It is too late really for this, but I can't help but noting that 17 of the 35 Fields summer students were of east Asian origin and none of the four students shown or quoted in the piece were.  That is, statistically speaking, quite odd. My guess is that there were language issues which weren't discussed in the article. But that is just a guess. Which leads to the second point. It would be hard to imagine the Fields Institute writing a release about themselves which was less critical than this article. So I wonder: Was this an example of what is called Custom Content  Journalism and commissioned by Fields?