Kristen Hendricks received an NSF CAREER award supporting her outstanding research in Heegaard Floer homology, stellar undergraduate and graduate mentoring, and outreach efforts. Typically fewer than 35 CAREER awards are made each year over the whole of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the NSF. Click here to learn more about this year's NSF CAREER Award recipients.

Beth Koivisto has been awarded the 2018 Jack Breslin University Distinguished Staff Award. Koivisto and other honorees will receive their awards at a reception scheduled for May 21st at 12:30 p.m. in the Kellogg Center. Click here to read more about the MSU Jack Breslin Distinguished Staff Award.

Thomas Walpuski has been selected as a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics for his work on gauge theory of G2 manifolds and the analysis of generalized Seiberg-Witten equations. Typically only 20 Sloan Fellows are awarded annually in all areas of mathematics.

Yingda Cheng received a 2018 Simon Foundation Fellowship supporting her cutting edge research on discontinuous Galerkin methods with applications to semiconductor device simulations, plasma physics, and nonlinear optics. Only 40 Simons Fellowships are awarded over all of mathematics each year.

Graduate Student Sarah Klanderman was recently awarded a university-wide Excellence-in-Teaching Citation. This award follows the Nat-Sci Excellence-in-Teaching Citation she received from the College of Natural Sciences last fall. Excellence-in-Teaching Citations are awarded to graduate TAs who have fulfilled their classroom responsibilities with a distinguished level of care and skill. Congratulations to Sarah! Click here for more information about the 2018 Excellence-in-Teaching Citations.

Jenna Jerwers and Taylor Joseph were recently awarded the Outstanding Senior awards, which are presented to graduating seniors who have demonstrated exemplary academic and extracurricular successes, and a strong sense of leadership, commitment and dedication to MSU. These prizes are awarded annually by the Michigan State University's Senior Class Council. Taylor Joseph, a mathematics major, has also been awarded the Leroy Augenstein Memorial Scholarship from the College of Natural Science.

Thomas Grubb has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for his work with Prof. Bruce Sagan on combinatorial pattern avoidance in set partitions and restricted growth functions. There are 250 Goldwater Scholarships awarded annually to sophomores and juniors across mathematics and science in the US. In addition, Thomas Grubb was also named one of the CNS Dean's research Scholars.