WIM News

Tianyuan (Margaret) Zheng Receives Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award

Math major Tianyuan (Margaret) Zheng ’23, who is also majoring in Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (6-14) and minoring in Music (21M), was chosen for the 2023 Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Award by the Arts at MIT Student Art Awards Committee. Zheng’s artistic involvement on campus is multi-faceted; she is best known for bringing to […]

In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride Month

L G B T Q poster

Website for more information on Spectra. About LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Audrey Xie named 2023-24 Goldwater Scholar

MIT undergraduate Audrey Xie has been selected to receive Barry Goldwater Scholarships for the 2023-24 academic year. Audrey is a third-year undergrad majoring in mathematics and computer science. Her research focuses on using gradient-based optimizers to train neural networks. Xie plans to pursue a PhD in computer science and hopes to one day conduct research […]

Celebrate International Women in Math Day

Women with cake

Room 2-290 May 11 Room 2-290 3pm-6pm

Virginia Norwood ’47, a pioneer in satellite land imaging, dies at age 96

“Mother of Landsat” Virginia Norwood, a 1947 MIT mathematical physics alumna, was the founding figure in satellite land imaging who developed technology to scan the surface of the moon for safe landing sites and map our planet from space. She died April 2, 2023, at the age of 96.   Norwood is best known for […]

PRIMES Student is 2023 Regeneron STS finalist

Congratulations to PRIMES student Fenghuan (Linda) He of Commonwealth School in Boston, who is a 2023 Regeneron STS finalist for her paper “The Impact of Primordial Black Holes on Exoplanet Systems,” which she wrote with her mentor Prof. James Unwin, University of Illinois at Chicago. PRIMES currently has 97 students, with 34 students in PRIMES Math […]