National Science Foundation awards major grant to Math & Stats faculty

The Department of Mathematics & Statistics recently announced significant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Drs. Emmanuel Barron, Marian Bocea, and Robert Jensen, were recently informed that a joint three-year research grant proposal, Topics in Optimal Transport and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, has been approved for $370,000. Chair of the Mathematics and Statistics Department, Dr. Anthony Giaquinto, states that the three-year NSF grant is considered the gold standard of mathematics research.

Each of these three faculty members has had outstanding success over the years in obtaining governmental support for their research programs. Since 1997, NSF awards to these three faculty members include three awards for Dr. Bocea, seven for Dr. Barron, and 13 for Dr. Jensen.  Of these, Dr. Jensen has received continual support for four decades—an amazing feat by any standard.

This extraordinary track record to fund research has been critical to teaching, directing, and mentoring our Loyola students. Congratulations to the Department of Mathematics & Statistics and faculty for their contributions to the discipline and to Loyola University.