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In the thirty-two years that the Association for Women in (AWM) has awarded the Schafer Prize, seventeen women from the Duluth program have won the award (Elizabeth Wilmer, Zvezdelina Stankova, Catherine O'Neil, Dana Pascovici, Ruth Britto-Pacumio, Ioana Dumitriu, Melanie Wood, Melody Chan, Alexandra Ovetsky, Ana Caraiani, Alison Miller, Maria Monks, Hannah Alpert, Charmaine Sia, Sherry Gong, Letong Hong. and Katherine Tung) and eleven have been named runner up (Zvezdelina Stankova, Susan Goldstine, Patricia Hersh, Jessica Wachter, Beth Robinson, Wei Ho, Karola Meszaros, Margaret Doig, Elena Fuchs, Danielle Wang, and Anqi Li).

Bhargava won a Fields Medal and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2021 Melanie Wood won the $1,000,000 NSF Alan Waterman Award and in she 2022 won a MacArthur Fellowship. Ana Caraiani won the Whitehead Prize in 2018, the European Congress of Mathematics Prize in 2020, the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2023, and the 2025 AMS Satter. Six participants have received a Clay Mathematics Institute Long-term Prize Fellowship (Bhargava, Biss, Maulik, Pixton, Aggarwal, Sheffield) and three have won the American Institute of Mathematics Five-Year Fellowship (Ng, Develin, Wood). Three of the four AWM Microsoft Research Prizes given to date have gone program alumni (Wood, Williams, and Chan). Wood was the first woman to win the \$1,000,000 NSF Waterman Award. Seventeen participants are AMS Fellows (Poonen, Wood, Williams, Ellenberg, Dumitriu, Bhargava, Holm, Kedlaya, Wunsch, Wilkinson, Hersh, Ng, Caraiani, Tymoczko, Ho, Isaksen, and Eishen). Bhargava, Poonen, Sheffield, and Wilkinson were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Seventeen participants are Hertz Foundation Fellows (Sidney, Wepsic, Wunsch, Hersh, Bhargava, VanderKam, Archer, Deckelbaum, Monks Gillespie, Lawrence, Steinhardt, Defant, Kuszmaul, Zubrilina, Gaetz, Sankar), and Li, fifteen are Sloan Research Fellows (Pixton, Kane, Ho, Fuchs, Wood, Fox, Dasgupta, Tymoczko, Williams, Sheffield, Ellenberg, Poonen, Stong, Chan, Zhao), fourteen have won an NSF CAREER Award (Ellenberg, Dumitriu, Kedlaya, Ng, Sheffield, Fox, Kane, Wood, Williams, Eischen, Meszaros, Ho, Riedl, Zhao), four are Packard Fellows (Bhargava, Poonen, Fox, Wood), fourteen are Churchill Scholars (Penn, Fertig, Matchett, J. Wang, Y. Sun, Pixton, A. Miller, Maria Monks-Gillespie, O'Dorney, Alpoge, C. Lee, Sawheny, Jeong, and Przybocki), five are Gates Cambridge Scholars (Wood, Batson, Velingker, Gong, Zhao), five are Guggenheim Fellows (Poonen, Kedlaya, Ellenberg, Bhargava, Williams), two are Marshall Scholars (Burcroff and Rupert Li), and 52 are Goldwater Scholars. Bhargava, Biss, Pixton, and Sawhenny received Five-year Clay Research Fellowships. Albert Gu was on the list of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2024. Duluth REU alumni are tenured, or on tenure track, at Princeton (endowed), MIT (5 total, three with an endowed position and one a member of AAAS), Harvard (2 endowed), Stanford, Chicago, Duke (3), Cornell (2), UC San Diego (2) (one endowed position), Michigan (2), Wisconsin-Madison (endowed), Penn (endowed), Brown, Cornell (2), Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Carnegie Mellon. Program alumni have been employed at Google, Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, Center for Communications at Princeton and La Jolla, Dropbox, Tesla, Amazon Alexa, and a variety of other software companies. Three have started their own companies.

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