Recent Faculty Awards
Leroy P. Steele Prize
Professor Louis de Branges, Elliott Distinguished
Professor of Mathematics, was one of three recipients of Leroy P. Steele
Prizes for 1993 awarded by the American Mathematical Society. He received
the award "for research of fundamental importance" for his paper "A proof
of the Bieberbach conjecture" published in Acta Mathematica in 1985.
The Bieberbach conjecture, formulated in 1916 and the object of efforts
over the years by many mathematicians, was proved by de Branges in 1984.
MAA Teaching Awards
Professor Carl C. Cowen, Jr. received the 1995 Indiana
Section Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of
Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America. The award
is made annually on the basis of extraordinary teaching success and
teaching effectiveness that has been shown to have influence beyond
the recipient's own institution.
Professor Cowen's teaching sytle is guided by two principles: that
students should be taught to read and understand mathematics and that
students should be shown not only the finished products of mathematics,
but also how mathematicians think and work.
Cowen has been a leader in the area of instructional computing and has
contributed to the teaching of mathematics at many levels, including the
direction of Ph.D. students, supervision of undergraduate research
programs, and direction of the Actuarial Science Program. At the national
level, his contributions include service on the AMS Committee on Education
and the SIAM Education Commitee.
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