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“Liggett Teaching Awards” established in honor of Professor Emeritus Thomas M. Liggett
A proud supporter and distinguished member of the UCLA family, Christina Liggett has established a $500,000 endowment in honor of her late husband, Professor Emeritus
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Professor Deanna Needell accepts position as Executive Director of UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education
The appointment for Executive Director of the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) has been accepted by Professor Deanna Needell, the Dunn Family Endowed
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Dr. Courtney Shelley to join Department as first Social Justice/Data Science Postdoctoral Scholar
A new joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, supported by the Division of Physical Sciences, has been created to focus on a
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Chief Administrative Officer Ronke Epps receives UCLA’s 2021 Distinguished Career Award
The Administrative Management Group (AMG), in partnership with Campus Human Resources honors outstanding managers and staff who have made significant contributions to their organizations and
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Assistant Professor Pavel Galashin receives National Science Foundation Career Award
UCLA assistant professor of mathematics Pavel Galashin has won the 2021 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. This is one of
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UCLA Curtis Center joins Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s first ever U.S. education Grand Challenge
In today’s classrooms, Algebra 1 currently serves as an obstacle for many students’ success. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s first ever U.S. education Grand
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Register for the Curtis Center’s Annual Mathematics and Teaching Virtual Conference: Saturday, March 6, 2021
The UCLA Curtis Center will be hosting their Annual Mathematics and Teaching Virtual Conference on Saturday, March 6, 2021 from 9:00AM-3:00PM. Typically, the conference welcomes
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Professor Yin and team wins Best Student Paper Award on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning
UCLA Mathematics Professor Wotao Yin‘s paper titled, “Hybrid Federated Learning: Algorithms and Implementation,” won the Best Student Paper Award at the 34th Conference on Neural Information
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Alumna Aleka McAdams on award winning team for the 2020 Oscars, Scientific and Technical Achievement
Aleka McAdams, an alumna of UCLA Mathematics, is part of the award winning team that accepted a 2020 Oscars for Scientific and Technical Achievement. McAdams and