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Penn Math Student Awards and Prizes

The Moez Alimohamed Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Teaching in Mathematics

1994 - 95 Scott Pauls 
1995 - 96 Mikhail Chkhenkeli 
1996 - 97 Rachel Pries 
1997 - 98 Nakia Rimmer 
1998 - 99 Jason Parsley 
1999 - 00 Jeffrey Beh 
2000 - 01 Darren Glass 
2001 - 02 Sukhendu Mehrotra 
2002 - 03 Christina Devena 
2003 - 04 Sarah Mason 
2004 - 05 Michael McDuffee 
2005 - 06 Elena Bogdan 
2006 - 07 Christopher Jankowski 
2007 - 08 Shuvra Gupta 
2008 - 09 Tobias Dyckerhoff 
2009 - 10 Hilaf Hasson 
2010 - 11 Dragos Deliu 
2011 - 12 Haggai Nuchi 
2012 - 13 Ryan Manion 
2013 - 14 Torin Greenwood 
2014 - 15 Neel Patel 
2015 - 16 Howard Levinson 
2016 - 17 Antonijo Mrcela 
2017 - 18 Thomas Brooks 
2018 - 19 McFeely Jackson Goodman 
2019 - 20 Sukjoo Lee 
2020 - 21 Man Cheung Tsui 
2021 - 22 Thomas Brazelton & Ellen Urheim
2022 - 23 Julian Gould 

Carlitz-Zippin Prize

  • 2008 - 2009: Asher Auel and Andrew Obus
  • 2009 - 2010: Tobias Dyckerhoff and Ricky Der
  • 2010 - 2011: Ricardo Mendes
  • 2011 - 2012: Lee Kennard
  • 2012 - 2013: Adam Topaz
  • 2013 - 2014: Haomin Wen
  • 2014 - 2015: Edvard Fagerholm
  • 2015 - 2016: Jin Woo Jang and James Sundstrom
  • 2016 - 2017: Neel Patel
  • 2017 - 2018: Joshua Rosenberg
  • 2018 - 2019: Benjamin Pollak
  • 2019 - 2020: Benedict Morrissey and Jakob Hansen
  • 2020 - 2021: Jia-Choon Lee
  • 2021 - 2022: Sammy Sbiti
  • 2022 - 2023: Marielle Ong

Herbert S. Wilf Memorial Award

  • 2011 - 2012: Mirko Visontai
  • 2012 - 2013: Sneha Subramanian
  • 2013 - 2014: Tyler Kelly
  • 2014 - 2015: Torin Greenwood
  • 2015 - 2016: Brett Frankel
  • 2016 - 2017: Anusha Krishnan
  • 2017 - 2018: Joseph Hoisington
  • 2018 - 2019: Marcus Michelin
  • 2019 - 2020: McFeely Jackson Goodman
  • 2020 - 2021: Aline Zanardini
  • 2021 - 2022: Marielle Ong
  • 2022 - 2023: Ziqi Fang

Undergraduate Research Prize

1998 - David Futer 
1999 - Ting-Fai Ng and David Futer 
2000 - Dmitriy Boyarchenko 
2001 - Ilya Elson 
2002 - Dmitriy Boyarchenko 
2003 - Minseung Kim 
2004 - no recipient 
2005 - S. Jamal Rahi 
2012 - Adam Haque
2013 - Sandy Neal 
2014 - Paul Gallagher
2016 - Alexander Neal Riasanovsky
2017 - Mehtaab Sawhney 
2018 - Louis Esser, Mark Macerato and Saad Slaoui 
2019 - Mark Macerato 
2020 - James Chapman, Benjamin Foster and John Powell 
2021 - Samuel Panitch
2022 - Ryan Jeong 
2023 - Santiago Velazquez Iannuzzel 

Richard Garfield Scholarship

2000 - 2001 Sofya Malamud 
2001 - 2002 Dmitriy Boyarchenko 
2002 - 2003 Ariel Amdur 
2003 - 2004 Yongjoon P. Lee 
2004 - 2005 Dahlia Rin 
2005 - 2006 Andrew Benton 
2006 - 2007 Jesse Rao  
2007 - 2008 Jesse Rao 
2008 - 2009 James Kania 
2009 - 2010 Zachary Baran 
2010 - 2011 Linh Truong 
2011 - 2012 Zachary Charles
2012 - 2013 Paul Gallagher 
2013 - 2014 Paul Gallagher 
2014 - 15 Jeremy Bierema  
2015 - 16 Megan Hayes  
2016 - 17 Angela Patini 
2017 - 18 no recipient 
2018 - 19 no recipient 
2019 - 20 Anthony Morales

Other Student Awards and Prizes

SAS Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student

  • 2000: Nakia Rimmer
  • 2001: Samuel Trieu Nguyen
  • 2002: Jason Parsley
  • 2003: Sarah Mason
  • 2004: Christine Devena and Sukhendu Mehrota
  • 2005: Sarah Mason and Jennifer Strong
  • 2006: Michael McDuffee
  • 2007: Asher Auel
  • 2008: Elena Bogdan
  • 2009: David Shea Vela-Vick
  • 2010: Jason DeVito
  • 2011: Lee Kennard
  • 2012: Tyler Kelly
  • 2017: Iris Yoon
  • 2020: Ellen Urheim
  • 2021: Sammy Sbiti
  • 2022: Julian Gould
  • 2023: Connor Cassady & Oualid Merzouga

 

Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students

  • 2009: Jason DeVito and Peter Du
  • 2010: N/A
  • 2011: Ryan Manion and Dragos Deliu
  • 2012: David Lonoff
  • 2013: Torin Greenwood
  • 2017: Marcus Michelen
  • 2022: Thomas Brazelton
  • 2023: Oualid Merzouga

 

MAA's Chauvenet Prize for mathematical exposition

  • 2012: Daniel Pomerleano and Shea Vela-Vick for their article joint with Dennis DeTurck and Herman Gluck

 

Math Department Good Teaching Awards