Robert and Luisa Fernholz Donate $2 Million for Visiting Professorship in Mathematics

Robert Fernholz, a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study, and his wife Luisa have donated $2 million through the Fernholz Foundation to the Institute to support the Visiting Professorship they have established in the School of Mathematics. Robert Fernholz is Founder and Chairman of the Investment Committee of INTECH Investment Management, and Luisa Fernholz is Professor Emerita of Statistics at Temple University. The first Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professor is Karen Uhlenbeck, Professor and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, who is spending the current term at the Institute.