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Prof. Castillo-Chavez honored with Mentor Award

02/13/2008 Congratulations to Prof. Castillo-Chavez for receiving the 2007 AAAS Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prof. Castillo-Chavez has been honored for his effort to help underrepresented students succeed in their graduate studies. The award was presented during the 2008 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston.(read more...)

Marilyn Carlson awarded 2008 Annie and John Selden Award

01/09/2008 Marilyn Carlson has been selected by the MAA Board of Governors as the 2008 Annie and John Selden Award winner.
This is a prestigious prize awarded every 2 years for "a significant record of published research in collegiate mathematics education".
The prize will be awarded at the 2008 Mathfest in Madison, WI, July 31- Aug 2.

Prof. Castillo-Chavez elected Fellow of AAAS

11/28/2007 Carlos Castillo-Chavez , Regents' Professor and the Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (read more...).
Congratulations to Prof. Castillo-Chavez for this prestigious honor!

Professor of the Year

11/06/2007 Congratulations to Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez for his nomination to the 2007 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching U.S. Professors of the Year program.

PhD Program in Mathematics Education ranked 14^th

10/30/2007 The PhD Program in Mathematics Education was ranked 14th in the recent AMS Doctoral Programs in Mathematics Education in the United States: 2007 Status Report (AMS Notices, 50, 10, 2007, 1283-1293). Congratulations to Math Education faculty and students!

Undergraduate math students go to AMUC

05/02/2007 ASU undergraduates David Hayden, Ilyssa Summer, Jonathan Mullen, Kate Mullen, Micah Mangione, Miguel Sanchez, Parnell Maxwell, Steven Rosenthal, and Russell Latterman gave talks at the 4th Arizona Mathematics Undergraduate Conference held recently at Western New Mexico University in Silver City. Glenn Hurlbert served on the organizing committee and gave a plenary lecture. ASU students presented talks on projects supervised by department faculty Anne Gelb, Matthias Kawski, Pat Thompson, Yang Kuang, Alex Mahalov, and Basil Nikolaenko.