The Davis Fellowship carries provides a small monetary award presented to outstanding academic achievement and is funded by a $10 million bequest from the late Kathryn Wasserman Davis, ’31 GSAS. 

 

The two MA in Statistics students who were awarded are Hanxi Sun and Chi-Heng Lin.  

Hanxi Sun is a graduate of Peking University and double majored in Statistics and Computer software. She wants to pursue a doctoral program and joined the Columbia University MA in Statistics Program because of the “great faculty.” She is “passionate about statistics and life.”	Chi-Heng Lin is a graduate of the National Taiwan University. He studied electrical engineering before joining the Columbia University MA in Statistics Program. He is keen to be part of a doctoral program and says he is “enthusiastic about math.”