{"id":1922,"date":"2026-04-25T19:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T19:55:20","slug":"department-of-mathematics-celebrates-2026-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/2026\/04\/25\/department-of-mathematics-celebrates-2026-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Mathematics Celebrates 2026 Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Department of Mathematics proudly recognized an outstanding group of faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff at the 2026 Awards Ceremony, celebrating excellence in research, teaching, service, and scholarly achievement across the department. Below is a list of awardees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Undergraduate Awards<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Richard J. Larsen Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Mathematics \u2013 <em>Luis Chiner Carrillo<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Graduate Student Awards<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Bjarni J\u00f3nsson Prize for Research \u2013 <em>Le Gong<\/em><\/li>\n<li>B.F. Bryant Award for Excellence in Teaching \u2013 <em>Ekaterina Rybak<\/em>, <em>Denali Relles<\/em>, and <em>Fabian Salinas<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Postdoctoral Awards<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Samir Aldroubi &amp; Amira Azhari Prize for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research \u2013 <em>Sam Shepherd<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department Teaching Awards<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department Award for Excellence in Teaching \u2013 Postdoctoral Scholars<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Winner \u2013 <em>Eleanor McSpirit<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 <em>Georgios Tsikalas<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department Award for Excellence in Teaching \u2013 Teaching Focused Faculty<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Winner \u2013 <em>Jacob Haley<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mentions \u2013 <em>Sean McAfee<\/em>, <em>Darren Creutz<\/em>, and <em>Taylor Rhoads<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Department Award for Excellence in Teaching \u2013 Research Focused Faculty<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Gieri Simonett Award for Excellence in Teaching \u2013 <em>Mark Ellingham<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Honorable Mention \u2013 <em>Madeline Brandt<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff Award<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>Department Staff Excellence Award \u2013 <em>Tori Taylor<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congratulations to all the winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Mathematics proudly recognized an outstanding group of faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff at the 2026 Awards Ceremony, celebrating excellence in research, teaching, service, and scholarly achievement across the department. Below is a list of awardees. Undergraduate Awards Richard J. Larsen Award for Achievement in Undergraduate Mathematics \u2013 Luis Chiner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/69\/2026\/04\/Photos-OneDrive.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}