Carol Fullerton, M.A. '75, Ph.D '87 established the Herbert A. Hauptman Endowed Graduate Fellowship Program in honor of her father, Herbert A. Hauptman, who received his Ph. D. in mathematices at the University of Maryland in 1955. He pioneered and developed a mathematical method that changed a whole field of chemistry and opened a new era in research in determination of molecular structures of crytallized materials. Hauptman's direct methods, which he continued to improve and refine, are routinely used to solve complicated structures. It was the application of this mathematical method to a wide variety of chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to name Hauptman and Jerome Karle recipients of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.