June 10, 2025
Arthur Greer Memorial Prizes
The Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research recognizes outstanding research conducted by ladder faculty members in the social or natural sciences, broadly construed, who are untenured at the time that the work is completed or published.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Junliang Shen was awarded the Greer Prize in recognition of his innovative research, which uses tools from algebraic geometry to solve questions and conjectures rooted in topology, geometry, and mathematical physics. Shen was previously recognized for this work by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship in mathematics.