Emanuel Reinecke, Harry Richman, and Rachel Webb have all been awarded the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! In addition, William Clark was selected as an alternate, should any of the winners from across campus be unable to accept, an honor in itself. Congratulations to all!
This prestigious fellowship pays stipend, tuition and benefits for the full 2019-2020 academic year. It is available to students in their final year of doctoral studies, and seeks “to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.”
Winners are chosen by a Rackham panel that typically does not include mathematicians. Nominees must write convincingly of their mathematical work, conveying the excitement and importance of their work to a general scientific audience without getting too technical. Not an easy task! The hurdle of being nominated by the department is quite high too, and depends primarily on the quality of the nominee’s research as assessed by their advisors and other faculty.
Major Congratulations to all four of our students recognized by Rackham!
