Please congratulate Department of Mathematical Sciences graduate student Nick Brubaker on receiving a very prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Award. This is a three year fellowship and one of NSF's oldest and most prestigious programs. In existence since 1952, the program has fielded over 500,000 applicants and made only 42,000 awards. More than twenty of these have gone to future Nobel Laureates. In recent years, fellows have included Sergey Brin (Google co-founder), Steven Levitt (co-author of Freakonomics) and Steven Chu (1997 Noble Prize for Physics, U.S. Secretary of Energy).