Mathematics Professor Andras Vasy has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators engaged in advancing the public good. Professor Vasy has been a member of the Stanford Mathematics Department since 2008. 

  Stanford Mathematics majors, Nitya Mani and Nina Zubrilina, have been named 2019 Hertz Fellows. Nitya Mani, a senior majoring in mathematics and computer science, was selected for her work in exploring the underlying properties of networks, called graphs, which characterize many aspects of modern life. Nitya also works with problems that reside at the intersection of mathematics and computer science. 

Nina Zubrilina, a Stanford senior majoring in Mathematics, and Indira Puri, a 2017 Stanford graduate with a bachelor’s degree in math, have been awarded the 2019 Soros Fellowship for New Americans. This fellowship provides support for graduate study at any U.S. University. Soros Fellows are either immigrants of the children of immigrants and are selected based on merit.

Moon Duchin is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Senior Fellow in the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. Her mathematical specialties are geometric group theory, geometric topology, and dynamics. For the last few years, she has been working on mathematical and computational interventions in redistricting. In 2018, she was the consulting expert for Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf in that state’s court-mandated redistricting process.