Melanie Matchett Wood, born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a graduate student mathematician currently studying at Princeton University. She has set numerous "firsts" as a woman in the area of mathematics. Wikipedia
On a sunny, spring afternoon, with graduation barely three weeks away, Melanie Wood learned she’d won yet another scholarship to Cambridge -- bringing the total to three prestigious awards that would pay for her year there. Settling her nearly six-foot f www.dukenews.duke.edu/2003/05/melaniewood0503.html
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