The AMS Centennial Fellowship Program makes an award annually to an outstanding mathematician to help further their career in research. One award will be made for the 2025-2026 academic year in the amount of $50,000. AMS membership will also be offered to the recipient for the duration of the fellowship. Acceptance of the fellowship cannot be postponed.

Support is paid to the university/department to be used for course release, research-related travel, and research-related expenses. Institutions may not charge costs of any kind to AMS fellowships, such as fringe benefit rate, indirect costs, or overhead.

Eligibility

The primary selection criterion for the Centennial Fellowship is the excellence of the candidate's research.

• Preference will be given to candidates who have not had extensive fellowship support in the past.
• Recipients may not hold the Centennial Fellowship concurrently with another major research award such as a Sloan fellowship, NSF Postdoctoral fellowship, or CAREER award.
• Under normal circumstances, the fellowship cannot be deferred.
• A recipient of the fellowship shall have held their doctoral degree for at least three years and not more than twelve years at the inception of the award (that is, received between September 1, 2013 and September 1, 2022).
• Applications will be accepted from mathematicians currently holding a tenured, tenure track, post-doctoral, or comparable (at the discretion of the selection committee) position at a U.S. institution.