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.
This year the prize is awarded to Connor Malin, Emanuela Marangone, and Matt Scalamandre
Emanuela Marangone: The Non-Lefschetz Locus of Lines and Conics
Matt Scalamandre: A Solomon-Tits theorem for rings
Connor Malin: Some results on operads and configuration spaces