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Faculty Positions
News Professor Gopal Prasad has been awarded a Collegiate Professorship. His professorship will be named in honor of Raoul Bott, a member of the U-M Mathematics faculty from 1951-1959. A Collegiate Professorship is one of the highest honors the College and the University can bestow upon an eminent member of the faculty. Assistant Professor Daniel Forger has received a Young Investigator Research award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Forger will study physiology modeling of circadian timekeeping. The Young Investigator awards support recent PhD recipients (<5 years) who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program aims to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize the Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. Assistant Professor Selim Esedoglu received a 2008 NSF CAREER award for his project “Analysis and modeling for image processing problems.” The CAREER awards provide early career development for faculty with outstanding potential. Professor of Mathematics and LSA Associate Dean Robert Megginson has been named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor. The Thurnau Professorships recognize outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Megginson is the winner of numerous campus and national awards for excellence in mathematics education. He is credited with reforming introductory math courses to emphasize real-world problem solving and cooperative learning. He also re-designed the Mathematics Learning Center to focus on mastery of basic skills, leaving classroom time for learning the higher order thinking that is at the heart of mathematics education. Anna Gilbert is the recipient of the 2008 National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research. The award recognizes innovative young scientists and encourages research likely to lead to new capabilities for human benefit. She is being recognized for her work with innovative algorithms using wavelets and sampling techniques and their impact on data analysis and sparse approximation. Trachette Jackson has been named one of the Emerging Scholars of the Year by Diverse Issues In Higher Education magazine. She will be profiled in one of the magazine’s 2008 issues. The scholars are nationally recognized for their research, educational background, publishing record, teaching record, competitiveness and uniqueness of field of study, and recommendations from other faculty members, department chairs and students. Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is America's preeminent newsmagazine that covers news and information about the ever-changing world of higher education. Mel Hochster Conference was held July 31- Aug 5, 2008
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