Submitted by Rose Choi
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Outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors were honored with awards given at this year's Honors Luncheon on June 2nd. Each student was given a book reflecting their mathematical interests, along with a reward stipend. A full list of this year's awardees and their chosen books follows.
| Award | Student | Book Given |
| Outstanding Graduating B.S. (comprehensive major) | Chad Klumb | Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer by Charles W. Curtis |
| Outstanding Graduating B.S (standard major) | Will Johnson | Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio |
| Courtney Kempton | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb | |
| Andrew Ohana | Music of the Spheres: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus du Sautoy | |
| Outstanding Graduating ACMS major | Bradley Medlock | The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman |
| Outstanding Graduating B.A. (Teacher Prep major) | Michelle Minato | Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham |
| Outstanding Student in 2nd Year Honors Calculus | Katia Nepomnyashchaya | Charming Proofs: A Journey into Elegant Mathematics (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) by Claudi Alsina, R.B. Nelson |
| Outstanding Student in 1st Year Honors Calculus | Shao-Chieh (Jerry) Cheng | Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics by John Stillwell |
| Goldwater Scholarship | Mark Bun | The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil |
| Jane Hung | The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo | |
| Gullicksen Award for Outstanding Juniors in Mathematics | Mark Bun | The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil |
| Dylan Wilson | Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by Galileo and Stillman Drake (translator) | |
| Putnam Exam, Top 500 Placement | Will Johnson (also Outstanding Score for a UW Student) | Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio |
| Chad Klumb | Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer by Charles W. Curtis | |
| Steven Portzer | My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner | |
| Keyun Tong | The Shoelace Book: A Mathematical Guide to the Best (and Worst) Ways to Lace Your Shoes by Burkhard Polster | |
| Tseng Fellowship | Gracie Ingermanson | Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis et al. |