Read more about the members of our community who have been honored recently for their outstanding contributions to the university and the field of mathematics.

Faculty

• Sean Gruber won the CMNS Dean’s outstanding lecturer award.
• Abba Gumel, who was named a Distinguished University Professor.
• Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, Dima Dolgopyat, Adam Kanigowski, and Tamas Darvas, who won
• the Frontiers of Science Award.
• Uri Bader, Adam Kanigowski, Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner were invited to speak at the 2026
• International Congress of Mathematics (ICM).
• Francisco Arana-Herrera (a postdoc) won the Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians.
• Dima Dolgopyat was named a Simons Foundation Fellow.
• Larry Washington won the 2025 Winston Family Award, by the Honors College.
• Larry Washington won the 2025 CMNS Board of Visitors Creative Educator Award.
• Tamás Darvas for being awarded the Purdue Science 2025 Distinguished Science Alumni Award

Students

• Our Putnam team won 7th place (out of over 450 universities). This is the third year in a row that the Maryland team finishes in the top 8.
• 3 Goldwater Scholars: Harikesh Kailad (CS+Math), Luiz Mata Lopez (CS+Math), Benjamin Raufman (Chem+Math)
• Brandon Kolstoe won the CMNS Board of Visitors outstanding graduate student award
• Menting Chao (AMSC), won the CMNS Dean’s outstanding teaching assistant award
• Aditi Sen for winning the Edward C. Bryant Award for an outstanding graduate student in survey statistics