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  • Congratulations to Tom Church, winner of the 2008 Wayne C. Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Please see this link

  • Congratulations to Travis Schedler, recipient of the five-year AIM fellowship. Please see here

  • Mark Kisin, Professor of Mathematics, was selected Fellow of the Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth. Please read the announcement on the RS page.

  • John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits received the 2008 Abel Prize. Thompson received his PhD from the Department of Mathematics of The University of Chicago for a thesis supervised by Saunders Mac Lane. Thompson was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago between 1962 and 1970.

  • The winners of the 2008 Paul R Cohen prize are: Padraic Bartlett, David Coley, Ilya Grigoriev, Ryan Johnson, Junehyuk Jung, Jenya Sapir.

  • Alexander Beilinson, the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor and Vladimir Dinfeld, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Chicago have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Please see the AAAS announcement and the list of members. Please read here excerpts from an article in the Chronicle by Steven Koppes.

  • Elizabeth Beazley is the winner of the 2008 PSCD teaching prize.
    Hannah Bennett, Ian Biringer, Chris Conidis and Niles Johnson are the 2008 recipients of the Lawrence and Josephine Graves Prize.

  • Congratulations to Qendrim Gashi, Irene Peng and Travis Schedler who won Clay Liftoff Fellowships.

  • Andrej Zlatoš, Assistant Professor in Mathematics has been selected to receive a 2008 research fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Zlatoš works in nonlinear partial differential equations and mathematical physics, with emphasis on transport phenomena in reaction-diffusion equations. For more about the 2008 Sloan fellowships awarded to Chicago faculty, see this link.

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