ISU's Ling Long Wins Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Cornell University announced that Ling Long, Iowa State University, will receive the 2012-13 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize.

The Michler Prize grants a mid- career woman in academia a residential fellowship in the Cornell University mathematics department without teaching obligations. This pioneering venture was established through a very generous donation from the Michler family and the efforts of many people at AWM and Cornell.

Ling Long was selected to receive the Michler Prize because of her wide range of mathematical talents. In 1997 she earned a B.Sc. from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, majoring in mathematics with a minor in computer science and engineering. Long received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in 2002. She studied modularity of elliptic surfaces under the direction of Wen-Ching Winnie Li from PSU and Noriko Yui from Queen’s University.