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Roger Casals is among the winners of this year's College of Letters and Science Teaching Award at UC Davis. The awards were recently announced by committee chair Yaroslav Trnka and include, along with Roger, Eugenia Fernandes, Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Liza Grandia, Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies, Ozcan Gulacar, Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Chemistry, and Camelia Hostinar, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology.

Together with two UC Davis Health PIs--Racheael Callcut, professor of surgery and chief research informatics officer, and Jason Adams, associate professor and physician of pulmonary, critical care and sleep--Thomas Strohmer was awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant aims to fund the generation of high-quality synthetic data using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to potentially help physicians predict, diagnose and treat diseases. The Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CEDAR) at UC Davis, launched in 2019 by Thomas Strohmer, promotes interdisciplinary research. The results are beginning to show. Congratulations Thomas!

This Give Day 2022, generous donors have the opportunity to transform our students' lives. Please consider supporting one of the Department of Mathematics gift challenges.

Math Department Challenge

Val Chan and Jin Chang challenge YOU to support the Math Department on Give Day! Val was inspired to support her alma mater and the Mathematics Department because of her impactful experiences with Professor Abby Thompson and Sherman Stein. Join her in supporting the next generation. Ten gifts to the Mathematics Department will unlock their generous donation!

Donating to these funds will support outstanding academic programs, the pursuit of new knowledge, and students and faculty.

The Mathematics Research Prize Challenge

Support endowing the Craig A. Tracy Research Prize in Mathematics, which will be awarded annually for outstanding research to a postdoctoral research or Krener Assistant Professor. 10 gifts to this fund meets the challenge set by Professor Emeritus Craig A. Tracy and Barbara Nelson.

Caitlin Brown, a recent graduate of our Applied Math undergraduate program, is one of two UC Davis students who interned at national labs through DOE's Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program last fall. She attributes her love of mathematics to the UC Davis Mentorships for Undergraduate Research in Agriculture, Letters and Science (MURALS) program she attended: "It really opened up my mind to the possibilities of applied math in the scientific realm ... Math is like a language we learn to speak, and it’s nice to use it to speak to things in the real world". We look forward to hearing more from her as she explores the world after graduation.

US News & World Report has released their 2022 rankings of graduate programs. The Department of Mathematics at UC Davis has been placed at #32 among graduate programs in mathematics, tied with Indiana University—Bloomington, The Ohio State University, Penn State University—University Park, and Texas A&M—College Station! These rankings are based entirely on peer reviews. As expected, MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and Cal took the lead. Congratulations to us all!

Chancellor Mays has announced this year's cohort of Chancellor's Fellows! Supported by the UC Davis Annual Fund, the Davis Chancellor's Club, and the UC Davis Parents Fund, the program has supported 178 Fellows since its inception in 2000. Eugene Gorsky has been named Chancellor's Fellow in 2021-2022. He will carry the Chancellor's imprimatur for 5 years and receive $25,000 of unrestricted funds to support his research.