The ZZRQ Award honors outstanding achievement by a doctoral candidate who has contributed to the sense of community within the department. This award is made possible through annual contributions from alumni and friends of the Department of Mathematics.

Recipients are:

2007	Vivek Srikrishnan
2006	William Keith
2005	Dima Matsnev
2004	Carl Mummert
2003	Filiz Dogru
	Ilie Ugarcovici
2002	Jeff Raven
2001	Linda Smolka
	Bin Zhang
2000	Kim Roth
1999	Kresimir Josic
1998	Rachel Hall
1997	Moisey Guysinsky
1996	Jim Humphreys
1995	Hwai-Ling Shan