[cmath] 2009 PIMS Education Prize

[Alejandro Adem]

     2009 PIMS Education Prize Awarded to
Gerda de Vries from the University of Alberta

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is
delighted to inform the mathematical community that the winner
of the 2009 PIMS Education Prize is Gerda de Vries from the
University of Alberta. This prize is intended to recognize
individuals from the PIMS universities, or other educational
institutions in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan
who have played a major role in encouraging activities which
have enhanced public awareness and appreciation of mathematics,
as well as fostering communication among various groups and
organizations concerned with mathematical training at 
all levels.

Gerda de Vries is an outstanding and dynamic teacher who has
made remarkable contributions to education in the mathematical
sciences. Her accomplishments include her tireless promotion
of education in math biology as an organizer of the PIMS Math
Biology undergraduate summer workshops; her leadership role in the
NSERC funded CRYSTAL-Alberta for promoting science in schools;
her leadership role in providing support for women in mathematics
across Canada; her involvement in developing Science 100, a new 
interdisciplinary science program at the University of Alberta;
and by her outstanding success teaching undergraduate mathematics,
for which she received the 2006 Rutherford Award for Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Alberta.

The 2009 PIMS Education Prize will be awarded at a special
event during the annual Changing the Culture conference at
Simon Fraser University (Vancouver) on April 30. PIMS is
grateful to CGG Veritas/Hampson Russell for sponsoring this
award.

For more information about PIMS and its activities please
see http://www.pims.math.ca