Six PhD students recently received word that they will be receiving a fellowship for the Winter 2010 Semester.
Five of the students will receive the Rackham One-term Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship covers their tuition, stipend and benefits. The fellowship rewards students who have both been doing strong research work and working hard on other aspects of department life. It’s purpose is to give them the opportunity to focus on research and writing for the winter semester. We are grateful to Rackham for this funding. The students receiving the Rackham fellowship next term are:
Deshin Finlay (working with Andreas Bliss)
Yuxin Wang (working with Sijue Wu)
Fanchen He (working with Smadar Karni)
Yunze Lu (working with Igor Kriz)
Mitul Islam (working with Ralf Spatzier)
In addition, Alex Horawa was chosen as the Department’s Allen Shields Fellow for the Winter Semester. Alex is working with Kartik Prasanna. This fellowship honors the memory of Professor Allen Shields, who was a brilliant functional analyst, gifted teacher and beloved mentor to Math PhD students until cancer took him in 1989. The fellowship was established with a gift from his widow, Smilka Zdravkovska, herself a mathematician who worked at Math Reviews here in Ann Arbor for many years.
