On July 2, at ISMP in Bordeaux, Thomas Rothvoss was awarded the Fulkerson Prize, for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics. It is only given every three years, and you can see the list of previous winners here.
Second-year graduate student Amzi Jeffs was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study discrete geometry, with Isabella Novik as his mentor. The award provides three years of financial support. Amzi received his BS in 2016 from Harvey Mudd College, where he wrote a senior thesis on Convexity of Neural Codes.