Kudos in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Grants Awarded:

• Bimal Sinh, professor of mathematics and statistics, has been awarded a contract from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, a national leader in science education and research.
• Thomas Mathew, professor of mathematics and statistics, has been awarded a contract from Merck & Co., Inc.
• Jinglai Shen, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, has been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation.
• John Zweck, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, is the co-principal investigator on a new Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab grant.

Other News:

• Yvonne Huang, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, initiated a new joint biostatistics course with University of Maryland School of Medicine, Cancer Center.
• Aninda Roy, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, was named associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
• Susan Minkoff, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, has been named the chair of the membership committee for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
• Mathematics Majors Michael Powers ‘12, Kathryn Cronise ‘13, Erika Koenig ‘13, Elizabeth Levitt ‘13 and Allen Welch ‘12 have been nominated by the Office of Institutional Advancement Corporate Relations Office for the prestigious T. Rowe Price Scholarship. Students from universities around the country apply for this scholarship.