Congratulations to Cynthia Northrup! She has been awarded a fellowship from the ARCS foundation. The ARCS Scholar Awards are intended to recognize and reward UC Irvine's most academically superior doctoral students exhibiting outstanding promise as scientists, researchers and public leaders.

Cynthia graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Mathematics from CSU Northridge in 2006.  From 2006-2008, she was an NSF Graduate STEM Fellow in K-12 Education.  In 2008, she joined the UCI Math PhD program. Cynthia is strong in both research and teaching, and is very active in outreach activities. She consistently receives excellent reviews for her work as a Teaching Assistant and, in June 2013, received the Outstanding TA Award from the Department.  She has taught several of her own classes, which only the best TA's are allowed to do.  This year she is the mathematics "pedagogical fellow" of the Teaching, Learning & Technology center and led the TA training for the incoming class of TA's. Cynthia is also active in outreach programs. She was a lead facilitator for a UCI hosted Girls in Mathematics Day workshop for 4th-9th grade girls, as well as the discussion leader for several high school mathematics field trips to UCI and served as a volunteer judge for "MathCounts", a nationwide mathematics competition for middle school students. Cynthia's PhD research area is in mathematical logic.  In particular she is studying models of set theory satisfying specific infinitary combinatorial properties.  In 2012-2013, she participated in the Department's "future mathematics faculty program" where students visit nearby college to give talks on their research. Her advisor is Professor Martin Zeman.