PROMOTIONS
Professor Claudia Neuhauser was promoted to the rank of Full
Professor effective September 2000. Claudia's research area is probability
theory and mathematical biology.
Professor Rachel Kuske
was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure effective
September 2000. Rachel's research area is applied mathematics.
Professor Conan Leung
was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure effective
September 2000. Conan's research area is differential geometry.
AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Professor Paul Garrett
was selected to receive the Purdue University School of Science Distinguished
Alumnus Award for 2001. The award recognizes graduates who have achieved
particular distinction in professional and related fields. Paul is currently
Professor of Mathematics and Director of Graduate Studies.
Professor Dihua Jiang
was awarded the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2000-2002. These
Professorships are awarded to tenure track faculty following a university-wide
competition and provide substantial research support for a two year period.
The award enabled Professor Jiang to spend the Fall Semester 2000 as a
member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton where he participated
in the Special Year on Automorphic Forms. Professor Jiang's area is number
theory.
Professor Harvey Keynes won the University of Minnesota President's
Award for Outstanding Service in the areas of outreach and K-12 teacher
preservice and inservice activities. Professor Keynes is the Director
of the Institute of Technology
Center for Educational Programs (ITCEP). This Center runs the nationally
known University of Minnesota
Talented Youth Mathematics Program(UMTYMP), and Professor Keynes has
dedicated a good part of his academic life to the development of this
program. He also actively participates in the School of Mathematics Math/Ed
Masters' program for the training of future K-12 teachers as well as in
many inservice programs and projects for K-12 mathematics teachers. He
is often asked to serve on national committees for the improvement of
K-12 education.
Regents' Professor Emeritus Lawrence Markus was elected to Honorary
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. We congratulate Professor
Markus on this great honor.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the area of non-linear
partial differential equations, Professor Vladimir Sverak has been
named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor by the University
of Minnesota. According to the Graduate School, which initiated the program
of these professorships, the award is "to honor and reward our most
distinguished and highest achieving mid-career faculty who have recently
attained full professor status - especially those who have made signicant
advances in their careers at the University, whose work and reputation
are identified with the University of Minnesota, and whose work has brought
great renown and prestige to Minnesota." The grant associated with
the Professorship consists of $100,000 over five years to be used, in
accordance with University policy, for research, scholarly, or artistic
activities, and expended at the recipient's discretion.
Professor Jiaping Wang
has been awarded the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for 2001-2003.
Professor Wang's research is in differential geometry.
Professor David Cooke, currently Professor of Mathematics at Hastings
College, Nebraska, was one of the Mathematical Association of America
Award Winners for Distinguished Teaching in the year 2000. He received
his doctorate in 1989 under the supervision of Professor Peter Olver and
is currently Professor of Mathematics at Hastings College, Nebraska.
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