Congratualtions to Abba Gumel for winning the 2023 Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award by the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (CAIMS).

The award was presented to Abba in recognition of his outstanding service to CAIMS as Secretary, Director, and Chair of Membership, Publications and Doctoral Dissertation Awards Committee, as two-time organizer of the annual meeting, organizer of summer schools and workshops, for initiating and contributing to the creation of the Annual Meeting Handbook, and "for being an exemplary ambassador for Canadian Applied Mathematics through multiple international recognitions and leadership in international development projects."

More information about the award can be found at https://caims.ca/award/arthur-beaumont-distinguished-service-award/

The Department of Mathematics – faculty, staff, and students – is committed to fostering an atmosphere of respect, collegiality, and sensitivity. As a community, we respect the dignity, individuality, and freedom of each member. At the same time, we strive to be a place where individuals and groups learn with and from each other.

The charge of the Department of Mathematics Climate Committee is to:

• Assure that the Department of Mathematics provides a welcoming and supportive environment for all members – undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, lecturers, faculty, and staff.
• Provide a safe space to all members of our community to voice their concerns.
• Foster change to improve all aspects of the department that affect the wellbeing of our members.
• Initiate, coordinate, and promote activities to improve diversity and inclusion
• Annually update the “Mathematics Department Atmosphere and Inclusion Statement.”

Outreach Activities

• Girls Talk Math
• Women in Math
• AWM Colloquim Series
• Teaching math to inmates
• Prince Georges County Public Schools Calculus Course
• Pround Sponsor of The EDGE Program (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education)
• UMD’s Scott Wolpert to Lead National Project on DEI in Mathematics and Statistics
• Grand Challenges: Increasing Participation of Minorities and Women In STEM Through Sports Performance Analytics Research

 Members of the Committee:

Larry Washington Undergraduate Chair	Leonid Koralov Graduate Chair	Kendall Williams Lecturer	Raluca Rosca Lecturer
Ida Chan Staff	Amandeep Chanda Graduate Student Council Rep	Maeve Wildes AWM Graduate Student Rep	Ezra Aylaian Undergraduate Student Rep

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Congratulations to Abba Gumel for being named a 2022 AAAS Fellow.  Abba is joining 6 other UMD faculty in this honor (4 from CMNS).

The dean’s office prepared an announcement which can be read following this link: https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/aaas-fellows-2022