, a 91探花 professor and associate chair of mathematics, is among from the U.S. and Canada recognized this year by the . Winners, chosen from more than 3,100 applicants, receive grants of varying amounts that allow them to pursue creative projects of six to 12 months in the fields of science, academic scholarship and the arts.
Toro, who holds the Robert R. and Elaine F. Phelps endowed professorship, earned her doctorate at Stanford University in 1992. She held postdoctoral positions at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley and was assistant professor at the University of Chicago before joining the 91探花faculty in 1996. Her research focuses on mathematical analysis and geometric measure theory. Toro’s previous awards include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1996 and a Simons Foundation Fellowship in 2012. She is an editor for geometrical analysis publications in the , and has held leadership positions with the and the Los Angeles-based . Her project for the fellowship is titled “Regularity for Almost Minimizers with Free Boundary.”
Other local honorees were , a Seattle multimedia artist who works in miniatures; , a Kirkland multimedia artist; and , a Seattle choreographer.