Donors Carol Fullerton and James A. Yorke met this year’s fellows at a luncheon in October.

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Twenty-five graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland received 2024-25 Herbert A. Hauptman Endowed Graduate Fellowships.

The fellowship program was created with an estate gift from Carol Fullerton that honors the memory of her late father, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Hauptman (Ph.D. ’55, mathematics), and launched in 2020 thanks to a gift from Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics James A. Yorke (Ph.D. ’66, mathematics). 

The 2024-25 Hauptman Fellows are:

  • Muhammad Aftab
  • Marco  Bornstein
  • Amandeep Chanda
  • Philip Charles
  • Spencer Durham
  • Charles Dziedzic
  • Shitao  Fan
  • Wen-Tai Hsu
  • Chenzi Jin
  • Brandon Kolstoe
  • Sze Kwong
  • Qihang Li
  • Zhirui Li
  • Shenghao Li
  • Nicholas McConnell
  • Soyoung Park
  • Vasanth Pidaparthy
  • Shin Song
  • Zezheng Song
  • Ian Teixeira
  • Maeve Wildes
  • Valerie Wray
  • Zhangchi Xu
  • Yilin Zhang
  • Shaoyang Zhou
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