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Mark Ainsworth has been selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Ainsworth joined the Brown faculty in 2012, and studies simulation, specifically how to interpret simulation results and quantify the margins of error inherent in them.

Matthew Harrison has been selected by the Dean of the Faculty to receive the 2014 Philip J Bray Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Physical Sciences. Throughout the years since he first began teaching at Brown, Professor Harrison's students have praised his outstanding teaching and mentorship, April 2014..

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The UK's Daily Telegraph has acclaimed the research work of Professor George Karniadakis on sickle cell anemia in an article entitled, "Meet your digital doppelganger."

	Professor Walter Strauss, the L. Herbert Ballou Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematics at Brown University, is among the 198 newly elected members to the American Academy of Arts and Science. Professor Strauss shares this distinction with two other Brown Professors, David Cane and Rose McDermott. Read full story.
	Bjorn Sandstede has been named a SIAM Fellow, April 2013. Professor Bjorn Stanstede, Chair of the Division of Applied Mathematics, in being recognized for his research in dynamical systems, has been appointed a fellow to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Read full story. .
	Kavita Ramanan, professor at Brown University, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (IMS). Professor Ramanan received the award for her contributions to the theory of stochastic processes, especially to stochastic networks, fluid and diffusion approximations, Skorokhod maps and large deviations theory.