Joe Quinn, who leads our new Pure Math project, has been admitted to a very competitive research training group in NYC at the City University of New York Graduate Center. The program is part of a National Science Foundation grant to Columbia University, CUNY, and New York University, to develop number theory research in New York City. Only four students were accepted from each university system (12 total), each receiving $1,000 to participate in the program from July 20 to August 14. Joe and the other award recipients will be working on open problems in algebraic and analytic number theory.