CLE Moore Instructor Yilin Wang and Hong Wang PhD ’19, a UCLA assistant professor of mathematics, are recipients of the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, awarded to outstanding early-career women in mathematics by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Yilin is cited “for innovative and far-reaching work on the Loewner energy of planar curves” according to the award citation, and Hong “for […]
Awards for Carina Hong and Alexandra Hoey
November 18, 2021
Carina Letong Hong from Guangzhou, China, is a winner of the Rhodes Scholarship (China Constituency). As a Rhodes Scholar, she will pursue graduate studies in mathematics at Oxford University. At MIT, Hong is a junior double-majoring in mathematics and physics. She hopes to become an academic and devote her life to solving conjectures and building […]
Claire Lazar Reich ’17 named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholar
June 3, 2021
Economics and statistics doctoral student Claire Lazar Reich ’17 hails from northern New Jersey. She graduated MIT with a bachelor of science in mathematics and will receive her PhD this year. Lazar Reich will complete her JD studies at Stanford Law School. She plans to use her legal education to contribute to financial regulation and […]
Anjali Nambrath awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowship
June 3, 2021
Anjali Nambrath is among 12 MIT student affiliates who have won fellowships for the Fulbright 2021-22 grant year. Anjali is a senior double majoring in physics and mathematics. She has worked on projects related to nuclear structure, neutrino physics, and dark matter detection at MIT and at two national labs. At MIT, she was president […]
Lily Zhang named 2021-22 Goldwater Scholar
June 3, 2021
Lily Zhang is among four MIT undergraduates whose research areas explore artificial intelligence, space, and climate change honored for their academic achievements. Zhang is a junior double-majoring in Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences as well as physics, with minors in public policy and math. Zhang has a passion for climate science, something she’s known since […]
Carolina Ortega Savors Every Opportunity
June 3, 2021
From THE MIT CAMPAIGNFOR A BETTER WORLD At 13, Carolina Ortega ’21 was one of only three girls participating in her native Colombia’s Mathematics Olympiad. She admired the other two, both high school seniors heading to the International Mathematical Olympiad, and when she heard the following year that both were studying in Massachusetts, “that’s when I […]