The Division of Arts and Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences awarded the 2026 Taliesin Prize for Distinction in the Art of Learning to Max A. Palys ̕ 26, a member of the Fairbank Center Student Network. The Taliesin Prize is awarded to the top three graduating Harvard College students “who best exhibit a spirit of intellectual adventure in their curricular paths” as undergraduates. Palys, a double concentrator in Mathematics and East Asian Studies, served as an Editorial Chair of the Harvard Crimson and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. This fall, he will be studying as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University.
