Three Mathematics Professors Win Grants to Promote Academic Collaboration
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Mathematics faculty members Jeremy Van Horn-Morris and Yo’av Rieck (top) and Andy Raich (bottom).
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Professor Yo'av Rieck, associate professor Andy Raich and assistant professor Jeremy Van Horn-Morris in the department of mathematical sciences have received 2013 Collaboration Grants for Mathematicians from the Simons Foundation.
The collaboration grants are a five-year commitment from the foundation to encourage faculty travel, visiting scholars, joint research and other methods of academic cooperation. Recipients are chosen for their recent research, publications, attendance at meetings and seminars and involvement with students.
"With these grants the Simons Foundation is stimulating mathematics collaboration and research nationwide," said Chaim Goodman-Strauss, chair of the department of mathematical sciences in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences. "It's wonderful that our faculty have been chosen to participate.
Previous recipients include faculty members from Princeton University, Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley, all top schools for undergraduate and graduate mathematics programs according to U.S. News' 2012 lists of "Best Grad Schools" and "World's Best Universities."
The Simons Foundation is a private organization that seeks to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. The primary focus of their mathematics and physical sciences program is on the theoretical sciences radiating from mathematics.
Contacts
Darinda Sharp, director of communications
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-4393,
dsharp@uark.edu
Jennifer Sims, department of mathematical sciences
J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
479-575-3351,
jssims@uark.edu
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