[cmath] 2011 PIMS Education Prize Awarded to Veselin Jungic from SFU

[Alejandro Adem]

2011 PIMS Education Prize Awarded to Veselin Jungic from SFU

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased
to announce that the winner of the 2011 PIMS Education Prize is
Dr. Veselin Jungic from Simon Fraser University. 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.

Dr. Jungic is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Simon 
Fraser University who has distinguished himself through a variety of 
teaching, outreach and community activities. As a teacher he is 
outstanding, and has received many awards, including Simon Fraser 
University's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. He has played an 
important role in introducing the use of innovative methods and 
technology for teaching large groups of students at the university
level.

Dr. Jungic's contributions to outreach are also exceptional, they
include his prominent role in Taste of Pi, an enrichment program for 
gifted high school students run at SFU and supported by PIMS, and the 
co-development of a distance-education version of introductory calculus
in which all lectures are available as video streams. He has taught and 
developed curricular material for courses in the Aboriginal university
preparation program at SFU and  has assumed  a leading role in setting
up mentorship programs for Aboriginal students at the Vancouver
Friendship Center and at the Native Education College. Last year
Dr. Jungic produced and co-authored the animated movie "Small number
counts to 100" which has appeared both in English and in Blackfoot,
which is part of an initiative to develop curricular materials in an 
Aboriginal context for which he recently obtained a PromoScience grant 
from NSERC.

The 2010 PIMS Education Prize will be awarded at a special event
during the annual Changing the Culture conference at SFU Harbour
Centre on April 29, 2011.

For information about PIMS educational activities please see

http://www.pims.math.ca/education