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  • There are approximately sixty tenured or tenure-track faculty in the department whose research interests encompass the creation, application and teaching of mathematics.
  • Faculty in the Mathematics Department have been awarded the AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, the Dirac Medal, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Fulbright Award, DOE Early Career Principal Investigator Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Monroe Martin Prize, the American Statistical Association's Distinguished Service Medal, Sloan Foundation Fellowships and NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships. (Check out the complete list of faculty awards.)
  • Each year about forty to fifty external funding awards bring approximately $2 million to the Mathematics Department.
  • The Mathematics Department has a close working relationship with the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics. The Program offers the PhD and MS degrees in applied mathematics, and students from the Program and the Department interact extensively.
  • Graduate teaching assistants in the Mathematics Department teach their own courses, and the department provides substantial opportunities to help them improve and broaden their teaching portfolios.
  • Both VIGRE and IGERT grants from the NSF provide support for graduate students in the Department.
  • The Department is a national leader in the use of technology in mathematics education and was awarded the Theodore M. Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence for Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics with Technology.
  • The Southwest Center for Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry hosts a winter school which brings together the leaders in the field and the best students for an intensive week of lectures and projects. The Center also hosts a Distinguished Lecture Series.
  • The Mathematics Department has close ties to Los Alamos National Laboratories and in particular the Center for Non-Linear Studies.
  • Tucson has more than 300 sunny days per year and is surrounded by several mountain ranges with peaks over 9,000 feet.
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