From Left: Fiona Chen, Ashwin Sah
Math majors Fiona Chen ’21 and Ashwin Sah ’20 are among this year’s recipients of the 2021 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, in support of graduate study. Fiona will use her fellowship to pursue a PhD in economics at Harvard, and Ashwin to continue his graduate studies in mathematics here at MIT.
Congratulations Fiona and Ashwin!
Assistant Professor Yufei Zhao will be awarded support by the NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program, for his project "Analytic and Spectral Methods in Combinatorics."
Congratulations Yufei!
From Left: Yunseo Choi, Gopal Goel
A record number of PRIMES students — 17! — were awarded in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition.
Yunseo Choi, who is also an RSI alum, took first place ($250,000), and Gopal Goel earned 4th place ($100,000). Three PRIMES alums, along with another RSI student, were finalists, and 12 PRIMES students received national scholar awards.
Congratulations to our PRIMES and RSI students, and thanks to faculty advisors Pavel Etingof, David Jerison, and Ankur Moitra, program director Slava Gerovitch, head mentor Tanya Khovanova, and the mentors for inspiring our students to succeed!
Congratulations to Larry Guth, who receives MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching, the Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship.
The 10-year fellowship is awarded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar’s Office to recognize faculty, who have made exemplary and sustained contributions to the teaching and education of undergraduates at MIT.
Past Department MacVicar Fellows include David Jerison, Haynes Miller, Arthur Mattuck, and Michael Sipser.
Congratulations Larry!
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