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Ken Koenig honored for exemplary teaching
Ken Koenig, Associate Professor of Mathematics, was honored as a finalist for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award. The Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes a College of…

Tasos Sidiropoulos receives NSF CAREER award
Tasos Sidiropoulos has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for his proposal entitled "CAREER: Geometric frontiers in algorithm design."
A synopsis of…

Dan Thompson receives NSF CAREER award
Dan Thompson has received a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his proposal entitled "Entropy in dynamics: connections with geometry, algebraic numbers, and bioscience.”…

Congratulations 2014 Staff Award Recipients
We are happy to announce that Sandy Masters and Bryce Steel, Jack Zuefle and Roman Nitze are the winners of this year's departmental staff awards.
Sandy Masters has been the administrative…

Benjamin Schmidt wins Presidential Fellowship
Benjamin Schmidt, one of our third year Ph.D. students in mathematics, has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Fellowship by the university's Graduate School. Only about 15 of these…

Jim Fowler's online calculus course lauded in Forbes
Assistant Professor Jim Fowler’s online calculus course, Calculus One, has captured the attention of many, including the publishers of Forbes Magazine. Fowler’s massive open online class (MOOC)…

Congratulations Summer 2014 Graduates
This 2014 Summer Term, the following students finished their program within our department:
Doctorates:
Samuel Fotis - Advisor: Wenzhi Luo
Jung Eun Kim - Advisor:…

Adriana Dawes receives $1.2 million grant
Adriana Dawes, along with Helen Chamberlin of Molecular Genetics, has received a $1.2 million grant from a joint funding program between the NSF and NIH.
Congratulations, Adriana!
