Student Awards

Undergraduate Student Awards

2026 Pi Mu Epsilon Initiates

Benjamin Allegue
Ava Anderson
Nicholas Bailey
Micha Banschick
Kyle Burns
Alison Campbell
Ella Daly
Melanie DiFabio
Kaya Dua
Zeshi Feng
Kaushal Kulkarni
Yunhe Li
Taylor Michaud
Dhruv Nimmagadda
Matthew O'Connor
Thomas Duong Pham
Srijan Raghunath
Krish Shah
Tyler Warren
Jiaji Virginia Weng Wu
Jiahui Jennifer Weng Wu

2026 Mathematical Competition Awards

William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
2025 UConn Team Performance:
Excellent: Leonard Schweitzer
Very Good: Benjamin Vakil
Good (tie): Omkar Maralappanavar and Giancarlo Stabler

2026 Stuart Sidney Mathematics Competition
Overall Level: Benjamin Vakil
Intermediate Level: Leonard Schweitzer
Beginner Level: Omkar Maralappanavar

Goldenson Case Study Competition
2026 Winner: Team Talcott
Kaleigh Andrew
Jakub Jandzinski
Nishi Patel
Chloe Rozendaal

Cigna Award for Outstanding Actuarial Science Majors

Mattew S. O'Connor (2026)
Grace E. Martin (2025)
Catherine J. Rodney (2024)
Gavin Rublewski (2023)
Dylan Shah (2023)
Sai Manasani (2022)
Lisa Grieco (2021)
Joseph Szewczyk (2020)
Matthew D. Edson (2019)
Meghan Smith Epaul (2018)
Gerald R. Tavernier III (2017)
Megan Gauer (2016)
Kathleen Snajder (2015)

Graduate Student Awards

CETL Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award

Kimberly Saviñon (2024)
Ningwei Jiang (2023)
Phanuel Mariano (2018)
Matthew Lamoureux (2014)

Connie Strange Graduate Community Award

Caylee Spivey (2026)
Jacob Brown (2025)
Andrew DeLapo (2024)
Rachel Bailey (2023)
Kimberly Saviñon (2022)
Marco Carfagnini (2021)
Anastasiia Minenkova (2020)
Evelyn Nitch-Griffin (2020)
Christopher Hayes (2019)
Melissa Haire (2018)
Lisa Naples (2018)
Phanuel Mariano (2017)
Robert J. McDonald (2016)
Stephen Zito (2015)

Louis J. DeLuca Memorial Award

Jacob Brown (2026)
Swati Gaba (2026)
Andrew DeLapo (2025)
Caylee Spivey (2025)
Asimina Hamakiotes (2024)
Corrie Ingall (2024)
Rachel Bailey (2023)
Gregory Michajlyszyn (2023)
Kimberly Saviñon (2022)
Michael Urbanski (2022)
Anastasiia Minenkova (2021)
Christopher K. Hayes (2021)
Himchan Jeong (2020)
Junqing Qian (2020)
Noah Hughes (2019)
Robert McDonald (2019)
Kyle Evans (2018)
Daniel Martin (2018)
David Nichols (2017)
Michelle Rabideau (2017)
Frank Arthur (2016)
Michael Chou (2016)
Rachel Stahl (2015)
Michael Mackenzie (2015)

Ezell Research Graduate Award

Anh Do (2026)

Michael Neumann Dissertation Award

Heidi Benham - Connecting topology and combinatorics through reverse mathematics. - 2026

Asimina Hamakiotes - Abelian Extensions Arising from Elliptic Curves with Complex Multiplication - 2025

Jianxiong Wang - Symmetry of Solutions to a Class of PDEs on Hyperbolic Spaces and Sharp Functional and Geometric Inequalities - 2024

Teerawat Thewmorakot - Computability Theory on Polish Metric Spaces - 2023

Marco Carfagnini - Analysis and Geometry of Hypoelliptic Measures on Path Spaces - 2022

Joshua Flynn - Some Geometric Inequalities on Non-Compact Rank One Symmetric Spaces and Their Boundaries - 2022

Liangbing Luo - Logarithmic Sobolev Inequalities on Non-isotropic Heisenberg Groups - 2022 Honorable Mention

Nhu N. Nguyen - Analysis of Systems of Stochastic Delay Differential Equations and Applications to Mathematical Biology - 2022 Honorable Mention

Gunhee Cho - Equivalence of invariant metrics in hyperbolic complex geometry - 2021

Gianmarco Vega-Molino - Totally Geodesic Foliations and sub-Riemannian Geometry - 2021 Honorable Mention

Guang Yang - Hörmander’s theorem for Markovian rough path and heat kernel lower bounds on Kähler and quaternion Kähler manifolds - 2021 Honorable Mention

Hyun Chul Jang - Topics on Asymptotically Hyperbolic Manifolds in General Relativity - 2020

Jungang Li - Topics of Trudger-Moser Type Inequalities - 2019

Amy Peterson - Gaussian Limits and Polynomials on High Dimensional Spheres - 2019

Phanuel Mariano - Functional Inequalities for Hypoelliptic Diffusions Using Probabilistic and Geometric Methods - 2018

Michelle Rabideau - Continued Fractions in Cluster Algebras, Lattice Paths and Markov Numbers - 2018 Honorable Mention

Antoni Brzoska - Spectral Properties of the Hata Tree and other Fractal Graphs - 2017

Michael Chou - Torsion of Rational Elliptic Curves over Abelian Extensions of Q - 2017

Malva Asaad - Hypoelliptic Heat Kernel on Nilpotent Lie Groups - 2016

Andras Lorincz - Bernstein-Sato Polynomials for Quivers - 2016

Khrystyna Serhiyenko - Induced and Coinduced Modules over Cluster-Tilted Algebras - 2015