Silviu Pufu won the University's Jacobus Fellowship in his final year of graduate studies, and he is going on to be a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT. He works on both formal and applied topics in string theory, mostly related to the gauge-string duality. He has collaborated not only with his advisor, Prof. Steve Gubser, but also with Profs. Chris Herzog and Igor Klebanov.
Justin Brown and Joshua Ruderman received the Miller Research Fellowship from Berkeley. The Miller is a three year post-doct
