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Julia Ledet, Instructor at the LSU Math Department, has been presented with the annual Student Life and Enrollment Academic Partner Award. 

Julia Ledet was nominated by Disability Services and was presented with the award at a breakfast ceremony on September 19. This award recognizes a staff or faculty member who has collaborated with one or more departments in the division to improve the overall quality of the student experience at LSU both inside and outside the classroom.

The nomination for the award reads:

Professor Jimmie Lawson (Boyd Professor Emeritus) and Professor Yongdo Lim (Sung Kyun Kwan University; LSU PhD 1996) have been notified that their paper "Weighted means and Karcher equations of positive operators" has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University, was elected First Vice President of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Her term will last from February, 2014 through January, 2016.

The 1997 Porcelli Lecture series of Professor Avner Friedman is now available on the YouTube channel of the Department.

Professor Susanne Brenner has been invited to deliver a plenary address at the Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, November 8-9, 2014.

This will be her second invited address at a Sectional AMS meeting.

Two outstanding math majors were honored at the 2013 Tiger Athletic Foundation Academic Excellence Gala.

Christine Derbins, double major in Math and Mass Communications, member of the LSU Track & Field  team, with 4.0 GPA, received the 2013 Wally Pontiff, Jr. Academic Excellence Award.

Alexandra Boulet, Math major with a 4.0 GPA and a member of the LSU Softball Team, received the 2012 TAF Female Scholar Athlete of the year Award.

Bruno Beltran, Math major, was awarded a 2013 Goldwater Fellowship.
At the same contest, Math Major Paxton Turner received an Honorable Mention.