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 […]

Professor Gigliola Staffilani is profiled by the MIT News for her “Committed to Caring” award, given for her dedicated advocacy and for connecting students with wider intellectual communities. Read more at the MIT News.

Canada/USA Mathcamp is looking for graduate students as teachers and leaders for its 2021 session. We are especially interested in inviting applications from women and gender minorities! Our student body is very diverse in gender (about half the students are young. women, with several trans* and non-binary students each year), and it is important to […]

When MIT seniors Therese Mills (mathematics) and Tuyet Pham (electrical engineering and computer science) started working together in late spring 2020, they were just settling into post-pandemic routines. In March, MIT had sent most students home due to Covid-19, and all nonessential faculty and staff were working remotely. Suddenly, the terrain of higher ed looked […]

Assistant Professor Lisa Piccirillo was selected for an inaugural 2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, created in 2019 by the Breakthrough Foundation to recognize outstanding early-career women in mathematics. Lisa is cited for “resolving the classic problem that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.” She was also recently named one of this year’s WIRED25 for “People Who Are Making […]

Adela (YiYu) Zhang was among three recipients of the 2021 George Lusztig Mentorships. She is a PhD student with research interests in algebraic topology and homotopy theory. When she was an undergraduate at MIT, she was a PRIMES Circle mentor for two years. In grad school, she has worked with students in PRIMES, RSI, and […]