Congratulations to Katherine Goldman, a recent PhD graduate from our program, who has been awarded a 2024 Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MSPRF) by the National Science Foundation. The MSPRF is one of the most prestigious awards a mathematican can receive at this point in their career with Katherine being one of only 43 recipients of the award this year. With the award totaling $190,000, Dr. Goldman will be enabled to carry out scientific study and research in Non-Positively Curved Aspects of Artin Groups and Related Families. See the full announcement on the NSF website: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2402105&HistoricalAwards=false

Dr. Goldman received her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Jingyin Huang in Spring 2024. Her research interests include geometric group theory and metric geometry.