PRIMES: Honors and Awards
This page lists PRIMES projects that received various honors and awards. See also Award-winning RSI Projects Supervised by PRIMES staff.
2012 projects
In the 2012 cycle, 30 local and one out-of-state PRIMES students worked on 24 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics, computer science, and physical and computational biology under the mentorship of MIT graduate students. They received the following honors:
- 8 students were invited to present at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego;
- 5th Prize (two students; $20,000 scholarship), 8 regional finalist awards, and 2 semifinalist awards in the 2012 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, sweeping all finalist awards in Massachusetts and New Hampshire;
- 10th Prize ($20,000 scholarship), two national finalist awards, and five national semifinalist awards in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search;
- two PRIMES students presented their research at the academic conference, Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in September-October 2012.
Students' honors:
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Dhroova Aiylam 2013 Intel STS
semifinalist
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2013 Intel STS
finalist
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2013 Intel STS
semifinalist
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presenter at the conference
Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function in the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory in September-October 2012
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2012 Siemens
regional finalist
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2012 Siemens
regional finalist
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2012 Siemens
semifinalist
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Aaron Klein 2013 Intel STS
semifinalist
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2012 Siemens
regional finalist |
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presenter at the conference
Dynamic Organization of Nuclear Function in the Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory in September-October 2012
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Rohil Prasad 2012 Siemens
5th Prize |
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2012 Siemens
5th Prize |
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Sahana Vasudevan 2013 Intel STS
10th Prize (with a project done outside of PRIMES) |
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Andrew Xia 2013 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2012 Siemens
semifinalist
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2012 Siemens
regional finalist
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Ziling Zhou 2012 Siemens
regional finalist
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2011 projects
In the 2011 cycle, 21 local PRIMES students worked on 16 faculty-formulated research projects in mathematics and physical and computational biology under the mentorship of MIT graduate students. They received the following honors:
- 10 projects were presented at the MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston, and 2 received an Outstanding Presentation award;
- 4 regional finalist awards and 3 semifinalist awards in the 2011 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, sweeping all finalist awards in Massachusetts;
- 4th Prize ($40,000 scholarship), 2 national finalist awards, and 3 national semifinalist awards in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search;
- 3rd Place at the Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair;
- One 2012 Davidson Fellow Laureate ($50,000 scholarship) and one Davidson Fellow ($10,000 scholarship).
Students' honors:
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2011 Siemens
regional finalist
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3rd Place at the Massachusetts Science and Engineering
Fair
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Yongyi Chen 2011 Siemens
regional finalist
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Sheela Devadas 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter |
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2012
Davidson Fellow Laureate |
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2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2012
Davidson Fellow
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2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Aaron Klein 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2011 Siemens
regional finalist
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Jason Li 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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Carl Lian 2012 MAA Undergraduate Student Poster Session presenter
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2012 Intel STS
semifinalist
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2011 Siemens
regional finalist
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Two Outstanding Presentation awards at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Undergraduate Student Poster Session of the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting on January 6, 2012, in Boston, MA
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