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
Events
- Diffusive Shock Acceleration of Cosmic Rays and Their Stochastic Differential Equations. Program in Applied Mathematics Brown Bag Colloquium. Erica McEvoy. Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 12:00 PM More...
- Molecular Motor-Based Models of Random Intermittent Search. Applied Colloquium. Paul Bressloff. Fri, 10 Feb 2012, 4:00 PM More...
- Introduction to Mathematica. SWIG Seminar. Stuart Kent. Mon, 13 Feb 2012, 3:00 PM More...
- Nonlinear Instability in a Semiclassical Problem. Analysis, Dynamics, and Applications Seminar. Jeffrey Galkowski. Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 12:30 PM More...
- Stochastic Dynamics of HIV Infection, Prophylaxis, and Treatment. Quantitative Biology Colloquium. Daniel Coombs. Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 4:00 PM More...
- The Capacity of the Binary Symmetric Channel. Mathematics Seminar. Martin Leslie. Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 4:00 PM More...
- Precalculus supplemental instruction seminar: Math 196L . Mathematics Instruction Colloquium. Grethe Hystad and Debra Wood. Tue, 14 Feb 2012, 4:15 PM More...
