[cmath] PIMS 2008 Education Prize Winners

[Alejandro Adem]

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS)
is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2008 PIMS
Education Prize are Virginia Warfield (University of Washington)
and Harley Weston (University of Regina).

Virginia Warfield has made significant contributions to education
in the Pacific Northwest through teaching, graduate student
training and mentoring, outreach and collaborations with K-16
communities. She has also made significant contributions to
mathematics education research through her collaboration with
the French mathematician Guy Brousseau, a pioneer in the
"didactics of mathematics". In 2007 Warfield received the
Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Harley Weston has dedicated himself to the advancement of
mathematics and education in Saskatchewan, Canada and beyond.
He has cultivated relationships with K-12 students and teachers,
Education faculty and aboriginal communities, opening lines of
communication between these groups and mathematicians. Weston
has made fundamental contributions to "Math Central", a collection
of internet services designed for teachers and students of mathematics
in K-12, which currently averages more than 20,000 hits per day.
Weston has also served as Head of the Department of Mathematics
and Statistics at the University of Regina, and Chair of the Education
Committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

The 2008 PIMS Education Prize will be given out at a special
ceremony during the PIMS "Changing the Culture" conference in
Vancouver on Friday, April 18. PIMS is very grateful to Boeing
for its sponsorship of this prize.