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YUNMEI CHEN AWARDED 2001-02 GIBSON TERM PROFESSORSHIP
Mathematics professor Yunmei Chen has been appointed as
Gibson Term Professor for 2001-02 by the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
A total of 6 such term professorships
were awarded this year in the College. These term professorships
were created in 1995 and have been awarded to CLAS faculty
who excel both in scholarship and teaching. These term
professorships funded entirely by private sources, allow
the College to recognize faculty who are making a difference
in the classroom as well as through their research and
scholarship. The award this year carries a salary supplement
of $6,000 and a research supplement of $2,500.
Professor Yunmei Chen is a world authority in the area of
partial differential equations, and especially in nonlinear
evolution equations and harmonic maps. More recently, her
research interests have broadened into the exciting area
of computer imaging. Her fundamental research has been
continuously supported by the National Science Foundation
and other agencies. In addition to being a world class researcher,
Professor Chen is an outstanding teacher and received
the prestigious Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award
twice - in 1994, and 1998. Thus in view of sustained excellence
in both scholarship and teaching, Professor Chen was an
appropriate choice for this award.
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