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Melody Chan, a PROMYS student in 1999, was awarded the Schafer Prize on January 6, 2005.

The Association for Women in Mathematics presented the fifteenth annual Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics to Yale senior Melody Chan at the Joint Meeting in Atlanta. The prize selection committee cited her course work at Yale and the Budapest mathematics program and her four professional level research papers written at the REU programs at East Tennessee State University and the University of Minnesota Duluth. Various letter writers called her research "ingenious," "remarkable," and "beautiful." At Yale, Melody received the Hart Lyman Prize and is Vice President of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

Melody is an accomplished violinist who has performance on national public television live from the Lincoln Center in New York with Itzhak Perlman. She plans to study mathematics at Cambridge University in 2005-2006 then return to the United States to pursue a Ph. D. in mathematics.

The original article is available at http://www.maa.org/news/012605prizes.html
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