Professor Neil Robertson (PhD, University of Waterloo, 1969, supervisor: Professor William Tutte) has been awarded the 2002 Alumni Achievement Medal. This new alumni achievement medal is awarded annually to Alumni of the Faculty of Mathematics for outstanding accomplishments in professional, business, or community life.
Alexander (Lex) Schrijver, of CWI, Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam, was awarded an honorary degree at the June 2002 convocation at the University of Waterloo. Professor Schrijver is one of the world's leading researchers in discrete optimization, as well as the subject's foremost scholar.
