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Six Math Majors Named 2025 Burchard Scholars
Math majors Serena An, Luke Fitzgerald, Yongao Hu, June Kayath, Jiwoo Park, and Leqi (Alexis) Zhou are among 36 MIT students named 2025 Burchard Scholars by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS).
The Burchard Scholars program recognizes sophomores and juniors who have demonstrated have demonstrated excellence and engagement in the humanistic fields, but can major in science, design, and engineering fields as well as the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Congratulations, Alexis, Jiwoo, June, Luke, Serena, and Yongao!
Grad Students Ryan Chen and Alex Cohen Receive Clay Research Fellowships
Graduate students Ryan Chen and Alex Cohen have been awarded 2025 Clay Research Fellowships, for a term of five years.
Ryan Chen is an arithmetic geometer whose research focuses on themes surrounding Gross–Zagier-type formulas for high-dimensional Shimura varieties. He is advised by Wei Zhang.
Alex Cohen researches harmonic analysis, combinatorics, and microlocal analysis. He is advised by Larry Guth.
Other current Fellows with MIT Math connections include former postdocs Maggie Miller and Alexander Smith, in 2021; postdoc Alexander Petrov in 2022; and 2024 PhDs Ishan Levy and Mehtaab Sawhney, who received it last year.
Congratulations, Alex and Ryan!
Yiming Chen ’24 named Rhodes Scholar
The Rhodes Trust has selected recent MIT graduate Yiming Chen as one of four Rhodes China Scholars. This scholarship will support her study next year at Oxford University. Chen graduated from MIT in 2024 with an SB in math and computer science and an MEng in computer science.
Please read more about her award on the WIM website.
Congratulations, Yiming!