Sloan Fellowships
Antonio Sa Barreto (1993) and Sai Kee Yeung (1994) are recent
recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships. Approximately 100
fellows are selected each year from hundreds of highly qualified
young scientists and economists from the United States and
Canada. Selection procedures are designed to identify those
who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental
contributions to new knowledge. Fellows are free to pursue
whatever lines of inquiry are of the most compelling interest to
them.
AMS Centennial Research Fellowship
Professor Patricia Bauman was awarded one of two American
Mathematical Society Centennial Fellowships for 1994-95. Her
research focuses on partial differential equations in several space
dimensions, and applications. Most recently she has
investigated the qualitative behavior of solutions to nonlinear
systems arising from mathematical models of elastic
deformations and superconducting materials.
Lilly Endowment Faculty Open Fellowship
Professor Fabio Milner is one of ten faculty members in Indiana
to receive a Lilly Endowment Faculty Open Fellowship for
1994-95. Milner discovered while teaching mathematics
education classes that "I started to feel an urge to develop better
teaching techniques in order to get students to understand the
process, not just the product." During the course of the
fellowship, he will devote his time to developing two new
applied mathematics courses: an undergraduate course in
industrial mathematics, in which students would participate in
the solution of real-world problems arising in industry, and a
graduate level course in biomathematics, a growing
interdisciplinary area.
Outstanding Teacher in the School of Science
Professor Robert Zink was named by juniors and seniors in the
School of Science as the Outstanding Teacher in the School of
Science for 1993-1994. Selection was based on teaching ability
and interest in the students themselves beyond the confines of
the classroom. The award, sponsored by the Purdue Alumni
Foundation, was presented to Professor Zink in April at the
University Spring Honors Convocation.
MAA Teaching Award
Professor Justin J. Price received one of three national awards
from the Mathematical Association of America for distinguished
college or university teaching. Recipients of the national awards
are chosen from the group of winners of sectional teaching
awards each year. The award was presented in January 1994 at a
joint annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of
America and the American Mathematical Association.