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Alum Awarded KSTF 2015 Teaching FellowshipCongratulations to Erin Oakley (B.S. '13, Mathematics) on her selection as a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Teaching Fellow for 2015. Erin will begin her first year of teaching at Janesville–Waldorf–Pemberston School in Janesville, Minn., this fall. She is committed to teaching mathematics to high school students in the U.S. She also earned a Master of Science in mathematics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2015. |
Recent Math Graduate wins Iwanter Prize
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Recent graduate Alexander Sherman (B.A.’15, English and Mathematics) has won the annual $2,000 Iwanter Prize, administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for the Humanities for an outstanding interdisciplinary humanities-based senior thesis. Read more: Shi Jin awarded Vilas ProfessorshipShi Jin has been awarded a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. The Professorship "recognizes Professors whose distinguished scholarship has advanced the confines of knowledge, and whose excellence has also included teaching or service". The Professorship is awarded by the Provost office and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professors carry the title for the duration of their career in Madison. |
Goldwater Scholarship Winners AnnouncedCongratulations to Solil Shah, William Mulligan, and Meghan A. Turner on winning Goldwater Scholarships. Mulligan majors in Biochemistry, Turner in Biochemistry and Mathematics, and Shah in Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry Goldwater. The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in these fields. |
Ellenberg Awarded Guggenheim FellowshipJordan Ellenberg has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. A Guggenheim Fellowship is a highly prestigious mid career award, only two of them were awarded this year in Mathematics nationwide. It has been awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." The official announcement can be found here: |
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