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Professor Eric Brussel received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. This is the college's oldest and most prestigious award for undergraduate teaching. Seven Emory professors received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching. The university's most prestigious awards for teaching were established in 1972 by alumnus Emory Williams. The three awards in the arts and sciences are selected by a committee of Emory College faculty. Goizueta Business School, Oxford College and Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing each present an award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, and one other award rotates among the professional schools. More information here.

The Putnam competition will be held on Saturday, December 2nd. For more information, see the competition web page. If you would like to participate, e-mail Prof. Grigni.

Sarah Day (center) received the Trevor Evans Award as the best undergraduate major in 1995-96, and Sergei Pilyugin (right) and John Nardo were co-winners of the Marshall Hall Award for best graduate teaching assistants from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.click here for more information

Asa Candler Griggs Professor of Mathematics R. Parimala will be awarded the 2005 prize in mathematics by the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) for her work on the quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture, the triviality of principal homogeneous spaces for classical groups over fields of cohomological dimension 2 and the u-invariant of p-adic function fields. This is the first time that the prize has been awarded to a woman. More information here.

Visiting professor Tomasz Luczak gave an invited address titled "Randomness and regularity" at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain. Being invited to give a talk at the ICM is considered an honor similar to receiving a prize. Regular faculty members V. Rodl and R. Parimala have also been invited speakers at previous Congresses. For more information: icm2006.org.