FACULTY AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Nature, the leading international weekly journal of science, has selected Isiah Warner, LSU Boyd Professor and Philip W. West Professor of Analytical & Environmental Chemistry, for the 2019 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science. Through Warner’s leadership and mentorship, the LSU Department of Chemistry has become the leading producer of doctoral degrees in chemistry for women and African Americans in the U.S. Under his direction, the LSU Office of Strategic Initiatives has mentored countless numbers of students across eight programs from the high school to doctoral levels.
In 2018, four LSU College of Science faculty members were named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society. The newly elected fellows are Prosanta Chakrabarty, associate professor in the LSU Department of Biological Sciences and the curator of Ichthyology in the LSU Museum of Natural Science; Anne Grove, the Gregory Cannaday Burns Professor in the LSU Department of Biological Sciences; Kyle Harms, professor in the LSU Department of Biological Sciences; and Wayne Newhauser, the Dr. Charles M. Smith Chair of Medical Physics professor and director of the LSU Medical and Health Physics program.
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AAAS FELLOWS IN THE LSU COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
LSU Math Professor Richard Ng and researchers from Expedia Group, UC Santa Barbara and Texas A&M University were awarded the 2019 Gerald L. Alexanderson Award of the American Institute of Mathematics. The Alexanderson Award is given annually by the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) for an outstanding paper published in the previous three years that arose from an AIM workshop or SQuaRE. Ng’s present research interests lie in the area of Hopf algebra, quasi-Hopf algebra and tensor category. Ng’s main research is aimed at the classification of finite dimensional Hopf algebras in special dimensions, and the study of invariants of pivotal tensor categories such as Frobenius-Schur indicators and exponents. This endeavor involves close ties with many other areas of mathematics such as representations of finite dimensional algebras and groups, knot invariants, etc. and the broadly conceived area of physical mathematics called conformal field theory.
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