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McIntyre Professor of Mathematics Solomon Friedberg has been appointed to to the National Academy of Science’s US National Commission for Mathematics Instruction. The nine-member committee is charged with promoting the advancement of mathematics education in the United States and throughout the world, and effecting appropriate US participation in the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction through the National Academy of Sciences.
It is the latest achievement among many in recent years for Friedberg, who is the Mathematics Department chair. A fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Friedberg is a co-principal investigator on a six-year National Science Foundation grant to support math teachers in high-need schools, and his research has been supported by the National Security Agency.
Since he became Mathematics chair in 2007, the department has established a doctoral program and a new bachelor of science degree and its faculty have earned prestigious honors from such organizations as the Simons Foundation, Alfred Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation and American Mathematical Society.