Awards and honors for U-M faculty and staff.
Jeffrey C. Lagarias, professor of mathematics, has been chosen as a 2014 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Fellows are nominated and recognized for their outstanding contributions to the fields served by SIAM. Lagarias is being recognized for contributions to the theory of wavelets and harmonic analysis, and contributions to interior-point and direct search optimization.
Provost Martha E. Pollack is among three Distinguished Award recipients recently announced by The Michigan ACE Women’s Network. The awards will be presented June 3 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing. Pollack, professor of information and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is recognized as a path-breaker in her male-dominated field. When she joined the faculty in computer science and engineering at U-M, she was the only woman in that division of more than 40 faculty. She has been instrumental in improving the campus environment for underrepresented groups, particularly in STEM disciplines.
Charles Eisendrath, associate professor of communication studies, LSA, director of the Knight Wallace Fellows, Rackham Graduate School, and special counselor to the provost, was scheduled to be inducted April 13 into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame at the James B. Henry Center for Executive Development at Michigan State University. At U-M, Eisendrath earned a master’s degree in journalism. He worked as a journalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Baltimore Evening Sun and Time magazine, and helped found the Knight Wallace Fellowship at U-M. He is the first U-M faculty member to be inducted.
