Harvard Iranian Alumni has partnered with the Harvard College Iranian Association to form a fund in honor of a notable and accomplished Harvard alumna, Dr. Maryam Mizrakhani.
Most of you are probably aware of Maryam Mirzakhani and her incredible contributions to math and science. Maryam Mirzakhani was born in Iran in 1977, and as a teenager, she won gold medals in the 1994 and 1995 International Mathematical Olympiads for high school students, attaining a perfect score in 1995. In 1999, she received a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, and five years later, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University for her dissertation “Simple Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces and Volume of the Moduli Space of Curves.”
After receiving her PhD here at Harvard, Mirzakhani served as a Clay Mathematics Institute research fellow and as an assistant professor of mathematics at Princeton University. In 2008, she became a professor at Stanford University. In 2014, Mirzakhani became the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal, the highest honor for a mathematician.
Maryam Mirzakhani was a role model for everyone. When we started the Harvard Iranian Alumni organization in 2015, she was one of the first people we asked to join our Alumni Advisory Board. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to us, her battle with cancer had already begun, and she was unable to join our Alumni Advisory Board. But we could think of no better way to honor her legacy than to promote academics at Harvard in her name.
The Maryam Mizrakhani Scholarship will support summertime scholarship endeavors up to $5,000 for two individuals.
Applications for the summer of 2021 will open soon!
Eligibility:
- Any student (graduate or undergraduate) of Persian descent registered with Harvard University working on a research project for the summer of 2021
Application materials:
- Briefly describe the research interest(s) you would like to pursue this summer and why (500 words or less)
- Updated copy of your resume
- Unofficial Transcript
- Confirmation letter from your host research institution
Deadline:
TBD
Most of you are probably aware of Maryam Mirzakhani and her incredible contributions to math and science. Maryam Mirzakhani was born in Iran in 1977, and as a teenager, she won gold medals in the 1994 and 1995 International Mathematical Olympiads for high school students, attaining a perfect score in 1995. In 1999, she received a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, and five years later, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University for her dissertation “Simple Geodesics on Hyperbolic Surfaces and Volume of the Moduli Space of Curves.”
After receiving her PhD here at Harvard, Mirzakhani served as a Clay Mathematics Institute research fellow and as an assistant professor of mathematics at Princeton University. In 2008, she became a professor at Stanford University. In 2014, Mirzakhani became the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal, the highest honor for a mathematician.
Maryam Mirzakhani was a role model for everyone. When we started the Harvard Iranian Alumni organization in 2015, she was one of the first people we asked to join our Alumni Advisory Board. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to us, her battle with cancer had already begun, and she was unable to join our Alumni Advisory Board. But we could think of no better way to honor her legacy than to promote academics at Harvard in her name.
The Maryam Mizrakhani Scholarship will support summertime scholarship endeavors up to $5,000 for two individuals.
Applications for the summer of 2021 will open soon!
Eligibility:
- Any student (graduate or undergraduate) of Persian descent registered with Harvard University working on a research project for the summer of 2021
Application materials:
- Briefly describe the research interest(s) you would like to pursue this summer and why (500 words or less)
- Updated copy of your resume
- Unofficial Transcript
- Confirmation letter from your host research institution
Deadline:
TBD
