ASMS Student Named U.S. Presidential Scholar

The Alabama School of Mathematics and Science (ASMS) recently announced that recent ASMS graduate Gregory Li of Spanish Fort is a 2021 U.S. Presidential Scholar. One of only two recipients in the state and of 161 high school seniors across the U.S., Li demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, artistic excellence, technical expertise, leadership, citizenship, service and contribution to school and community. While at ASMS, he was one of 84 students from 16 countries who convened for the Center for Excellence in Education’s Research Science Institute’s summer academic research program, which was jointly sponsored with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Li has presented his mentored research on quantum logic and graph theory at national conferences such as the Joint Mathematics Meetings and National Conference of Undergraduate Research. He will attend Harvard College, the undergraduate college of Harvard University, starting this fall. Additionally, the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program named longtime ASMS mathematics instructor Natalya Prokhorova a 2021 Distinguished Teacher.