Congratulations to Bill McCallum

2012 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service

                  William McCallum, University Distinguished Professor and Head of the
                  Mathematics Department at the University of Arizona, has been awarded
                  the 2012 AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service. Presented every two
                  years by the American Mathematical Society, the award is given to a
                  research mathematician who has made a distinguished contribution to the
                  mathematics profession during the preceding five years. The award was
                  presented on Friday, January 5, 2012, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings
                  in Boston.

                  "In recent years, McCallum has shown extraordinary energy in promoting
                  improvement of mathematics education, and he has been almost ubiquitous
                  in organizations devoted to mathematics education," the prize citation
                  says. In addition to his many activities in the national and
                  international arenas, he has made an especially distinctive contribution
                  at his home institution by founding the Institute for Mathematics and
                  Education at the University of Arizona. "This Institute was founded
                  explicitly on the principle that to deal effectively with issues of
                  mathematics education requires communication and cooperation among
                  teachers, mathematics education researchers, and mathematicians," the
                  citation says. "In dozens of events over the past five years, many
                  people from all three groups have met for mutually productive activities
                  under the auspices of IME." Most recently, McCallum was one member of
                  the three-person writing team selected by the Council of Chief State
                  School Officers and the National Governors Association to orchestrate
                  and execute the production of the Common Core State Mathematics Standards.

                  For the full citation please visit:
                  http://www.ams.org/news/ams-news-releases/ams-news-releases