Queen’s University recently awarded its highest research honour to Professor Ram Murty, cross-appointed between Mathematics and Philosophy. Recipients of this honour are internationally recognized for contributions to their respective fields of study. Each recipient was named a Distinguished University Professor for exhibiting an outstanding and sustained research record, teaching excellence, and significant and lasting contributions to Queen’s, Canada, and the world.
Professor Murty has also been the winner of the Queen's Research Prize, and the Coxeter-James Prize and many other honours in mathematics, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In philosophy he has interests in Indian philosophy and in mathematical logic.