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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I am pleased to announce that the this year’s Siegal
Prize goes to HASTS graduate student Alma Steingart for her paper “"In
Practice and On Paper: Embodiment and Materiality in the Twentieth-Century Convergence
of Mathematics and Origami.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The Benjamin Siegel Prize of $2500 is offered to the MIT student submitting the
best written work on issues in science, technology, and society. The prize is
open to undergraduate and graduate students from any school or department of
the Institute. The prize was established in 1990 by family and friends of the late
Benjamin Siegel (S.B. 1938, Ph.D.)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In the words of the prize committee: Alma’s paper, “explores
the ‘conversion’ of the ancient Japanese art of origami into
mathematical expressions. The paper uses this connection as a place to begin
telling a material history of mathematics,<br>
not as disembodied cogitation, but as a practice that begins and ends with mathematicians
engaged with and shaping the material world. The author beseeches us not to
take origami lightly, to see it not merely as ‘art form,’ but as a
concrete example of a larger constellation of material practices. Here is a
fine story and intricately rendered argument. It is told with great artistry,
forcefully and insistently grabbing the reader with its refined prose from
start to finish.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Please join me in congratulating Alma on this well-deserved
honor. Also thanks to Clapperton Mavhunga and Hanna Shell for serving on the
prize committee. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Well done, Alma!<br>
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