddy, Hannah Cairo, Ralph Cao, Arthur Chen, Theodore Danial, Preston Fu, Ishir Garg, Andrew Huang, Neel Kolhe, Bradley Louie Saito, Youngmin Park, Shreyas Ramamurthy, Robert Yang