Yale College senior Jack Miller is one of 16 students nationwide to receive the Churchill Scholarship for the 2024-25 school year.
Churchill Scholars, chosen by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, get one year of master’s degree funding at Churchill College in the University of Cambridge. The honors are offered to American students studying mathematics, science, and engineering.
The prize includes complete tuition, a stipend, travel expenses, and the option to apply for a $4,000 research grant. This year’s scholars were chosen from among 121 nominees from 75 participating institutions.
Miller is pursuing a B.S. and M.S. degree in pure mathematics at Yale. He was awarded the George Beckwith Prize in mathematics last year and is currently collaborating with Richard Kenyon, the Erastus L. Deforest Professor of Mathematics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, on an undergraduate thesis on dynamical systems that encode elementary expressions for the class number of an imaginary quadratic field. He has also helped write research papers for summer programs at Williams College and the University of Virginia.
Miller has worked as a peer mathematics tutor for jailed prisoners through Yale’s Prison Education Initiative. He also plays tenor and bass trombone, euphonium, and was a member of the Yale Concert Band. He intends to complete Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, which will earn him a Master of Advanced Study in pure mathematics.
Churchill institution, a largely scientific and technology institution, was founded in 1960 as a national and Commonwealth tribute to Sir Winston Churchill. The award honors Winston Churchill’s goal that American students of the finest level always attend the college bearing his name. Yale students who want to apply for the Churchill Scholarship must be nominated by their university. The Office of Fellowships and Funding runs the campus nomination process, with deadlines in early November.