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<Title>Manil Suri named Presidential Teaching Professor</Title>
<Tagline>Award presented on March 28, 2013</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content">Dr. Manil Suri has been named a UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor for the period of 2013-16.<br><br>Suri joined the UMBC faculty in 1983.  His interest in teaching often expands outside of our campus, and his work, both inside and outside the field of mathematics, repeatedly engages audiences with UMBC. He has attracted tens of thousands of viewers on YouTube via his videos in mathematics, has spoken on mathematical topics on NPR and the BBC and has explained mathematics to artists and writers at artist colonies.<br><br>You will find more information on the award's <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/Awards2013/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">announcement page</a>.<br><br></div>
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<Summary>Dr. Manil Suri has been named a UMBC Presidential Teaching Professor for the period of 2013-16.  Suri joined the UMBC faculty in 1983.  His interest in teaching often expands outside of our...</Summary>
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<Title>Bimal Sinha recognized for research achievements</Title>
<Tagline>Receives the 2012 USM Board of Regents Award</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content">Profesor Bimal Sinha has received the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' award <em>for <em>Excellence in Research</em>.<br><br></em>Sinha’s research has appeared in numerous publications, including the <em>International Journal of Statistical Sciences</em> and <em>Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics</em>.
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<Summary>Profesor Bimal Sinha has received the University System of Maryland Board of Regents' award for Excellence in Research.  Sinha’s research has appeared in numerous publications, including the...</Summary>
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<Title>Alexandria Volkening: Class of 2011 valedictorian</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Alexandria Volkening was named the <em>valedictorian</em> of the UMBC class of 2011.<br><br>Her grades kept her on the President’s List throughout her time at UMBC; she was named Outstanding Senior in Mathematics, admitted to Phi Beta Kappa and awarded both a UMBC Premier Scholarship and an ITT Scholarship. She was a member of the Honors College and a Meyerhoff Scholars Affiliate, and she became active helping other students succeed, working as a teaching assistant in honors calculus. She volunteered extensively in the community as a member of the Shriver Living Learning Center, helping out in an inner city elementary school as a math volunteer one year and, more recently, teaching aerobics at a senior center. She has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study applied mathematics at Brown University.<br><br>You will find more information on the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/classof2011/bios.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">announcement page</a>.<br><br></div>
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<Title>Nagaraj Neerchal Elected Fellow of the ASA</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Dr. Nagaraj K. Neerchal, was elected <em>Fellow of the American Statistical Association</em> (ASA). This honor recognizes the professional contributions of members of the ASA and is limited to one-third of one percent of the ASA membership. The photo shows him receiving the honor in a ceremony held during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver in August 2010.<br><br></div>
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<Title>Matthias Gobbert recognized for mentoring</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Dr. Matthias Gobbert is the recipient of the 2010 University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring, in recognition of his success in using the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting, the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility, and other initiatives in leading many graduate students to their first publications. Dr. Gobbert was honored at the UMBC Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony on April 7, 2010, and the award was formally given as part of the Board of Regents meeting on April 16. The photo shows (from left to right) Board of Regents Chair Clifford M. Kendall, UMBC Provost Elliot Hirshman, Dr. Gobbert, and University System Chancellor William Brit Kirwan at the Regents meeting.<br><br></div>
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<Title>Bonny Tighe recognized for excellence in teaching</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The inaugural award was presented at the CNMS Student Recognition Day ceremony on May 8, 2009 to Bonny Tighe, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics who started at UMBC as a full time instructor in 1988.  She is an outstanding educator who teaches four courses every semester.  In addition to coordinating and teaching an array of courses from Mathematics for elementary School Teachers to Calculus II, Ms. Tighe is a dedicated faculty member who serves on student-focused committees, trains teaching assistants, serves as a faculty mentor and advises a variety of student organizations.  Ms. Tighe also teaches mathematics for the annual Meyerhoff Scholars’ Summer Bridge Program.  She is an amazing person who, as the first recipient of the Weber Award, is a tribute to Carl Weber’s legacy of teaching excellence at UMBC.<br><br>The Weber award was established in 2006 in memory of Dr. Carl S. Weber, Assistant Professor Emeritus in the UMBC Department of Biological Sciences, as a tribute to his passion for classroom teaching.  The annual award honors a faculty member at UMBC with exceptional dedication to teaching as demonstrated by his or her enthusiasm, up-to-date teaching materials, effective mentoring, community service in the teaching area, approachability, rigorous learning requirements, coherent teaching philosophy and inspirational teaching style.<br><br>You will find more information on the award's <a href="http://umbc.edu/cnms/WeberAwardPage2.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">announcement page</a>.<br><br></div>
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    <div class="html-content">Joseph McCloskey, M.S. ’81, Ph.D. ’83, Applied Mathematics, has received a 2007 <em>Outstanding Alumni Award</em>.<br><br>Each year the UMBC Alumni Association presents annual awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University. Dr. McCloskey is a senior cryptologic mathematician for the National Security Agency, where he has worked since 1968.<br><br>Throughout his career, he has received numerous citations, including the <em>President’s Award</em> from the Crypto-Mathematics Institute, the agency’s oldest learned society, in 2001. For more information, visit the <a href="http://umbcalumni.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/2007-umbc-alumni-of-the-year-distinguished-service-award-winners/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">award announcement page</a>.<br><br></div>
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<Title>Advances in Control of Partial Differential Equations</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The conference, <strong>Advances in Control of Partial Differential Equations</strong>, is being held on October 28-29, 2006, in honor of the 70th birthday of UMBC Professor Thomas I. Seidman.<br><br>Dr. Seidman received his Ph.D. from New York University with K. O. Friedrichs in 1959. In his early career, he spent time both at national laboratories and in industry, before joining the faculty at Wayne State University and Carnegie Mellon University. In 1972, he moved to UMBC and is now serving UMBC in the 35th year.<br><br>With this conference, we will honor Dr. Seidman's outstanding research productivity, which includes over 150 papers with more than 60 collaborators, and his continuing research productivity publishing over 4 papers per year. His long and distinguished career over 50 years has particularly impacted the area of control of partial differential equations.<br><br>Go to the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/seidman/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">dedicated web page</a> for the details regarding the conference's program.<br></div>
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