The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Cornell University have awarded Shabnam Akhtari the 2021–2022 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. Shabnam Akhtari was selected to receive the Michler Prize to pursue her proposed research on classical Diophantine equations, in particular to study index form equations and their applications to understanding the structure of rings in algebraic number fields. Please read the full press release for more details.