2008
- The The NCSU Alumni Association has named H. Thomas Banks as one of the 2008 recipients of the Association's Outstanding Research Award. Professor Banks also won the award in 1996.
- Nicole Kroeger, a sophomore majoring in mathematics, won the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for 2008-2009. (link)
- Denise Seabrooks was nominated for the 2008 PAMS/Mathematics SPA Awards for Excellence. (link)
- Graduate student Anjela Govan's paper and presentation "Generalizing Google's PageRank to Rank National Football League Teams" was given an award for a best contributed paper in the area Data Mining and Predictive Modeling at the SAS Global Forum 2008 conference that was held in San Antonio, TX, March 16-19. This is an annual international conference sponsored by SAS, and this year there were over 3700 participants. Russell Albright from SAS Institute (Cary, NC) and Carl Meyer are co-authors. The announcement and the paper are posted here.
- The NC State Alumni Association has named Bob Martin an Alumni Distinguished
Undergraduate Professor for 2008-2010.
- Marilyn McCollum has been named an NC State Outstanding Teacher for 2007 -
2008, and has become a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers.
- NC State Mathematics PhD John Haws discussed his experience teaching high school algebra in the Rio Grande Valley, and how it influenced his subsequent career, in the February 2008 issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The article, "A Valuable Diversion,"
is available at http://www.ams.org/notices/200802.
- Dynamical Systems at NC State is the subject of an article by Steve Schecter in the January 2008 issue of Dynamical Systems Magazine. (link)
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