Melanie Wood

Melanie Wood, born 1981, was the first, and until 2004, the only female American to make the U.S. Math Olympiad Team, receiving silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Math Olympiad. She won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship in 2003 in addition to becoming the first American woman and second woman overall to ever win the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. In 2004, she won the Morgan Prize. She now studies mathematics at Princeton University.