Undergraduates Talia Blum, Katie Gravel, and Letong “Carina” Hong received Community Building Awards “for individuals who have made significant contributions to building and strengthening our MIT Mathematics community.” Honorable mention goes to Andrea Arias, Brin Harper, Rachana Madhukara, Ana Reyes Sanchez, Boya Song, and Rona Wang. Congratulations!

Graduate student Ruoxuan Yang has been awarded the 2021 Graduate Appreciation Fellowship. This is presented to graduate women entering their final year, in recognition of contributions to teaching and departmental service. Congratulations Ruoxuan!

Math seniors Korina Digalaki and Vanshika Jain won Honorable Mentions for the 2021 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, by the Association for Women in Mathematics. Congratulations Korina and Vanshika!

Virginia T. Norwood, the engineer responsible for the first #Landsat multispectral scanner, has been honored with the 2021 @ASPRSorg Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more at NASA.

Math major Fiona Chen ’21 is 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. Read more at the MIT News. Congratulations Fiona!

Lisa Piccirillo and postdoc Maggie Miller have been awarded 2021 Clay Research Fellowships. Lisa, who recently joined our department as an assistant professor, was recognized for her work in low-dimensional topology, and in particular her surprising resolution of the 50-year-old Conway Knot problem. Maggie, an NSF postdoctoral fellow at MIT, has also made important contributions […]