News
A Lot of Great News
Posted by Paul Macklin
8 June 2007 at 3:11 PM PDT (UTC +?)
I've had a lot of great news over the past few days. On Wednesday, June 6th, the Department of Mathematics awarded the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award to Evelyn Lunasin-Manalo and me. I'm trully surprised, thrilled, and honored, because we graduated 10 Ph.D.s with quality dissertations this year. The department also surprised me a with a service award (shared with Nick Alexander for co-founding the mathematics graduate student colloquium (MGSC)) and a teaching/research award (shared with Nick Alexander and Timothy Choi). I'm truly flattered and grateful, and I hope that as an alum that I can make you all proud!
Continuing along the "life is good" theme, I received and accepted my offer letter to work at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston as an assistant professor under Vittorio Cristini. I'll be working in the School of Health Information Sciences, along with the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to develop next-generation mathematical and computational models of cancer. I'm very excited at the opportunity to work side-by-side with some of the greatest cancer biologists and oncologists in the world, and the integrated/interdisciplinary aspects are thrilling.
So, life is good. :-) -- Paul
