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Marty Golubitsky Chair-elect of Math section of AAAS
Marty Golubitsky has been elected Chair of the Section on Mathematics of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He will serve as Chair-Elect from February, 2014…

Jim Fowler Recieves 2014 Creston Summum Bonum Award
Jim Fowler has been selected to receive the Crestron Summum Bonum Award for Excellence in Teaching for his innovative work with the Calculus One massive open online course (MOOC) running on…

Dan Shapiro recipient of 2014 University Distinguished Service Award
Please join me in congratulating Daniel Shapiro who has been selected as recipient of the 2014 University Distinguished Service Award.
Professor Emeritus Dan Shapiro's…

Joan Leitzel wins MAA award for Distinguished Service to Math
At the Joint Meeting of the AMS and the MAA in Baltimore on Jan 15-18, 2014, Joan Leitzel received the 2014 Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics. This is the…

Svitlana Mayboroda, former OSU ZAP, wins AWM prize
Professor Svitlana Mayboroda, a former Zassenhaus Assisntant Professor in this department from 2006 to 2008, has been named the first recipient of the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis named…

Luis Caffarelli to be the Fall 2014 Radó Lecturer
Luis Caffarelli will be the 2014 Fall Radó Lecturer. Luis is Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, University of Texas at Austin. Luis…

Kun Wang wins Presidential Fellowship
I am delighted to announce that our graduate student Kun Wang has been awarded a prestigious Presidential Fellowship by the OSU Graduate School.
Kun joined our department in 2008 after…

Clemens, Fowler & Snapp win a NSF DUE Grant
The Department of Mathematics is pleased to announce that Herb Clemens, Jim Fowler and Bart Snapp have been awarded a TUES-Type 1 Project NSF grant for developing open-source tools for converting…

Ching-Shan Chou wins an NSF Career Award
Ching-Shan Chou, assistant professor, mathematics, recently received the National Science Foundation’s NSF CAREER Award for her work in the area of mathematical biology. This is the top award NSF…