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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAmmons is a mathematics major who plans to attend graduate school at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She intends to continue her studies in analysis, topology or geometry, or a combination of these topics. This academic year she has been working on her senior thesis, \u201cA Discrete Analogue to the Poincar\u00e9\u2013Hopf Theorem,\u201d exploring the notion of continuous vector fields over graphs and establishing an index theory for these fields with Francis Su, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hwang, a chemistry major, will pursue a PhD in materials science at Caltech. She plans to focus her research on materials for energy storage. She recently won Best Poster Prize at the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society annual meeting for her work “Computational Indicators of Ductility in Compositionally-complex B2 Alloys.” Hwang is a 2019 recipient of the chemistry department\u2019s Dorothy C. and J. Arthur Campbell Prize, which recognizes senior chemistry students with promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another senior, Forest Kobayashi, and an alumna, Morgan Blevins \u201919, were each awarded an NSF research fellowship, but did not accept the award. Kobayashi plans to pursue a PhD in mathematics at the University of British Columbia, where he was awarded a four-year doctoral fellowship. There, he will focus his studies on analysis and topology, and \u201cstudying the idea of \u2018space.\u2019\u201d Blevins (engineering), a first-year graduate student at MIT studying jointly with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), accepted a Draper Fellowship. She is a member of the WHOI Chemical Sensing Lab, where she is researching how to develop miniaturized dissolved greenhouse gas sensors for use in the ocean and the Arctic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program helps ensure the vitality and diversity of the nation\u2019s base of science and engineering candidates. Fellows are seen as crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation\u2019s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well being of society at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Harvey Mudd seniors, Savana Ammons and Emily Hwang, have been granted National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. In addition, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":8261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,11,12,213,22,24,26,30],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-chemistry","category-computer-science","category-engineering","category-grant","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-research","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/11566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/Hwang2.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nName<\/th> Major<\/th> Research Area<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Harry Fetsch<\/td> Physics and astronomy<\/td> Plasma physics<\/td><\/tr> Ina Flood<\/td> Physics and astronomy<\/td> Particle physics<\/td><\/tr> Jonathan Hayase<\/td> CS and engineering<\/td> Machine learning<\/td><\/tr> Nandeeka Nayak<\/td> CS and engineering<\/td> Computer systems and embedded systems<\/td><\/tr> Luis Martinez Patino<\/td> Physics and astronomy<\/td> Astronomy and astrophysics<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table> Alumnus\/a<\/th> Research Area<\/th> Graduate School<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Shifra Aron-Dine \u201916 (physics)<\/td> Economics<\/td> Stanford University<\/td><\/tr> Nathan Geldner \u201916 (mathematics)<\/td> Industrial engineering and operations research<\/td> Purdue University<\/td><\/tr> Garrett Wong \u201914 (mathematics and computational biology)<\/td> Genetics<\/td> UC San Francisco<\/td><\/tr> Christopher Ye \u201919 (chemistry)<\/td> Chemical studies<\/td> UC Berkeley<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>