Leo Abbrescia wins 2020 NSF Postdoctoral fellowship to study shock formation in 3D relativistic compressible fluids. Leo anticipates completing his PhD under Willie Wong's supervision and heading to Vanderbilt University in fall 2020.

MSU MTH Graduate student Joseph Melby has been selected as one of two graduate students nationally to be funded by the American Mathematical Society to attend the Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop in Washington DC this March. Participants learn the nitty-gritty details of the Congressional procedures that produce science policy and funding.

Two 2020 Advanced track graduates, Mohit Bansil and Theodore Faust, have received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Both Mohit, who worked with Prof. Jun Kitagawa, and Theo, who worked with Prof. Mark Iwen, will go to UCLA for their graduate studies.