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Recent News

• Professor Emeritus Carl Maxson was presented an Honorary Doctorate for his outstanding contributions to Algebra from the Johannes Kepler University.
• Dr. May Boggess and her students enjoy coloring for an educational cause as part of a unique Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in the Department of Mathematics.
• Phil Yasskin has been selected to receive a College Level Association of Former Students Teaching Award, Fall 2011.
• Emil Straube has officially been named head of the Mathematics Department, effective September 1, 2011.
• Peter Kuchment will be promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor, effective September 1, 2011.
• Joe Pasciak is the recipient of the 2011 Association of Former Students university-level Distinguished Achievement Award for Research.
• Gilles Pisier has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy to honor is fundamental work in functional analysis, harmonic analysis, and probability.
• The National Research Council has released its rankings of graduate programs by discipline, overall the department ranked 25th in the nation and 14th among public institutions.
• M. Aguiar, N. Bergeron, and F. Sottile are one of two runners-up for the 2010 Compositio prize for best paper "Combinatorial Hopf algebras and generalized Dehn-Sommerville relations," published in Compositio Mathematica 2006--2009.
• The following mathematics faculty members have been given Teaching Excellence Awards (SLATE) by the A&M System: Angela Allen, Amy Austin, Jon Hauenstein, and Heather Ramsey. Angela Allen and Jon Hauenstein's awards are in the top category of the awards given.
• Angela Allen and Joel Zinn have received the 2009 Departmental Outstanding Teaching Award.
• Professor Jay Walton has been designated to receive an Association of Former Students Award in Teaching at the College level.
• Ronald Douglas receives honorary doctorate from University of Waterloo.
• Harold Boas receives Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement University-Level Award in Teaching.
• Joe Pasciak Receives Sigma Xi Outstanding Science Communicator Award.
• Yalchin Efendiev has been selected to receive the Fraunhofer-Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
• Peter Howard has been selected to receive the Partner in Learning Award from the Department of Multicultural Services.
• Sandra Nite won first place in her session "Teaching and Learning" and took second place overall in our College for her participation in Student Research Week.
• The following promotions were approved by the Chancellor and Board of Regents beginning September 1:

  Ron DeVore to Distinguished Professor
  

  Matt Papanikolas to Professor
  

  Sarah Witherspoon to Professor
  

  Angela Allen to Senior Lecturer
  

  Kendra Kilmer to Senior Lecturer

• Harold Boas receives Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement College-Level Award in Teaching.
• The seventh annual East Coast Operator Algebras Symposium was held at Texas A&M University.
• Ronald DeVore was awarded a DoD-Office of Naval Research grant, Fast computational algorithms in high dimensions.
• Guido Kanschat was awared a NFS grant, CBMS Regional Conference in the Mathematical Sciences
• Mike Pilant received funding for the Third Annual Doha Conference in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science.

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