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Dr.
Jonathan David Farley has been a Visiting Professor of Mathematics
at the California
Institute of Technology (Caltech),
a Science Fellow at Stanford
University's Center
for International Security and Cooperation, a Visiting Scholar
in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and a Visiting
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (MIT).
Seed
Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15
people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”
In 2005, Dr. Farley was given the key to the City of Columbia, South Carolina
(the state capital). He worked for The Warren Group, advisors to the 2010 Democratic Party nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina. He received tenure at Vanderbilt University in 2003, but fled Tennessee after receiving death threats from supporters of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2001-2002, Dr. Farley was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom. He was one of only four Americans to win this award in 2001-2002. Jonathan Farley obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Oxford University in 1995, after winning Oxford’s highest mathematics awards, the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson University Prize, in 1994. Farley graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with the second-highest grade point average in his graduating class. (He earned 29 A’s and 3 A-’s.) While there, he won, among other awards, Harvard’s Wendell Prize, for the “most promising and catholic [small ‘c’] sophomore scholar.”
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