The Richard Sady Dissertation Prize is for the best dissertation as judged by the graduate committee. Richard Sady was a graduate student in our department and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1977. He then was an assistant professor at Pembroke State University in North Carolina where he died in 1982. He was beloved by many here. This fund was established in his name.
| Year |
Name |
| 2026 |
Sourav Ghosh, Annie Holden, Katherine Novey, and Nan Wu |
| 2025 |
Lorenzo Riva, Sihao Ma, Xiyan Zhong |
| 2024 |
Connor Malin, Emanuela Marangone, and Matt Scalamandre |
| 2023 |
Richard Birkett, Eric Jovinelly, Nikolai Konovalov, and Wern Yeong |
| 2022 |
Sarah Petersen and Shih-Kai Chiu |
| 2021 |
Vincent (Jinhe) Ye and Samuel Pérez- Ayala |
| 2020 |
Michael Perlman |
| 2019 |
James (JD) Quigley |
| 2018 |
Leandro Lichtenfelz and Lien-Yung Kao |
| 2017 |
Weijia Wang |
| 2016 |
Xumin Jiang |