• Four Science Terps Awarded 2025 Goldwater Scholarships

    Four undergraduates in the University of Maryland’s College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS) have been awarded 2025 scholarships by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and research careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics.  Over the last 16 years, UMD’s nominations… Read More

  • Announcing the Winners of the Frontiers of Science Awards

    Congratulations to our colleagues who won the 2025 Frontiers of Science Award: - Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, for his join paper with Humbler and Seyfaddini: “Proof of the simplicity conjecture”, Annals of Mathematics 2024. - Dima Dolgopyat & Adam Kanigowski, for their joint paper with Federico Rodriguez Hertz: “Exponential mixing implies Bernoulli”, Annals of Mathematics… Read More

  • 2024 Putnam Results

    We are very excited to report that our MAryland Putnam team ranked 7th among 477 institutions that participated in the 2024 Putnam math competition. Our team members this year were Daniel Yuan, Isaac Mammel, and Clarence Lam. Daniel Yuan ranked 26th among 3,988 participants. Clarence Lam and Isaac Mammel were recognized for… Read More

  • From Math Olympiads to Diplomacy: Meet Visiting Math Professor Qendrim Gashi

    Maryland Global, published a great interview with our visiting professor (and diplomat), Qendrim Gashi. The interview is available at https://marylandglobal.umd.edu/about/news/math-olympiads-diplomacy-meet-visiting-math-professor-qendrim-gashi Read More

  • Eugenia Brin, Longtime Supporter of Science and Performing Arts at UMD, Dies

    Eugenia Brin, a Russian immigrant and retired NASA scientist who, with her family of accomplished Terps, became an important benefactor of the University of Maryland, died on Dec. 3, 2024. She was 76 years old. The rest of the article can be read here: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/eugenia-brin-1948-2024 Read More
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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). 

2023-2024 Recipients

Junaid Aftab

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

2022-2023 Recipients

Josue Avila Artavia

Nathan Janus

Mengzi Xie

Morgan Bryant

Qi'an Chen

Foivos Chnaras

Noah Chrein

Yong Cui

Samuel DiPasqua

Jacob Erickson

Jordan Hirsh

Canran Ji

Maia Karpovich

Dohoon Kim

Eric Kubischta

Haoran Li

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas

Turner Pepper

Mirna Pinsky

Geoffrey Sangston

Shashank Sule

Ran Tao

Efstratios Tsoukanis

Neng Wang

Melanka Soroad Wedige

Victoria Whitley

 

2020-2021 Recipients
Tessa Thorsen
Jackson Hopper
Qihang Li
Arpith  Shanbhag
Michael Rawson 
Stephen Sorokanich
Priyankur Chaudhuri
Xuze Zhang
Gustavo Varela Alvarenga
Yunjiang Ge

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