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Our department offers a variety of awards for undergraduate and graduate students. The awards listed below that are labelled with [$] come with a monetary prize, funded through an endowment. The amount varies from year to year, but in recent years, the money awarded has been about $800-$2000. There is no application procedure for the awards listed below. The recipients are chosen by the Department on merit.

For other possible awards see .

Ray and Joe Abramson Award: for an entering student with extracurricular involvement in a math-related club or activity; or an outstanding first year student. This award is a bursary.

[$] George & Frances Denzel Award for Excellence in Statistics: to a 4th year or graduate level student in statistics, who is judged to be academically deserving. This award is a bursary.

[$] Linda Herskowitz Award: to an undergraduate student, majoring in Mathematics and/or Statistics, who has a minimum cumulative grade point average of B with community service. Preference will be given to a female student. This award is a bursary.

[$] Abe Karrass/Donald Solitar Mathematics Award: for an outstanding student majoring in Mathematics with plans to teach mathematics. Note: the recipient need not be in a math education program. This award is a bursary.

Irvine R. Pounder Award: to the student judged to be the best in each year level.

[$] Moshe Shimrat Prize: for demonstrated ability in mathematical problem-solving.

[$] Alice Turner Award: to outstanding Mathematics students who are third-year and fourth-year degree candidates.

[$] George R. & Mary L. Wallace Award: to an outstanding student in the Actuarial Science, Operation Research and Applied Mathematics.

[$] Emerson Vincent Sauder Award:  to an outstanding undergraduate student majoring in mathematics or statistics.

[$] Massam Award for Excellence in Statistics:  This award, named in honour of Professor Hélène Massam, will be given annually to an outstanding full-time Ph.D student in Statistics with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics prior to the final approval of their thesis.

Past Winners