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  • Pablo Raúl Stinga to receive 2026 Levi L. Conant prize

    Pablo Raúl Stinga, professor in the Department of Mathematics,  will be awarded the 2026 Levi L. Conant Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his article “Fractional Derivatives: Fourier, Elephants, Memory Effects, Viscoelastic Materials, and Anomalous Diffusions,” published in Notices of the AMS. The paper offers an…

    December 2, 2025

  • Olga Mesropova named recipient of Quality Matters Outstanding Impact by an Individual in Higher Education Award

    Olga Mesropova, professor of Russian and Faculty Coordinator for Quality Matters (QM) Initiatives with the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), has been named the recipient of the 2025 QM Outstanding Impact by an Individual in Higher Education Award. This award recognizes “an extraordinary dedication to providing…

    October 8, 2025

  • Stacey Weber-Fève receives honor from American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages

    Stacey Weber-Fève, professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, was recently given the award for “Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology” from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

    September 24, 2025

  • Meisam Mohammady awarded National Science Foundation grant

    Meisam Mohammady, assistant professor in the Department of computer Science, recently received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant through the inaugural Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Practice (PDaSP) program. This project, titled ” A Holistic Privacy Preserving Collaborative Data Sharing System for Intelligent Transportation,” addresses the growing need for privacy in…

    September 10, 2025

  • Mengdi Huai receives National Science Foundation CAREER award

    Mengdi Huai, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the highest honor awarded to junior faculty. Dr. Huai’s proposal “CAREER: Enabling Reliable Uncertainty-Aware Decision Making with Unreliable Data” works with conformal inference, a statistical distribution-free and model-agnostic technique that offers statistically…

    September 10, 2025

  • Gustavo Macintosh named Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists

    Gustavo Macintosh, university professor in the Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has been named Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists.

    August 25, 2025

  • Ryan Martin receives second Fulbright Scholar Award 

    Ryan Martin, professor in the Department of Mathematics, was recently honored as the recipient of the Fulbright-University of Birmingham Scholar Award (All Disciplines). He will be at the University of Birmingham from September 2025 to June 2026. This marks his second Fulbright Scholar award, having previously received the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics–Rényi Institute award.

    August 25, 2025

  • Claus Kadelka Receives National Science Foundation Award from the Mathematical Biology Program 

    Claus Kadelka, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, recently received a research award from the Mathematical Biology Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), starting this September. The Mathematical Biology Program supports research in all areas of mathematical sciences with relevance to the biological sciences. Successful proposals must demonstrate…

    August 25, 2025