Prizes in Mathematics

Wilson Fellowship

The Wilson Fellowhip is awarded to any graduate or prospective graduate of Washington and Lee University on an annual basis for students pursuing graduate study in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics.

Recipients

  • 2024 Austin Moliter

Taylor Scholarship

The Taylor Scholarship, endowed by Mrs. Fannie B. Taylor of Baltimore, is conferred upon a junior mathematics major who, in the judgment of the faculty of the Mathematics Department, has excelled in a junior level mathematics sequence.

Recipients

  • 2024 Sarah Lathrop
  • 2023 Duncan Hart
  • 2022 Elene Bakhtadze
  • 2021 Troy Larsen
  • 2020 Xinxian Wang
  • 2019 Jiahao (Eric) Zhang 
  • 2018: Hung Chu
  • 2017: Andrew Mah
  • 2016: Mauricio Bustamante
  • 2015: Michael Holt
  • 2014: Onyebuchi Ekenta
  • 2013: Andrew Seredinski
  • 2012: Robert Vestal
  • 2011: Virginia Anne Lovell
  • 2010: Kyle Parsons
  • 2009: John R. Weems
  • 2008: William R. Taing
  • 2007: Martha L Caulkins
  • 2006: Elizabeth L. Twentyman
  • 2005: Benjamin C. Skrodzki
  • 2004: Joel A. Pepera
  • 2003: Mateo Caballero
  • 2002: Elizabeth P. Townsend
  • 2001: Emily B. Dixon
  • 2000: Bryant Adams
  • 1999: Emilie Beth wiesner
  • 1998: Sara Anne McCrone
  • 1997: John J. Thrall
  • 1996: Angela R. Matney
  • 1995: No record
  • 1994: Matthew Koerlin & Jennifer Yanulavich

Williams Prize in Mathematics

The Williams Prize in Mathematics, in honor of Dr. Charles W. WIlliams (a mathematics professor at W&L from 1948–1982) is conferred upon the mathematics major who has the highest grade point average in mathematics, and who plans to attend graduate school in mathematics.

Recipients

  • 2024 Alex Wolff
  • 2023 J.C. Ward Jr.
  • 2022 Troy Larsen and Jacob Levinson
  • 2021 Daniel Kuntz
  • 2020 Jiahao (Eric) Zhang
  • 2019 Hung Chu
  • 2018: Dana Droz
  • 2017: Xichen (Catherine) Zhu
  • 2016: Huong Vu
  • 2015: Xiaoxiang Yang
  • 2014: DanJoseph (Ken) Quijada
  • 2013: Wenda Tu
  • 2012: Alex Finnegan
  • 2011: Austin S. Branstetter
  • 2010: Wenling (Wendy) Shang
  • 2009: John Russum Weems
  • 2008: Isaac E. Lambert
  • 2007: Philip Jameson Graber
  • 2006: Alexander Reid Miltenberger
  • 2005: Nathan Andrew Johnson
  • 2004: Edward Claiborne Irby III
  • 2003: Jonathan David Browder