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Oreskovich cited Harvard's math department for contributing to her success, saying that it "has been extremely inspirational and supportive throughout my years here at Harvard...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Wins Fellowship, Stipend | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Oreskovich is the president of the Women in Math Club and co-president of the Math Club. In addition, she is a founder of Sing Boston, a volunteer group that sings at hospitals and nursing homes...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Wins Fellowship, Stipend | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Oreskovich has also been a member of the MIT math research team, has spoken about her research at several Harvard colloquia, and has served as a "Big Sib" in Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe. She will continue her studies at University of California--Los Angeles, where she plans to receive an M.D. and a Ph.D. in mathematics...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Wins Fellowship, Stipend | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Otto K. Bretscher, a former Harvard math professor who is now at Colby College, was among one of Oreskovich's supporters for the award...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Wins Fellowship, Stipend | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...hawked textbooks to college professors. He took the firm public and used the proceeds to invest in then obscure companies such as Lycos and Booklink--the latter of which he would later sell to AOL for $70 million. The soft-spoken, laid-back Connecticut native and Ohio Wesleyan University math major has never looked back, riding the trend to a personal net worth of $2.5 billion. Regrets? He passed up a chance to invest in eBay, the wildly successful Internet auction house. Wetherell figures that oversight cost him $4 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Internet's Money Machine | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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