[Todos CMAT] Headlines & Deadlines from the AMS

[Dr. Roberto Markarian - IMERL]

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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, AMS Public Awareness Office wrote:
> Headlines & Deadlines from the AMS
> 
> DON MCCLURE NAMED AMS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
> Donald E. McClure of Brown University has been named Executive Director of
> the American Mathematical Society. McClure succeeds John H. Ewing, who held
> the post for the past 13 years and who is now president of Math for America,
> a program that aims to attract mathematically talented young people to teach
> in the nation's schools. McClure was elected to the AMS Board of Trustees in
> 1995 and served on the board until 2000. His service included stints as
> chair of the board and as liaison to the AMS Publications Division. From
> 2003 until his appointment as Executive Director, McClure was AMS Associate
> Treasurer. McClure received his bachelor's degree in 1966 from the
> University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics in
> 1970 from Brown University. He has spent his entire career at Brown,
> starting as an instructor in 1969 and rising to the rank of professor in
> 1982. He has advised 15 Ph.D. students. McClure's research concerns the
> formulation of probabilistic models for images and the design of algorithms
> based on those models and classical statistical principles. Read more about
> McClure at
> http://www.ams.org/ams/press/mcclure-exdir.html .
> 
> MATH IN THE NEWS
> An article in the Wall Street Journal on January 5, "Doing the Math to Find
> the Good Jobs," lists "mathematician" as the top job in the U.S. "Actuary"
> and "statistician" were ranked second and third, respectively. The rankings,
> done by CareerCast.com, were based on work environment, income, employment
> outlook, physical demands, and stress. According to the study, the median
> annual salary for a mathematician is $94,160. The job of lumberjack finished
> last (200th) in the study.
> http://tinyurl.com/77wm48 .
>