Congratulations to Rachel Ollivier for being awarded a prestigious grant under the Provost’s Junior Faculty Diversity Program.

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Congratulations to Ovidiu Savin for winning this year’s Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award. This award recognizes the excellence of faculty as scholars, participating members of our academic community, and teachers and mentors of undergraduate and graduate students. (The Arts and Sciences has been able to establish The Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award through the generosity of University Trustee Gerry Lenfest.)

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Congratulations to Maria Chudnovsky, one of the winners of the 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals for their creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future.

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Congratulations to Andre Carneiro, winner of the Departmental Prize for Excellence as a Teaching Fellow.  This is a new prize created by the Department to encourage and reward outstanding work by teaching fellows and graduate student instructors.

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Congratulations to Daniela De Silva for receiving the Gladys Brooks Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.

This award, established at Barnard in 1989 by the Gladys Brooks Foundation, is bestowed annually to recognize considerable individual achievements of tenure-track/tenure-eligible assistant professors at Barnard.

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Ovidiu Savin has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Stampacchia Gold Medal.

The Stampacchia Gold Medal is an international prize awarded every three years by the Italian Mathematical Union in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Variational Analysis and its applications by a mathematician under the age of 35.

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Please join us in congratulating Prof. Andrei Okounkov on his recent election to the National Academy of Sciences!

For more information, visit the NAS press release:
http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/

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The incoming graduate class for 2012 has been announced. For a list of the new students, please visit the Incoming class page.

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Congratulations to Connor Mooney, winner of a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

About this award (from the NSF website):
“The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity.  The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.”

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Congratulations to Barnard College Professor Joan Birman, who is elected to the The American Academy of Arts & Sciences. For a press release and complete list of new members, please visit:

http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleaseContent.aspx?i=167

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